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Famous people born on February 13
Short answer
Well-known people born on February 13 include William Shockley (1910), Robbie Williams (1974), Ivan Krylov (1769) and Georges Simenon (1903). Our list below has 95 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives February 13 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1599 (Alexander VII) and the most recent is 2003 (Raúl Asencio). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, singer.
Who was born on February 13?
- William Shockley 1910 American physicist and inventor
- Robbie Williams 1974 British singer
- Ivan Krylov 1769 Russian writer
- Georges Simenon 1903 Belgian writer
- Paul Biya 1933 Cameroonian politician
- Alexander VII 1599 Pope of the Catholic Church from 1655 to 1667
- Peter Gabriel 1950 British singer and musician
- Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet 1805 German mathematician
- Memphis Depay 1994 Dutch association football player
- Sarojini Naidu 1879 Indian poet, politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from1947 to…
- Khalid of Saudi Arabia 1911 King of Saudi Arabia
- Aung San 1915 Burmese revolutionary leader
- Kim Novak 1933 American actress
- Rafael Márquez El piojo 1979 Mexican association football player
- Feodor Chaliapin 1873 Russian opera singer and actor
- Mena Suvari 1979 American actress, fashion designer, model
- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 1835 Indian religious leader
- Chuck Yeager 1923 American World War II flying ace and test pilot; first pilot to fly faster than sound
- Pierluigi Collina 1960 Italian international football referee
- Bess Truman 1885 First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953
- Paul Deschanel 1855 11th President of the French Republic
- Grant Wood 1891 American painter
- Vitinha 2000 Portuguese footballer
- Hiroshi Ninomiya 1937 Japanese association football player and manager
- Sigmund Jähn 1937 East German cosmonaut
- Mamadou Sakho 1990 French footballer
- Sebastian Kehl 1980 German association football player
- Rupiah Banda 1937 4th president of Zambia; 1937–2022
- George Segal 1934 American actor
- Jerry Springer 1944 American television personality and politician
- Luisão 1981 Brazilian footballer
- Henry Rollins 1961 American musician
- Omar Torrijos 1929 Panamanian military leader and de facto ruler, signatory of the Torrijos–Carter Treaties
- Stockard Channing 1944 American actress
- John Louis Emil Dreyer 1852 Danish-Irish astronomer
- Eljero Elia 1987 Dutch association football player
- Kevin Strootman 1990 Dutch association football player
- Eliaquim Mangala 1991 French footballer
- Kelly Hu 1968 American actress
- Niamh Kavanagh 1968 Irish singer
- Georgios Papandreou 1888 Prime minister of Greece
- Sigmar Polke 1941 German artist
- Angelica Singleton Van Buren 1818 First Lady of the United States
- Virgilijus Alekna 1972 Lithuanian discus thrower
- Oliver Reed 1938 British actor
- Lord Randolph Churchill 1849 British politician, father of Winston Churchill
- Eleanor Farjeon 1881 English children's writer
- Hugo López-Gatell 1969 Mexican physician, researcher, professor and public official, Undersecretary of…
- Neal McDonough 1966 American actor
- Feist 1976 Canadian singer
- Peter O'Neill 1965 Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea from 2011 to 2019
- Robert H. Jackson 1892 US Supreme Court justice from 1941 to 1954
- Pernilla August 1958 Swedish actress and film director
- Edsilia Rombley 1978 Dutch singer
- Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier 1768 French diplomat
- Faiz Ahmad Faiz 1911 Pakistani Urdu poet and author
- Raúl Asencio 2003 Spanish association football player
- Alexandros Tziolis 1985 Greek footballer
- Fernando Sor 1778 Spanish classical guitarist and composer
- Harold Lasswell 1902 American political scientist
- Julian Schieber 1989 German football player
- Richard Blumenthal 1946 United States Senator from Connecticut since 2011
- Jamie Murray 1986 British tennis player
- Hedwiges Maduro 1985 Dutch association football player and manager
- Uroš Spajić 1993 Serbian footballer
- Pontus Jansson 1991 Swedish association football player
- Rachel Reeves 1979 British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2024 to 2026
- François Achille Bazaine 1811 French general
- Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta 1904 Greek princess, Queen consort of Croatia, Duchess of Aosta
- John Hunter 1728 Scottish surgeon
- Meng Wanzhou 1972 Chinese business executive
- Valeri Rozhdestvenski 1939 Soviet cosmonaut
- Mats Sundin 1971 Swedish ice hockey player
- Philippe Jaroussky 1978 French countertenor
- Liam Brady 1956 Irish footballer and manager
- Stephen Bowen 1964 American astronaut
- Israel Kirzner 1930 American economist
- Somdev Devvarman 1985 Indian tennis player
- Ihor Kolomoyskyi 1963 Israeli and former Ukrainian businessman and politician
- Yosuke Fujigaya 1981 Japanese association football player
- Abd al-Hamid Dbeibeh 1959 Libyan politician, architect and Prime Minister of Libya since 2021
- Leopold Godowsky 1870 American pianist, composer, and teacher
- Tennessee Ernie Ford 1919 American recording artist and television host notable for his bass-baritone voice
- Paul Lazarsfeld 1901 Austrian-American sociologist
- Peter Hook 1956 British bassist
- Georges-Kévin Nkoudou 1995 Cameroonian-French footballer
- Yun Suk-young 1990 South Korean association football player
- Serhiy Tihipko 1960 Ukrainian politician
- Carol Lynley 1942 American actress
- Tony Dalton 1975 American and Mexican actor
- Joyce DiDonato 1969 American opera mezzo-soprano
- Simon Schama 1945 British University Professor of Art History and History
- Hermann von Eichhorn 1848 German general
- Pia Sundhage 1960 Swedish association football player and manager
- Ylva Johansson 1964 Swedish 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 13 share the 13th of February as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.