Famous birthdays
Famous people born on July 9
Short answer
Well-known people born on July 9 include Tom Hanks (1956), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), Donald Rumsfeld (1932) and Courtney Love (1964). Our list below has 92 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives July 9 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1764 (Ann Radcliffe) and the most recent is 2003 (Conor Bradley). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, politician.
Who was born on July 9?
- Tom Hanks 1956 American actor and film producer
- Viktor Yanukovych 1950 President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
- Donald Rumsfeld 1932 American politician and diplomat
- Courtney Love 1964 American rock musician
- Edward Heath 1916 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974
- Hassan II 1929 King of Morocco from 1961 to 1999
- Ben Roy Mottelson 1926 Danish-American nuclear physicist
- Ashley Young 1985 English association football player
- Ivan Vazov 1850 Bulgarian writer and poet
- Franz Boas 1858 German-American anthropologist
- David Hockney 1937 Painter, printmaker, set designer, photographer
- O. J. Simpson 1947 American football player and actor
- Ann Radcliffe 1764 English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel
- Barbara Cartland 1901 English writer and media personality
- Lindsey Graham 1955 American politician and attorney
- Oliver Sacks 1933 British neurologist and writer
- Koji Nakata 1979 Japanese association football player
- Rafael Pereira da Silva 1990 Brazilian footballer
- Gianluca Vialli 1964 Italian association football player and manager
- Mercedes Sosa 1935 Argentine singer
- Chris Cooper 1951 American actor
- Shigeyoshi Mochizuki 1973 Japanese association football player
- Jack White 1975 American musician
- Bon Scott 1946 Australian singer
- Dean Koontz 1945 American writer and screenwriter
- Fabio 1990 Brazilian association football player
- Kozue Ando 1982 Japanese association football player
- Brian Dennehy 1938 American actor
- Matthew Gregory Lewis 1775 English novelist and dramatist
- Willi Stoph 1914 German politician
- Paolo Di Canio 1968 Italian football player and manager
- Phineas Gage 1823 19th century American railway worker who survived a large brain trauma
- Sophia of Nassau 1836 Swedish queen
- Jordan Belfort 1962 American stockbroker
- Georgie Henley 1995 English actress
- Guru Dutt 1925 Indian film director, producer, choreographer and actor
- Mitchel Musso 1991 American actor, singer and songwriter
- Kelly McGillis 1957 American actress
- George Howard Darwin 1845 English astronomer, mathematician
- Sakon Yamamoto 1982 Japanese racecar driver
- Blazhe Ilijoski 1984 Macedonian association football player
- Elias Howe 1819 American inventor
- Sandro Ramírez 1995 Spanish association football player
- Richard Roundtree 1942 American actor and singer
- Pamela Adlon 1966 American actress
- Kevin Nash 1959 American professional wrestler
- Friedrich Adler 1879 Austrian politician
- Wim Duisenberg 1935 Dutch politician and economist
- Gustav Noske 1868 German politician
- João Palhinha 1995 Portuguese association football player
- Boštjan Cesar 1982 Slovenian footballer
- Jimmy Smits 1955 American actor
- Sébastien Bassong 1986 Cameroonian and French footballer
- Shelton Benjamin 1975 American professional wrestler
- DeAndre Yedlin 1993 American soccer player
- Carlos Chagas 1879 Brazilian doctor and scientist
- Tomás Estrada Palma 1835 Cuban politician; President of Cuba
- Federico Bahamontes 1928 Spanish racing cyclist
- Fred Savage 1976 American actor and director
- Toby Kebbell 1982 British actor
- Douglas Booth 1992 British actor
- Steve Coppell 1955 English association football manager and former player
- Conor Bradley 2003 Northern Irish association football player
- Elem Klimov 1933 Soviet film director
- Claire Corlett 1999 Canadian actress
- Liam Rosenior 1984 English footballer and manager
- Adriano Panatta 1950 Italian tennis player
- Gölnara Galkina-Sämitevä 1978 Russian athletics competitor
- Kliment Kolesnikov 2000 Russian swimmer
- Rebecca Sugar 1987 American animator and screenwriter
- Percy Spencer 1894 American engineer and inventor
- Jair da Costa 1940 Brazilian footballer
- Boualem Khoukhi 1990 Qatari association football player
- Tatjana Smith 1997 South African swimmer
- Lee Chun-soo 1981 South Korean association football player
- Scott Grimes 1971 Actor, voice actor, singer-songwriter
- Michael Graves 1934 American architect and designer of consumer products
- Isabel Sarli 1929 Argentine actress
- Dennis Hadžikadunić 1998 Bosnian-Swedish association football player
- Yordan Letchkov 1967 Bulgarian footballer
- Robert I, Duke of Parma 1848 Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1854 to 1859
- Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden 1857 Grand Duke of Baden
- Sanjeev Kumar 1938 Indian film actor
- Zar Amir-Ebrahimi 1981 Iranian-French actress
- Lee Hazlewood 1929 American singer, songwriter, record producer
- Ronald Matarrita 1994 Costa Rican footballer
- Mervyn Peake 1911 English author and illustrator
- Raymond Cruz 1961 Native Mexican-American character actor
- Richard Wilson 1936 Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster
- Liya Akhedzhakova 1938 Soviet and Russian actress
- Marc Almond 1957 British singer
- Asha-Rose Migiro 1956 Tanzanian politician and UN Deputy-Secretary General
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on July 9 share the 9th of July as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.