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Famous people born on January 26

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Well-known people born on January 26 include Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918), Douglas MacArthur (1880), José Mourinho (1963) and Paul Newman (1925). Our list below has 107 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 26 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1714 (Jean-Baptiste Pigalle) and the most recent is 2000 (Nuno Tavares). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, actor.

Who was born on January 26?

  1. Nicolae Ceaușescu 1918 Dictator of Romania from 1965 to 1989
  2. Douglas MacArthur 1880 United States Army general in WWI, WWII and Korea
  3. José Mourinho 1963 Portuguese association football manager and former player
  4. Paul Newman 1925 American actor
  5. Ellen DeGeneres 1958 American comedian, television host, actress, and writer
  6. Anders Fogh Rasmussen 1953 Former Prime Minister of Denmark and former Secretary General of NATO
  7. Charles XIV John of Sweden 1763 King of Sweden and Norway between 1818–1844. Prince of Ponte Corvo 1806–1810 and…
  8. Wayne Gretzky 1961 Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  9. Edward Sapir 1884 American linguist and anthropologist
  10. Polykarp Kusch 1911 German-American physicist
  11. Jörg Haider 1950 Austrian politician
  12. Eddie Van Halen 1955 Dutch-American rock guitarist
  13. Ludwig Achim von Arnim 1781 German poet and novelist
  14. Roger Vadim 1928 French filmmaker
  15. Seán MacBride 1904 Irish politician and human rights activist
  16. Brendan Rodgers 1973 Northern Irish association football manager
  17. Kevin McCarthy 1965 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from January to October 2023
  18. Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron 1799 French physicist
  19. Gojko Kačar 1987 Serbian association football player
  20. Alex Sandro 1991 Brazilian footballer
  21. Kees van Dongen 1877 Dutch painter
  22. Akio Morita 1921 Japanese businessman
  23. Florian Thauvin 1993 French footballer
  24. Sebastian Giovinco 1987 Italian association football player
  25. Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza 1852 Italian explorer
  26. Antonio Rukavina 1984 Serbian footballer
  27. Peter Sagan 1990 Slovak cycling champion
  28. Nuri Bilge Ceylan 1959 Turkish film director and producer
  29. Bessie Coleman 1892 American aviator
  30. Patrick Dewaere 1947 French actor
  31. Vince Carter 1977 American basketball player
  32. Stéphane Grappelli 1908 French jazz violinist
  33. Hwang Hee-chan 1996 South Korean association football player
  34. Jeremy Rifkin 1945 American economist
  35. Aygün Kazimova 1971 Azerbaijani singer and actress
  36. Julia Grant 1826 First Lady of the United States from 1869 to 1877
  37. Bjarni Benediktsson 1970 Icelandic politician
  38. Oscar Ruggeri 1962 Argentine footballer and manager
  39. Trinle Gyatso 1857 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet
  40. David Strathairn 1949 American actor
  41. Mercedes Moné 1992 American professional wrestler and actress
  42. Jacqueline du Pré 1945 British cellist
  43. Marvin Plattenhardt 1992 German association football player
  44. Philip José Farmer 1918 American writer
  45. Nemanja Maksimović 1995 Serbian association football player
  46. Ester Expósito 2000 Spanish actress
  47. Valentino Mazzola 1919 Italian footballer
  48. Gustávo Dudamel 1981 Venezuelan conductor and violinist
  49. Hans Selye 1907 Austro-Hungarian Canadian endocrinologist
  50. Jarmila Kratochvílová 1951 Czechoslovak runner
  51. Anita Baker 1958 American singer
  52. Gian Piero Gasperini 1958 Italian association football player and manager
  53. Tomoko Suzuki 1982 Japanese association football player
  54. John Bates Clark 1847 American neoclassical economist
  55. Charles François Dumouriez 1739 French general
  56. Roy Chapman Andrews 1884 American explorer, naturalist, and writer
  57. Heinrich Anton de Bary 1831 German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist
  58. Björn Andrésen 1955 Swedish actor and musician
  59. Alice Babs 1924 Swedish singer and actor
  60. Lucinda Williams 1953 American rock, folk, blues, and country music singer, songwriter and musician
  61. María Pedraza 1996 Spanish actress
  62. Manuel Jiménez Jiménez 1964 Spanish footballer
  63. Christopher Hampton 1946 British playwright, screenwriter and translator
  64. Friðrik Ólafsson 1935 Icelandic chess player and official
  65. Paula Rego 1935 Portuguese-British visual artist
  66. Mary Mapes Dodge 1831 American children's writer
  67. Jean-Charles Castelletto 1995 Cameroonian and French footballer
  68. Eyal Zamir 1966 Chief of the General Staff of Israel Defense Forces
  69. Andrew Ridgeley 1963 English singer, songwriter and record producer
  70. José de Jesús Corona 1981 Mexican association football player
  71. Rigoberto Urán 1987 Road bicycle racer
  72. Joan Leslie 1925 American actress
  73. Xavier Becerra 1958 American attorney and politician
  74. Gene Siskel 1946 American film critic
  75. Zakaria Bakkali 1996 Belgian footballer
  76. Michel Sardou 1947 French singer
  77. Sonexay Siphandone 1966 Laotian politician
  78. Maria von Trapp 1905 Matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers
  79. Kim Jae-joong 1986 South Korean singer and actor
  80. Moonbin 1998 South Korean singer and actor
  81. Maksym Kalynychenko 1979 Ukrainian footballer
  82. Miguel Borja 1993 Colombian association football player
  83. Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala 1902 Colombian politician
  84. Bill Nicholson 1919 English footballer and manager
  85. Policarpa Salavarrieta 1795 Heroine of the Colombian Independence Movement
  86. Sara Rue 1979 American actress
  87. Barbara Kruger 1945 American conceptual artist
  88. Leonardo Balerdi 1999 Argentine footballer
  89. Erwin Vandenbergh 1959 Belgian association football player
  90. Soad Hosny 1943 Egyptian actress
  91. Louis Anquetin 1861 French painter
  92. Jean-Baptiste Pigalle 1714 French sculptor
  93. Colin O'Donoghue 1981 Irish actor
  94. Louis Zamperini 1917 Italian-American middle distance runner and World War II veteran
  95. Delio Rossi 1960 Italian footballer and manager
  96. Kawin Thamsatchanan 1990 Thai association football player
  97. Bob Lazar 1959 American businessman and ufologist
  98. Gedion Zelalem 1997 American soccer player
  99. Bernard Tapie 1943 French businessman and politician
  100. Maxime Rodinson 1915 French historian, sociologist and orientalist
  101. Laxmirani Majhi 1989 Indian archer
  102. François Faber 1887 Luxembourgian racing cyclist
  103. Javier Lozano Barragán 1933 Mexican Roman-Catholic priest, cardinal
  104. Princess Dürrüşehvar Sultan 1914 Ottoman Imperial and Royal; daughter of caliph Abdülmecid II
  105. Nuno Tavares 2000 Portuguese association football player
  106. Nawaf Al Abed 1990 Saudi Arabian football player
  107. Gideon Ståhlberg 1908 Swedish chess 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 26 share the 26th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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