Famous birthdays
Famous people born on February 5
Short answer
Well-known people born on February 5 include Neymar (1992), William S. Burroughs (1914), Robert Peel (1788) and Carlos Tevez (1984). Our list below has 104 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives February 5 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1626 (Madame de Sévigné) and the most recent is 2016 (Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on February 5?
- Neymar 1992 Brazilian footballer
- William S. Burroughs 1914 American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer
- Robert Peel 1788 Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Carlos Tevez 1984 Argentine footballer
- Robert Hofstadter 1915 American physicist and Nobel laureate
- Gheorghe Hagi 1965 Romanian association football player and manager
- Adlai Stevenson II 1900 American politician and diplomat; 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953
- Giovanni van Bronckhorst 1975 Dutch association football player and manager
- Madame de Sévigné 1626 French noble and epistolarian writer
- Joris-Karl Huysmans 1848 French novelist and art critic
- Vedran Ćorluka 1986 Croatian association football player
- Johan Ludvig Runeberg 1804 Finland’s national poet, author of Finland’s national anthem, Swedish-speaking writer…
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin 1914 Physiologist and biophysicist
- Tom Wilkinson 1948 English actor
- Sven-Göran Eriksson 1948 Swedish football manager
- Laura Linney 1964 American actress
- Barbara Hershey 1948 American actress
- Jennifer Jason Leigh 1962 American actress
- Hank Aaron 1934 American baseball player
- Stefan de Vrij 1992 Dutch association football player
- Andreas Papandreou 1919 Greek economist and politician
- Michael Sheen 1969 Welsh actor
- Michael Mann 1943 American film director, screenwriter, and producer
- Rodrigo Palacio 1982 Argentine association football player
- Queen Mary of Denmark 1972 Queen consort of Denmark since 2024
- Tony Jaa 1976 Thai stunt actor
- Carl Spitzweg 1808 German painter
- Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu 1968 Turkish statesman
- Darren Criss 1987 American actor and singer
- John Boyd Dunlop 1840 Scottish inventor
- André Citroën 1878 French businessman
- Cesare Maldini 1932 Italian footballer and manager
- Hiroaki Sato 1932 Japanese association football player
- John Carradine 1906 American actor
- Terauchi Masatake 1852 Japanese general
- Red Buttons 1919 American comedian and actor
- Adnan Januzaj 1995 Belgian association football player
- Francisco Varallo 1910 Argentine footballer
- Goran Jurić 1963 Croatian association football player
- Mirko Hrgović 1979 Bosnian association football player
- Marco Misciagna 1984 Italian violist, violinist, educator
- Tsuyoshi Watanabe 1997 Japanese association football player
- H. R. Giger 1940 Swiss artist
- Nolan Bushnell 1943 American entrepreneur
- Duff McKagan 1964 American rock musician
- Manuel Fernandes 1986 Portuguese footballer
- Jennifer Granholm 1959 16th United States Secretary of Energy
- Hiram Stevens Maxim 1840 American-born inventor
- Edu Coimbra 1947 Brazilian association football player and manager
- John Lindley 1799 English botanist, gardener, orchidologist, editor, scientific illustrator
- Stina Blackstenius 1996 Swedish association football player
- Bobby Brown 1969 American R&B singer
- Gara Garayev 1918 Azerbaijani composer
- Ben Ainslie 1977 British competitive sailor
- Fred Sinowatz 1929 Austrian historian and chancellor
- Natalie Geisenberger 1988 German luger
- Quique Sánchez Flores 1965 Spanish football manager and former player
- John Aloisi 1976 Australian association football player
- Alexandre Brongniart 1770 French chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist
- Loukas Vyntra 1981 Greek footballer
- Jeremy Sumpter 1989 American actor
- Ólafur Elíasson 1967 Danish-Icelandic artist
- Marcus Grönholm 1968 Finnish rally driver
- Hiroko Sano 1983 Japanese association football player
- Samuel Sánchez 1978 Spanish former professional road bicycle racer
- Selma Rıza 1872 Turkish journalist
- Henry Golding 1987 British actor
- Jo Swinson 1980 British politician and leader of the Liberal Democrats
- Trijntje Oosterhuis 1973 Dutch singer
- Charlbi Dean 1990 South African actress
- Patrick Roberts 1997 English association football player
- Ilon Wikland 1930 Estonian-Swedish artist
- Johann Most 1846 German-American anarchist
- August Kopff 1882 German astronomer
- Tiwa Savage 1980 Nigerian singer, songwriter, and actress
- Nora Zehetner 1981 American actress
- Kejsi Tola 1992 Albanian singer
- Susan Kare 1954 American artist and graphic designer
- Mary L. Cleave 1947 American engineer and NASA astronaut
- Jennifer Suhr 1982 American pole vaulter
- Regina Duarte 1947 Brazilian actress
- Mia Hansen-Løve 1981 French film director, screenwriter, and actress
- Grażyna Bacewicz 1909 Polish composer and violinist
- Chris Parnell 1967 American actor
- Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck 2016 Elder son of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan and Queen Ashi Jetsun Pema
- Mustafa Cerić 1952 Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1993 to 2012
- Alexander Matrosov 1924 Hero of the Soviet Union
- Takayuki Seto 1986 Japanese association football player
- Miriam Rodríguez Martínez 1960 Mexican human rights activist
- Roman Ingarden 1893 Polish philosopher
- Jussi Björling 1911 Swedish tenor
- Serhiy Shaptala 1973 Ukrainian general
- Dwight Lyman Moody 1837 American evangelist
- Carina Vogt 1992 German ski jumper
- Ugo Locatelli 1916 Italian footballer
- Keke Geladze 1858 Mother of Joseph Stalin
- Dmitry Andreikin 1990 Russian chess grandmaster
- Jesper Blomqvist 1974 Swedish association football player
- Davis Cleveland 2002 American actor
- Peg Entwistle 1908 British actress
- Benoît Jacquot 1947 French film director and screenwriter
- Christian Gottlob Neefe 1748 German composer and conductor
- Pape Thiaw 1981 Senegalese association football player and coach
- An Se-young 2002 South Korean badminton player
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on February 5 share the 5th of February as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.