Born in 1939
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1939
Girls
- Mary
- Barbara
- Patricia
- Betty
- Shirley
- Carol
- Nancy
- Judith
- Dorothy
- Margaret
- Joan
- Joyce
- Sandra
- Carolyn
- Linda
- Helen
- Janet
- Elizabeth
- Marilyn
- Donna
- Virginia
- Ruth
- Sharon
- Janice
- Beverly
Boys
- Robert
- James
- John
- William
- Richard
- Charles
- David
- Donald
- Thomas
- Ronald
- George
- Joseph
- Kenneth
- Larry
- Edward
- Jerry
- Paul
- Michael
- Gerald
- Frank
- Gary
- Raymond
- Harold
- Billy
- Walter
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Frances
- Martha
- Judy
- Doris
- Phyllis
- Alice
- Jean
- Ann
- Peggy
- Lois
- Gloria
- Marie
- Norma
- Karen
- Evelyn
- Geraldine
- Rose
- Anna
- Susan
- Elaine
- Jane
- Carole
- Kathleen
- Catherine
- Wanda
- Diane
- Sally
- Joanne
- Annie
- Mildred
- Patsy
- Joann
- Dolores
- Louise
- Marjorie
- Bonnie
- Sylvia
- Eleanor
- Marlene
- Loretta
- Charlotte
- Ruby
- Sarah
- Arlene
- Jo
- Roberta
- Jacqueline
- Gail
- Irene
- Darlene
- Kay
- Juanita
- Rita
- Delores
- Ellen
- Edna
- Jeanette
- June
- Josephine
- Anne
- Brenda
- Wilma
- Thelma
- Emma
- Yvonne
- Julia
- Sue
- Theresa
- Rosemary
- Florence
- Lorraine
- Anita
- Audrey
- Lillian
- Ethel
Boys
- Jack
- Joe
- Roger
- Bobby
- Carl
- Henry
- Arthur
- Willie
- Dennis
- Ralph
- Lawrence
- Eugene
- Daniel
- Wayne
- Fred
- Albert
- Roy
- Jimmy
- Norman
- Harry
- Peter
- Howard
- Anthony
- Louis
- Earl
- Melvin
- Marvin
- Francis
- Leonard
- Ernest
- Don
- Stanley
- Douglas
- Dale
- Clarence
- Leroy
- Johnny
- Samuel
- Bruce
- Stephen
- Philip
- Bill
- Herbert
- Gene
- Alfred
- Frederick
- Allen
- Russell
- Ray
- Jim
- Bernard
- Tommy
- Lee
- Patrick
- Jimmie
- Eddie
- Gordon
- Terry
- Andrew
- Alan
- Leon
- Glenn
- Clifford
- Bob
- Theodore
- Martin
- Phillip
- Jerome
- Floyd
- Lloyd
- Edwin
- Tom
- Curtis
- Jesse
- Vernon
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1939.
Famous people born in 1939
Germaine Greer · Australian writer and public intellectualJanuary 29
Dale T. Mortensen · American economistFebruary 2
Michael Cimino · American film directorFebruary 3
Ray Manzarek · American keyboardistFebruary 12
Eugene Fama · American economist and Nobel laureate in EconomicsFebruary 14
Daniel C. Tsui · Chinese-American physicist, Nobel laureateFebruary 28
Neil Sedaka · American singerMarch 13
Giovanni Trapattoni · Italian association football player and managerMarch 17
Brian Mulroney · Prime Minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993March 20
Terence Hill · Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producerMarch 29
Ratko Janev · Macedonian atomic physicistMarch 30
Zviad Gamsakhurdia · Georgian politician, dissident and writer, first President of GeorgiaMarch 31
Ali MacGraw · American actressApril 1
Marvin Gaye · American R&B and soul singerApril 2
Francis Ford Coppola · American filmmakerApril 7
Seamus Heaney · Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturerApril 13
Paul Sorvino · American actorApril 13
Ali Khamenei · Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026April 19
Gro Harlem Brundtland · 29th Prime Minister of NorwayApril 20
João Bernardo Vieira · President of Guinea-BissauApril 27
Amos Oz · Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectualMay 4
Sidney Altman · Canadian American molecular biologistMay 7
Ruud Lubbers · Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994May 7
Harvey Keitel · American actorMay 13
Peter Grünberg · German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureateMay 18
Dixie Carter · American actressMay 25
Ian McKellen · British actorMay 25
Jackie Stewart · Scottish racing driverJune 11
Ada Yonath · Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureateJune 22
Karen Black · American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriterJuly 1
Aníbal Cavaco Silva · Portuguese politicianJuly 15
John Howard · Prime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007July 26
Peter Bogdanovich · American film directorJuly 30
Wes Craven · American filmmakerAugust 2
Romano Prodi · Italian politician and economistAugust 9
George Hamilton · American film and television actorAugust 12
Joel Schumacher · American director, screenwriter, and producerAugust 29
Lily Tomlin · American actressSeptember 1
George Lazenby · Australian actorSeptember 5
Reuven Rivlin · 10th President of IsraelSeptember 9
Richard Kiel · American actorSeptember 13
Junko Tabei · Japanese mountain climberSeptember 22
Harry Kroto · British chemistOctober 7
Ralph Lauren · American fashion designerOctober 14
F. Murray Abraham · American actorOctober 24
John Cleese · English comedian and actorOctober 27
Jane Alexander · American actressOctober 28
Leland H. Hartwell · American biologistOctober 30
Grace Slick · American musician, writer and painterOctober 30
Barbara Liskov · American computer scientistNovember 7
Margaret Atwood · Canadian poetNovember 18
John O'Keefe · American British neuroscientistNovember 18
Brenda Vaccaro · American actressNovember 18
Tina Turner · American-born Swiss singer and songwriterNovember 26
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi · Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009November 26
Laurent-Désiré Kabila · Former President of the Democratic Republic of the CongoNovember 27
Harry Reid · American politicianDecember 2
Harold E. Varmus · American scientistDecember 18
Phil Spector · American record producerDecember 26