List of Famous people born on March 12nd

Dietmar Hauer is an Austrian former cyclist. He competed in two events at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Frank Campanella was an American actor. He appeared in numerous television series, as well as a few films and Broadway productions.

Kurt Flasch is a German philosopher, who works mainly as a historian of medieval thought and of late antiquity. Flasch was professor at the Ruhr University Bochum. He was / is a member of several German and international Academies. In 2000, he was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.

Randall Kenan was an American author who was born in Brooklyn, New York. At only six weeks old, Kenan moved to Duplin County, North Carolina, a small rural community, where he lived with his grandparents in a small town named Wallace. The settings of many of Kenan's novels are centered around his home area of North Carolina. The focus of much of Kenan's work centers around what it means to be black and gay in the southern United States. Some of Kenan's most notable works include the collection of short stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, named a New York Times Notable Book in 1992, A Visitation of Spirits, and The Fire This Time. Kenan was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize.

Paweł Samecki is a Polish economist and served as the European Commissioner for Regional Policy (2009–10). He is married and has two children.

Frank Emmons Overton was an American actor.