The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern ( Kindle Edition-April 28, 2009 )

* Yohanan Cohen ( born 1917 ), Israeli former politician and diplomat

* Yohanan Danino ( born 1959 ), chief of the Israel Police

* Yohanan Friedmann ( born 1936 ), Israeli scholar of Islamic studies

* Yohanan Plesner ( born 1972 ), Israeli politician

* Yohanan Simon ( born 1905 ), Israeli painter

The temple at Arad was uncovered by archaeologist Yohanan Aharoni in 1962 who spent the rest of his life considering its mysteries but died there in the mid-1970s.

Yohanan ben Zakkai, a leading Pharisee, was appointed the first Patriarch ( the Hebrew word, Nasi, also means prince, or president ), and he reestablished the Sanhedrin at Yavneh ( see the related Council of Jamnia ) under Pharisee control.

* Yohanan Aharoni ( 1919 – 1976 ), Israeli archaeologist and historical geographer

* Yohanan Alemanno ( c. 1435 – after 1504 ), Italian Jewish humanist philosopher and exegete

* Yohanan Bader ( 1901 – 1994 ), Revisionist Zionist leader and Israeli politician

* Yohanan Levi ( 1901 – 1945 ), Hebrew linguist and historian

Johann (" YO-hann " in German, but " Yo-HANN in, for instance, Afrikaans ), typically a male given name, is the Germanized form of the originally Hebrew language name " Yohanan " ( meaning " God is merciful ").

A former leading Pharisee, Yohanan ben Zakkai, was appointed the first Patriarch ( the Hebrew word, Nasi, also means prince, or president ), and he reestablished the Sanhedrin at Javneh under Pharisee control.

Some say he may have met Giovanni Pico della Mirandola while in Florence and composed for him a discourse on the “ Harmony of the Skies .” If so, he also probably associated with Elia de Medigo, teacher of Pico della Mirandola, Yohanan Alemanno ( a Jewish writer influenced by the Medici court and mysticism and author of Song of songs ), Giovanni Pontano, Mario Equicola and monk Egidio da Viterbo.

Following the destruction of the Temple, Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai ordered that the Four Species be waved everywhere on every day of Sukkot ( except on Shabbat ), as a memorial to the Temple.

In a series of digs in 1959-1962, Yohanan Aharoni tentatively identified it as the biblical Beit Hakerem ( Jeremiah 6: 1 ), one of the places from which flaming warning signals were sent to Jerusalem at the end of the First Temple period.

According to historian Yohanan Cohen's estimate, in 1939 the population in the territories east of the Curzon Line gained via the Treaty of Riga totalled 12 million, consisting of over 5 million Ukrainians, between 3. 5 and 4 million Poles, 1. 5 million Belarusians, and 1. 3 million Jews.

* Tracy Austin ( born 1962 ), American tennis player

* Petra de Bruin ( born 1962 ), Dutch cyclist

Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (; born 26 October 1962 ), known professionally as Cary Elwes, is an English actor and voice actor.

Renaud Garcia-Fons ( born 1962 ) is a French double-bass player and composer, notable for drawing on jazz, folk, and Asian music for recordings of his pieces like Oriental Bass ( 1997 ).

Emin Boztepe ( born 17 June 1962 ) is an American martial artist of Turkish origin who held German nationality prior to naturalization.

Troyal Garth Brooks ( born February 7, 1962 ) is an American country music artist.

Garth Brooks was born on February 7, 1962, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

* Gillian Rose ( born 1962 ), most famous for her critique: Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge ( 1993 ), which was one of the first moves towards a development of feminist geography.

* John Young ( composer ) ( born 1962 ), New Zealand-born composer

Young, Jr. ( born 1962 ), U. S. Defense Department official

* John Brown ( footballer born 1962 ), Scottish association football player and manager

Their son, Christopher Dennis Mason, was born in 1957, and they divorced in 1962.

* Leon Robinson ( born 1962 ), African-American actor usually credited just as Leon

Marlon Williams ( born September 30, 1962 ), better known as Marley Marl, is an American DJ and record producer, who is considered one of the most important and influential hip-hop producers in the history of hip hop.

* John Herschel Glenn, Jr., USMC ( born 1921 ); first American to orbit the Earth, 20 February 1962

* Malcolm Scott Carpenter, USN ( born 1925 ), flew 24 May 1962

Nawal El Moutawakel () ( born on April 15, 1962 in Casablanca ) is a Moroccan hurdler, who won the inaugural women's 400 m hurdles event at the 1984 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming the first female Muslim born on the continent of Africa to become an Olympic champion.

Paula Julie Abdul (; born June 19, 1962 ) is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality.

* Steve Punt ( born 1962 ), a British comedian, of Punt and Dennis

William Roger Clemens ( born August 4, 1962 ) is an American baseball starting pitcher.

Orbison's second son was born in 1962, and Orbison hit number 4 in the U. S. and number 2 in the UK with " Dream Baby ( How Long Must I Dream?

Sheryl Suzanne Crow ( born February 11, 1962 ) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, performer, record producer, actress, and political activist.

* Tawara Machi ( born 1962 )

Tod Browning ( born Charles Albert Browning, Jr., July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962 ) was an American motion picture actor, director and screenwriter.