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Famous people born on July 16
Short answer
Well-known people born on July 16 include Roald Amundsen (1872), Larry Sanger (1968), Gareth Bale (1989) and Barbara Stanwyck (1907). Our list below has 80 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives July 16 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1723 (Joshua Reynolds) and the most recent is 2000 (Marcus Holmgren Pedersen). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, writer.
Who was born on July 16?
- Roald Amundsen 1872 Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole
- Larry Sanger 1968 American former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder of Citizendium and other…
- Gareth Bale 1989 Welsh association football player
- Barbara Stanwyck 1907 American actress
- Katrina Kaif 1983 British actress (1981-present)
- Sergio Busquets 1988 Spanish association football player
- Ginger Rogers 1911 American actress and dancer
- Trygve Lie 1896 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Will Ferrell 1967 American actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer
- Frits Zernike 1888 Dutch physicist
- Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 Italian Catholic priest, mathematician and astronomer
- Joshua Reynolds 1723 English painter
- Miguel Induráin 1964 Spanish cyclist
- Margaret Court 1942 Australian tennis player
- Naser al-Din Shah Qajar 1831 Shah of Qajar Iran from 1848 to 1896
- Irwin Rose 1926 American biologist
- Sahra Wagenknecht 1969 German politician
- Otto Jespersen 1860 Danish linguist
- Mary Baker Eddy 1821 American founder of Christian Science
- Ryozo Suzuki 1939 Japanese association football player
- Ida B. Wells 1862 American journalist and civil rights activist
- Nino Burjanadze 1964 Georgian politician and lawyer, Speaker of Parliament and twice acting President of…
- Mousa Dembélé 1987 Belgian association football player
- Choi Kyu-hah 1919 4th President of South Korea
- Carli Lloyd 1982 American soccer player
- Maher Zain 1981 Swedish R&B singer, songwriter and music producer
- Dejan Jakovic 1985 Canadian soccer player
- Anita Brookner 1928 English novelist and art historian
- Phoebe Cates 1963 American actress, model, and entrepreneur
- Jayma Mays 1979 American actress
- Rosa Salazar 1985 American actress
- Georges Rodenbach 1855 Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist
- Reinaldo Arenas 1943 Cuban poet/novelist/playwright
- Aruna Asaf Ali 1909 Indian independence activist
- Eugène Ysaÿe 1858 Belgian violinist, composer and conductor
- Andros Townsend 1991 English association football player
- Srečko Katanec 1963 Slovenian footballer
- Dag Solstad 1941 Norwegian writer
- Tony Kushner 1956 American playwright and screenwriter
- Douglas Murray 1979 British author and political commentator
- Włodzimierz Smolarek 1957 Polish footballer
- Lars Lagerbäck 1948 Swedish association football player and manager
- Corey Feldman 1971 American actor and musician
- James Maslow 1990 American actor and singer
- Bobby Lashley 1976 American professional wrestler and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
- Steve Hooker 1982 Australian pole vaulter
- Sarah Yorke Jackson 1803 First Lady of the United States
- Shericka Jackson 1994 Jamaican sprinter
- Vicente Rodríguez 1981 Spanish footballer
- Alexandra Shipp 1991 American actress and singer
- Wizkid 1990 Nigerian singer and songwriter
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul 1970 Thai film director, screenwriter, and film producer
- Scott Derrickson 1966 American filmmaker
- Vasil Kolarov 1877 Bulgarian politician (1877—1950)
- Michael Umaña 1982 Costa Rican footballer
- Rubén Blades 1948 Panamanian musician
- Timofey Mozgov 1986 Russian basketball player
- Josef Jungmann 1773 Czech linguist and poet
- Grigory Leps 1962 Russian singer-songwriter of Georgian origin
- Kim Woo-bin 1989 South Korean actor
- AnnaLynne McCord 1987 American actress
- Stewart Copeland 1952 American drummer and composer
- Michael Flatley 1958 American step dancer
- André Greipel 1982 German road bicycle racer
- Marcus Holmgren Pedersen 2000 Norwegian footballer
- Ruth Perry 1939 President of Liberia
- Alfred Pfaff 1926 German footballer
- Graziadio Isaia Ascoli 1829 Italian linguist
- Natalya Lisovskaya 1962 Russian athletics competitor
- Patricia Churchland 1943 Canadian philosopher
- Gottlob Berger 1896 SS general
- Barbara Lee 1946 American politician
- Johann Zarco 1990 French motorcycle racer
- Pinchas Zukerman 1948 Israeli-American violinist, violist and conductor
- Diego Barreto 1981 Paraguayan footballer
- Zach Randolph 1981 American basketball player
- Dan Bricklin 1951 American computer scientist
- Laura Carmichael 1986 British actress
- Bruno Ecuele Manga 1988 Gabonese and French association football player
- Toshiya Miura 1963 Japanese association football player and manager
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on July 16 share the 16th of July as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.