Famous birthdays
Famous people born on April 12
Short answer
Well-known people born on April 12 include Jacob Zuma (1942), Montserrat Caballé (1933), Lisa Gerrard (1961) and Tom Clancy (1947). Our list below has 98 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives April 12 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1713 (Guillaume Thomas François Raynal) and the most recent is 2004 (Kim Je-deok). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, actor.
Who was born on April 12?
- Jacob Zuma 1942 4th President of South Africa
- Montserrat Caballé 1933 Spanish operatic soprano
- Lisa Gerrard 1961 Australian musician, singer and composer
- Tom Clancy 1947 American author
- David Letterman 1947 American comedian and television host
- Saoirse Ronan 1994 Irish-American actress
- Joyce Banda 1950 4th President of Malawi
- Claire Danes 1979 American actor
- Tulsi Gabbard 1981 American politician
- Jan Tinbergen 1903 Dutch economist
- Jennifer Morrison 1979 American actress
- Andy Garcia 1956 American actor and director
- Shannen Doherty 1971 American actress
- Marcello Lippi 1948 Italian association football player and manager
- Ed O'Neill 1946 American actor
- Herbie Hancock 1940 American jazz pianist and composer
- Otto Fritz Meyerhof 1884 German biochemist
- Joschka Fischer 1948 German politician
- Hiroki Sakai 1990 Japanese association football player
- Robert Delaunay 1885 French painter
- Bobby Moore 1941 English association football player
- Antoine Laurent de Jussieu 1748 French botanist
- Christian Panucci 1973 Italian footballer
- Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 1985 Azerbaijani chess player
- Ioannis Metaxas 1871 Greek military officer and politician
- Nicolás Burdisso 1981 Argentine footballer
- Shinkichi Kikuchi 1967 Japanese association football player
- Ryota Morioka 1991 Japanese association football player
- Mateja Kežman 1979 Serbian association football player
- Raymond Barre 1924 85th Prime Minister of France
- Henry Clay 1777 American politician from Kentucky
- Ferdinand von Lindemann 1852 German mathematician
- Katsuhiro Kusaki 1962 Japanese association football player
- Blerim Džemaili 1986 Swiss footballer
- Eric Bailly 1994 Ivorian association football player
- Luiz Adriano 1987 Brazilian association footballer
- Hermann Hoth 1885 German general
- Jan Bednarek 1996 Polish association football player
- Brooklyn Decker 1987 American model and actress
- Sylvinho 1974 Brazilian footballer and manager
- Guy Berryman 1978 Scottish bassist
- Carlos Sainz 1962 Spanish racing driver
- David Cassidy 1950 American actor and singer
- Ricky Álvarez 1988 Argentine association football player
- Guido Rodríguez 1994 Argentine association footballer
- George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen 1946 British politician
- Jelena Dokic 1983 Croatian, later Australian, female tennis player
- Brendon Urie 1987 American singer and musician
- Carlos Reutemann 1942 Argentine racing driver and politician
- Hardy Krüger 1928 German actor
- Yuriy Borzakovskiy 1981 Athletics (sport) competitor
- Walter Salles 1956 Brazilian film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Erik Mongrain 1980 Canadian composer and guitarist
- Salam Fayyad 1952 Palestinian politician, Former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority…
- Nicholas Brendon 1971 American actor
- Marley Shelton 1974 American actress
- Virginia Cherrill 1908 American actress
- Jon Krakauer 1954 American writer and journalist
- Lucas Radebe 1969 South African footballer
- Igor Volk 1937 Soviet test pilot, cosmonaut
- Herbert Grönemeyer 1956 German singer, musician and actor
- Matteo Berrettini 1996 Italian tennis player
- Ann Miller 1923 American actress and dancer
- Marcel Granollers 1986 Catalan tennis player
- Manuel Turizo 2000 Colombian singer
- Chuy García 1956 Mexican-born American politician
- Przemysław Frankowski 1995 Polish association football player
- Jonathan Pitroipa 1986 Burkinabé footballer
- Nadia Battocletti 2000 Italian athlete
- Flavio Briatore 1950 Italian businessman
- Thongsing Thammavong 1944 Prime Minister of Laos
- Gary Caldwell 1982 Scottish association football manager
- Chad le Clos 1992 South African swimmer
- Kim Je-deok 2004 South Korean archer
- Oh Hyeon-gyu 2001 South Korean footballer
- Charles Napier 1936 American actor
- Tom Noonan 1951 American actor, director, and screenwriter
- Beverly Cleary 1916 American writer of children's books
- Emmy 1984 Armenian singer
- Ibrahim Mahlab 1949 Egyptian politician; prime minister
- Guillaume Thomas François Raynal 1713 French writer
- Oh Se-hun 1994 South Korean rapper
- Edward Walter Maunder 1851 English astronomer studying sunspots
- Pierre-Étienne Flandin 1889 French prime minister
- Brian McFadden 1980 Irish singer
- Tix 1993 Norwegian singer
- Princess Viktoria of Prussia 1866 Prussian princess
- Lily Pons 1898 American opera singer and actress
- Grant Holt 1981 English professional footballer
- André Martinet 1908 French linguist
- Anton Siluanov 1963 Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation
- Francisco Craveiro Lopes 1894 President of Portugal
- Louis Beel 1902 Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- Valentin Stocker 1989 Swiss association football player
- Jazz Richards 1991 Welsh association footballer
- Yohei Fukumoto 1987 Japanese association football player
- Oliver Norwood 1991 Northern Irish footballer
- Carlos Lleras Restrepo 1908 President of Colombia
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on April 12 share the 12th of April as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.