List of Famous people who born in 1966

Karin Beate "Linn" Ullmann is a Norwegian author and journalist. A prominent literary critic, she also writes a column for Norway's leading morning newspaper and has published six novels.

Jeffrey Fairburn is a British businessman, who was the chief executive (CEO) of Persimmon plc, a British housebuilding company and constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, from April 2013 to November 2018.

Éric Lavaine is a French film director and screenwriter.

Ana Torrent Bertrán de Lis is a Spanish film actress.

Darren R. Huston is a Canadian businessman and the former president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Priceline and Booking.com.

Scott Van Pelt is an American sportscaster and sports talk show host. He co-anchored the 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter on ESPN, served as the co-host of SVP & Russillo alongside Ryen Russillo on ESPN Radio, and hosts various golf events for the network. In June 2015, Van Pelt left his radio show to become a solo anchor for a midnight edition of SportsCenter.

Vinícius Soares Eutrópio is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, and is a manager of Figueirense.

Jonathan Randal Vaughan is an English television and radio presenter and a film critic. He was the main presenter of Capital Breakfast alongside Lisa Snowdon on 95.8 Capital FM between 2004 and 2011.

Stefan Quandt is a German billionaire heir, engineer and industrialist.

Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he is currently a Professor of Literature at UCLA. He is best known for his novels and non-fiction writing depicting the experience of contemporary Africa and the African diaspora in France. He is among the best known and most successful writers in the French language and one of the best known African writers in France. In some circles in Paris he is known as the Samuel Beckett of Africa. He is also controversial, and criticized by some African and diaspora writers for stating Africans bear responsibility for their own misfortune. He has argued against the idea that African and Caribbean writers should focus on their local realities in order to serve and express their communities. He further contends that categories such as nation, race, and territory fall short of encapsulating reality and urges writers to create works that deal with issues beyond these subjects.