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Famous people born on June 13
Short answer
Well-known people born on June 13 include James Clerk Maxwell (1831), Ban Ki-moon (1944), John Forbes Nash (1928) and Fernando Pessoa (1888). Our list below has 112 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives June 13 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1731 (Martha Washington) and the most recent is 2000 (Penny Oleksiak). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on June 13?
- James Clerk Maxwell 1831 Scottish physicist
- Ban Ki-moon 1944 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
- John Forbes Nash 1928 American mathematician and economist
- Fernando Pessoa 1888 Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher; creator of the heteronymic system including…
- Chris Evans 1981 American actor
- Thomas Young 1773 English polymath
- Klaus Iohannis 1959 President of Romania from 2014 to 2025
- Luis Walter Alvarez 1911 American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor
- Malcolm McDowell 1943 British actor
- Grigori Perelman 1966 Russian mathematician
- Keisuke Honda 1986 Japanese association football player
- Boyko Borissov 1959 Prime Minister of Bulgaria (2009–2013; 2014–2017; 2017–2021)
- Martha Washington 1731 First Lady of the United States from 1789 to 1797
- Paavo Nurmi 1897 Finnish middle and long distance runner
- Måns Zelmerlöw 1986 Swedish singer and television presenter
- Jules Bordet 1870 Belgian immunologist and microbiologist
- Félix Tshisekedi 1963 President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala 1954 Director-General of the World Trade Organization
- Stellan Skarsgård 1951 Swedish actor
- Jeanine Áñez 1967 Bolivian politician and Former President of Bolivia
- Kat Dennings 1986 American actress
- Florent Malouda 1980 French footballer
- Kingsley Coman 1996 French footballer
- Paul L. Modrich 1946 American biochemist
- Dorothy L. Sayers 1893 English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson 1990 English actor
- Kenenisa Bekele 1982 Ethiopian long-distance runner (track and field)
- Anton Drexler 1884 German politician
- Disha Patani 1992 Indian actress
- Akihiro Ienaga 1986 Japanese association football player
- Thomas Partey 1993 Ghanaian footballer
- Basil Rathbone 1892 English actor
- Sher Bahadur Deuba 1946 Prime Minister of Nepal
- Rinat Dasayev 1957 Soviet footballer
- Augusto Roa Bastos 1917 Paraguayan writer
- Julian Gil 1970 Argentine actor
- Frances Burney 1752 English satirical novelist, diarist, playwright
- Charles Algernon Parsons 1854 Inventor of the steam turbine
- Ben Johnson 1918 American film actor
- Li Ka-shing 1928 Hong Kong billionaire and entrepreneur
- Tage Erlander 1901 Swedish 20th century prime minister
- Don Budge 1915 American tennis player
- Kodi Smit-McPhee 1996 Australian actor
- Étienne Gilson 1884 French historian and philosopher
- Virginie Despentes 1969 French writer and film director
- Dušan Petković 1974 Serbian association football player
- Infanta Cristina of Spain 1965 Spanish royal
- Petra Vlhová 1995 Slovak female alpine skier
- Mary-Kate Olsen 1986 American businesswoman and actress
- Ashley Olsen 1986 American businesswoman, fashion designer and actress
- Fred Tatasciore 1968 American voice actor
- Sarah Connor 1980 German singer
- Deepika Kumari 1994 Indian archer
- Abdulsalami Abubakar 1942 Nigerian general and brief head of state
- Lyudmila Chernykh 1935 Soviet astronomer
- Juan Carlos Navarro 1980 Spanish basketball player
- Samak Sundaravej 1935 Thai politician
- Yamandú Orsi 1967 43rd President of Uruguay
- Ally Sheedy 1962 American actress
- Alan Hansen 1955 Scottish association football player
- Winfield Scott 1786 United States Army general
- Gerald Gardner 1884 British Wiccan leader
- Thomas Arnold 1795 English educator and historian, headmaster of Rugby School
- Aby Warburg 1866 German art historian and cultural theorist
- Richard Kingson 1978 Ghanaian association football player
- Andreas Samaris 1989 Greek footballer
- Šarūnas Marčiulionis 1964 Lithuanian basketball player
- José Antonio Páez 1790 President of Venezuela
- Bob McGrath 1932 American actor
- Mapi León 1995 Spanish association football player
- José Raúl Mulino 1959 39th President of Panama
- Mark Flekken 1993 Dutch footballer
- Ryan Mason 1991 English association football player and manager
- Raj Reddy 1937 Indian-American computer scientist
- Diana Hacıyeva 1989 Azerbaijani singer-songwriter
- José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva 1763 Brazilian politician
- Lois Weber 1879 American actor/film director
- Ann Druyan 1949 American author and producer
- Leonard Kleinrock 1934 American computer scientist
- Rivers Cuomo 1970 American musician
- Katie Moon 1991 American pole vaulter
- Audrey Niffenegger 1963 American writer, artist and academic
- Rose Cleveland 1846 First Lady of United States
- Albert, 4th duc de Broglie 1821 French politician
- Guy Demel 1981 Ivorian and French association football player
- Kaori Icho 1984 Olympic wrestler
- Rudolf Kjellén 1864 Swedish political scientist
- Leopoldo Lugones 1874 Argentine poet
- Markus Winkelhock 1980 German racing driver
- Princess Hélène of Orléans 1871 Princess of France
- Kim Jin-su 1992 South Korean association football player
- Roy Cooper 1957 American attorney and politician
- Leo Kanner 1894 American physician and psychiatrist
- Dallas Long 1940 American shot putter
- Steve-O 1974 British-American stunt performer
- William Sealy Gosset 1876 British statistician
- Chen Yun 1905 Elder of the Chinese Communist Party
- Heinrich Hoffmann 1809 German psychiatrist and children's writer
- Vahide Perçin 1965 Turkish actor
- Dostonbek Tursunov 1995 Uzbekistani association football player
- Penny Oleksiak 2000 Canadian swimmer
- Darius Vassell 1980 English association football player
- Denis Ten 1993 Kazakhstani figure skater
- Gonzalo Torrente Ballester 1910 Spanish Galician writer
- David Gray 1968 British singer-songwriter
- Giacomo Biffi 1928 Catholic cardinal
- Ewine van Dishoeck 1955 Dutch astronomer and chemist
- Selma Björnsdóttir 1974 Icelandic singer
- Rajkummar Rao 1984 Indian film actor
- Mairead McGuinness 1959 Irish politician and European Commissioner
- Amadeo Bordiga 1889 Italian politician
- Mateusz Klich 1990 Polish 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 June 13 share the 13th of June as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.