Famous birthdays
Famous people born on January 9
Short answer
Well-known people born on January 9 include Richard Nixon (1913), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Karel Čapek (1890) and Catherine, Princess of Wales (1982). Our list below has 99 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 9 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1624 (Empress Meishō) and the most recent is 2003 (Ricardo Pepi). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, writer.
Who was born on January 9?
- Richard Nixon 1913 President of the United States from 1969 to 1974
- Simone de Beauvoir 1908 French philosopher, social theorist and activist
- Karel Čapek 1890 Czech writer
- Catherine, Princess of Wales 1982 Member of the British Royal Family and princess of Wales since 2022
- Joan Baez 1941 American contemporary folk musician
- Rigoberta Menchú 1959 Guatemalan human rights activist
- Nina Dobrev 1989 Bulgarian-Canadian actress
- Jimmy Page 1944 English guitarist
- Har Gobind Khorana 1922 Indian-American molecular biologist
- Ahmed Sékou Touré 1922 President of Guinea
- J. K. Simmons 1955 American actor
- John B. Watson 1878 American psychologist (1878
- Gennaro Gattuso 1978 Italian professional football manager and former player
- Josemaría Escrivá 1902 Spanish priest, writer and Catholic saint
- Lara Fabian 1970 Belgian and Canadian singer and songwriter
- Rodrygo 2001 Brazilian association football player
- Michel Barnier 1951 Former Prime Minister of France (2024)
- Clive Dunn 1920 British actor
- Domenico Modugno 1928 Italian singer, actor and politician
- Lee Van Cleef 1925 American actor
- Imelda Staunton 1956 British actress
- Sergei Parajanov 1924 Soviet Armenian and Georgian film director
- Levon Ter-Petrosyan 1945 First President of Armenia from 1991 to 1998
- Kurt Tucholsky 1890 Jewish-German journalist, satirist and writer
- Claudio Caniggia 1967 Argentine association football player
- Juanfran Torres 1985 Spanish association football player
- Eric García 2001 Spanish association football player
- Lucas Leiva 1987 Brazilian association football player
- Dominik Livaković 1995 Croatian association football player
- Piero Hincapié 2002 Ecuadorian footballer
- Ágnes Keleti 1921 Hungarian-Israeli artistic gymnast
- Giovanni Papini 1881 Italian writer
- Farah Khan 1965 Indian film director and choreographer
- Nicola Peltz 1995 American actress
- Axel Rodrigues de Arruda 1970 Brazilian association football player
- Farhan Akhtar 1974 Indian director and actor
- Ebi Smolarek 1981 Polish association football player
- Carrie Chapman Catt 1859 American social reformer, suffragist
- Empress Meishō 1624 Empress of Japan
- Susannah York 1939 English film, stage and television actress
- Subrahmanyam Jaishankar 1955 External Affairs Minister of India
- Marek Belka 1952 Polish economist and politician
- Joey Lauren Adams 1968 American actress
- Aminata Savadogo 1993 Latvian singer-songwriter
- Ruth Dreifuss 1940 Swiss politician
- Igor Netto 1930 Russian footballer
- Joely Richardson 1965 British actress
- Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen 1868 Danish chemist
- Robert Michels 1876 German sociologist
- Paolo Nutini 1987 Scottish musician
- Haddaway 1965 Trinidadian -German singer
- Jeanette Jerome 1854 American-born British mother of Winston Churchill
- Robert D. Putnam 1941 American political scientist
- Alvaro Soler 1991 German-Spanish singer
- Kerry Condon 1983 Irish actress
- A. J. McLean 1978 American pop singer
- Amel Tuka 1991 Bosnian athlete
- Heiner Müller 1929 German writer, poet, and theatre director
- Andrea Stramaccioni 1976 Italian football manager and former player
- Anthony Mamo 1909 Maltese chief judge and first President of the republic
- Mirza Delibašić 1954 Bosnian basketball player and coach
- Sávio 1974 Brazilian footballer
- Richard Abegg 1869 German chemist
- Lee Kun-hee 1942 4th and 6th Chairman of the Samsung Group
- Kenny Clarke 1914 American jazz drummer
- Candi Milo 1961 American voice actress
- Hans Hateboer 1994 Dutch footballer
- Chris Führich 1998 German association football player
- Iwasaki Yatarō 1835 Japanese industrialist; founder of Mitsubishi
- Dave Matthews 1967 American singer-songwriter
- Scott Walker 1943 British-American singer-songwriter, composer and record producer
- Philippa Gregory 1954 English novelist
- Nicola Coughlan 1987 Irish actress
- Michael Beasley 1989 American basketball player
- Ricardo Pepi 2003 American soccer player
- Alec Jeffreys 1950 British geneticist
- Katarina Johnson-Thompson 1993 British heptathlete
- Karl Löwith 1897 German philosopher
- Anna Tatangelo 1987 Italian singer and television presenter
- Fidel Escobar 1995 Panamanian association football player
- Jan Tomaszewski 1948 Polish footballer
- Amir Kabir 1807 Prime Minister of Iran
- Sergio García Fernández 1980 Spanish professional golfer
- Thomas Curtis 1873 American athlete
- Elizabeth Gertrude Britton 1858 American botanist
- Kari Hotakainen 1957 Finnish writer
- Yang Hyun-suk 1970 South Korean music producer, rapper and singer
- Marc Crosas 1988 Spanish footballer
- Olena Bilosiuk 1987 Ukrainian biathlete
- Angela Bettis 1973 American actress, film producer, and director
- Ashley Argota 1993 American actress, singer
- Michael Everson 1963 American Irish linguist, typesetter and font designer, publisher
- Alberto Costa 1985 Argentine and French footballer
- Ademilson Braga Bispo Junior 1994 Brazilian association football player
- Michaëlla Krajicek 1989 Dutch tennis player
- Amanda Tenfjord 1997 Greek-Norwegian singer-songwriter
- Algis Budrys 1931 Lithuanian-American author, editor, and critic
- Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac 1856 Serbian composer
- Francisco Pavón 1980 Spanish association football player
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 9 share the 9th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.