Famous birthdays
Famous people born on January 13
Short answer
Well-known people born on January 13 include Orlando Bloom (1977), Wilhelm Wien (1864), Sydney Brenner (1927) and Liam Hemsworth (1990). Our list below has 88 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 13 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1596 (Jan van Goyen) and the most recent is 1999 (Isak Hien). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on January 13?
- Orlando Bloom 1977 English actor and model
- Wilhelm Wien 1864 German physicist
- Sydney Brenner 1927 South African-British biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
- Liam Hemsworth 1990 Australian actor
- Patrick Dempsey 1966 American actor and racecar driver
- Luis Díaz 1997 Colombian association football player
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus 1961 American actress
- Eric Betzig 1960 American physicist
- Paul Feyerabend 1924 Austrian-born philosopher of science
- Marco Pantani 1970 Italian road racing cyclist
- Akira Kaji 1980 Japanese association football player
- Shonda Rhimes 1970 American television producer, television and film writer, and author
- Rakesh Sharma 1949 First Indian astronaut
- Chaïm Soutine 1893 Belarusian-French painter
- Gilmar Rinaldi 1959 Brazilian association football player
- Stephen Hendry 1969 Scottish snooker player
- Carles Rexach 1947 Spanish footballer
- Magno Alves 1976 Brazilian association football player
- Tinga 1978 Brazilian association football player
- Mario Yepes 1976 Colombian footballer
- Cabu 1938 French comic strip artist and caricaturist
- Zhou Youguang 1906 Chinese linguist, sinologist
- Santiago Arias 1992 Colombian association football player
- Jan van Goyen 1596 Dutch landscape painter
- Vitaly Scherbo 1972 Soviet-Belarusian-American artistic gymnast
- Andrew Yang 1975 American entrepreneur, attorney and political candidate
- Michael Bond 1926 British writer
- Daniel Kehlmann 1975 German-language novelist
- Imran Khan 1983 Indian actor
- Penelope Ann Miller 1964 American actress
- Egan Bernal 1997 Colombian cyclist
- Raif Badawi 1984 Saudi Arabian writer, activist, and creator of the website Free Saudi Liberals
- Robert Stack 1919 American actor
- Joseph Zen 1932 Bishop of Hong Kong
- Ruth Wilson 1982 British actress
- Marinus van der Lubbe 1909 Dutch communist
- Kostis Palamas 1859 Greek poet
- Glenn Whelan 1984 Irish footballer
- Tomás Rincón 1988 Venezuelan association football player
- Guillermo Coria 1982 Argentine tennis player
- Sol Bamba 1985 Football player and manager
- Philipp Jakob Spener 1635 German theologian, founder of pietism
- Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta 1869 Italian general
- Taison 1988 Brazilian association football player
- Artjoms Rudņevs 1988 Latvian association footballer
- Clark Ashton Smith 1893 American author
- Taye Atske Selassie 1956 Ethiopian politician and diplomat
- María de Villota 1979 Spanish motor racing driver
- Simon Shelton 1966 British actor
- Dario Amodei 1983 CEO and co-founder of Anthropic
- Flora Nwapa 1931 Nigerian writer
- Genco Gülan 1969 Turkish artist
- Salmon P. Chase 1808 American politician and lawyer
- Connor McDavid 1997 Canadian ice hockey player
- Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria 1610 Electress of Bavaria by marriage
- Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon 1674 French poet
- Juan Diego Flórez 1973 Peruvian tenor
- Tim Matavž 1989 Slovenian footballer
- Francisco Buyo 1958 Spanish footballer
- Ernestine Rose 1810 American feminist activist
- Max Whitlock 1993 British artistic gymnast
- Beau Mirchoff 1989 Canadian actor
- Jüri Uluots 1890 Estonian prime minister
- Stefania Belmondo 1969 Italian cross-country skier
- Kay Francis 1905 American actress
- Frances Sternhagen 1930 American actress
- Bill Bailey 1965 British comedian, musician and actor
- Robin Milner 1934 British computer scientist
- Herbert Brenon 1880 Irish film director and screenwriter
- M. Gessen 1967 Russian-American journalist and activist
- William B. Davis 1938 Canadian actor
- Shivkumar Sharma 1938 Indian classical musician
- Sophie Tucker 1886 Russian-born American singer, comedian, actress and radio personality
- Trevor Rabin 1954 South African musician
- Isak Hien 1999 Swedish footballer
- Winnie Byanyima 1959 20th and 21st-century Ugandan aeronautical engineer, politician and diplomat
- Nicole Eggert 1972 American actress
- Elias M. Stein 1931 American mathematician
- Edmund White 1940 American novelist and LGBT essayist
- Daniel Scioli 1957 Argentine politician
- Wolfgang Loitzl 1980 Austrian ski jumper
- Sebastian Rejman 1978 Finnish guitarist and singer
- Princess Marie, Princess Valdemar of Denmark 1865 Franco-Orléans and Danish Royal
- Julio Baghy 1891 Hungarian actor, author, novelist, poet, publisher and Esperantist
- Lee Seung-gi 1987 South Korean actor and singer
- Pasqual Maragall i Mira 1941 Spanish politician
- Bohdan Butko 1991 Ukrainian footballer
- Tom Lawrence 1994 Welsh footballer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 13 share the 13th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.