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Famous people born on June 2
Short answer
Well-known people born on June 2 include Thomas Hardy (1840), Pius X (1835), Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857) and Sergio Agüero (1988). Our list below has 89 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives June 2 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1816 (Grace Aguilar) and the most recent is 2003 (Yusuf Demir). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on June 2?
- Thomas Hardy 1840 English novelist and poet
- Pius X 1835 Pope of the Catholic Church from 1903 to 1914, saint
- Karl Adolph Gjellerup 1857 Danish writer
- Sergio Agüero 1988 Argentine association football player
- Edward Elgar 1857 English composer
- Constantine II of Greece 1940 King of Greece from 1964 to 1973
- Wentworth Miller 1972 American and British actor
- Johnny Weissmuller 1904 American swimmer, water polo player, and actor
- Takashi Inui 1988 Japanese association football player
- Sonakshi Sinha 1987 Indian film actress and singer
- Bernard Cazeneuve 1963 French prime minister
- Pete Conrad 1930 American astronaut and lunar explorer
- Zachary Quinto 1977 American actor and film producer
- Awkwafina 1988 American actress, comedian, and rapper
- Morena Baccarin 1979 Brazilian-American actress
- Charlie Watts 1941 British drummer
- Kevin Feige 1973 American producer and studio executive
- Lloyd Shapley 1923 American economist and mathematician
- Justin Long 1978 American actor
- Yoshinobu Minowa 1976 Japanese association football player
- Nikolay Davydenko 1981 Russian tennis player
- Audie Murphy 1924 American soldier and actor
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki 1920 Polish-born German literary critic
- Dominic Cooper 1978 British actor
- Abby Wambach 1980 American soccer player
- Sally Kellerman 1937 American actress
- Yi So-Yeon 1978 South Korean astronaut
- Stacy Keach 1941 American actor
- Lasse Hallström 1946 Swedish director and screenwriter
- A.J. Styles 1977 American professional wrestler
- Liam Cunningham 1961 Irish actor
- Gata Kamsky 1974 American chess player
- Helen Herron Taft 1861 First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913
- Wayne Brady 1972 American actor, comedian, and television personality
- Freddy Adu 1989 American soccer player
- Oliver Baumann 1990 German footballer
- Mani Ratnam 1955 Indian film director
- Soufiane Rahimi 1996 Moroccan footballer
- Konstantin Pobedonostsev 1827 Russian academic and politician
- Fredrik Backman 1981 Swedish writer
- Dennis Haysbert 1954 American actor
- Clair Cameron Patterson 1922 American chemist and geochemist
- Tony Buzan 1942 English author and educational consultant
- Lotte Reiniger 1899 German silhouette animator and film director
- James Ransone 1979 American actor
- Marvin Hamlisch 1944 American composer and conductor
- Felix von Weingartner 1863 Austrian conductor, composer and pianist
- Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld 1938 Swedish princess; elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- Benito Floro 1952 Spanish association football player and manager
- Darin Zanyar 1987 Swedish singer and songwriter
- Gilbert Baker 1951 American artist and gay rights activist
- Yusuf Demir 2003 Turkish-Austrian association football player
- František Plánička 1904 Czech association football player
- Mohammad Pakpour 1961 Iranian military officer and ex-commander of the IRGC
- Cornel West 1953 American philosopher, political activist and writer
- Wei Yi 1999 Chinese chess player
- Michał Kwiatkowski 1990 Polish road racing cyclist
- Paulo Sérgio 1969 Brazilian association football player
- Giovanni Angelo Becciu 1948 Roman Catholic archbishop and diplomat
- Volodymyr Holubnychyy 1936 Ukrainian Race Walker
- Parashqevi Qiriazi 1880 Albanian educational theorist
- Earl Boykins 1976 American basketball player
- Carol Shields 1935 American/Canadian author
- Nadhim Zahawi 1967 British politician
- Adam Taggart 1993 Australian association football player
- Jewel Staite 1982 Canadian actress
- Takijirō Ōnishi 1891 Imperial Japanese Navy admiral
- Seiya Fujita 1987 Japanese association football player
- Yuliya Snigir 1983 Russian model and actress
- Pajtim Kasami 1992 Swiss footballer
- Dana Carvey 1955 American comedian
- Abdul-Halim Sadulayev 1966 Chechen commander
- Richard Ríos 2000 Colombian footballer
- Grace Aguilar 1816 English novelist, poet and writer on Jewish history and religion
- Crescenzio Sepe 1943 Italian Catholic cardinal
- Sérgio Oliveira 1992 Portuguese footballer
- Talant Duyshebaev 1968 Russian handball player
- Jack Lowden 1990 Scottish actor
- Walter Andreas Schwarz 1913 Singer, author, Kabarettist, author of radio dramas and translator
- Nikki Cox 1978 American actress
- Lester del Rey 1915 American science fiction author
- Raul Hilberg 1926 Austrian-born American political scientist and historian
- Richard Long 1945 British sculptor
- Tan Malaka 1897 Communist Indonesian politician
- Caroline Link 1964 German film director and screenwriter
- Tobias Arlt 1987 German luger
- Navid Negahban 1968 Iranian actor
- Carlo Scarpa 1906 Italian architect and designer
- Fredrik Stenman 1983 Swedish footballer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on June 2 share the 2nd of June as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.