Famous birthdays
Famous people born on January 20
Short answer
Well-known people born on January 20 include Federico Fellini (1920), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Buzz Aldrin (1930) and David Lynch (1946). Our list below has 102 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 20 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1716 (Jean-Jacques Barthélemy) and the most recent is 2003 (Jack Doohan). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, politician.
Who was born on January 20?
- Federico Fellini 1920 Italian filmmaker
- André-Marie Ampère 1775 French physicist and mathematician
- Buzz Aldrin 1930 American astronaut
- David Lynch 1946 American filmmaker
- Johannes V. Jensen 1873 Danish author
- Nikki Haley 1972 American politician and diplomat
- Charles III of Spain 1716 King of Spain from 1759 to 1788
- Patricia Neal 1926 American stage and film actress
- David Lee 1931 American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Göran Persson 1949 Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006
- Bill Maher 1956 American stand-up comedian and television host
- Owen Hargreaves 1981 English association football player
- Omar Sy 1978 French actor and comedian
- Evan Peters 1987 American actor
- George Burns 1896 American comedian, actor, writer and singer
- Volodymyr Hroisman 1978 Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2016 to 2019
- José María Giménez 1995 Uruguayan association football player
- Fareed Zakaria 1964 Indian-American journalist and author
- Željko Komšić 1964 Bosnian Croat politician
- Ghulam Ishaq Khan 1915 7th President of Pakistan
- Ken Page 1954 American actor
- Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh 1965 British Royal, wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh
- Marco Simoncelli 1987 Italian motorcycle racer
- Armando Guebuza 1943 3rd President of Mozambique
- Rob Bourdon 1979 American drummer
- Rainn Wilson 1966 American actor, comedian, producer, and writer
- Ilian Stoyanov 1977 Bulgarian association football player
- Ernesto Cardenal 1925 Nicaraguan priest and politician
- Kyogo Furuhashi 1995 Japanese association football player
- DeForest Kelley 1920 American actor
- Silva Kaputikyan 1919 Armenian poet, writer and political activist
- Calum Chambers 1995 English association football player
- Telmo Zarra 1921 Spanish footballer
- Paul Stanley 1952 American rock musician
- Alfredo Foni 1911 Italian footballer
- Natan Sharansky 1948 Israeli politician
- Kellyanne Conway 1967 Senior Counselor to the President of the United States from 2017 to 2020
- Jeffrén Suárez 1988 Venezuelan footballer
- Tom Baker 1934 English actor
- Lorenzo Lamas 1958 American actor
- Lucas Piazon 1994 Brazilian footballer
- Pierre Webó 1982 Cameroonian footballer
- Sergi Samper 1995 Spanish association football player
- Skeet Ulrich 1970 American actor
- R. A. Salvatore 1959 American writer
- David Baszucki 1963 Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
- Ernest Chausson 1855 French composer
- Charles Alexandre de Calonne 1734 French statesman and art collector; his collection was sold in Paris, 21-30 April 1788
- Mintimer Şäymief 1937 President of Tatarstan from 1991 to 2010
- Alu Alkhanov 1957 Russian politician
- Will Wright 1960 American video game designer and entrepreneur
- Jack Doohan 2003 Australian racing driver
- Joy Adamson 1910 Austrian-British naturalist, painter, writer, collector and illustrator
- Zac Goldsmith 1975 British politician and journalist
- Gary Barlow 1971 British singer
- Mahamane Ousmane 1950 President of Niger from 1993 to 1996
- James Denton 1963 American actor
- Mary-Anne Paulzzze Lavoisier 1758 French chemist and painter
- Margaret Avery 1944 American actress
- Chris Miller 1968 American animator, voice actor, director, screenwriter and storyboard artist
- Jason Richardson 1981 American basketball player
- Ferdinando I, Duke of Parma 1751 Duke of Parma
- Selemon Barega 2000 Ethiopian athlete
- Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė 1963 Lithuanian actress
- Jolyon Palmer 1991 British racing driver
- Ehsan Hadadi 1985 Iranian discus thrower
- Gianni Amelio 1945 Italian film director
- Polona Hercog 1991 Slovenian tennis player
- Frances Tiafoe 1998 American tennis player
- Yvette Guilbert 1865 French cabaret singer
- Attila Szalai 1998 Hungarian association football player
- Muhammetkaliy Abulgaziyev 1968 Kyrgyz politician
- Hindi Zahra 1979 Moroccan singer and actress
- Carl Linnaeus the Younger 1741 Swedish naturalist
- Hauwa Ibrahim 1968 Winner of Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
- Stacey Dash 1967 American actress
- Ron Harper 1964 American basketball player
- Edward Feigenbaum 1936 American computer scientist
- Ian Hill 1952 British bassist, member of Judas Priest
- Renato Ibarra 1991 Ecuadorian association football player
- Richard Henry Lee 1732 Founding Father of the United States
- Manfred von Ardenne 1907 German researcher and applied physicist
- Ese Brume 1996 Nigerian long jumper
- Józef Kazimierz Hofmann 1876 Polish musician
- Robert Morris 1734 American financier and Founding Father of the United States
- Nancy Kress 1948 American science fiction writer
- Steve Bloomer 1874 English footballer and manager
- Benjamin Biolay 1973 French singer and actor
- Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 1716 French writer and numismatist
- Davie Selke 1995 German footballer
- Sid Wilson 1977 American disc jockey
- Momčilo Krajišnik 1945 Bosnian Serb former politician
- Daniel Cudmore 1981 Canadian actor and stuntman
- Crystal Lowe 1981 Canadian actress
- Raymond Roussel 1877 French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, and chess enthusiast
- Federico Peluso 1984 Italian football player
- Kazuhiro Murakami 1981 Japanese association football player
- Elderson Echiéjilé 1988 Nigerian footballer
- Bertram Home Ramsay 1883 Royal Navy admiral
- John Robertson 1953 Scottish association football player
- Tom Cairney 1991 Scottish-English association football player
- Clayton Stanley 1978 Volleyball player
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 20 share the 20th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.