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Famous people born on August 9
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 9 include Whitney Houston (1963), Jean Piaget (1896), Gillian Anderson (1968) and Romano Prodi (1939). Our list below has 96 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 9 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1593 (Izaak Walton) and the most recent is 2004 (Alex Freeman). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, actor.
Who was born on August 9?
- Whitney Houston 1963 American singer, actress, and film producer
- Jean Piaget 1896 Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic
- Gillian Anderson 1968 American actress
- Romano Prodi 1939 Italian politician and economist
- Leonid Kuchma 1938 Ukrainian businessman and politician, second President of Ukraine from 1994 to 2005
- Tove Jansson 1914 Finnish children's writer and illustrator
- Juanes 1972 Colombian musician
- Anna Kendrick 1985 American actress
- William Alfred Fowler 1911 American nuclear physicist
- Audrey Tautou 1976 French actress
- John Key 1961 Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016
- Melanie Griffith 1957 American actress
- Jean Tirole 1953 French economist
- Filippo Inzaghi 1973 Italian footballer and manager
- Marvin Minsky 1927 American cognitive scientist
- Eric Bana 1968 Australian actor
- Willian 1988 Brazilian association football player
- Mário Zagallo 1931 Brazilian footballer
- Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer 1962 German politician, former federal minister of defence
- Rod Laver 1938 Australian tennis player
- Filipe Luís 1985 Brazilian football coach and former association footballer
- P. L. Travers 1899 Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist
- Bob Cousy 1928 American basketball player and coach
- Tyson Gay 1982 American sprinter
- Roy Hodgson 1947 English football manager
- Sam Elliott 1944 American actor
- Bill Skarsgård 1990 Swedish actor
- Robert Shaw 1927 British actor and writer
- Philip Larkin 1922 English writer, jazz critic and librarian
- Taro Kagawa 1922 Japanese association football player
- Daniel Keyes 1927 American author
- Mikaël Silvestre 1977 French footballer
- Mikhail Zoshchenko 1894 Soviet writer
- Vivek Ramaswamy 1985 American presidential candidate and businessman
- Otto Rehhagel 1938 German footballer and manager
- William T. G. Morton 1819 United States dental surgeon
- Robert Aldrich 1918 American film director
- Thomas Telford 1757 Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason
- Mahesh Babu 1975 Indian actor
- Hifumi Abe 1997 Japanese judoka
- Joop den Uyl 1919 Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- Ravshan Irmatov 1977 Uzbekistani football referee
- Rhona Mitra 1976 British actress
- Jessica Capshaw 1976 American actress
- Ralph Hasenhüttl 1967 Austrian association football manager and former player
- Hansika Motwani 1991 Indian actress
- Leon Bailey 1997 Jamaican association football player
- Alexa Bliss 1991 American professional wrestler
- Adelaide Kane 1990 Australian actress
- Alfred Aho 1941 Canadian computer scientist
- King Von 1994 American rapper
- Djed Spence 2000 English association football player
- Surangel Whipps Jr. 1968 President of Palau since 2021
- Ashley Johnson 1983 American actress
- Amanda Bearse 1958 American actress, comedian and director
- Ken Norton 1943 American boxer
- Michael Kors 1959 American fashion designer
- Wesley Sonck 1978 Belgian association football player
- Brito 1939 Brazilian footballer
- Achille Valenciennes 1794 French zoologist, ichthyologist, and malacologist
- Jean-Claude Hollerich 1958 Luxembourg Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop
- Kevin McKidd 1973 Scottish actor
- Lorenzo Sanz 1943 Spanish businessman
- Nusret Gökçe 1983 Turkish chef and restaurateur
- Maria Guleghina 1959 Ukrainian singer
- Cléo 1985 Brazilian association football player
- Gaston Paris 1839 French medievalist and writer
- Linn Ullmann 1966 Norwegian writer and journalist
- Sarah McBride 1990 American human rights activist and politician
- John William Godward 1861 English painter
- Hans Oster 1887 German general
- Roman Romanenko 1971 Russian cosmonaut
- Alex Freeman 2004 American soccer player
- Roland Linz 1981 Austrian association football player
- Izaak Walton 1593 English author and biographer
- Anémone 1950 French actress
- Gilles de Roberval 1602 French mathematician (*1602 – †1675)
- Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé 1736 French noble
- Manea Mănescu 1916 50th Prime Minister of Romania
- Justice Smith 1995 American actor
- Archduke Joseph August of Austria 1872 Archduke of Austria
- Raphaël Poirée 1974 French biathlete
- Armand Salacrou 1899 French dramatist
- Derek Fisher 1974 American basketball player and coach
- McG 1968 American film director
- Jack DeJohnette 1942 American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer
- John Varley 1947 American science fiction author
- Brad Gilbert 1961 American tennis player and coach
- Dan Levy 1983 Canadian actor, director, screenwriter, and producer
- Patrick Depailler 1944 French racecar driver
- Prince Augustus William of Prussia 1722 German general
- Davide Rebellin 1971 Italian road bicycle racer
- Takaharu Furukawa 1984 Japanese archer
- Kim Hwang-sik 1948 South Korean lawyer and politician
- Anand Panyarachun 1932 Thai politician
- Reynaldo Hahn 1874 Venezuelan-French composer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 9 share the 9th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.