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Famous people born on April 1

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Well-known people born on April 1 include Otto von Bismarck (1815), Wangari Muta Maathai (1940), Toshirō Mifune (1920) and Milan Kundera (1929). Our list below has 105 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives April 1 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1613 (Charles de Saint-Évremond) and the most recent is 2001 (Logan Costa). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.

Who was born on April 1?

  1. Otto von Bismarck 1815 German statesman and Chancellor
  2. Wangari Muta Maathai 1940 Kenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004
  3. Toshirō Mifune 1920 Japanese actor
  4. Milan Kundera 1929 Franco-Czechoslovak poet and novelist (1929—2023)
  5. Abraham Maslow 1908 American psychologist
  6. Ferenc Puskás 1927 Hungarian association football player
  7. Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873 Russian composer, pianist and conductor
  8. Debbie Reynolds 1932 American actress, singer, and dancer
  9. Susan Boyle 1961 British singer
  10. Alexander Stubb 1968 Finnish politician and the 13th President of Finland
  11. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji 1933 French physicist and Nobel laureate
  12. Joseph de Maistre 1753 Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat
  13. Richard Adolf Zsigmondy 1865 Austrian chemist
  14. Sophie Germain 1776 French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
  15. Clarence Seedorf 1976 Dutch professional football manager and former player
  16. Edmond Rostand 1868 French poet and dramatist
  17. Edgar Wallace 1875 British crime writer, journalist and playwright
  18. Antoine François Prévost 1697 French novelist
  19. Rachel Maddow 1973 American television news host and political commentator
  20. Joseph Murray 1919 US surgeon
  21. Randy Orton 1980 American professional wrestler
  22. Ferruccio Busoni 1866 Italian composer, pianist, and conductor
  23. Ali MacGraw 1939 American actress
  24. Asa Butterfield 1997 English actor
  25. Logan Paul 1995 American YouTuber and Internet personality
  26. Sergey Lazarev 1983 Russian singer
  27. Wallace Beery 1885 American actor
  28. William James Sidis 1898 American child prodigy
  29. Lon Chaney 1883 American actor
  30. Washington Stecanela Cerqueira 1975 Brazilian association football player
  31. Ireen Wüst 1986 Dutch speed skater
  32. Alberto Zaccheroni 1953 Italian association football player and manager
  33. Alan Perlis 1922 American computer scientist
  34. Leonard Bloomfield 1887 American linguist
  35. Samuel Alito 1950 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2006
  36. David Oyelowo 1976 British actor
  37. Arrigo Sacchi 1946 Italian association football manager
  38. Alain Connes 1947 French mathematician
  39. Abdul Qadeer Khan 1936 Pakistani nuclear engineer
  40. Róbert Vittek 1982 Slovak footballer
  41. José Ortigoza 1987 Paraguayan association football player
  42. Anne McCaffrey 1926 American-Irish novelist
  43. Tita 1958 Brazilian association football player and manager
  44. Duván Zapata 1991 Colombian association football player
  45. Gábor Király 1976 Hungarian association football player
  46. Mario Botta 1943 Swiss architect (1943)
  47. Guru Tegh Bahadur 1621 The ninth Guru of Sikhism
  48. Ivano Balić 1979 Croatian handball player
  49. Howard Staunton 1810 English chess master and Shakespearean scholar
  50. Giancarlo Antognoni 1954 Italian footballer
  51. Yılmaz Güney 1937 Turkish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor
  52. Florin Cîțu 1972 69th Prime Minister of Romania
  53. Edwin Austin Abbey 1852 American illustrator and painter
  54. Clementine Churchill 1885 Wife of Winston Churchill and life peer
  55. Andreas Thorkildsen 1982 Norwegian javelin thrower
  56. Mohammad Hamid Ansari 1937 Vice President of India from 2007 to 2017
  57. Matt Lanter 1983 American actor
  58. Gil Scott-Heron 1949 American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author
  59. Katō Tomosaburō 1861 Japanese admiral
  60. Ruth Beitia 1979 Spanish athletics competitor
  61. Jane Powell 1929 American actress, dancer, and singer
  62. Mackenzie Davis 1987 Canadian actress
  63. Paolo Bettini 1974 Italian cyclist
  64. Cristiano Doni 1973 Italian footballer
  65. Helmut Duckadam 1959 Romanian footballer
  66. Abel Azcona 1988 Spanish writer and performance artist
  67. Troy Baker 1976 American voice actor
  68. Gaston Eyskens 1905 Belgian prime minister
  69. Jonas 1984 Brazilian footballer
  70. Fauja Singh 1911 British-Indian centenarian marathon runner
  71. Ding Junhui 1987 Chinese snooker player
  72. Vladimir Pozner 1934 French-Russian-American journalist
  73. Salomon Gessner 1730 Swiss painter, etcher and poet
  74. Gaetano Mosca 1858 Italian political scientist and journalist
  75. Samuel R. Delany 1942 American author and literary critic
  76. Barry Sonnenfeld 1953 American film director and cinematographer
  77. Charles de Saint-Évremond 1613 French politician and writer
  78. Nico Schulz 1993 German association football player
  79. Hiromi Kawakami 1958 Japanese writer
  80. Fernando del Paso 1935 Mexican writer
  81. László Tőkés 1952 Romanian politician and bishop of Hungarian nationality
  82. Elizabeth Gutiérrez 1979 American actress
  83. Paul Manafort 1949 American political consultant
  84. Roberto Pruzzo 1955 Italian football player and manager
  85. Wojciech Jerzy Has 1925 Polish film director
  86. Octavian Goga 1881 Romanian poet and politician
  87. Albert Anker 1831 Swiss artist
  88. Sam Huntington 1982 American actor
  89. Ita Ever 1931 Estonian actress
  90. Mirka Federer 1978 Swiss tennis player
  91. Ashley Westwood 1990 English footballer
  92. David Ngog 1989 French footballer
  93. Geno Petriashvili 1994 Georgian wrestler
  94. Fatmire Alushi 1988 German association football player
  95. Dieter Müller 1954 German footballer
  96. Ólafur Ingi Skúlason 1983 Icelandic footballer
  97. Sergey Volkov 1973 Russian cosmonaut
  98. Vladimir Beschastnykh 1974 Russian footballer and manager
  99. Javier Irureta 1948 Spanish football player/manager
  100. Katharina Liensberger 1997 Austrian female alpine skier
  101. Gabriela Dabrowski 1992 Canadian tennis player
  102. Logan Costa 2001 Cape Verdean association football player
  103. Rhian Brewster 2000 English association football player
  104. Christian Schulz 1983 German association football player
  105. Bjørn Einar Romøren 1981 Norwegian ski jumper

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on April 1 share the 1st of April as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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