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Famous people born on February 3

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Well-known people born on February 3 include Felix Mendelssohn (1809), Simone Weil (1909), Alvar Aalto (1898) and Gertrude Stein (1874). Our list below has 105 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives February 3 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1721 (Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz) and the most recent is 2005 (Matias Fernandez-Pardo). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actress.

Who was born on February 3?

  1. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of Jewish descent
  2. Simone Weil 1909 French philosopher, writer, and social activist
  3. Alvar Aalto 1898 Finnish architect and designer
  4. Gertrude Stein 1874 American author
  5. Joachim Löw 1960 German footballer and manager
  6. Paul Auster 1947 American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter
  7. Elizabeth Blackwell 1821 American physician, abolitionist, women's rights activist
  8. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1830 British politician and prime minister
  9. Blaise Compaoré 1951 President of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014
  10. Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo 1948 Roman Catholic bishop
  11. Henning Mankell 1948 Swedish writer, human rights activist and dramatist
  12. Isla Fisher 1976 Australian actress and author
  13. Georg Trakl 1887 Austrian poet
  14. Carl Theodor Dreyer 1889 Danish film director
  15. Antonio José de Sucre 1795 Venezuelan military and politician
  16. Amal Clooney 1978 Lebanese-British-French barrister and human right activist
  17. Risto Ryti 1889 President of Finland
  18. Daddy Yankee 1976 Puerto Rican rapper and singer-songwriter
  19. Joan Capdevila 1978 Spanish footballer
  20. Norman Rockwell 1894 American painter and illustrator
  21. Kamil Glik 1988 Polish association football player
  22. Erik ten Hag 1970 Dutch football manager
  23. Chan Santokhi 1959 President of Suriname from 2020 to 2025
  24. James A. Michener 1907 American author
  25. Lao She 1899 Chinese writer, novelist and playwright
  26. Michael Cimino 1939 American film director
  27. Gregory van der Wiel 1988 Dutch association football player
  28. Maurizio Micheli 1947 Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, author and playwright
  29. Walter Bagehot 1826 British journalist, businessman, and essayist
  30. Warwick Davis 1970 English actor
  31. Daniel Schmidt 1992 Japanese association football player
  32. Vlade Divac 1968 Serbian basketball player
  33. Nathan Lane 1956 American actor
  34. Horace Greeley 1811 American politician and publisher
  35. Ada Negri 1870 Italian poet, writer, and teacher
  36. Aurelio Vidmar 1967 Australian association football player
  37. Melanie 1947 American musician
  38. Michael Rummenigge 1964 German association football player
  39. Stuart Hall 1932 Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist
  40. Blythe Danner 1943 American actress
  41. Hugo Junkers 1859 German aviation pioneer
  42. George Armitage Miller 1920 American psychologist
  43. Sarah Kane 1971 English playwright
  44. Ignacy Krasicki 1735 Polish writer and poet, Catholic archbishop
  45. Café Filho 1899 President of Brazil
  46. Beau Biden 1969 American politician and lawyer
  47. Lee Ranaldo 1956 American rock musician
  48. Juan Negrín 1892 Prime Minister of Spain
  49. Sima Samar 1957 Afghanistani politician
  50. Bridget Regan 1982 American actress
  51. E. P. Thompson 1924 British historian & peace activist
  52. Malaika Mihambo 1994 German athletics competitor
  53. Morgan Fairchild 1950 American actress
  54. Gideon Mantell 1790 British scientist and obstetrician
  55. Mart Poom 1972 Estonian footballer and coach
  56. Getter Jaani 1993 Estonian singer
  57. Radu Drăgușin 2002 Romanian association football player
  58. Joseph E. Johnston 1807 Confederate general
  59. Raghuram Rajan 1963 Indian economist and former governor of Reserve Bank of India
  60. Maura Tierney 1965 American actress
  61. Matias Fernandez-Pardo 2005 Belgian footballer
  62. Constantin-François Chassebœuf 1757 French philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician
  63. Luigi Dallapiccola 1904 Italian composer
  64. Shohei Ono 1992 Japanese judoka
  65. Tijana Todevska-Dapčević 1976 Macedonian singer
  66. Epiphanius 1979 21st-century Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine
  67. Vania King 1989 American female tennis player
  68. Wilhelm Ludwig Johannsen 1857 Danish botanist
  69. Aimee Lou Wood 1994 English actress
  70. Anna Tatishvili 1990 Georgian, later American, tennis player
  71. Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz 1721 German general
  72. Shahab Hosseini 1974 Iranian actor
  73. Ralph Asher Alpher 1921 American cosmologist
  74. Spencer Fullerton Baird 1823 American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, museum curator, and the 2nd…
  75. Camilo Torres Restrepo 1929 Colombian theologian
  76. Lewis Cook 1997 English association football player
  77. André Cayatte 1909 French film director
  78. Gaston Julia 1893 French mathematician
  79. Slobodan Rajković 1989 Serbian footballer
  80. Ferzan Özpetek 1959 Turkish-Italian film director and screenwriter
  81. Greg Mankiw 1958 American economist
  82. Kenneth Anger 1927 American filmmaker
  83. Richard Yates 1926 American novelist, short story writer
  84. Henry Heimlich 1920 American surgeon widely credited as the inventor of the Heimlich maneuver
  85. Paul Ariste 1905 Estonian linguist
  86. Hans-Jochen Vogel 1926 German politician
  87. Dutee Chand 1996 Indian sprinter
  88. Youssef El-Arabi 1987 Moroccan footballer
  89. Oleksandr Aliyev 1985 Ukrainian footballer
  90. Mary Carlisle 1914 American actress
  91. David Edwards 1986 Association football player
  92. Johann Georg Albrechtsberger 1736 Austrian music educator, composer and organist
  93. Willy Boly 1991 French-Ivorian footballer
  94. Bruno Quadros 1977 Brazilian association football player
  95. Livano Comenencia 2004 Curaçaoan footballer
  96. Jesper Kyd 1972 Danish composer and sound designer
  97. Fran Beltrán 1999 Spanish association football player
  98. Peggy Ann Garner 1932 American actress
  99. Ransom Riggs 1979 American writer and filmmaker
  100. Dave Davies 1947 English musician
  101. Jalal Hosseini 1982 Iranian association football player
  102. Norodom of Cambodia 1834 King of Cambodia from 1860 to 1904
  103. Yevgeny Shaposhnikov 1942 Soviet Air Force Marshal
  104. Emil Paul Tscherrig 1947 Swiss Roman Catholic Archbishop and Vatican Diplomat
  105. Ayanna Pressley 1974 U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on February 3 share the 3rd of February as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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