Famous birthdays
Famous people born on February 2
Short answer
Well-known people born on February 2 include James Joyce (1882), Ayn Rand (1905), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926) and Park Geun-hye (1952). Our list below has 95 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives February 2 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1600 (Gabriel Naudé) and the most recent is 2006 (Lucas Bergvall). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, politician.
Who was born on February 2?
- James Joyce 1882 Irish novelist and poet
- Ayn Rand 1905 Russian-born American writer and public philosopher
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing 1926 French official and politician
- Park Geun-hye 1952 President of South Korea from 2013 to 2017
- Gerard Piqué 1987 Spanish association football player
- Benedict XIII 1649 Pope of the Catholic Church from 1724 to 1730
- Farrah Fawcett 1947 American actress
- Blake Clark 1946 American stand-up comedian
- Ivan Perišić 1989 Croatian footballer
- Isaias Afwerki 1946 President of Eritrea since 1993
- Abdullah I of Jordan 1882 Ruler of Transjordan and Jordan from 1921 to 1951
- Andrej Kiska 1963 4th President of Slovakia
- Antonio Segni 1891 4th President of Italy
- Paul Mescal 1996 Irish actor
- Frank Lloyd 1886 British film director
- Than Shwe 1933 Burmese senior general and head of state of Myanmar of Myanmar from 1992 to 2011
- Kota Yoshihara 1978 Japanese association football player
- Stan Getz 1927 American jazz saxophonist
- Havelock Ellis 1859 British physician, writer, and social reformer
- Masanobu Fukuoka 1913 Japanese farmer and philosopher
- Jascha Heifetz 1901 Russian-American violinist
- Dries van Agt 1931 Dutch politician
- Dale T. Mortensen 1939 American economist
- Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark 1882 Greek prince; father of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, grandfather Charles III
- Martín Zubimendi 1999 Spanish footballer
- Valeri Karpin 1969 Estonian-Russian footballer and manager
- Ciriaco De Mita 1928 Italian politician
- Alpha Oumar Konaré 1946 President of Mali (1992 to 2002)
- Brent Spiner 1949 American actor
- Edu Manga 1967 Brazilian football player
- Johann Christoph Gottsched 1700 German writer, dramaturge, linguist and literary theorist as well as professor of…
- Abba Eban 1915 Israeli diplomat and politician
- Silvestre Varela 1985 Portuguese footballer
- Kazimierz Kuratowski 1896 Polish mathematician
- Elseid Hysaj 1994 Albanian association football player
- Fritz Kreisler 1875 Austrian violinist and composer
- Alfred Brehm 1829 German naturalist
- Karol Linetty 1995 Polish footballer
- Valery Chkalov 1904 Soviet aviator, Hero of the Soviet Union
- Carolina Klüft 1983 Swedish heptathlete and long jumper
- Věra Chytilová 1929 Czech film director
- Harry Winks 1996 English footballer
- Bárbara Mori 1978 Mexican actress and model
- Eva Cassidy 1963 American singer
- Christiane Taubira 1952 French politician
- Nina Zilli 1980 Italian singer and songwriter
- Enrique Simonet 1866 Spanish painter
- Lucas Bergvall 2006 Swedish association football player
- Matt K. Miller 1960 American actor
- Jean de Lattre de Tassigny 1889 French army general, Marshal of France
- Otar Iosseliani 1934 Georgian film director
- Oqil Oqilov 1944 Tajikistani politician
- Christie Brinkley 1954 American model and actress
- Shamita Shetty 1979 Indian actress
- Svetozar Gligorić 1923 Serbian and Yugoslavian chess player
- Edmond Tapsoba 1999 Burkinabé association football player
- Heinrich Friedrich Link 1767 German naturalist and botanist
- Damdin Sükhbaatar 1893 Mongolian military leader
- Leszek Engelking 1955 Polish writer and translator
- Bonita Granville 1923 American actress
- John Cornyn 1952 American politician and attorney
- Hella Haasse 1918 Dutch writer
- William Elford Leach 1790 English zoologist and marine biologist (1790/1–1836)
- Sadiq Umar 1997 Nigerian association football player
- Philippe Claudel 1962 French film director, writer and screenwriter
- Fartuun Adan 1969 Somali activist
- Ivan Puliui 1845 Ukrainian physicist
- Graham Nash 1942 British singer
- Nathan Delfouneso 1991 English association football player
- Oswald Achenbach 1827 German artist
- Cameron Borthwick-Jackson 1997 English association football player
- Oleguer Presas 1980 Spanish footballer
- Josep Samitier 1902 Spanish football player and manager
- Melody Gardot 1985 American jazz singer
- Do Muoi 1917 Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
- Barbara Sukowa 1950 German actress and singer
- Friedrich Dollmann 1882 German general
- Amrit Kaur 1889 Indian politician
- Bozorg Alavi 1904 Writer, novelist and activist
- Laura Poitras 1964 American documentary film director and producer
- Lars Olsen 1961 Danish association football player
- Hannah More 1745 English writer and philanthropist
- Claudio Morel 1978 Paraguayan footballer
- Kiko Femenía 1991 Spanish association football player
- Stoyanka Mutafova 1922 Bulgarian actress
- François-Alphonse Forel 1841 Swiss scientist
- Elaine Stritch 1925 American actress and singer in film, television, and the theatre
- Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg 1711 Bohemian nobleman
- Albert Sidney Johnston 1803 Confederate States Army officer
- Aleksander Tammert 1973 Estonian athletics competitor
- Gabriel Naudé 1600 French librarian
- Carl Friedrich I, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 1783 Monarch of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- Arfa Karim 1995 Pakistani computer scientist
- Anastasia Davydova 1983 Russian synchronized swimmer
- Barry Ferguson 1978 Scottish association football manager
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on February 2 share the 2nd of February as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.