List of Famous people who born in 1950
Daniel Lewis Williams
Daniel Lewis Williams is an American operatic basso profundo.
Oscar Raúl Aguad
Oscar Raúl Aguad is an Argentine politician who served as the Minister of Defense from 2017 to 2019, serving in the cabinet of President Mauricio Macri. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2005 to 2015, where he became chief of the UCR bloc.
Vera Setta
Vera Lúcia Setta is a Brazilian actress of cinema and theater and theatrical producer.
Guglielmo Epifani
Guglielmo Epifani is an Italian trade unionist and politician. From 2002 to 2010 he was the General Secretary of the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL), the biggest trade union in Europe. On 11 May 2013 Epifani was appointed Secretary of the Democratic Party (PD).
Yuen Wah
Yuen Wah is a Hong Kong action film actor, action choreographer, stuntman and martial artist who has appeared in over 160 films and over 20 television series.
Mehmet Ali Şahin
Mehmet Ali Şahin is a Turkish politician. He was the Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey from 2009 to 2011.
Catherine Demongeot
Catherine Demongeot is a French former child actress. Her debut role was Zazie in Zazie in the Metro (1960), followed by only a few more films. According to an interview with Vincent Malle for the UK DVD release of Zazie, Catherine Demongeot never made another film and later went on to become a teacher.
Seyla Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib is a Turkish-American philosopher. Seyla Benhabib is a senior research scholar and adjunct professor of law at Columbia Law School. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Columbia University Department of Philosophy and a senior fellow at the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. She was a scholar in residence at the Law School from 2018 to 2019 and was also the James S. Carpentier Visiting Professor of Law in spring 2019. She was the Eugene Mayer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University from 2001 to 2020. She was director of the program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from 2002 to 2008. Benhabib is well known for her work in political philosophy, which draws on critical theory and feminist political theory. She has written extensively on the philosophers Hannah Arendt and Jürgen Habermas, as well as on the topic of human migration. She is the author of numerous books, and she has received several prestigious awards and lectureships in recognition of her work.
Jamil Al Sayyed
Jamil Al Sayyed is a Lebanese politician, a current Member of the Parliament of Lebanon, and the former head of Lebanon's Sureté Générale or Lebanese General Security Directorate. He was detained for four years by a law he drafted himself stating that judges can detain a suspect for an indefinite time without trial, from 2005 to 2009, due to his alleged involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. He was released on 29 April 2009 due to "inconsistencies in the statements of key witnesses and of a lack of corroborative evidence to support these statements and to the fact that some witnesses had modified their statements and one key witness had expressly retracted his original statement incriminating the persons detained". He was never charged with a crime. He is also a recipient of many International orders and decorations, notably the French Légion d'Honneur, at the garde of “Commandeur”.
Larisa Eryomina
Larisa Eryomina-Wain is a stage and screen actress, particularly in Soviet films of the 1970s. She left the Soviet Union in 1979, to raise her family and pursue a career in Hollywood. She has acted in dozens of films, television programs and stage productions. She has also taught acting and directing extensively. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.