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                                                    Exhibit 24.1

                 POWER OF ATTORNEY OF DIRECTORS

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS:

          Each of the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
BURTON E. BROOME, CHRISTOPHER M. MCLAIN, and ROBERT D. MYERS, and
each of them with power to act alone, his or her true and lawful
attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign a Registration
Statement on Form S-8 relating to 1,400,000 shares of common
stock of Transamerica Corporation and an indeterminate number of
interests issuable under the Transamerica Corporation Employees
Stock Savings Plan, and any and all amendments of such
Registration Statement, including post-effective amendments, and
to file the same, together with exhibits thereto, and other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, granting unto each such attorney-in-fact
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises hereof, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or
she might do or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorney-in-fact or his or her
substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

          Executed on the 16th day of September, 1993.


/s/ Myron Du Bain             /s/ Raymond F. O'Brien    
Myron Du Bain                 Raymond F. O'Brien


/s/ Samuel L. Ginn            /s/ Condoleeza Rice       
Samuel L. Ginn                Condoleezza Rice


/s/ James R. Harvey           /s/ Charles R. Schwab     
James R. Harvey               Charles R. Schwab


/s/ Frank C. Herringer        /s/ Forrest N. Shumway    
Frank C. Herringer            Forrest N. Shumway


/s/ Gordon E. Moore           /s/ Peter V. Ueberroth    
Gordon E. Moore               Peter V. Ueberroth