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Famous people born on January 2

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Well-known people born on January 2 include Isaac Asimov (1920), Thérèse of Lisieux (1873), Rudolf Clausius (1822) and Mehmed IV (1642). Our list below has 84 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 2 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1642 (Mehmed IV) and the most recent is 2006 (Claudio Echeverri). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, politician.

Who was born on January 2?

  1. Isaac Asimov 1920 American writer and biochemist
  2. Thérèse of Lisieux 1873 French Discalced Carmelite nun, Doctor of the Church
  3. Rudolf Clausius 1822 German mathematical physicist and professor
  4. Mehmed IV 1642 19th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
  5. Cuba Gooding Jr. 1968 American actor
  6. Osman III 1699 25th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
  7. Maxi Rodriguez 1981 Argentine association football player
  8. Kate Bosworth 1983 American actress
  9. Dziga Vertov 1896 Russian-Soviet documentary/avantgarde filmmaker
  10. Toshiki Kaifu 1931 Japanese politician
  11. Vasily Perov 1834 Russian painter
  12. Paz Vega 1976 Spanish actress
  13. Tia Carrere 1967 American actress
  14. Kemi Badenoch 1980 British politician and Leader of the Opposition to the British Government…
  15. Oleksandr Shovkovskyi 1975 Ukrainian footballer
  16. Jan Fischer 1951 Czech politician
  17. Basile Boli 1967 French footballer
  18. Loïc Rémy 1987 French footballer
  19. Nobuyuki Kato 1920 Japanese association football player
  20. Carlos Soler 1997 Spanish association football player
  21. Kane Tanaka 1903 Japanese supercentenarian
  22. Davit Mujiri 1978 Georgian footballer
  23. Viktor Claesson 1992 Swedish association football player
  24. Folke Bernadotte 1895 Swedish diplomat
  25. Oleg Deripaska 1968 Russian businessman
  26. Todd Haynes 1961 American film director and screenwriter
  27. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba 1981 Burkinabé military officer and president (January–September 2022)
  28. Nadia Nadim 1988 Danish footballer
  29. Fozil Musaev 1989 Uzbekistani association football player
  30. Christy Turlington 1969 American model
  31. Jefferson 1983 Brazilian association football player
  32. Florence Lawrence 1886 Canadian-American actress
  33. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg 1783 Danish painter
  34. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1784 Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
  35. Barış Manço 1943 Turkish musician
  36. Shelley Hennig 1987 American actress and model
  37. Lynn Conway 1938 American computer scientist and electrical engineer
  38. Julian Baumgartlinger 1988 Austrian association football player
  39. Tony Judt 1948 British-American historian
  40. Davide Santon 1991 Italian footballer
  41. Ivan Dodig 1985 Croatian tennis player
  42. Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan 1940 Indian-American mathematician
  43. Arshad Nadeem 1997 Pakistani Olympic javelin thrower
  44. Paulo Gazzaniga 1992 Argentine association football player
  45. Dennis Hastert 1942 American politician
  46. Robert Smithson 1938 American sculptor and conceptual artist
  47. Timothy Fosu-Mensah 1998 Dutch association football player
  48. Anton Pannekoek 1873 Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist
  49. Arsen Avakov 1964 Ukrainian politician
  50. Dax Shepard 1975 American podcaster and actor
  51. Ben Hardy 1991 British actor
  52. Rudolf Bauer 1879 Hungarian discus thrower
  53. Daisaku Ikeda 1928 Japanese Buddhist leader
  54. Muse saed 1948 Somaliland politician
  55. Carla Juri 1985 Swiss actress
  56. Patrick Pentz 1997 Austrian association football player
  57. Johann Daniel Titius 1729 German astronomer
  58. Naoki Urasawa 1960 Japanese mangaka
  59. Alexander Tikhonov 1947 Soviet biathlete
  60. Laura Alonso Padín 1976 Spanish operatic soprano
  61. Goh Kun 1938 Acting President of South Korea from March to May 2004, Prime Minister of South Korea…
  62. Renée Elise Goldsberry 1971 American actress and singer
  63. Jagmeet Singh 1979 Canadian politician, leader of the New Democratic Party
  64. Danilo Di Luca 1976 Italian cyclist
  65. Walter Heitler 1904 Physicist
  66. Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud 1950 Saudi royal and foreign minister
  67. Milovan Rajevac 1954 Serbian footballer
  68. Kirk Hinrich 1981 American basketball player
  69. Norodom Ranariddh 1944 Cambodian politician
  70. Michael Tippett 1905 English composer
  71. Luigi Zampa 1905 Italian film director
  72. Elye Wahi 2003 Ivorian association football player
  73. Yury Grigorovich 1927 Russian dancer and choreographer (1927—2025)
  74. James Marshall 1967 American actor
  75. Taye Diggs 1971 American actor
  76. Gabrielle Carteris 1961 American actress
  77. Claudio Echeverri 2006 Argentine association football player
  78. Tommy Morrison 1969 Boxer
  79. Luiz Henrique 2001 Brazilian footballer
  80. Charles Hatchett 1765 British chemist
  81. Fu Haifeng 1984 Chinese badminton player
  82. Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar 1906 Iranian poet
  83. Ahmad Qavam 1876 Prime Minister of Iran
  84. Abdülhak Hâmit Tarhan 1852 Turkish playwright and statesperson

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 2 share the 2nd of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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