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Famous people born on January 5

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Well-known people born on January 5 include Umberto Eco (1932), Konrad Adenauer (1876), Bradley Cooper (1975) and Juan Carlos I of Spain (1938). Our list below has 97 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 5 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1667 (Antonio Lotti) and the most recent is 2001 (Mykhailo Mudryk). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.

Who was born on January 5?

  1. Umberto Eco 1932 Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
  2. Konrad Adenauer 1876 German politician, Chancellor of West Germany, Zentrum and CDU
  3. Bradley Cooper 1975 American actor and filmmaker
  4. Juan Carlos I of Spain 1938 King of Spain from 1975 to 2014
  5. Frank-Walter Steinmeier 1956 German politician, president of Germany since 2017
  6. Hayao Miyazaki 1941 Japanese animator, filmmaker, and mangaka
  7. Rudolf Christoph Eucken 1846 German philosopher
  8. Diane Keaton 1946 American actress and film director
  9. Marilyn Manson 1969 American musician
  10. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto 1928 4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan
  11. Robert Duvall 1931 American actor and director
  12. Deepika Padukone 1987 Indian actress
  13. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 1938 Kenyan writer
  14. Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1921 Swiss author and dramatist
  15. Paramahansa Yogananda 1893 Yogi, Kriya Yoga guru and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
  16. Walter Mondale 1928 Vice President of the United States from 1977 to 1981
  17. László Krasznahorkai 1954 Hungarian novelist and screenwriter
  18. Jane Wyman 1917 American actress
  19. Jean-Baptiste Say 1767 French economist and businessman
  20. Forugh Farrokhzad 1935 Iranian poet
  21. Joseph Erlanger 1874 American doctor
  22. Raisa Gorbacheva 1932 Wife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
  23. Uli Hoeneß 1952 German football executive
  24. Vinnie Jones 1965 British footballer and actor
  25. Nikola Kalinić 1988 Croatian association football player
  26. Mamata Banerjee 1955 Former Chief Minister of West Bengal
  27. Sakis Rouvas 1972 Greek recording artist
  28. January Jones 1978 American actress
  29. Jaroslav Plašil 1982 Czech footballer
  30. Janica Kostelić 1982 Croatian alpine skier
  31. Camille Jordan 1838 French mathematician
  32. Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg 1921 Monarch of Luxembourg
  33. Mykhailo Mudryk 2001 Ukrainian association football player
  34. Alvin Ailey 1931 African-American dancer, choreographer and activist
  35. Shinobu Ikeda 1962 Japanese association football player and manager
  36. DJ BoBo 1968 Swiss singer, rapper and dancer
  37. Clancy Brown 1959 American actor
  38. Deadmau5 1981 Canadian electronic dance music producer
  39. Mohammad Shah Qajar 1808 The third Shah of Iran Qajar
  40. Alfred Brendel 1931 Austrian composer and pianist
  41. Leroy Fer 1990 Dutch association football player
  42. Jesús Vallejo 1997 Spanish association football player
  43. Markus Söder 1967 German politician (CSU)
  44. Émerson Carvalho da Silva 1975 Brazilian association football player
  45. Carles Aleñá 1998 Spanish association football player
  46. George Tenet 1953 American Central Intelligence Agency Director
  47. King Camp Gillette 1855 American entrepreneur
  48. Kathrine Switzer 1947 American marathon runner, author, and television commentator
  49. Diego Tristán 1976 Spanish footballer
  50. Suzy Amis Cameron 1962 American actress and model
  51. Sultan bin Abdulaziz 1926 Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Second deputy prime minister, and the minister of defense
  52. Sebastian Deisler 1980 German football player
  53. Shea Whigham 1969 American actor
  54. Sam Phillips 1923 American businessman, record executive, record producer and DJ
  55. Constanze Mozart 1762 Austrian singer
  56. George Reeves 1914 American actor
  57. Uday Chopra 1973 Indian actor, film director and producer
  58. Stephen Cole Kleene 1909 American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist
  59. Dani Pacheco 1991 Spanish association football player
  60. Migjen Basha 1987 Albanian footballer
  61. Trent Sainsbury 1992 Australian association football player
  62. Nicole-Reine Lepaute 1723 French astronomer
  63. Maurizio Pollini 1942 Italian pianist and conductor
  64. Mattias Svanberg 1999 Swedish association football player
  65. Brian Tracy 1944 American motivational speaker and writer
  66. Dzinara Smolskaya 1996 Belarusian biathlete
  67. Krisztián Németh 1989 Hungarian association football player
  68. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli 1920 Italian pianist
  69. Conan Osíris 1989 Portuguese singer-songwriter
  70. Roxen 2000 Romanian singer-songwriter
  71. Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos 1744 Spanish neoclassical statesman, author, philosopher
  72. Joe Flanigan 1967 American actor and writer
  73. Alen Simonyan 1980 Armenian television presenter, actor, producer and politician
  74. Stella Gibbons 1902 British writer
  75. Jean-Pierre Aumont 1911 French actor
  76. Azizulhasni Awang 1988 Malaysian racing cyclist
  77. Jack Lovelock 1910 New Zealand athlete
  78. Krzysztof Wielicki 1950 Polish mountaineer
  79. J. Stuart Blackton 1875 American film producer
  80. Adolfo Zumelzú 1902 Argentine footballer
  81. Jiang Wen 1963 Chinese actor, screenwriter, and director
  82. Mike DeWine 1947 Governor of Ohio since 2019
  83. Giuseppe Gibilisco 1979 Italian athletics competitor and bobsledder
  84. Denis Alibec 1991 Romanian association football player
  85. Nikolai Medtner 1880 Russian composer and pianist
  86. Emilia Rydberg 1978 Swedish female singer and songwriter
  87. Kathleen Kenyon 1906 British archaeologist
  88. Roger Spottiswoode 1945 Canadian-British film director
  89. Qian Qichen 1928 Chinese politician
  90. Luka Mkheidze 1996 French judoka of Georgian origin
  91. Saeid Mollaei 1992 Iranian judoka
  92. Antonio Lotti 1667 Italian Baroque composer
  93. Adolfo Consolini 1917 Italian discus thrower
  94. Ikechukwu Uche 1984 Nigerian footballer
  95. José María Iglesias Inzárruga 1823 President of Mexico
  96. Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah 1942 Prime Minister of Kuwait from 2011 to 2019
  97. Franck Montagny 1978 Racecar driver

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 5 share the 5th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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