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Famous people born on January 28

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Well-known people born on January 28 include Nicolas Sarkozy (1955), Jackson Pollock (1912), Gianluigi Buffon (1978) and José Martí (1853). Our list below has 90 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 28 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1600 (Clement IX) and the most recent is 2001 (Ismael Saibari). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actor.

Who was born on January 28?

  1. Nicolas Sarkozy 1955 23rd president of the French Republic from 2007 to 2012
  2. Jackson Pollock 1912 American painter
  3. Gianluigi Buffon 1978 Former Italian footballer
  4. José Martí 1853 Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist
  5. Colette 1873 French novelist
  6. Ismail Kadare 1936 Albanian writer
  7. Elijah Wood 1981 American actor
  8. Henry Morton Stanley 1841 British journalist and explorer
  9. Carlos Slim 1940 Mexican business magnate and investor
  10. Clement IX 1600 Pope from 1667, lived 1600-1669
  11. Hamad II of Bahrain 1950 King of Bahrain
  12. Arthur Rubinstein 1887 Polish-American classical pianist
  13. Mustafa III 1717 26th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
  14. Alan Alda 1936 American actor
  15. Jamie Carragher 1978 English associiation football player and sportcaster
  16. Yasuhito Endo 1980 Japanese association football player
  17. Tomas Lindahl 1938 Nobel prize winning Swedish biologist
  18. Dušan Vlahović 2000 Serbian association football player
  19. Robert W. Holley 1922 American biochemist
  20. Will Poulter 1993 British actor
  21. George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen 1784 British politician
  22. Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg 1865 President of Finland
  23. Shruti Haasan 1987 Indian actress
  24. Frederick VI of Denmark 1768 King of Denmark and Norway
  25. Amy Coney Barrett 1972 American lawyer and jurist
  26. J. Cole 1985 American rapper and record producer
  27. Maluma 1994 Colombian singer
  28. Frank Darabont 1959 American film director, screenwriter and producer
  29. Charles George Gordon 1833 British army officer and administrator
  30. Lucia Bose 1931 Italian-born Spanish actress
  31. Nick Carter 1980 American singer
  32. Tomislav Marić 1973 Croatian association football player
  33. Aya Miyama 1985 Japanese association football player
  34. Takuma Sato 1977 Japanese race car driver
  35. Rick Ross 1976 American rapper and record executive
  36. David Lodge 1935 English writer
  37. Alexander Mackenzie 1822 2nd Prime Minister of Canada
  38. Ariel Winter 1998 American actress
  39. Claes Oldenburg 1929 American sculptor and printmaker
  40. Hiroki Abe 1999 Japanese association football player
  41. Ismael Saibari 2001 Moroccan footballer
  42. Eduardo Aranda 1985 Paraguayan association football player
  43. Auguste Piccard 1884 Swiss physicist
  44. Sarah McLachlan 1968 Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter
  45. Andre Iguodala 1984 American basketball player
  46. Jessica Ennis-Hill 1986 British heptathlete
  47. Giovanni Alfonso Borelli 1608 Italian physicist (*1608 – †1679)
  48. Arnaldur Indriðason 1961 Icelandic crime writer, former journalist and film critic
  49. Sheamus 1978 Irish professional wrestler and actor
  50. Papa Bouba Diop 1978 Senegalese footballer
  51. John Brooks 1993 German-American soccer player
  52. Eugène Dubois 1858 Dutch paleoanthropologist
  53. Lala Lajpat Rai 1865 Indian author and politician
  54. Kathleen Lonsdale 1903 Irish crystallographer
  55. Jeanne Shaheen 1947 United States Senator from New Hampshire
  56. Siem de Jong 1989 Dutch association football player
  57. Michaël Guigou 1982 French handball player
  58. Heinz Flohe 1948 German footballer
  59. Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud 1933 Saudi Arabian former crown prince
  60. Kathryn Morris 1969 American actress
  61. Gregg Popovich 1949 American basketball coach
  62. Brandon Mechele 1993 Belgian footballer
  63. Rick Warren 1954 American Baptist pastor and writer
  64. Rakim 1968 American rapper
  65. John Tavener 1944 British composer
  66. Joseph Bédier 1864 French philologist and writer
  67. Otto Braun 1872 German politician
  68. José Linhares 1886 President of Brazil
  69. Leonid Kadeniuk 1951 Ukrainian cosmonaut
  70. Danny Makkelie 1983 Dutch association football referee
  71. Markos Vafiadis 1906 Greek politician
  72. Wan Zack Haikal 1991 Malaysian association football player
  73. James Craig Watson 1838 American astronomer
  74. Libby Trickett 1985 Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, world record-holder
  75. Benedetto Cairoli 1825 Italian politician
  76. Mirjana Karanović 1957 Serbian actress
  77. Richmond Boakye 1993 Ghanaian footballer
  78. Miguel Torres Gómez 1986 Spanish footballer
  79. Tokugawa Ieshige 1712 Tokugawa shogun
  80. John Perkins 1945 American author
  81. Bruno Metsu 1954 French association football player and manager
  82. Abel Ruiz 2000 Spanish association football player
  83. Karl-Johan Johnsson 1990 Swedish footballer
  84. Kállay Saunders 1985 American/Hungarian recording artist
  85. Parry O'Brien 1932 Athletics competitor, shot putter
  86. Tom Hopper 1985 British actor (b. 1985)
  87. Calum Worthy 1991 Canadian actor
  88. Nutsa Buzaladze 1997 Georgian singer-songwriter
  89. Mike Moore 1949 Prime Minister of New Zealand in 1990
  90. Ilija Garašanin 1812 Serbian politician

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 28 share the 28th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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