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Famous people born on January 30
Short answer
Well-known people born on January 30 include Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882), Felipe VI of Spain (1968), Abdullah II of Jordan (1962) and Christian Bale (1974). Our list below has 81 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 30 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1697 (Johann Joachim Quantz) and the most recent is 2002 (Christos Tzolis). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, writer.
Who was born on January 30?
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 President of the United States from 1933 to 1945
- Felipe VI of Spain 1968 King of Spain since 2014
- Abdullah II of Jordan 1962 King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
- Christian Bale 1974 American-English actor
- Islam Karimov 1938 1st President of the Republic of Uzbekistan
- Phil Collins 1951 English drummer, singer, and songwriter
- Olof Palme 1927 Swedish Prime Minister (1969–76, 1982–86)
- Gene Hackman 1930 American actor and novelist
- Boris Spassky 1937 Russian chess player
- Douglas Engelbart 1925 American engineer and inventor
- Vanessa Redgrave 1937 British actress and activist
- Isamu Akasaki 1929 Japanese engineer
- Arda Turan 1987 Turkish association football player
- Olivia Colman 1974 British actress
- Adelbert von Chamisso 1781 German poet and botanist
- Peter Agre 1949 American chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Amrita Sher-Gil 1913 Hungarian-Indian painter
- Max Theiler 1899 South African-American virologist and doctor
- Dimitar Berbatov 1981 Bulgarian footballer
- Leonid Gaidai 1923 Soviet film director
- Akira Yoshino 1948 Japanese engineer and researcher, known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery
- Boris III of Bulgaria 1894 King of Bulgaria
- Félix Faure 1841 7th President of the French Republic
- Peter Crouch 1981 English association football player
- Barbara W. Tuchman 1912 American historian and author
- Mike Johnson 1972 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- Liu Gang 1961 Chinese scientist and revolutionary
- Daiki Iwamasa 1982 Japanese association football player and manager
- Marcos Llorente 1995 Spanish association football player
- Lucas Biglia 1986 Argentine association football player
- Juninho Pernambucano 1975 Brazilian footballer
- Tyla 2002 South African singer-songwriter
- Koji Sasaki 1936 Japanese association football player
- Eiza Gonzalez 1990 Mexican actress and singer
- Vasili Arkhipov 1926 Soviet submarine officer who averted nuclear war
- A. H. Tammsaare 1878 Estonian writer
- Richard Brautigan 1935 American novelist, poet, and short story writer
- Nádson Rodrigues de Souza 1982 Brazilian association football player
- Walter Savage Landor 1775 English writer, poet, and activist
- Giovanni Battista Re 1934 Italian cardinal
- Curtis Jones 2001 English association football player
- Becky Lynch 1987 Irish professional wrestler and actress
- Tony O'Dell 1960 American actor
- Wilmer Valderrama 1980 American-Venezuelan actor
- Laurentino Cortizo 1953 Panamanian politician
- Danielle Campbell 1995 American actress
- Josip Pivarić 1989 Croatian association football player
- Elsa Martinelli 1935 Italian fashion model and actress
- Delbert Mann 1920 American television and film director
- Johann Joachim Quantz 1697 German flutist, flute maker and composer
- Gregory Benford 1941 Science fiction author and astrophysicist
- Filip Đuričić 1992 Serbian footballer
- F. H. Bradley 1846 British philosopher
- Ruka Norimatsu 1996 Japanese association football player
- Gisela Dulko 1985 Argentine tennis player
- Isaak Dunayevsky 1900 Soviet composer
- Michael Anderson 1920 English film director
- Cristian Brocchi 1976 Italian association football player and manager
- Ann Dowd 1956 American actress
- Lloyd Alexander 1924 American children's writer
- Jennifer Hale 1972 Canadian voice actress
- Steven Zaillian 1953 American film director
- Marty Balin 1942 American singer, songwriter, and musician
- Omar Gaber 1992 Egyptian association football player
- Christos Tzolis 2002 Greek footballer
- Ryosuke Kojima 1997 Japanese association football player
- Lee Zeldin 1980 American politician
- Afonso Alves 1981 Brazilian footballer
- Rudolf Caracciola 1901 German/Swiss racing and motorcycle driver
- Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier 1832 Infanta of Spain
- Richie Porte 1985 Australian racing cyclist
- Eduard Bloch 1872 Austrian physician
- John Profumo 1915 British politician
- Princess Louise of Denmark 1750 Daughter of Frederick V of Denmark and Louise of Great Britain
- Meir Dagan 1945 Israeli general and spy
- Charles S. Dutton 1951 American actor, director and producer
- Saul Alinsky 1909 American community organizer and writer
- S. N. Goenka 1924 Burmese teacher of vipassanā meditation
- Nikolaus Pevsner 1902 German-born British scholar
- Heidi Brühl 1942 German singer and actress
- Wu Den-yih 1948 Politician and former Premier of Taiwan
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 30 share the 30th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.