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Famous people born on April 5
Short answer
Well-known people born on April 5 include Thomas Hobbes (1588), Bette Davis (1908), Gregory Peck (1916) and Spencer Tracy (1900). Our list below has 113 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives April 5 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1588 (Thomas Hobbes) and the most recent is 2002 (Ethan Katzberg). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, actor.
Who was born on April 5?
- Thomas Hobbes 1588 English philosopher
- Bette Davis 1908 American actress
- Gregory Peck 1916 American actor
- Spencer Tracy 1900 American actor
- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo 1947 Filipino politician, president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010
- Colin Powell 1937 American general and diplomat
- Agnetha Fältskog 1950 Swedish singer
- Joseph Lister 1827 British surgeon and antiseptic pioneer
- Herbert von Karajan 1908 Austrian conductor
- Roman Herzog 1934 Former President of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Akira Toriyama 1955 Japanese manga artist and character designer
- Ivar Giæver 1929 Norwegian-American physicist
- Booker T. Washington 1856 African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
- Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 English poet, playwright and novelist
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard 1732 French painter
- Nguyễn Văn Thiệu 1923 President of South Vietnam from 1965–75
- Lily James 1989 British actress
- Hayley Atwell 1982 English and American actress
- Ravindra Prabhat 1969 Hindi poet, scholar, journalist, novelist and short story writer
- Matthias Jacob Schleiden 1804 German botanist and philosopher
- Kisho Yano 1984 Japanese association football player
- Yassine Bounou 1991 Moroccan association football player
- Mitsuo Ogasawara 1979 Japanese association football player
- Melvyn Douglas 1901 American actor
- Elena Ferrante 1943 Pseudonymous Italian writer
- Judith Resnik 1949 American engineer and astronaut
- Roger Corman 1926 American film director and producer
- Thomas Hitzlsperger 1982 German footballer
- Simone Inzaghi 1976 Italian association football player and manager
- Ryoichi Kawakatsu 1958 Japanese association football player and manager
- Lazarus Chakwera 1955 Malawi religious figure and politician
- Fernando Morientes 1976 Spanish association football player
- Peter Greenaway 1942 Welsh film director
- Nathaniel Clyne 1991 English association football player
- Takayoshi Yamano 1955 Japanese association football player
- Yoshiichi Watanabe 1954 Japanese association football player
- Frank Gorshin 1933 American actor and comedian
- Jules Ferry 1832 French politician
- Joris Mathijsen 1980 Dutch association football player
- Robert Bloch 1917 American fiction writer
- Aram Mp3 1984 Armenian singer and comedian
- Alexander of Battenberg 1857 Bulgarian ruler
- Daniel Schneidermann 1958 French journalist
- Shintaro Kurumaya 1992 Japanese association football player
- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov 1962 Russian public figure
- Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine 1863 Member of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt
- Hugo Claus 1929 Belgian author
- Fyodor Kudryashov 1987 Russian footballer
- Nigel Hawthorne 1929 British actor
- Arthur Hailey 1920 British-Canadian writer
- Louis Spohr 1784 German composer, violinist and conductor
- Rashmika Mandanna 1996 Indian actress
- Pascal Couchepin 1942 Member of the Swiss Federal Council
- Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet 1810 British politician
- Timo Hildebrand 1979 German association football player
- Marshall Allman 1984 American actor
- Tom Finney 1922 English footballer
- Felice Borel 1914 Italian footballer
- Rosen Zhelyazkov 1968 Prime Minister of Bulgaria in 2025
- Borja Mayoral 1997 Spanish association football player
- El Risitas 1956 Spanish comedian and actor
- Sterling K. Brown 1976 American actor
- Charlotte Flair 1986 American professional wrestler and actress
- Anthony Horowitz 1955 English novelist and screenwriter
- Mitch Pileggi 1952 Italian–American actor
- Vincenzo Viviani 1622 Italian scientist
- Andrea Arnold 1961 English film director and actress
- Albert Roussel 1869 French composer
- Haruma Miura 1990 Japanese actor, singer
- Nina Kennedy 1997 Australian athlete
- Thea LaFond 1994 Dominica triple jumper
- Caitlin Moran 1975 English author and broadcaster
- Albert R. Broccoli 1909 American film producer
- Kim Collins 1976 Saint Kitts and Nevis sprinter
- Franklin Chang-Díaz 1950 Costa Rican-American astronaut and physicist
- Vincenzo Gioberti 1801 Italian philosopher and politician
- Nora Mørk 1991 Norwegian handball player
- Uğurcan Çakır 1996 Turkish association football player
- Élodie Bouchez 1973 French actress
- Ahmed Reda Tagnaouti 1996 Moroccan footballer
- Barend Biesheuvel 1920 Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- Cristian Săpunaru 1984 Romanian association football player
- Marius Lăcătuș 1964 Romanian footballer
- Sergey Chaplygin 1869 Russian mathematician
- Johan Kriek 1958 South African-US tennis player
- Princess Ubol Ratana of Thailand 1951 Thai Royal
- Diamond Dallas Page 1956 American professional wrestler and actor
- Ethan Katzberg 2002 Canadian hammer thrower
- Imany 1979 French pop-soul singer
- Leka, Crown Prince of Albania 1939 Head of the House of Zogu
- Daniel Majstorović 1977 Swedish footballer
- Thanin Kraiwichian 1927 Thai lawyer and politician
- Nicolas Grunitzky 1913 Togolese President
- Lana Clarkson 1962 Actress and fashion model from the United States
- Paula Cole 1968 American singer
- Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun 1944 Catholic cardinal
- Song Jiaoren 1882 Chinese revolutionary
- Dwain Chambers 1978 English sprint athlete
- Jules Dupré 1811 French painter
- István Örkény 1912 Hungarian writer
- Sara Danius 1962 Swedish academic
- Mary Costa 1930 American opera singer and actress
- Ernest Mandel 1923 Belgian economist and Marxist philosopher
- Jane Asher 1946 English actress and author
- Gloria Diaz 1951 Filipino actress, Miss Universe winner
- Clas Thunberg 1893 Finnish speed skater
- Matthias Jaissle 1988 German association football player and manager
- Franziska van Almsick 1978 German swimmer
- Atanu Das 1992 Indian archer
- Jonathan Erlich 1977 Israeli tennis player
- Miki Manojlović 1950 Serbian actor
- Shin Min-a 1984 South Korean model and actress, born 1984
- John Hartson 1975 Welsh footballer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on April 5 share the 5th of April as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.