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Famous people born on January 19

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Well-known people born on January 19 include Edgar Allan Poe (1809), James Watt (1736), Paul Cézanne (1839) and Auguste Comte (1798). Our list below has 107 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 19 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1736 (James Watt) and the most recent is 2003 (Ilaix Moriba). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actress.

Who was born on January 19?

  1. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 American writer and literary critic
  2. James Watt 1736 British engineer
  3. Paul Cézanne 1839 French painter
  4. Auguste Comte 1798 French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist
  5. Robert E. Lee 1807 Confederate States general
  6. Janis Joplin 1943 American singer
  7. Javier Pérez de Cuéllar 1920 5th Secretary-General of the United Nations
  8. Jenson Button 1980 British racing driver
  9. Julian Barnes 1946 English writer
  10. Claudio Marchisio 1986 Italian association football player
  11. Pete Buttigieg 1982 American politician
  12. Logan Lerman 1992 American actor
  13. Patricia Highsmith 1921 American novelist and short story writer
  14. Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 1737 Writer and botanist from France
  15. Stefan Edberg 1966 Swedish tennis player
  16. Gustav Meyrink 1868 Austrian writer and translator
  17. Matthias Ginter 1994 German association football player
  18. Valentin Serov 1865 Russian painter
  19. Damien Chazelle 1985 French-American filmmaker
  20. Werner Sombart 1863 German economist, sociologist, historian
  21. Tippi Hedren 1930 American actress, model and activist
  22. Ziaur Rahman 1936 Chief of Army Staff and President of Bangladesh
  23. Shimon Sakaguchi 1951 Japanese immunologist and physician
  24. Johann Elert Bode 1747 Prusian astronomer
  25. Cindy Sherman 1954 American photographer
  26. João Mário 1993 Portuguese association football player
  27. Donyell Malen 1999 Dutch association football player
  28. Katey Sagal 1954 American actress
  29. Lucho González 1981 Argentine footballer and manager
  30. Hikaru Utada 1983 Japanese-American singer-songwriter
  31. Predrag Mijatović 1969 Montenegrin footballer and administrator
  32. Henry Bessemer 1813 British engineer
  33. Olga Kaniskina 1985 Russian race walker
  34. Princess Birgitta of Sweden 1937 Swedish princess; elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
  35. Drea de Matteo 1972 American actress
  36. Jacobus Kapteyn 1851 Dutch astronomer, best known for his extensive studies of the Milky Way and as the…
  37. Markus Wolf 1923 Head of the East German foreign intelligence service during the Cold War
  38. Tikhon of Moscow 1865 Patriarch of Moscow
  39. David Starr Jordan 1851 American ichthyologist and educator
  40. Simon Rattle 1955 British conductor
  41. Mathieu van der Poel 1995 Dutch cyclist, cyclo-cross and road racing
  42. Akemi Iwata 1954 Japanese association football player
  43. Alexey Vorobyov 1988 Russian singer and actor
  44. Moussa Sow 1986 Senegalese-French footballer
  45. John Bercow 1963 Speaker of the House of Commons
  46. Nicole 1977 Chilean singer
  47. Miguel Muñoz 1922 Spanish association football player and manager
  48. Herbert Chapman 1878 English association football player and manager
  49. Karun Chandhok 1984 Indian racing driver
  50. Mauro Tassotti 1960 Italian footballer
  51. Jerzy Kawalerowicz 1922 Polish film director and screenwriter
  52. Duško Tošić 1985 Serbian footballer
  53. Marsha Thomason 1976 British actress
  54. Petra Martić 1991 Croatian female tennis player
  55. Shawn Wayans 1971 American actor, DJ, producer, writer and comedian
  56. Joseph Nye 1937 American political scientist
  57. Jakub Jankto 1996 Czech footballer
  58. Ferruccio Parri 1890 Italian partisan and politician
  59. Lena Philipsson 1966 Swedish female pop and schlager singer
  60. Thom Mayne 1944 American architect (b.1944)
  61. Shawn Johnson East 1992 American artistic gymnast
  62. JB Pritzker 1965 American businessman and politician
  63. Richard Lester 1932 American film director
  64. Lysander Spooner 1808 American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist,…
  65. Ron Killings 1972 American professional wrestler
  66. Lauren 1977 Cameroonian footballer
  67. Ilaix Moriba 2003 Guinean-Spanish football player
  68. Svetlana Khorkina 1979 Russian artistic gymnast
  69. Sophie Taeuber-Arp 1889 Swiss artist
  70. Jean Stapleton 1923 American actress
  71. Martin Schmitt 1978 German former ski jumper
  72. Habibullāh Kalakāni 1890 Reaver of Afghan Nation (1929)
  73. George Ostrogorsky 1902 Russian Byzantinist
  74. Susan Solomon 1956 American atmospheric chemist
  75. Luke Macfarlane 1980 Canadian and American actor
  76. Princess Margriet of the Netherlands 1943 Dutch princess; third daughter of Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard
  77. Steve Staunton 1969 Irish footballer
  78. Javier Cámara 1967 Spanish actor
  79. Benny Feilhaber 1985 American soccer player
  80. Nicolás Pareja 1984 Argentine association football player
  81. Reinier 2002 Brazilian association football player
  82. Robert Palmer 1949 English musician
  83. Jean-François Revel 1924 French writer and philosopher
  84. Hermann Abendroth 1883 German conductor
  85. Aleksandrs Cauņa 1988 Latvian association footballer
  86. Edwidge Danticat 1969 Novelist, short story writer, memoirist
  87. Alexander Serafimovich 1863 Russian and Soviet writer
  88. Emmanuelle Arsan 1932 Thai writer, model and actress
  89. Aljona Savchenko 1984 Ukrainian & German pair skater
  90. Elizabeth Tulloch 1981 American actress
  91. Emil Maurice 1897 German officer
  92. Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf 1757 German princess
  93. Frederik Schram 1995 Icelandic association football player
  94. Leszek Balcerowicz 1947 Polish economist
  95. Asier del Horno 1981 Spanish footballer
  96. Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom 1790 Swedish poet
  97. Jodie Sweetin 1982 American actress and television personality
  98. Dustin Poirier 1989 American mixed martial artist
  99. Ólafur Thors 1892 Icelandic politician
  100. Roberto Marcelo Levingston 1920 President of Argentina
  101. Mikhail Isakovsky 1900 Russian poet
  102. Juan Miranda 2000 Spanish association football player
  103. Leslie White 1900 American anthropologist
  104. Rod Evans 1947 English singer
  105. Guillaume-Antoine Olivier 1756 French entomologist and botanist
  106. Guido Fubini 1879 Italian mathematician
  107. Ivan Maisky 1884 Soviet diplomat

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 19 share the 19th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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