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Famous people born on July 5

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Well-known people born on July 5 include Georges Pompidou (1911), Jean Cocteau (1889), Cecil John Rhodes (1853) and P. T. Barnum (1810). Our list below has 118 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives July 5 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1670 (Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg) and the most recent is 2002 (Zara Rutherford). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, writer.

Who was born on July 5?

  1. Georges Pompidou 1911 President of France from 1969 to 1974
  2. Jean Cocteau 1889 French writer and film director
  3. Cecil John Rhodes 1853 British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa
  4. P. T. Barnum 1810 American showman and politician
  5. Hernán Crespo 1975 Argentine footballer
  6. Gerard 't Hooft 1946 Dutch theoretical physicist
  7. John Howard Northrop 1891 American biochemist
  8. Megan Rapinoe 1985 American soccer player
  9. Amélie Mauresmo 1979 French tennis player
  10. Horacio Cartes 1956 49th President of Paraguay
  11. William John Macquorn Rankine 1820 Civil engineer
  12. Dejan Lovren 1989 Croatian association football player
  13. Veronica Guerin 1959 Irish crime reporter
  14. Alberto Gilardino 1982 Italian association football player and manager
  15. Pedro III of Portugal 1717 King of Portugal
  16. Ernst Mayr 1904 German-American evolutionary biologist
  17. Pierre Mauroy 1928 86th Prime Minister of France
  18. Susan Wojcicki 1968 American business executive
  19. Pusarla Venkata Sindhu 1995 Indian badminton player
  20. Eduardo Riedel 1969 Brazilian politician
  21. Willem Drees 1886 Dutch politician
  22. Herbert Spencer Gasser 1888 American physiologist
  23. Avigdor Lieberman 1958 Israeli politician, member of the Knesset
  24. Marcel Achard 1899 French writer
  25. James Mirrlees 1936 Scottish economist
  26. Jonás Gutiérrez 1983 Argentine footballer
  27. Édouard Herriot 1872 French Radical politician
  28. Gyula Horn 1932 Hungarian politician
  29. Gianfranco Zola 1966 Italian footballer and manager
  30. Alberto Moreno 1992 Spanish association football player
  31. Robin Gosens 1994 German footballer
  32. Edie Falco 1963 American actress
  33. Yoshio Furukawa 1934 Japanese association football player
  34. RZA 1969 American rapper, record producer and actor
  35. Nuno Gomes 1976 Portuguese footballer
  36. Márcio Amoroso 1974 Brazilian association football player
  37. Zheng Jie 1983 Chinese female tennis player
  38. David Farragut 1801 United States Navy admiral
  39. Stiliyan Petrov 1979 Bulgarian footballer
  40. Piermario Morosini 1986 Italian association footballer
  41. Sarah Siddons 1755 Welsh actress
  42. Philippe Gilbert 1982 Belgian cyclist
  43. Yang Shangkun 1907 4th President of the People's Republic of China
  44. Mustafa Al-Kadhimi 1967 Iraqi politician
  45. Shirley Knight 1936 American actress
  46. William Thomas Stead 1849 English newspaper editor
  47. Inayat Khan 1882 Founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914 and teacher of Universal Sufism
  48. Hiroyuki Abe 1989 Japanese association football player
  49. Giovanni Simeone 1995 Argentine footballer
  50. Shohei Ohtani 1994 Japanese professional baseball player
  51. Tuba Büyüküstün 1982 Turkish actor and fashion model
  52. Trevoh Chalobah 1999 English association football player
  53. Róisín Murphy 1973 Irish singer-songwriter
  54. Wanda Landowska 1879 Polish-French harpsichordist
  55. Michael Stuhlbarg 1968 American actor
  56. Dwight Filley Davis Sr. 1879 American politician and tennis player
  57. Ashkan Dejagah 1986 Iranian footballer
  58. Ji Chang-wook 1987 South Korean actor
  59. Bill Watterson 1958 American comic artist
  60. Chinatsu Kira 1991 Japanese association football player
  61. Salvador Jorge Blanco 1926 President of the Dominican Republic
  62. Robbie Robertson 1943 Canadian singer, songwriter and guitarist
  63. Juris Hartmanis 1928 Latvian computer scientist
  64. Daniel Vivian 1999 Spanish association football player
  65. Katherine Helmond 1929 American actress
  66. Tin Ujević 1891 Croatian poet
  67. Charlie Austin 1989 English association football player
  68. Nicolas Kiefer 1977 German tennis player
  69. Viktor Kulikov 1921 Marshal of the Soviet Union
  70. Mia Couto 1955 Mozambican writer
  71. Marcus Allbäck 1973 Swedish association football player
  72. David Rozehnal 1980 Czech association football player
  73. Alexander Kristoff 1987 Norwegian road bicycle racer
  74. Don Stark 1954 American actor
  75. Baby Lasagna 1995 Croatian singer
  76. Ai Sugiyama 1975 Japanese tennis player
  77. Jason Dolley 1991 American actor
  78. Warren Oates 1928 American actor
  79. André Lhote 1885 French sculptor and painter
  80. Carl Vogt 1817 German-Swiss scientist and politician
  81. Epeli Nailatikau 1941 President of Fiji from 2009 to 2015
  82. Huey Lewis 1950 American singer and actor
  83. Vanessa Valladares 1985 Australian Model
  84. Ajdin Hrustic 1996 Australian soccer player
  85. Mary Arthur McElroy 1841 First Lady of the United States
  86. Jean Raspail 1925 French author, traveler, and explorer
  87. Louis of Parma, king of Etruria 1773 King of Etruria
  88. Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka 1853 Slovak painter
  89. Alex Zülle 1968 Swiss cyclist
  90. Samir Ujkani 1988 Albanian-Kosovan footballer
  91. Roger Wicker 1951 American lawyer and politician
  92. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. 1902 American politician
  93. Zara Rutherford 2002 Belgian-British pilot
  94. Gustaph 1980 Belgian singer
  95. Danay García 1984 Cuban actress
  96. Ladislav Krejčí 1992 Czech association football player
  97. Michael O'Neill 1969 Northern Irish association football manager
  98. Sergey Obraztsov 1901 Soviet and Russian puppeteer
  99. Abeba Aregawi 1990 Swedish track and field athlete
  100. Richard E. Stearns 1936 American computer scientist
  101. Ronald D. Moore 1964 American screenwriter and television producer
  102. Edward Cassidy 1924 Australian Roman Catholic cardinal
  103. George Borrow 1803 English author
  104. Felix Timmermans 1886 Flemish writer
  105. Hannes Löhr 1942 German footballer and manager
  106. Shane Filan 1979 Irish pop singer
  107. Faouzia 2000 Moroccan-Canadian musician, singer and songwriter
  108. Adam Young 1986 American musician and singer-songwriter
  109. Ethel Smith 1907 Canadian sprinter
  110. Jan Kubelík 1880 Czech violinist and composer
  111. Tobias Lindholm 1977 Danish screenwriter and film director
  112. Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg 1670 Duchess of Parma
  113. Geneviève Grad 1944 French actress, singer, antique and cultural event manager
  114. Louis-Léopold Boilly 1761 French painter
  115. Marcel Arland 1899 French writer
  116. James Herbert Brennan 1940 Irish writer
  117. Yoshirō Abe 1980 Japanese association football player
  118. Ken Akamatsu 1968 Japanese manga artist and politician

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on July 5 share the 5th of July as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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