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Famous people born on January 6

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Well-known people born on January 6 include Kahlil Gibran (1883), Rowan Atkinson (1955), Kim Dae-jung (1924) and Carl Sandburg (1878). Our list below has 97 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 6 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1587 (Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares) and the most recent is 2004 (Roméo Lavia). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actor.

Who was born on January 6?

  1. Kahlil Gibran 1883 Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter
  2. Rowan Atkinson 1955 English actor, comedian, and screenwriter
  3. Kim Dae-jung 1924 8th President of the Republic of Korea
  4. Carl Sandburg 1878 American writer and editor
  5. Adriano Celentano 1938 Italian musician and actor
  6. Eddie Redmayne 1982 English actor
  7. Alexander Scriabin 1872 Russian composer and pianist
  8. Syd Barrett 1946 British musician
  9. Heinrich Schliemann 1822 German businessman and archaeologist
  10. Eduard Bernstein 1850 German politician and theorist
  11. Loretta Young 1913 American actress
  12. Irina Shayk 1986 Russian model and television personality
  13. Norman Reedus 1969 American actor
  14. Anthony Minghella 1954 British film director, playwright and screenwriter
  15. Victor Horta 1861 Belgian architect, designer, publicist, teacher and creator of Art Nouveau
  16. Lyudmila Ocheretnaya 1958 Russian linguist and 1983–2013 wife of Russian president Vladimir Putin
  17. Babrak Karmal 1929 3rd General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
  18. Andy Carroll 1989 English association football player
  19. Alex Turner 1986 British musician
  20. Alan Watts 1915 British American author and lecturer
  21. Gustav Bauer 1870 German trade unionist and chancellor
  22. Rolf M. Zinkernagel 1944 Swiss immunologist
  23. Hristo Botev 1848 Bulgarian poet, journalist and revolutionary
  24. Denís Suárez 1994 Spanish association football player
  25. Valeriy Lobanovskyi 1939 Ukrainian football manager
  26. Malcolm Young 1953 Australian guitarist
  27. Max Bruch 1838 German romantic composer and conductor
  28. E. L. Doctorow 1931 Novelist, editor, professor
  29. Eric Trump 1984 American businessman and reality television personality
  30. Edward Gierek 1913 Polish politician
  31. Kate McKinnon 1984 American actress and comedian
  32. Gilbert Arenas 1982 American basketball player
  33. Justin Welby 1956 Archbishop of Canterbury from 2013 to 2025
  34. Rinko Kikuchi 1981 Japanese actress
  35. José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia 1766 Paraguayan lawyer, politician and dictator
  36. Harri Holkeri 1937 Prime minister of Finland from 1987 to 1991
  37. Julio María Sanguinetti 1936 35th and 37th President of Uruguay
  38. Capucine 1928 French model and actress
  39. Usha Vance 1986 Second Lady of the United States since 2025
  40. Elizabeth Strout 1956 American novelist
  41. Nigella Lawson 1960 English food writer and television cook
  42. Maria of Yugoslavia 1900 Queen Consort of Yugoslavia
  43. Vasyl Stus 1938 Ukrainian poet, publicist and dissident
  44. Fan S. Noli 1882 Albanian politician
  45. Abel Aguilar 1985 Colombian association football player
  46. Manfred Kaltz 1953 German footballer and manager
  47. Larisa Shepitko 1938 Soviet film director and screenwriter (1938—1979)
  48. Liisi Oterma 1915 Finnish astronomer
  49. Yuko Morimoto 1974 Japanese association football player
  50. Catriona Gray 1994 Miss Universe 2018
  51. John Singleton 1968 American film director, screenwriter, and producer
  52. Terry Venables 1943 English football player and manager
  53. Jacques Ellul 1912 French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
  54. Kapil Dev 1959 Indian cricketer
  55. Jesús Manuel Corona 1993 Mexican association football player
  56. Bongani Khumalo 1987 South African footballer
  57. Michel Aebischer 1997 Swiss association football player
  58. Eliza Scanlen 1999 Australian actress
  59. Tom Mix 1880 American film actor
  60. Roméo Lavia 2004 Belgian association football player
  61. Nicky Romero 1989 Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer
  62. Miki Núñez 1996 Spanish singer
  63. Alan Stivell 1944 Breton musician
  64. Polo G 1999 American rapper
  65. Anselme Payen 1795 French chemist
  66. Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg 1655 Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia…
  67. Ibolya Csák 1915 Hungarian athletics competitor
  68. Nek 1972 Italian singer-songwriter and musician
  69. Isaak Brodsky 1884 Russian artist
  70. Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov 1933 Soviet cosmonaut
  71. Edward Turner Bennett 1797 British zoologist
  72. Fiete Arp 2000 German association football player
  73. Steed Malbranque 1980 French footballer
  74. Paul McShane 1986 Irish association football player
  75. Ion Heliade Rădulescu 1802 Academic, Romantic and Classicist poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writer,…
  76. Jérémie Renier 1981 Belgian actor
  77. Alex Teixeira 1990 Brazilian footballer
  78. Michael Foale 1957 British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut
  79. Vittorio Monti 1868 Italian composer, violinist, and conductor
  80. Petter Northug Jr. 1986 Norwegian cross-country skier
  81. Ilie Dumitrescu 1969 Romanian association football player and coach
  82. Serhiy Stakhovsky 1986 Ukrainian tennis player
  83. Charles Sumner 1811 American abolitionist and statesman
  84. John DeLorean 1925 American engineer and executive in the U.S. automobile industry
  85. Samuel Alexander 1859 Australian-born British philosopher
  86. Jeroen Zoet 1991 Dutch footballer
  87. Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre 1936 Guatemalan lawyer, politician and judge. President 2015-2016
  88. Paolo Conte 1937 Italian recording artist; musician
  89. Mikheil Gelovani 1893 Russian and Soviet actor and film director
  90. Lee Seung-woo 1998 South Korean football player, born 1998
  91. Earl Scruggs 1924 American musician
  92. Courtney Eaton 1996 Australian actress and model
  93. Mihael Mikić 1980 Croatian association football player
  94. Christina Chanée 1979 Danish singer
  95. José Saraiva Martins 1932 Portugal Roman Catholic priest, cardinal
  96. Joseph Petzval 1807 Slovak physicist, mathematician and inventor
  97. Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares 1587 Spanish royal favourite of Philip IV and minister

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 6 share the 6th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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