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Famous people born on January 3
Short answer
Well-known people born on January 3 include J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), Michael Schumacher (1969), Greta Thunberg (2003) and Mel Gibson (1956). Our list below has 89 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 3 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1611 (James Harrington) and the most recent is 2004 (Carlos Baleba). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, politician.
Who was born on January 3?
- J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 English writer and philologist
- Michael Schumacher 1969 German racing driver
- Greta Thunberg 2003 Swedish climate protection activist
- Mel Gibson 1956 American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
- Clement Attlee 1883 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951
- Sergio Leone 1929 Italian filmmaker
- Jisoo 1995 South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, and model
- Florence Pugh 1996 British actress
- August Macke 1887 German painter of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter
- Pietro Metastasio 1698 Italian poet and librettist
- László Sólyom 1942 Politician and former President of Hungary
- Gordon Moore 1929 American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation
- Wilhelm Pieck 1876 German communist politician, president of GDR
- Pola Negri 1897 Polish actress
- Ray Milland 1907 British actor
- Yoichiro Kakitani 1990 Japanese association football player
- John Paul Jones 1946 British bassist
- Jonny Evans 1988 Northern Irish association football player
- George Martin 1926 English record producer
- Father Damien 1840 19th century Belgian Roman Catholic priest and saint
- Josephine Hull 1877 American stage and film actress
- Grace Coolidge 1879 First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929
- Nejc Pečnik 1986 Slovenian association football player
- Alexey Stakhanov 1906 Soviet miner, namesake of Stakhanovite movement
- Lucretia Mott 1793 American quaker missionary
- Angelos Basinas 1976 Greek executive and retired association football player
- Vesna Vulović 1950 Serbian former flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute
- Katie McGrath 1983 Irish actress
- Robert Loggia 1930 American actor
- Elisa Bonaparte 1777 French princess
- Sakamoto Ryōma 1836 Japanese samurai and politician
- Savitribai Phule 1831 Indian social reformer
- Victor Borge 1909 Danish comedian and pianist
- Pierre Drieu La Rochelle 1893 French writer
- Eric Voegelin 1901 American philosopher
- Patrick Cutrone 1998 Italian association football player
- Jordi Masip 1989 Spanish association football player
- Victoria Principal 1950 American actress
- Adrián 1987 Spanish association football player
- Nicolás González Iglesias 2002 Spanish association football player
- Bobby Hull 1939 Canadian ice hockey player
- Gianfranco Fini 1952 Italian politician
- Mohamed Waheed Hassan 1953 Maldivian politician, 5th president of the Maldives
- Dabney Coleman 1932 American actor
- Richard M. Karp 1935 American theoretical computer scientist (b.1935)
- Jaswant Singh 1938 Indian politician and retired army officer
- Fyodor Yurchikhin 1959 Russian cosmonaut
- John Sturges 1910 American film director
- Louis Poinsot 1777 French mathematician and physicist
- Jason Marsden 1975 American actor
- Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri 1976 Prime Minister of Morocco since 2026
- Rosa Montero 1951 Spanish writer
- Mohammed Alim Khan 1880 The last Amir of Emirate of Bukhara
- Danica McKellar 1975 American actress and writer
- Stephen Stills 1945 American musician
- Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie 1810 Irish-born French explorer, geographer, ethnologist, linguist and astronomer
- Alessandro Petacchi 1974 Italian road bicycle racer
- Mayumi Iizuka 1977 Japanese actress, voice actress and J-pop singer
- Habib Diarra 2004 Senegalese footballer
- Alex D. Linz 1989 American actor
- Kōhei Uchimura 1989 Japanese artistic gymnast
- Vladimir Potanin 1961 Russian billionaire
- Thelma Schoonmaker 1940 American film editor
- Jim Ross 1952 American professional wrestling commentator, professional wrestling referee, and…
- Giovanni Lajolo 1935 Roman Catholic priest, vatican diplomat, cardinal
- Fodé Ballo-Touré 1997 Senegalese, Malian and French association football player
- Lucas Severino 1979 Brazilian association football player
- Carlos Baleba 2004 Cameroonian association football player
- Koit Toome 1979 Estonian singer
- Konrad Duden 1829 German philologist
- Bryan Clay 1980 American decathlete
- Eli Manning 1981 American football player
- Tonny Vilhena 1995 Dutch association football player
- Georgia Stanway 1999 English association football player
- Carl Gustav Carus 1789 German philosopher, physician, painter
- Linas Kleiza 1985 Lithuanian basketball player
- Gul Panag 1979 Actress
- William Renshaw 1861 English tennis player
- Hovig Demirjian 1989 Greek Cypriot singer
- Nikola Peković 1986 Montenegrin basketball player
- Kim Seolhyun 1995 South Korean singer and actress
- Amaia 1999 Spanish singer and pianist
- Nicole Beharie 1985 American actress
- ZaSu Pitts 1894 American actress
- Luís Carlos Prestes 1898 Brazilian politician
- Lee Bowyer 1977 English association football player
- James Harrington 1611 English political theorist of classical republicanism
- Jun Aoyama 1988 Japanese former association football player, tareno and actor
- Esperanza Aguirre, Countess of Bornos 1952 Spanish politician and peeress
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 3 share the 3rd of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.