Famous birthdays
Famous people born on February 12
Short answer
Well-known people born on February 12 include Abraham Lincoln (1809), Charles Darwin (1809), Pran (1920) and Christina Ricci (1980). Our list below has 102 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives February 12 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1637 (Jan Swammerdam) and the most recent is 2002 (Daniel Svensson). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on February 12?
- Abraham Lincoln 1809 President of the United States from 1861 to 1865
- Charles Darwin 1809 English naturalist and biologist
- Pran 1920 Indian actor
- Christina Ricci 1980 American actress
- Anna Pavlova 1882 Russian ballet dancer
- Julian Seymour Schwinger 1918 American theoretical physicist
- Ehud Barak 1942 10th Prime Minister of Israel
- Bill Russell 1934 American basketball player
- Lou Andreas-Salomem 1861 German-Russian essayist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst
- Khvicha Kvaratskhelia 2001 Georgian footballer
- Josh Brolin 1968 American actor
- John Edward Gray 1800 British zoologist
- Nicolás Otamendi 1988 Argentine association football player
- Darren Aronofsky 1969 American filmmaker
- Omar Bradley 1893 United States Army general
- George Meredith 1828 British novelist and poet
- Franco Zeffirelli 1923 Italian director and politician
- Thubten Gyatso 1876 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet
- Ray Manzarek 1939 American keyboardist
- Juan Carlos Ferrero 1980 Spanish tennis player
- David Graeber 1961 American anthropologist and anarchist
- Raymond Kurzweil 1948 American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor
- Dayananda Saraswati 1824 Indian social reformer
- Tara Strong 1973 Canadian-American actress
- Louisa Adams 1775 First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829
- Rafinha 1993 Brazilian association football player
- James Dwight Dana 1813 American mineralogist, scientist and zoologist
- Ron-Robert Zieler 1989 German association football player
- Brett Kavanaugh 1965 U.S. Supreme Court justice since 2018
- Jesse Spencer 1979 Australian actor and musician
- Joseph Michel Martelly 1961 Musician and former President of Haiti
- Hong Myung-bo 1969 South Korean association football player and coach
- Jennifer Stone 1993 American actress and registered nurse
- Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk 1851 Austrian economist
- Federica Montseny 1905 Spanish politician, anarchist, intellectual and writer
- Christopher McCandless 1968 American hiker and explorer
- Jan Swammerdam 1637 Dutch entomologist and beekeeper
- Peter Utaka 1984 Nigerian association football player
- Coat Corporation 1932 Norwegian Royal; elder sister of King Harald V of Norway
- William Morris Davis 1850 American geographer
- Michael Ironside 1950 Canadian actor
- Caterine Ibargüen 1984 Colombian athlete competing in high jump, long jump and triple jump
- Auguste Perret 1874 French architect
- Jenny von Westphalen 1813 German theatre critic and political activist
- Pierre Louis Dulong 1785 French scientist
- Abd al-Aziz Jarad 1954 Prime Minister of Algeria from 2019 to 2021
- Lee Byung-chul 1910 South Korean business man; founder of the Samsung Group
- Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples 1937 Disputed Head of the House of Savoy from 1983 to 2024
- Thilo Sarrazin 1945 German economist and politician
- Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué 1777 German writer
- David D. Friedman 1945 American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist
- Dennis Sullivan 1941 American mathematician
- Cotton Mather 1663 American religious minister and scientific writer
- Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli 1856 Austro-Hungarian general
- Ajda Pekkan 1946 Turkish actor and singer
- Judy Blume 1938 American children's writer
- Mike Posner 1988 American musician
- Louis Renault 1877 French industrialist
- Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh 1911 Irish judge and 5th President of Ireland
- Ezgjan Alioski 1992 Macedonian association football player
- Clara Campoamor 1888 Spanish politician, feminist
- Maud Adams 1945 Swedish actress
- Barnum Brown 1873 American paleontologist
- Steve Hackett 1950 British guitarist and singer
- Joe Don Baker 1936 American actor
- Arlen Specter 1930 American politician
- Jérémy Chardy 1987 French tennis player
- Daniel Svensson 2002 Swedish footballer
- Andi Lila 1986 Albanian association football player
- Benik Afobe 1993 Congolese footballer
- Earvin Ngapeth 1991 French volleyball player
- Patrick Herrmann 1991 German association football player
- Kathleen Antonelli 1921 Irish computer programmer
- Charles Pinot Duclos 1704 French writer
- Claudia Mori 1944 Italian actress, singer, TV producer
- Fang Lizhi 1936 Professor of astrophysics; civil rights activist and dissident
- Joaquín Sabina 1949 Spanish musician
- Edelmiro Julián Farrell 1887 23rd President of Argentina
- Tony Ferguson 1984 American mixed martial artist
- Nicolò Fagioli 2001 Italian association football player
- Yoshiko Yamaguchi 1920 Japanese singer and actress
- Park Bo-young 1990 South Korean actress and singer, born 1990
- Sarah Lancaster 1980 American actress
- Leandro Montera da Silva 1985 Brazilian association football player
- Étienne-Louis Boullée 1728 French architect
- Eugène Atget 1857 French photographer
- Iko Uwais 1983 Indonesian actor and martial artist
- Ferruccio Valcareggi 1919 Italian footballer and manager
- Julius Aghahowa 1982 Nigerian footballer
- Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer 1865 Polish writer
- Dmitri Loskov 1974 Russian footballer
- Raúl Entrerríos 1981 Spanish handball player
- Enver Gjokaj 1980 American actor
- Richard Lynch 1940 American actor
- Phil Zimmermann 1954 Creator of Pretty Good Privacy
- Bryan Roy 1970 Dutch association football player and manager
- Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet 1993 French biathlete
- Carl Reichenbach 1788 German scientist and philosopher
- Stefan Ristovski 1992 Macedonian footballer
- Magda Linette 1992 Polish female tennis player
- Hussein Onn 1922 Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1976 to 1981
- Laza Kostić 1841 Serbian writer and politician
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on February 12 share the 12th of February as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.