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Famous people born on January 12

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Well-known people born on January 12 include Jack London (1876), Swami Vivekananda (1863), Haruki Murakami (1949) and Edmund Burke (1729). Our list below has 116 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 12 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1591 (Jusepe de Ribera) and the most recent is 2000 (Sven Norman Botman). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, singer.

Who was born on January 12?

  1. Jack London 1876 American author, journalist and social activist
  2. Swami Vivekananda 1863 Indian Hindu monk and philosopher
  3. Haruki Murakami 1949 Japanese writer
  4. Edmund Burke 1729 Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher
  5. Jeff Bezos 1964 American business magnate
  6. Charles Perrault 1628 French author
  7. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer
  8. Sergei Korolev 1907 Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer
  9. Hande Yener 1973 Turkish singer
  10. Zayn Malik 1993 English singer
  11. Nikolai Noskov 1956 Soviet and Russian singer and song writer
  12. Joe Frazier 1944 American boxer
  13. Michel Mayor 1942 Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics
  14. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 Spanish painter
  15. Luise Rainer 1910 German-born actress
  16. Kirstie Alley 1951 American actress
  17. Sergey Karjakin 1990 Russian chess player
  18. Abd el-Krim 1882 War leader and president of the Rif Republic from 1921 to 1926
  19. Axel Witsel 1989 Belgian association football player
  20. Joseph Joffre 1852 French general
  21. Emre Can 1994 Turkish-German association football player
  22. Emmanuel Levinas 1906 Jewish-French-Lithuanian philosopher
  23. P. W. Botha 1916 South African prime minister
  24. Christiane Amanpour 1958 English-Iranian news anchor and international correspondent
  25. Paul Hermann Müller 1899 Swiss chemist
  26. Melanie C 1974 British pop singer
  27. Naya Rivera 1987 American actress and singer
  28. Salvatore Sirigu 1987 Italian association football player
  29. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies 1751 King of Naples (1759-1806, 1815-1816), Sicily, and the Two Sicilies
  30. Ottmar Hitzfeld 1949 German football manager
  31. Robert Prosinečki 1969 Croatian association football player and manager
  32. Ferenc Molnár 1878 Hungarian-born dramatist and novelist
  33. Lazzaro Spallanzani 1729 Italian priest, biologist and physiologist
  34. Émile Lahoud 1936 11th President of Lebanon
  35. Rush Limbaugh 1951 American political commentator
  36. Valdo 1964 Brazilian association football player
  37. Masaaki Sawanobori 1970 Japanese association football player
  38. Oribe Peralta 1984 Mexican association football player
  39. John Lasseter 1957 American animator, film director, screenwriter, producer
  40. Pixie Lott 1991 British singer, songwriter, actress
  41. Alessio Romagnoli 1995 Italian association football player
  42. Kazuo Imanishi 1941 Japanese association football player and manger
  43. David Mitchell 1969 English novelist (b. 1969)
  44. Spyridon Louis 1873 Greek athlete
  45. Taraneh Alidoosti 1984 Iranian actress
  46. Alasdair MacIntyre 1929 Scottish-American philosopher
  47. Zlata Ognevich 1986 Ukrainian singer and former politician
  48. Hámilton Ricard 1974 Colombian association football player
  49. Priyanka Vadra 1972 Indian politician
  50. Liliana Cavani 1933 Italian film director and screenwriter
  51. Howard Stern 1954 American radio and television personality
  52. Juan Foyth 1998 Argentine association football player
  53. Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies 1810 King of the Two sicilies
  54. Dominique Wilkins 1960 American basketball player
  55. Zack de la Rocha 1970 American singer, rapper and activist
  56. Marie Colvin 1956 American war correspondent
  57. Oliver Platt 1960 Canadian-born American actor
  58. Dani Osvaldo 1986 Italian footballer
  59. Étienne Lenoir 1822 Belgian engineer
  60. Artem Milevskyi 1985 Ukrainian footballer
  61. Mauro Silva 1968 Brazilian association football player
  62. Harika Dronavalli 1991 Indian Chess.com player
  63. Doh Kyung-soo 1993 South Korean singer and actor
  64. Per Gessle 1959 Swedish musician and songwriter
  65. Akane Saito 1993 Japanese association football player
  66. Mayu Sasaki 1993 Japanese association football player
  67. Rin Sumida 1996 Japanese association football player
  68. Borja Valero 1985 Spanish footballer
  69. Morton Feldman 1926 American composer
  70. Sven Norman Botman 2000 Dutch association football player
  71. Eugen Dühring 1833 German antisemitic philosopher and economist
  72. Rachael Harris 1968 American actress and comedian
  73. Issa Rae 1985 American actress, writer and producer
  74. Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz 1751 German writer of Baltic German origin
  75. Amerie 1980 American singer, songwriter, dancer and actor
  76. Jaakko Hintikka 1929 Finnish philosopher and logician
  77. Jean Delannoy 1908 French film director, screenwriter, film editor and actor
  78. Paul-Henri Mathieu 1982 French tennis player
  79. Fevzi Çakmak 1876 Turkish military officer and statesperson
  80. Jim Gray 1944 American computer scientist (1944–2007/2012)
  81. Toto Wolff 1972 Banana maxima
  82. Olivier Martinez 1966 French actor
  83. Bonaventure Kalou 1978 Ivorian and Dutch footballer
  84. Junichi Masuda 1968 Japanese video game developer
  85. Erik Gustaf Geijer 1783 Swedish writer, historian, poet, philosopher, and composer
  86. Raekwon 1970 American rapper
  87. Marie Dubois 1937 French actress
  88. Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro 1853 Italian mathematician
  89. Takehiko Inoue 1967 Japanese artist
  90. Boris Skossyreff 1896 Russian adventurer, self-declared King of Andorra
  91. Dinmukhamed Konayev 1912 Soviet politician
  92. Hamadi Jebali 1949 Tunisian politician and journalist
  93. Julia Quinn 1970 American novelist
  94. David Wechsler 1896 American psychologist and academic
  95. Iivo Niskanen 1992 Finnish cross-country skier
  96. Jean Béraud 1849 French painter
  97. Mikhail Speransky 1772 Russian politician
  98. Raimonds Pauls 1936 Soviet and Latvian composer and pianist; Minister of culture of Latvia from 1988 to 1993
  99. Antonio de Ulloa 1716 Spanish explorer, naval officer, colonial official, and naturalist
  100. Cristiano da Silva 1987 Brazilian association football player
  101. Ella Henderson 1996 British singer
  102. Vlastimil Hort 1944 Czech-German chess player
  103. Kamal Ganzouri 1933 Former Egyptian Prime minister
  104. Mikheil Meskhi 1937 Georgian footballer
  105. Shin Kyung-sook 1963 South Korean writer
  106. Maverick Viñales 1995 Spanish motorcycle racer
  107. Branimir Hrgota 1993 Swedish association football player
  108. Sheila Jackson Lee 1950 American lawyer and politician
  109. George Duke 1946 American musician
  110. Simon Russell Beale 1961 British actor and music historian
  111. Jerdy Schouten 1997 Dutch association football player
  112. Heather Mills 1968 Former glamour model, activist
  113. David McAllister 1971 German politician
  114. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari 1876 Italian composer and teacher
  115. Marián Hossa 1979 Slovak ice hockey player
  116. Gunde Svan 1962 Swedish cross-country skier, rallycross driver and television host

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 12 share the 12th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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