Authors born in 1900
- Aaron Copland Writer, 1900
- Adlai E. Stevenson Lawyer, 1900
- Adolf Dassler Inventor, 1900
- Agnes Moorehead Actress, 1900
- Alastair Sim Actor, 1900
- Alfred Newman Composer, 1900
- Alice Neel Artist, 1900
- Anna Seghers Writer, 1900
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, 1900
- Antoni Zygmund Mathematician, 1900
- Arthur Schwartz Composer, 1900
- Arturo Rosenblueth Researcher, 1900
- Ashfaqulla Khan Revolutionary, 1900
- Basil Bunting Poet, 1900
- Beatrice Warde Writer, 1900
- Benjamin W. Chidlaw Engineering, 1900
- Betty Parsons Artist, 1900
- Bill Stone Officer, 1900
- Borden Chase Writer, 1900
- Cal Hubbard Baseball Player, 1900
- Caroline K. Simon Lawyer, 1900
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Astronomer, 1900
- Charles Francis Richter Seismologist, 1900
- Charles Harper Webb Poet, 1900
- Chester Gould Cartoonist, 1900
- Chiune Sugihara Diplomat, 1900
- Claude Pepper Politician, 1900
- D. Elton Trueblood Theologian, 1900
- D. W Brogan Author, 1900
- David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir Politician, 1900
- David van Dantzig Mathematician, 1900
- Dennis Gabor Engineer, 1900
- Edgar Dale Educator, 1900
- Edward Dahlberg Novelist, 1900
- Edward Stettinius, Jr. Businessman, 1900
- Einar Skjaeraasen Author, 1900
- Elizabeth Goudge Novelist, 1900
- Erich Fromm Psychologist, 1900
- Ernie Pyle Journalist, 1900
- Ethel Mannin Novelist, 1900