* Austin Idol, the ring name of American professional wrestler Dennis McCord ( born 1949 )

* 1949 – Scott Turow, American writer

* 1949 – Phil Garner, American baseball manager

* 1949 – Jeff Cook, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Alabama )

* 1949 – Clarence Richard Silva, American bishop

* 1949 – Jonathan Kellerman, American author

* 1949 – Ted Simmons, American baseball player

* 1949 – Jim Brunzell, American wrestler

* 1949 – James Fallows, American journalist

* 1949 – Ray Nettles, American football player ( d. 2009 )

* 1949 – Philip Casnoff, American actor

* 1949 – Keith Carradine, American actor

* 1949 – Melody Patterson, American actress

* 1949 – Ann Romney, American horse rider, wife of Mitt Romney

* 1949 – Bob Backlund, American wrestler

* Adrian Belew ( born 1949 ), American guitarist, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer

* 1949 – Beverly Burns, American pilot

* 1949 – Mark B. Rosenberg, American academic

* 1949 – Scott Asheton, American drummer ( The Stooges and Sonic's Rendezvous Band )

* 1949 – Barbara Goodson, American voice actress

* 1949 – Bill Spooner, American guitarist and songwriter ( The Tubes )

* 1949 – Rick Ridgeway, American mountaineer

* 1949 – Loretta Devine, American actress

* 1949 – John Savage, American actor

* 1884 – Will Cuppy, American author and critic ( d. 1949 )

Rosenthal had been her attorney since 1949, when he represented her in her uncontested divorce action against her second husband, songwriter George W. Weidler.

* 1949 – Elizabeth Warren, American attorney, educator, and author

* Dennis J. Kearney ( born 1949 ), American attorney and politician in Massachusetts

The committee, headed by California attorney H. Rowan Gaither, recommended that the foundation become an international philanthropy dedicated to the advancement of human welfare and " urged the foundation to focus on solving humankind's most pressing problems, whatever they might be, rather than work in any particular field ...." The board embraced the recommendations in 1949.

Landrieu and her husband, attorney Frank Snellings ( born 1949 ), who grew up in Monroe, have two children, Connor and Mary Shannon.

Norman Bertram Coleman, Jr. ( born August 17, 1949 ) is an American attorney and politician.

Sidney Sanders McMath ( June 14, 1912October 4, 2003 ) was a decorated U. S. Marine, attorney and the 34th Governor of Arkansas ( 1949 – 1953 ) who, in defiance of his state's political establishment, championed rapid rural electrification, massive highway and school construction, the building of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, strict bank and utility regulation, repeal of the poll tax, open and honest elections and broad expansion of opportunity for black citizens in the decade following World War II.

In 1949, the Executive Council had five ex-officio members: the senior military officer ( Commander of British Forces Overseas ), the colonial secretary, the attorney general, the secretary for Chinese affairs and the financial secretary ; the Commissioner of Labour, while an ' official ' was not an ex-officio member.

* Jeralyn Merritt ( born 1949 ), criminal defense attorney, one of the team defending Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing case

Leigh William Steinberg ( b. March 27, 1949 in Los Angeles, California ) is an American sports agent and is widely recognized as the country's leading sports attorney.

Elizabeth Anania Edwards ( born Mary Elizabeth Anania ; July 3, 1949 – December 7, 2010 ) was an American attorney, a best-selling author and a health care activist.

In 1949, in a deal involving homestead development of the area of Waimea in Hawaii County, as a lawyer with Parker Ranch attorney Garner Anthony, Quinn brokered a deal with the Territorial Land Office and Hawaiian Homes Commission to allow the ranch a more lengthy period of time in which to evacuate the property.

Thomas J. Capano ( October 11, 1949 – September 19, 2011 ) was a disbarred American lawyer and former Delaware deputy attorney general, who was convicted of the 1996 murder of Anne Marie Fahey, his former lover.

Duvall was born in Houston, Texas on July 7, 1949, the daughter of real estate broker Bobbie Ruth Crawford ( née Massengale ) and defense attorney Robert Richardson Duvall.

Paul Mirengoff ( born April 17, 1949 ) is a retired attorney and blogger at the Power Line web magazine.

In 1949 Cannon was elected city attorney of Las Vegas, Nevada and reelected three times.

* Byron B. Harlan ( 1886 – 1949 ), American attorney and politician

* assistant city attorney of Columbus, Ohio from 1949 to 1950

* Peter Gutmann ( journalist ) ( born 1949 ), American journalist and attorney

Crum was the attorney for some of the so-called " Hollywood Ten " who were subpoenaed to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1949.

He then worked as the assistant U. S. attorney general for the U. S. Lands Division form 1946 to 1949.

He once again served as the assistant district attorney of Luzerne County in 1949, and again in 1950.

He also served as general counsel to a United States Senate committee in 1946 ; secretary to Senator Styles Bridges in 1947 ; counsel to the Joint Congressional Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation from 1948 to 1949 ; attorney general of New Hampshire from 1953 to 1961 ; president of the National Association of Attorneys General in 1957 ; and as legislative counsel to the Governor of New Hampshire in 1961 ; member and chairman of several state legal and judicial commissions.