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Famous people born on January 29

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 29 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1584 (Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau) and the most recent is 2003 (Jarell Quansah). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.

Who was born on January 29?

1. Anton Chekhov 1860 Russian dramatist and author
2. William McKinley 1843 President of the United States from 1897 to 1901
3. Romain Rolland 1866 French author
4. Oprah Winfrey 1954 American talk show host, actress, producer, and author
5. Olga Tokarczuk 1962 Polish writer and activist
6. Abdus Salam 1926 Theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
7. Linda B. Buck 1947 American biologist
8. Germaine Greer 1939 Australian writer and public intellectual
9. Teresa Teng 1953 Taiwanese ROC singer
10. Romário 1966 Former Brazilian footballer, politician and Senator of Brazil since 2015
11. Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta 1945 Malian politician
12. Adam Lambert 1982 American singer
13. Ernst Lubitsch 1892 German-American actor and film director
14. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 1867 Spanish author
15. Paul Ryan 1970 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
16. Heather Graham 1970 American actress
17. Tom Selleck 1945 American actor
18. Christian VII of Denmark 1749 King of Denmark and Norway
19. Wagner Lopes 1969 Brazilian-Japanese association football player and manager
20. Mulatu Teshome 1957 Former President of Ethiopia
21. Daniel François Esprit Auber 1782 French composer
22. Motohiro Yamaguchi 1969 Japanese association football player and manager
23. Kitasato Shibasaburō 1853 Japanese bacteriologist, immunologist
24. Jody Scheckter 1950 South African racecar driver
25. Ferenc Mádl 1931 Hungarian politician
26. Grzegorz Krychowiak 1990 Polish association football player
27. Ivan Klasnić 1980 Croatian footballer
28. W. C. Fields 1880 American comedian, actor, juggler and writer
29. Tigran Sargsyan 1960 Armenian economist and politician
30. Friedrich Mohs 1773 German geologist and mineralogist
31. Yui Hasegawa 1997 Japanese association football player
32. Edward Abbey 1927 American author and essayist
33. Gia Carangi 1960 American model
34. Greg Louganis 1960 American Olympic springboard and platform diver
35. Ernst Kummer 1810 German mathematician
36. Marc Gasol 1985 Spanish basketball player
37. Saúl Martínez 1976 Honduran association football player
38. Kim Kyu-sik 1881 Korean politician and academic
39. John Forsythe 1918 American film and television actor
40. Josip Iličić 1988 Slovenian association football player
41. Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau 1584 Prince of Orange and stadtholder of Holland
42. Edward W. Morley 1838 American physical chemist
43. Isabel Lucas 1985 Australian actress and model
44. Robin Morgan 1941 American feminist writer
45. Sara Gilbert 1975 American actress
46. Dominik Hašek 1965 Czech ice hockey player
47. Frederick Delius 1862 English composer
48. Luigi Nono 1924 Italian composer
49. Victor Mature 1913 American actor
50. Barnett Newman 1905 American painter (1905—1970)
51. Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez 1942 Cuban cosmonaut
52. Jarell Quansah 2003 English association football player
53. Masatoshi Kushibiki 1993 Japanese association football player
54. Yusuf Yazıcı 1997 Turkish association football player
55. Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi 1873 Italian explorer
56. Edward Burns 1968 American actor and director
57. Justin Hartley 1977 American actor
58. John D. Rockefeller Jr. 1874 American financier and philanthropist
59. Jessica Iskandar 1988 Indonesian actress
60. Sam Trammell 1969 American actor, writer, and producer
61. Rag'n'Bone Man 1985 British blues and soul singer
62. Ebenezer Howard 1850 British writer, founder of the garden city movement
63. Luboš Kohoutek 1935 Czech astronomer
64. Emilio Insolera 1979 Deaf actor and film producer
65. Elio Petri 1929 Italian filmmaker
66. Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia 1882 Russian grand duchess and Greek royal; only daughter and youngest child of Grand Duke…
67. Gauri Lankesh 1962 Indian journalist and activist
68. Rickard Sandler 1884 Prime Minister of Sweden
69. Albert Gallatin 1761 Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar
70. Denys Boyko 1988 Ukrainian footballer
71. Bob Holly 1963 American professional wrestler and actor
72. John Onaiyekan 1944 Catholic archbishop
73. Arnold Gehlen 1904 German academic
74. Johann Gottfried Seume 1763 German writer
75. Paddy Chayefsky 1923 American playwright, screenwriter and novelist
76. Rafael Grossi 1961 Argentine diplomat
77. Phillipp Mwene 1994 Austrian association football player
78. Lewis Pullman 1993 American actor
79. Sydney Chapman 1888 British mathematician and geophysicist
80. Robin Hranáč 2000 Czech footballer
81. Tommy Taylor 1932 English footballer
82. Sileshi Sihine 1983 Ethiopian long-distance runner
83. Tatyana Chernova 1988 Russian heptathlete
84. Natalie du Toit 1984 South African swimmer
85. Henry Lee III 1756 American politician, governor, and representative
86. Susana Giménez 1944 Argentine actress and businesswoman
87. Marc Singer 1948 Canadian-American actor
88. Peter Løvenkrands 1980 Danish footballer
89. Walter Lewin 1936 Dutch-born American physicist
90. Carlijn Achtereekte 1990 Dutch speed skater
91. Kazuhisa Kawahara 1987 Japanese association football player
92. Ján Greguš 1991 Slovak association football player
93. Kim Dong-jin 1982 South Korean footballer
94. Joaquín Peiró 1936 Spanish footballer

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 29 share the 29th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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