Famous birthdays
Famous people born on January 8
Short answer
Well-known people born on January 8 include Elvis Presley (1935), Stephen Hawking (1942), David Bowie (1947) and Alfred Russel Wallace (1823). Our list below has 98 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 8 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1589 (Ivan Gundulić) and the most recent is 2011 (Prince Vincent of Denmark). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on January 8?
- Elvis Presley 1935 American singer and actor
- Stephen Hawking 1942 British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author
- David Bowie 1947 English musician and actor
- Alfred Russel Wallace 1823 British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist
- Junichiro Koizumi 1942 Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006
- Georgy Malenkov 1902 Soviet politician
- Emily Greene Balch 1867 American economist and writer
- Walther Bothe 1891 German physicist, mathematician and chemist
- David Silva 1986 Spanish association football player
- Wilkie Collins 1824 British writer
- Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella 1870 Spanish politician; dictator, aristocrat, and military officer who served as Prime…
- Koke 1992 Spanish association football player
- Maximilian Kolbe 1894 Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- Jacques Anquetil 1934 French cyclist
- Shirley Bassey 1937 Welsh singer
- José Ferrer 1912 American actor and director
- Manuel Locatelli 1998 Italian association football player
- Adrian Mutu 1979 Romanian footballer
- Graham Chapman 1941 English actor, comedian and writer
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1836 Dutch-born British painter
- Noah Cyrus 2000 American singer and actress
- Cynthia Erivo 1987 British actress and singer-songwriter
- Stipe Pletikosa 1979 Croatian association football player
- Elena of Montenegro 1873 Queen consort of Italy and Servant of God; mother of Umberto II of Italy
- Yan Fu 1854 Chinese translator
- Stefan Savić 1991 Montenegrin association football player
- John Curtin 1885 Australian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia
- Amber Benson 1977 American actress
- Peng Shuai 1986 Chinese female tennis player
- Leonardo Sciascia 1921 Italian writer
- Galina Ulanova 1910 Soviet ballet dancer
- Rachel Nichols 1980 American actress and model
- Oliver Bozanic 1989 Australian association football player
- Hans von Bülow 1830 German conductor and pianist
- Damiano David 1999 Italian singer-songwriter
- Lee Jung-soo 1980 South Korean association football player
- S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike 1899 4th Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from 1956-59
- Allan 1991 Brazilian association football player
- Ivan Gundulić 1589 Croatian baroque poet from the Republic of Ragusa
- William Hartnell 1908 English actor
- Samuel von Pufendorf 1632 German philosopher
- Adrián López Álvarez 1988 Spanish footballer
- John McTiernan 1951 American filmmaker
- Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale 1864 British prince; eldest child of the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra
- Princess Josephine of Denmark 2011 Danish princess, youngest child of Frederik X of Denmark and Queen Mary
- Sam Riley 1980 English actor
- Stepan Makarov 1849 Russian admiral
- Robin Olsen 1990 Swedish association football player
- Betsy DeVos 1958 American politician and philanthropist
- Carl Gustav Hempel 1905 German philosopher
- Giuseppe Favalli 1972 Italian footballer
- John Utaka 1982 Nigerian footballer
- James Longstreet 1821 Confederate Army general
- Prince Vincent of Denmark 2011 Danish prince, third child and younger son of Frederik X of Denmark and Queen Mary
- Elisabetta Sirani 1638 Italian painter
- Shoko Mikami 1981 Japanese association football player and manager
- Robby Krieger 1946 American guitarist
- Sarah Polley 1979 Canadian actress, film director and screenwriter
- Danny Carvajal 1989 Costa Rican association football player
- Joseph Weizenbaum 1923 German-American computer scientist
- Ron Moody 1924 British actor
- Ryan Mendes 1990 Cape Verdean footballer
- Kamil Grabara 1999 Polish association football player
- Anatoly Serdyukov 1962 Russian politician
- Pascal Zuberbühler 1971 Swiss footballer
- Stefano Mauri 1980 Italian footballer
- Francesco Coco 1977 Italian footballer
- Juan Marsé 1933 Spanish writer
- Richard Courant 1888 German American mathematician
- Ludwig Reichenbach 1793 German botanist and zoologist
- Sebastián Eguren 1981 Uruguayan footballer
- Carolina Herrera 1939 Venezuelan-American fashion designer
- Vyacheslav Zudov 1942 Soviet cosmonaut
- Álvaro González Soberón 1990 Spanish footballer
- Larry Storch 1923 American actor
- Genevieve Padalecki 1981 American actress
- Yvette Mimieux 1942 American actress
- Jakob Jantscher 1989 Association football player
- Samuel Schmid 1947 Member of the Swiss Federal Council
- Fanny Bullock Workman 1859 American geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer
- Michael Mancienne 1988 English footballer
- Jean Hyppolite 1907 French philosopher
- Saeed Jaffrey 1929 Indian actor
- Kenny Anthony 1951 Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
- Terry Brooks 1944 American writer
- Freddie Stroma 1987 British actor
- Kyle Edmund 1995 British tennis player
- Yash 1986 Indian actor
- Marco Fu 1978 Professional snooker player from Hong Kong
- Bronislava Nijinska 1891 Russian ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer
- Kenny McLean 1992 Scottish association football player
- Hanna Ljungberg 1979 Swedish association football player
- Fabian Frei 1989 Swiss footballer
- Võ Thị Ánh Xuân 1970 Vietnamese politician
- Gaby Hoffmann 1982 American actress
- Xu Xin 1990 Chinese table tennis player
- François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg 1628 French general
- Patrik Carlgren 1992 Swedish association football goalkeeper
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 8 share the 8th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.