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Famous people born on January 25
Short answer
Well-known people born on January 25 include Volodymyr Zelenskyy (1978), Virginia Woolf (1882), Robert Burns (1759) and Vladimir Vysotsky (1938). Our list below has 100 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 25 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1615 (Govert Flinck) and the most recent is 2001 (Michela Pace). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, politician.
Who was born on January 25?
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy 1978 President of Ukraine since 2019
- Virginia Woolf 1882 English modernist writer
- Robert Burns 1759 Scottish poet and lyricist
- Vladimir Vysotsky 1938 Soviet singer-songwriter and actor
- William Somerset Maugham 1874 English playwright and author
- Corazon Aquino 1933 President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 Mathematician and astronomer
- Eduard Shevardnadze 1928 Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomat, Soviet foreign minister and second…
- Xavi Hernández 1980 Spanish footballer and manager
- Eusébio 1942 Portuguese footballer
- Robinho 1984 Brazilian former association football player
- Ilya Prigogine 1917 Russian-Belgian physical chemist
- Jean-Marc Ayrault 1950 Prime Minister of France
- Etta James 1938 American singer
- Ivan Shishkin 1831 Russian landscape painter
- Antônio Carlos Jobim 1927 Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist
- Yasuyuki Konno 1983 Japanese association football player
- Lila Tretikov 1978 Russian–American engineer, manager and former executive director of the Wikimedia…
- Charles Curtis 1860 Vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933
- Paul-Henri Spaak 1899 Belgian politician
- Charlene, Princess of Monaco 1978 Zimbabwean-South African former Olympic swimmer; wife of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- Paul Nurse 1949 Nobel prize winning British biochemist
- Arvid Carlsson 1923 Swedish neuroscientist
- David Grossman 1954 Israeli author
- Maria Kirilenko 1987 Russian female tennis player
- Yukio Shimomura 1932 Japanese association football player and manager
- Toše Proeski 1981 Macedonian musician
- Wilhelm Furtwängler 1886 German conductor and composer
- Adama Traoré 1996 Spanish association football player
- Witold Lutosławski 1913 Polish composer and conductor
- Tina Karol 1985 Ukrainian singer, actress, television presenter
- Theodosius Dobzhansky 1900 Geneticist and evolutionary biologist
- Stefan Kießling 1984 German association football player
- Alessandro Baricco 1958 Italian writer
- Tostão 1947 Brazilian association footballer
- Nobuyo Fujishiro 1960 Japanese association football player
- Ariana DeBose 1991 American actress
- Sabino Arana 1865 Basque nationalist, writer and politician
- Remco Evenepoel 2000 Belgian cyclist
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi 1743 German philosopher
- Arne Garborg 1851 Norwegian writer
- Jânio Quadros 1917 Brazilian politician, former president of Brazil (1961)
- Marco Parolo 1985 Italian association football player
- Tobe Hooper 1943 American film director, screenwriter and producer
- David Ginola 1967 French footballer
- Nuno Espírito Santo 1974 Portuguese footballer and manager
- Iris Mittenaere 1993 French beauty pageant winner
- Ange-Félix Patassé 1937 Former President of the Central African Republic
- Emil Ludwig 1881 German writer
- Katō Takaaki 1860 Japanese politician
- António Ramalho Eanes 1935 President of Portugal
- Youssef Chahine 1926 Egyptian film director
- Mito Isaka 1976 Japanese association football player
- Mia Kirshner 1975 Canadian actress
- Olivier Assayas 1955 French film director, screenwriter and film critic
- Luca Badoer 1971 Racecar driver
- Ricardo Bochini 1954 Argentine footballer
- Ahmed Hegazi 1991 Egyptian association football player
- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza 1922 Italian population geneticist
- Denis Menshov 1978 Russian cyclist
- Claudia Kim 1985 South Korean actress and model, born 1985
- Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint-Aubin de Genlis 1746 French writer
- Catherine Breshkovsky 1844 Russian politician
- Vilhelm Thomsen 1842 Danish linguist
- Paavo Haavikko 1931 Finnish poet and writer
- Pompeo Batoni 1708 Italian painter
- Ana Ortiz 1971 Actress
- Dean Jones 1931 American actor
- Hermann Schwarz 1843 German mathematician
- Michela Pace 2001 Maltese singer
- Cho Gue-sung 1998 South Korean footballer
- Émile Vandervelde 1866 Belgian politician
- Kavita Krishnamurthy 1958 Indian singer
- Leiji Matsumoto 1938 Japanese manga artist
- Michael Trevino 1985 Mexican-American actor
- Manuel Pablo 1976 Spanish footballer
- Ángel Nieto 1947 Spanish motorcycle racer
- Hatem Trabelsi 1977 Tunisian association football player
- Benny Golson 1929 American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger
- Pænda 1988 Austrian singer
- Fernando Haddad 1963 Brazilian politician, 51st mayor of São Paulo and former Brazilian Finance Minister
- Aino Aalto 1894 Finnish architect, designer and business leader
- Michael Michai Kitbunchu 1929 Thai Roman Catholic priest, cardinal
- Jenifer Lewis 1957 American actress
- Tati Gabrielle 1996 American actress
- Michelle McCool 1980 American professional wrestler
- Tatiana Golovin 1988 French tennis player
- Juraj Jánošík 1688 Slovak outlaw
- Christine Lakin 1979 Actress
- Bill Viola 1951 American video and installation artist
- Hans-Jürgen Dörner 1951 East German footballer and coach
- Christian Olsson 1980 Swedish triple jumper
- Georges Grün 1962 Belgian association football player
- Louise Weiss 1893 French journalist, writer, feminist & politician
- Joseph Görres 1776 German writer and journalist
- Stanislava Staša Zajović 1953 Montenegrin and Serbian feminist and peace activist
- Govert Flinck 1615 Painter from the Northern Netherlands
- Víctor Ruiz 1989 Spanish footballer
- Ernst Alexanderson 1878 Swedish American electrical engineer
- Helge von Koch 1870 Swedish mathematician
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 25 share the 25th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.