List of Famous people who born in 1962

Admiral Hiroshi Yamamura is a Japanese naval officer who serves as the 34th and incumbent Chief of Staff of the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF) since March 2019. Before that he had previously served as JMSDF Deputy Chief of Staff since December 2016. His other commands included the Fleet Escort Force, and the Escort Flotilla 4, served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Defense Plans and Policy, Joint Staff, and as Chief of Defense Section, Defense Division, Maritime Staff Division, and serving as the captain of the JS Mineyuki.

Vikram David Amar is an American legal scholar focusing on constitutional law, federal courts, and civil and criminal procedure. In August 2015, he became dean of the University of Illinois College of Law and the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law. He was the first American-born person of Indian descent to serve as a dean of a major American law school.

Sun Hongbin is a Chinese billionaire real estate developer. He is the founder, chairman, and majority owner of Sunac.

Shakila Mohseni Sedaghat, known mononymously as Shakila, is an Iranian-born American singer-songwriter based in San Diego, California. She is an international artist who has performed in various languages including Persian, Kurdish, English, Turkish, Hindi and Spanish. She has won a Persian Music Academy Award in 2006 and a Global Music Award in 2015. Shakila has released over twenty albums in Persian language as well as many albums in English. She primarily sings about spirituality, love, peace, and awakening. Lyrics of her songs are inspired by Rumi and other major poets. She is also an official voting member at the Grammy Awards.

Wang Weizhong is a Chinese politician, and current Communist Party Secretary of Shenzhen and Deputy Party Secretary of Guangdong province. A graduate of Tsinghua University, Wang rose through the ranks in the working for the Ministry of Science and Technology. He previously served as Party chief of Taiyuan.

Charles "Chuck" Billy is an American singer and songwriter who is best known as the lead vocalist for thrash metal band Testament.

Zhanat Kuanyshevich Suleimenov was a Kazakh military leader and politician. He served as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs from 2017 to 2019. He committed suicide on 10 January 2022, at the age of 59, after a criminal case was opened against him during the 2022 Kazakh protests. He and many Kazakh politicians have been accused of treason during the unrest, including the former head of Kazakhstan's national security committee, Karim Masimov.

Francis David Charles Napier, 15th Lord Napier and 6th Lord Ettrick is a Scottish nobleman, the hereditary chief of the Clan Napier. He is the son of Nigel, 14th Lord Napier and Delia Mary Pearson, daughter of Major Archibald David Barclay Pearson.

Paul J. Zak is an American neuroeconomist.