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Famous people born on January 18

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 18 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1641 (François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois) and the most recent is 2002 (Anass Salah-Eddine). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, actor.

Who was born on January 18?

1. Kevin Costner 1955 American actor
2. Cary Grant 1904 British-American actor
3. Pep Guardiola 1971 Spanish association football manager and player
4. Alexander Van der Bellen 1944 President of Austria since 2017
5. Gilles Deleuze 1925 French philosopher
6. A. A. Milne 1882 British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh
7. Rubén Darío 1867 Nicaraguan poet, journalist and diplomat, leading figure of Spanish-language Modernismo
8. Takeshi Kitano 1947 Japanese film director, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter,…
9. Yoichiro Nambu 1921 American theoretical physicist
10. Angelique Kerber 1988 German tennis player
11. Leo Varadkar 1979 Taoiseach from 2017 to 2020, and from 2022 to 2024.
12. Dave Bautista 1969 American actor and former professional wrestler
13. Roberta Metsola 1979 Maltese politician and president of the European Parliament since 2022
14. Makoto Hasebe 1984 Japanese association football player
15. Chun Doo-hwan 1931 11th and 12th President of the Republic of Korea (1931~2021)
16. Nacho 1990 Spanish association football player
17. Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens 1938 British sociologist
18. John Hume 1937 Irish politician from Northern Ireland
19. Edmund Barton 1849 Australian politician, first Prime Minister of Australia and founding justice of the…
20. Oliver Hardy 1892 American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy
21. José Antonio Kast 1966 President of Chile since 2026
22. Paul Keating 1944 Australian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia
23. Jason Segel 1980 American actor
24. Éder Militão 1998 Brazilian association football player
25. Paulo Ferreira 1979 Portuguese footballer
26. Lisandro Martínez 1998 Argentine association football player
27. Riccardo Montolivo 1985 Italian association football player
28. Aitana Bonmatí 1998 Spanish football player
29. Alexander Khalifman 1966 Russian chess player
30. Robert Green 1980 English association football player
31. Daniel Webster 1782 14th and 19th United States Secretary of State
32. Iván Zamorano 1967 Chilean footballer
33. Mitchell Duke 1991 Australian association football player
34. Paul Ehrenfest 1880 Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist
35. Karim Adeyemi 2002 Germany footballer
36. Anna Pavlovna of Russia 1795 Queen consort of the Netherlands
37. Gilles Villeneuve 1950 Canadian racing driver
38. Juan Fernando Quintero 1993 Colombian association football player
39. Bogdan Lobonț 1978 Romanian footballer
40. Johan Djourou 1987 Swiss association football player
41. Ever Palacios 1969 Colombian association football player
42. Pieter Huistra 1967 Dutch association football player and manager
43. Mark Rylance 1960 English actor, playwright and theatre director
44. Iva Zanicchi 1940 Italian singer and politician
45. Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo 1930 Portuguese politician
46. Jay Chou 1979 Taiwanese pop singer, songwriter, and actor
47. Jonathan Davis 1971 American singer
48. John Boorman 1933 British film director, producer and screenwriter
49. Senad Lulić 1986 Bosnian association football player
50. Robert Anton Wilson 1932 American author, futurist, and agnostic mystic
51. Enrique Ballestrero 1905 Uruguayan footballer
52. Kantarō Suzuki 1868 29th Prime Minister of Japan
53. Thor Hushovd 1978 Norwegian cyclist
54. José María Arguedas 1911 Peruvian writer
55. Ismail Sabri Yaakob 1960 Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2021 to 2022
56. Jorge Guillén 1893 Spanish poet
57. Joanna Newsom 1982 American musician (b. 1982)
58. Henri Giraud 1879 French general \
59. Shin'ya Yajima 1994 Japanese association football player
60. Jacob Bronowski 1908 Polish-born British mathematician
61. Ray Dolby 1933 American engineer and inventor of the Dolby noise reduction system
62. Martin O'Malley 1963 American politician
63. Arthur Ransome 1884 English author and journalist
64. Philippe Starck 1949 French designer
65. Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1908 Saxe-Coburgen and Gothan and Swedish Royal
66. Karan Brar 1999 American actor
67. M.C. Gainey 1948 American actor
68. Karin Kneissl 1965 Austrian diplomat, journalist and politician
69. John Nash 1752 British architect
70. Peter Beardsley 1961 English footballer
71. Emmanuel Chabrier 1841 French Romantic composer and pianist
72. Samu Castillejo 1995 Spanish footballer
73. Katja Kipping 1978 German politician
74. Santiago Carrillo 1915 Spanish politician
75. David Ayer 1968 American filmmaker
76. Ville Ritola 1896 Finnish long distance runner
77. Toni Turek 1919 German footballer
78. Fernando Trueba 1955 Spanish film director
79. Maria Antonia of Austria 1669 Archduchess of Austria
80. Marcelo Gallardo 1976 Argentine footballer and manager
81. Antje Traue 1981 German actress
82. Constantin von Tischendorf 1815 German theologian and biblical scholar
83. Emil Audero Mulyadi 1997 Indonesian-Italian footballer
84. Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin 1961 Russian-Swiss writer
85. Edward Frankland 1825 English chemist
86. Bernard Genghini 1958 French footballer
87. Werner Liebrich 1927 German footballer
88. Jeffrey Williams 1958 American astronaut
89. Frankie Knuckles 1955 American DJ and record producer
90. Ted DiBiase 1954 American professional wrestler
91. Chen Long 1989 Chinese badminton player
92. Arno Schmidt 1914 German poet
93. Laura Thorn 2000 Luxembourgian singer
94. Henrique Rosa 1946 President of Guinea-Bissau
95. François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois 1641 Secretary of State for War under Louis XIV
96. Joseph Deiss 1946 Swiss economist, member of the Swiss Federal Council
97. Olivier Rochus 1981 Belgian tennis player
98. Christian Fittipaldi 1971 Brazilian racing driver
99. Kenneth E. Boulding 1910 British-American economist
100. Mark Messier 1961 Canadian ice hockey player
101. Huo Yuanjia 1868 Chinese martial artist
102. Binyavanga Wainaina 1971 Kenyan writer
103. Elsa Einstein 1876 Second wife and cousin of Albert Einstein
104. Minzy 1994 South Korean singer, rapper and dancer
105. Jader Volnei Spindler 1982 Brazilian association football player
106. Ivo Grbić 1996 Croatian footballer
107. Farida Osman 1995 Egyptian swimmer
108. Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider 1750 German classicist and naturalist
109. Tibor Nyilasi 1955 Hungarian footballer
110. Veselin Vujović 1961 Montenegrin former handball player
111. Anass Salah-Eddine 2002 Moroccan association football player
112. Otto von Below 1857 Prussian general
113. Alisä Ğällämevä 1972 Russian chess player
114. Alaixys Romao 1984 Togolese and French footballer
115. Vita Semerenko 1986 Ukrainian biathlete
116. Michael Behe 1952 American biochemist, author, and intelligent design advocate
117. Dave Attell 1965 American stand-up comedian
118. Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye 1811 French politician
119. Caspar Friedrich Wolff 1734 German psychologist
120. Grigoris Makos 1987 Greek footballer
121. Dino Meneghin 1950 Italian basketball player
122. Ioan Slavici 1848 Romanian writer
123. Jung Yu-mi 1983 South Korean actress
124. Boris Babochkin 1904 Soviet film director

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 18 share the 18th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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