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Famous people born on July 2
Short answer
Well-known people born on July 2 include Hermann Hesse (1877), Wisława Szymborska (1923), Patrice Lumumba (1925) and Imelda Marcos (1929). Our list below has 80 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives July 2 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1644 (Abraham a Sancta Clara) and the most recent is 2001 (Neil El Aynaoui). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actress.
Who was born on July 2?
- Hermann Hesse 1877 Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter
- Wisława Szymborska 1923 Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner
- Patrice Lumumba 1925 Congolese politician and independence leader
- Imelda Marcos 1929 Philippine former First Lady
- William Henry Bragg 1862 British scientist
- Lindsay Lohan 1986 American actress and singer
- Hans Bethe 1906 German-American nuclear physicist
- Margot Robbie 1990 Australian actress
- Christoph Willibald von Gluck 1714 Opera composer
- Larry David 1947 American comedian, writer and actor
- Alec Douglas-Home 1903 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964
- Carlos Menem 1930 Argentinean president between 1989 and 1999
- Ashley Tisdale 1985 American actress and singer-songwriter
- Vicente Fox 1942 62th president of Mexico
- Olav V of Norway 1903 King of Norway
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 1724 German poet, writer and linguist
- Jüri Ratas 1978 Estonian politician
- Alex Morgan 1989 American soccer player
- Richard Axel 1946 American molecular biologist
- Pierre Cardin 1922 French-Italian fashion designer
- Danny Rose 1990 English footballer
- Michelle Branch 1983 American singer, songwriter and musician
- Esteban Granero 1987 Spanish footballer
- Wilhelm Cuno 1876 German chancellor
- Bret Hart 1957 Canadian-American professional wrestler, writer and actor
- Francisco Ernandi Lima da Silva 1959 Brazilian association football player
- René Lacoste 1904 French tennis player
- Burna Boy 1991 Nigerian singer and songwriter
- Thurgood Marshall 1908 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 to 1991
- Samy Naceri 1961 French-Algerian actor and film producer
- Marie Bonaparte 1882 French author and psychoanalyst
- Baba Rahman 1994 Ghanaian footballer
- Claudio Biaggio 1967 Argentine association football player
- Antonio Labriola 1843 Italian philosopher
- Ahmad Uyahya 1952 Prime minister of Algeria from 2017 to 2019
- Yumi Watanabe 1970 Japanese association football player
- Nicolò Zaniolo 1999 Italian association football player
- Lee Chung-yong 1988 South Korean footballer
- Ahmad Jamal 1930 American jazz pianist
- Jerry Hall 1956 American model
- Richard Petty 1937 American racing driver
- Sei Fuwa 1915 Japanese association football player
- Henrik Kristoffersen 1994 Norwegian alpine skier
- Kim Go-eun 1991 South Korean actress, born 1991
- Wendy B. Lawrence 1959 US astronaut and Navy Captain
- Charles Tupper 1821 6th Prime Minister of Canada
- Cindy Kiro 1958 New Zealand Governor-General, former academic and social justice advocate
- Muhammad Asad 1900 Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist
- Katie Taylor 1986 Irish association footballer and boxer
- Owain Yeoman 1978 British actor
- Roman Lob 1990 German musician
- Ruslana Sergeyevna-Korshunova 1987 Kazakhstani fashion model
- Kossi Agassa 1978 Togolese footballer
- Yassine Meriah 1993 Tunisian association football player
- Sylvia Rivera 1951 American LGBT activist, transgender rights activist, and community worker
- Kayla Harrison 1990 American Olympic judoka and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
- Georgi Ivanov 1940 Bulgarian cosmonaut
- Giulia Gwinn 1999 German association football player
- Abraham a Sancta Clara 1644 German writer and Augustinian Monk
- Medgar Evers 1925 African-American civil rights activist
- Ron Silver 1946 American actor
- Polly Holliday 1937 American actress
- Ryan Murphy 1995 American swimmer
- Alexandros Panagoulis 1939 Greek politician and poet
- Neil El Aynaoui 2001 Morrocan footballer
- Elise Stefanik 1984 United States Representative from New York since 2015 (Republican)
- Andrew Divoff 1955 Venezuelan actor and producer
- Wendy Schaal 1954 American actress
- Johnny Weir 1984 American figure skater and television commentator
- Dev 1989 American singer, songwriter, actress and model
- Enis Bardhi 1995 Macedonian association football player
- Ľudovít Ódor 1976 Slovak economist, former Vice-Governor of the National Bank of Slovakia, current Prime…
- Yana Zinkevych 1995 Ukrainian medic volunteer
- Eugent Bushpepa 1984 Albanian singer
- David Owen 1938 British politician
- Kenneth Clarke 1940 British politician
- Katsuhiro Minamoto 1972 Japanese association football player
- Ieva Zasimauskaitė 1993 Lithuanian singer
- Queen Maria Theresa of Bavaria 1849 Queen consort of Bavaria
- Joel Aguilar 1975 Salvadoran football referee
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on July 2 share the 2nd of July as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.