Famous birthdays
Famous people born on February 20
Short answer
Well-known people born on February 20 include Kurt Cobain (1967), Gordon Brown (1951), Sidney Poitier (1927) and Ludwig Boltzmann (1844). Our list below has 103 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives February 20 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1751 (Johann Heinrich Voss) and the most recent is 2014 (Princess Leonore, Duchess of Gotland). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on February 20?
- Kurt Cobain 1967 American rock musician
- Gordon Brown 1951 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010
- Sidney Poitier 1927 Bahamian and American actor and diplomat
- Ludwig Boltzmann 1844 Austrian physicist and philosopher
- Joao Grimaldo 2003 Peruvian association football player
- George F. Smoot 1945 American astrophysicist and cosmologist
- Mitch McConnell 1942 American politician and lawyer
- Robert Altman 1925 American filmmaker
- Ansel Adams 1902 American photographer and environmentalist
- Ivana Trump 1949 Czech-American businesswoman
- Charles Barkley 1963 American basketball player
- Georges Bernanos 1888 French writer
- Ciro Immobile 1990 Italian association football player
- Mohamed Naguib 1901 1st President of the Republic of Egypt
- Richard Matheson 1926 American fiction writer
- Béla Kun 1886 Hungarian Communist revolutionary and politician, the de facto leader of the Hungarian…
- Jari Litmanen 1971 Finnish footballer
- Pompeu Fabra 1868 Catalan linguist
- Pierre Boulle 1912 French novelist
- Robert Huber 1937 German chemist
- David Herman 1967 American actor
- Miles Teller 1987 American actor
- Siniša Mihajlović 1969 Serbian football player and manager
- Fayez al-Sarraj 1960 Architect and former Prime Minister of Libya
- Christophoros A. Pissarides 1948 British-Cypriot economist
- Sally Rooney 1991 Irish author
- Artur Boruc 1980 Polish footballer
- Trevor Noah 1984 South African comedian and television host
- Louis Kahn 1901 Estonian-American architect
- Hubert de Givenchy 1927 French fashion designer
- Julia Volkova 1985 Russian singer, member of the duo t.A.T.u.
- John Milnor 1931 American mathematician
- Jimmy Greaves 1940 English professional football player
- Mike Leigh 1943 English writer and director
- Brenda Blethyn 1946 British actress
- Nenad Maslovar 1967 Montenegrin association football player
- Jiah Khan 1988 British−American Bollywood actress
- Hidilyn Diaz 1991 Filipino Olympic weightlifter, Philippines' first Olympic Gold Medalist
- Tony Hibbert 1981 English footballer
- Ibrahim Ferrer 1927 Cuban singer
- Anthony Head 1954 English actor
- Louise, Princess Royal 1867 Third child and eldest daughter of Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Alexandra of…
- Danis Tanović 1969 Bosnian film director and politician
- Vanja Milinković-Savić 1997 Serbian footballer
- Rudi Garcia 1964 French football manager
- Lili Taylor 1967 American actress
- Michael Oliver 1985 English football referee
- Nicolai Hartmann 1882 German philosopher
- Brigid Kosgei 1994 Kenyan long-distance runner
- Gloria Vanderbilt 1924 American businesswoman, fashion designer, socialite and writer
- Alexander Gauland 1941 German politician, lawyer and journalist
- Antonio Inoki 1943 Japanese professional wrestler, businessman, and politician
- Henri de Lubac 1896 Jesuit theologian and cardinal
- Lauren Ambrose 1978 American actress
- Stephon Marbury 1977 American basketball player
- Buffy Sainte-Marie 1941 American musician
- Willem van Hanegem 1944 Dutch footballer
- Erika Vikman 1993 Finnish singer and songwriter
- Karl Hans Albrecht 1920 German entrepreneur
- Mario Grech 1957 Maltese catholic Cardinal
- Jack Falahee 1989 American actor
- Willie Garson 1964 American actor
- Phil Neal 1951 English footballer
- Takuboku Ishikawa 1886 Japanese poet
- Roy Cohn 1927 American lawyer
- Nancy Wilson 1937 American singer
- Brian Littrell 1975 American singer, member of the Backstreet Boys
- Tim Sparv 1987 Finnish footballer
- Julia Jentsch 1978 German actress
- Peter Strauss 1947 American actor
- Richard Beymer 1938 American actor
- Bob Richards 1926 American athletics competitor, pole vaulter
- Ken Olsen 1926 American engineer and businessman
- Adrian Lamo 1981 American hacker and threat analyst
- Johann Heinrich Voss 1751 German poet and classics translator
- Mihály Munkácsy 1844 Hungarian painter
- Abida Parveen 1954 Pakistani Sufi Muslim singer, composer and musician
- Laureano Gómez 1889 President of Colombia
- Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov 1943 Soviet cosmonaut
- Princess Leonore, Duchess of Gotland 2014 Swedish princess, eldest child of Princess Madeleine and Christopher O'Neill
- Jean Kennedy Smith 1928 American diplomat
- Josh Sargent 2000 American soccer player
- Emam Ashour 1998 Egyptian association football player
- Friedrich Wetter 1928 German cardinal
- Forbes Burnham 1923 Guyanese politician
- Kristóf Milák 2000 Hungarian swimmer
- Paolo Romeo 1938 Italian cardinal and archbishop
- Jay Hernandez 1978 Mexican actor
- Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz 1952 President of Ecuador
- Elizaveta Glinka 1962 Russian physician
- Ki Bo-bae 1988 South Korean archer
- Daniella Pineda 1987 American actress
- Jennifer O'Neill 1948 American actress and model
- Chelsea Peretti 1978 American comedian and actress
- Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz 1913 Iraqi politician, academic and pan-Arab nationalist
- Andrea Cambiaso 2000 Italian association football player
- French Stewart 1964 American actor
- Elisabeth Görgl 1981 Austrian alpine skier
- Gail Kim 1977 Canadian professional wrestler, model and actress
- Peter Osgood 1947 English footballer
- Claude Miller 1942 French film director, producer and screenwriter
- Julia Franck 1970 German writer
- Karim Bagheri 1974 Iranian footballer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on February 20 share the 20th of February as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.