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Famous people born on January 7
Short answer
Well-known people born on January 7 include Millard Fillmore (1800), Jeremy Renner (1971), Nicolas Cage (1964) and Lewis Hamilton (1985). Our list below has 111 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 7 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1723 (Prithvi Narayan Shah) and the most recent is 2003 (Máximo Perrone). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on January 7?
- Millard Fillmore 1800 President of the United States from 1850 to 1853
- Jeremy Renner 1971 American actor
- Nicolas Cage 1964 American actor
- Lewis Hamilton 1985 British racing driver
- Ichirō Mizuki 1948 Japanese singer, voice actor
- Eden Hazard 1991 Belgian footballer
- Andy Burnham 1970 British politician
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda 1858 Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and…
- Alexander Dugin 1962 Russian political activist and philosopher
- Joseph Bonaparte 1768 Brother of Napoleon Bonaparte; King of Naples and Spain
- Zora Neale Hurston 1891 African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate
- Bernadette Soubirous 1844 French saint
- Irrfan Khan 1967 Indian actor
- Soh Jaipil 1864 Korean-American independence activist and journalist
- Charles Péguy 1873 French poet, essayist, and editor
- Jan Oblak 1993 Slovenian association football player
- John E. Walker 1941 British biochemist
- Paul Keres 1916 Estonian chess player and sportsperson
- Francis Poulenc 1899 French composer and pianist
- Tassos Papadopoulos 1934 5th President of the Republic of Cyprus
- Nick Clegg 1967 British politician and media executive
- Sofi Oksanen 1977 Finnish-Estonian writer
- Émile Borel 1871 French mathematician and politician
- Rand Paul 1963 United States Senator from Kentucky since 2011
- Gerald Durrell 1925 British naturalist and writer
- Sirusho 1987 Armenian singer
- Davide Astori 1987 Italian footballer
- Sadako Sasaki 1943 Japanese origami artist
- Caster Semenya 1991 South African middle-distance runner
- David Caruso 1956 American actor
- Michael McGlinchey 1987 New Zealand association football player
- Lauren Cohan 1982 American-British actress
- Christian Lindner 1979 German politician, former Federal Minister of Finance
- Takao Nishiyama 1942 Japanese association football player
- Ludwig III of Bavaria 1845 King of Bavaria
- Haley Bennett 1988 American actress and singer
- Hardwell 1988 Dutch DJ and record producer
- Szymon Marciniak 1981 Polish football referee
- Raila A Odinga 1945 Prime Minister of Kenya from 2008 to 2013
- Jade North 1982 Australian footballer
- Joubert Araújo Martins 1975 Brazilian association football player
- Antoine Semenyo 2000 Ghanaian association football player
- Albert Bierstadt 1830 American painter
- Mohammad Javad Zarif 1960 Former Vice President for Strategic Affairs of Iran
- Sammo Hung 1952 Hong Kong actor, choreographer, martial artist and filmmaker
- Roberto Pereyra 1991 Argentine footballer
- Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales 1796 British princess; only child of George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV)
- Shulamith Firestone 1945 Canadian born US feminist scholar, activist and writer
- Sandford Fleming 1827 Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor
- Gregor Schlierenzauer 1990 Austrian ski jumper
- Valeri Kubasov 1935 Soviet Cosmonaut
- William Peter Blatty 1928 American writer and filmmaker
- Lyndsy Fonseca 1987 American actress
- John Thune 1961 American politician
- José Manuel Imbamba 1965 Angolan Roman Catholic archbishop and university teacher
- Prithvi Narayan Shah 1723 King of Nepal
- Marco Storari 1977 Italian footballer
- Katie Couric 1957 American journalist, presenter, producer, and author
- Emiliano Insúa 1989 Argentine association football player
- Clint Mansell 1963 British composer and singer
- Clément Grenier 1991 French footballer
- Talgat Musabayev 1951 Kazakh cosmonaut
- Adolph Zukor 1873 Hungarian-American film producer
- Pablo Sánchez 1950 Mexican singer and songwriter
- Soufiane El Bakkali 1996 Moroccan male steeplechase runner
- Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope 1883 Royal Navy officer
- Liam Aiken 1990 American actor
- Linda Kozlowski 1958 American actress
- Charles Addams 1912 American cartoonist
- Johann Philipp Reis 1834 German scientist and inventor
- Robert Sheehan 1988 Irish actor
- Alen Stevanović 1991 Serbian association football player
- Ivan Yakubovsky 1912 Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Vasily Alekseyev 1942 Soviet-Russian weightlifter
- Jean-Pierre Rampal 1922 French flutist
- Yulia Putintseva 1995 Kazakstani-Russian female tennis player
- Gabrielius Landsbergis 1982 Lithuanian politician
- Ricardo Ezzati Andrello 1942 Archbishop and cardinal
- Janine Jansen 1978 Dutch violinist and violist
- Dieter Hoeneß 1953 German footballer and manager
- Merritt Wever 1980 American actress
- Kenny Loggins 1948 American singer and guitarist
- Georgi Gospodinov 1968 Bulgarian writer
- Roland Topor 1938 French writer, screenwriter, actor and painter
- Clara Haskil 1895 Romanian-Swiss classical pianist
- Brais Méndez 1997 Spanish association football player
- Brett Dalton 1983 American actor
- Aloe Blacc 1979 American singer and rapper
- Emilio Palma 1978 First person born on the Antarctic mainland
- Max Riemelt 1984 German actor
- Henny Porten 1890 German actress and film producer
- Supriya Pathak 1961 Indian actress
- Marco Simone 1969 Italian football player and manager
- Yūto Horigome 1999 Japanese professional skateboarder
- Julen Guerrero 1974 Spanish footballer
- Yangel Herrera 1998 Venezuelan association football player
- Feng Guozhang 1859 Chinese general
- Wayne Routledge 1985 English association football player
- Rosa Liksom 1958 Finnish writer
- Keisuke Funatani 1986 Japanese association football player
- Terry Moore 1929 American actress
- Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy 1966 American publicist and socialite
- Máximo Perrone 2003 Argentinian football player
- Heinrich Wilhelm Schott 1794 Botanist from Austria
- Richie Laryea 1995 Canadian soccer player
- Anna-Maja Henriksson 1964 Finnish politician
- Eilhard Mitscherlich 1794 German chemist
- John Degenkolb 1989 German racing cyclist
- Mario Bertini 1944 Italian footballer
- Amfilohije Radović 1938 Montenegrin bishop
- Enric Mas 1995 Spanish cyclist
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 7 share the 7th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.