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Famous people born on January 15

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Well-known people born on January 15 include Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918), Giorgia Meloni (1977) and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809). Our list below has 110 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 15 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1592 (Shah Jahan) and the most recent is 2006 (Caleb Yirenkyi). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, writer.

Who was born on January 15?

  1. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 American Baptist minister and civil rights leader
  2. Gamal Abdel Nasser 1918 President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970
  3. Giorgia Meloni 1977 Prime Minister of Italy since 2022
  4. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist
  5. Shah Jahan 1592 The fifth Mughal Emperor from 1628 to 1658
  6. Ibn Saud 1876 King of Saudi Arabia from 1932 to 1953
  7. Mihai Eminescu 1850 Romanian poet, novelist and journalist
  8. Edward Teller 1908 Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist
  9. Dove Cameron 1996 American actress and singer-songwriter
  10. Boris Tadić 1958 3rd President of the Republic of Serbia
  11. Saud of Saudi Arabia 1902 King of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964
  12. Artturi Ilmari Virtanen 1895 Finnish chemist and professor
  13. Sophie Wilmès 1975 Belgian politician
  14. Alexander Griboyedov 1795 Russian diplomat, playwriter, poet, and composer
  15. Martin Chalfie 1947 American biochemist, cell biologist, and university teacher
  16. Eric Dier 1994 English association football player
  17. Lee Teng-hui 1923 7-9th President of Republic of China(Taiwan)
  18. Regina King 1971 American actress and director
  19. Nathan Söderblom 1866 Swedish clergyman and archbishop
  20. Paul Lafargue 1842 Writer, journalist, literary critic and revolutionary; also known for being Karl…
  21. Wilhelm Marx 1863 German politician
  22. Peter Christen Asbjørnsen 1812 Norwegian forester, writer, children's writer, and collector of fairy tales
  23. Marc Bartra 1991 Spanish soccer player
  24. Ben Shapiro 1984 American conservative political commentator
  25. Mary Pierce 1975 French tennis player
  26. João Figueiredo 1918 Brazilian politician and military officer, 30th President of Brazil from 1979 to 1985
  27. Tatsuhiko Seta 1952 Japanese association football player
  28. Stanisław Wyspiański 1869 Polish playwright, painter and poet
  29. Jacques Pierre Brissot 1754 French revolutionary
  30. Emina Jahoviç 1982 Serbian-Turkish singer-songwriter
  31. Andrea Benetti 1964 Italian artist
  32. Koji Miyata 1923 Japanese association football player
  33. Mayawati 1956 Indian politician
  34. Captain Beefheart 1941 American musician and painter
  35. Martin Petrov 1979 Bulgarian footballer
  36. Essam El-Hadary 1973 Egyptian association football player
  37. Martin Dúbravka 1989 Slovak association football player
  38. René Adler 1985 German footballer
  39. Daler Kuzyayev 1993 Russian footballer
  40. El Hadji Diouf 1981 Senegalese association football player
  41. Lloyd Bridges 1913 American actor
  42. Joël Veltman 1992 Dutch association football player
  43. Michel Debré 1912 79th Prime Minister of France
  44. Thomas Burke 1875 American sprinter
  45. Princess Margaret of Connaught 1882 British princess; Crown Princess of Sweden as the first wife of King Gustaf VI Adolf
  46. Hugo Viana 1983 Portuguese footballer
  47. Robert Silverberg 1935 American speculative fiction writer and editor
  48. Maria Schell 1926 Austrian-Swiss actress
  49. Margaret Beckett 1943 British politician
  50. Jermaine Pennant 1983 English association football player
  51. Tomáš Galásek 1973 Czech footballer
  52. Marius Trésor 1950 French footballer
  53. Andreas Gursky 1955 German artist and photographer
  54. Darya Klishina 1991 Russian long jumper
  55. Shane McMahon 1970 American businessman and professional wrestler
  56. Joshua King 1992 Norwegian association football player
  57. Kelly Kelly 1987 American professional wrestler, model, dancer and television personality
  58. Josef Breuer 1842 Austrian physician
  59. Nicolai Jørgensen 1991 Danish association football player
  60. William Heinesen 1900 Faroese Danish-language writer
  61. Daniel Caligiuri 1988 Italian footballer
  62. Loïe Fuller 1862 American dancer
  63. Grace VanderWaal 2004 American singer-songwriter
  64. Janusz Kusociński 1907 Polish long distance runner
  65. Marie Christine, Princess Michael of Kent 1945 Wife of Prince Michael of Kent
  66. Mario Van Peebles 1957 American actor and producer
  67. Bruce Schneier 1963 American computer scientist
  68. Mary MacKillop 1842 Australian religious sister and saint
  69. Choe Ryong-hae 1950 Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea
  70. Giovanni Segantini 1858 Italian painter, neo-impressionist and symbolist
  71. Luis Chávez 1996 Mexican association football player
  72. George Cadle Price 1919 Prime Minister of Belize
  73. Andrea Martin 1947 American actress
  74. Gene Krupa 1909 American drummer, composer, and bandleader
  75. William Prout 1785 British chemist
  76. Rashad al-Alimi 1954 Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen since 2022
  77. Arsen Kotsoyev 1872 Russian writer
  78. Ronnie Van Zant 1948 American singer
  79. Chloe Kelly 1998 English association football player
  80. Etty Hillesum 1914 Jewish diarist
  81. Mariya Abakumova 1986 Russian javelin thrower
  82. Eddie Cahill 1978 American actor
  83. Margaret O'Brien 1937 American film, television and stage actress
  84. Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller 1793 Austrian painter
  85. Chen Meng 1994 Chinese table tennis player
  86. Paulina Vega 1993 Colombian beauty pageant titleholder
  87. Thierry Breton 1955 French businessman and politician
  88. Maurice Herzog 1919 French mountaineer and politician
  89. Hermann Burmeister 1807 German Argentine zoologist, entomologist, herpetologist, and botanist
  90. James Nesbitt 1965 Northern Irish actor
  91. Marcin Kamiński 1992 Polish footballer
  92. Abdulelah Al-Amri 1997 Saudi footballer
  93. Bernard Hopkins 1965 American boxer
  94. Valentina Zenere 1997 Argentinian actress, model and singer esposa de Atilio
  95. Max Adler 1873 Austrian sociologist
  96. Hugh Trevor-Roper 1914 British historian
  97. David Ige 1957 Governor of Hawaii from 2014 to 2022
  98. Neil Nitin Mukesh 1982 Indian actor
  99. Raffaella Petrini 1969 Italian Vatican religious
  100. Zuzana Rehák-Štefečeková 1984 Slovak sport shooter
  101. Ivor Novello 1893 Welsh composer and actor
  102. Nathaniel Lord Britton 1859 American botanist and geologist
  103. C. George Boeree 1952 American psychologist
  104. Algernon Sidney 1623 British politician and political theorist
  105. Jules Hetzel 1814 French editor and publisher
  106. Caleb Yirenkyi 2006 Ghanaian footballer
  107. Anita Márton 1989 Hungarian shot putter
  108. Florian Znaniecki 1882 Polish sociologist
  109. André Ventura 1983 Portuguese politician and Member of Parliament for the Lisbon District of Portugal and…
  110. José Luis Bustamante y Rivero 1894 President of Peru

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 15 share the 15th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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