List of Famous people who born in 1962

Hironobu Sakaguchi is a Japanese video game designer, director, producer, writer, and film director. He is best known as creator of the Final Fantasy series, having conceived the original concept for the first title Final Fantasy and also having directed several later entries in the franchise, and has had a long career in gaming with over 100 million units of video games sold worldwide. He left Square Enix and founded the studio Mistwalker in 2004.

Arturo Peniche is a Mexican telenovela actor who became popular in Latin America during the 1990s. He is the brother of actor Flavio Peniche, who appears in the telenovela La Traición.

Rao Yi is a Chinese neurobiologist. A graduate of the University of California, San Francisco, Rao held a Helen Hay Whitney fellowship at Harvard University and was on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis and Northwestern University before moving back to China to take up the deanship of Peking University's School of Life Sciences in 2007. He is currently the director the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University. He took office as the President of the Capital Medical University on June 25, 2019.

Orestes Destrade Cucuas is a Cuban former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Florida Marlins. Destrade also played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Seibu Lions. He is now a broadcaster for the Tampa Bay Rays. Like Olympic Stadium, he was nicknamed The Big O.

Thierry "Hazard" Gesteau, is a French singer-songwriter from Compiègne, Hauts-de-France.

Norbert Loch is a German luger. He competed in the men's singles event at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Staff Lieutenant General Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi or Saedi is the head of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (ICTS). He has been the overall operation's commander of Iraqi government forces in Battle of Baiji (2014–15), Second Battle of Tikrit, and Third Battle of Fallujah (2016), the Hawija offensive (2017) in the war against ISIL.

Herbert Fritzenwenger was a West German cross country skier and Biathlete who competed in the late 1980s, including the 1988 Winter Olympics. During his career he collected a silver medal and 2 bronze medals at World Championships.

Bernard Monot is a French economist and politician and Member of the European Parliament representing Massif-central–Centre.

Gō Rijū is a Japanese film director and actor.