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Famous people born on June 5
Short answer
Well-known people born on June 5 include John Maynard Keynes (1883), Federico García Lorca (1898), Mark Wahlberg (1971) and Dennis Gabor (1900). Our list below has 77 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives June 5 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1640 (Pu Songling) and the most recent is 2000 (Tamara Živković). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on June 5?
- John Maynard Keynes 1883 British economist
- Federico García Lorca 1898 Spanish poet, dramatist and prose writer
- Mark Wahlberg 1971 American actor
- Dennis Gabor 1900 Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
- Teodoro Obiang 1942 Equatoguinean politician, President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979
- Allvar Gullstrand 1862 Swedish ophthalmologist
- John Couch Adams 1819 English mathematician and astronomer
- Mustafa II 1664 22th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Yulia Lipnitskaya 1998 Russian figure skater
- Carlo Biotti 1901 Italian judge
- James Connolly 1868 Irish republican, trade unionist and socialist revolutionary
- Martha Argerich 1941 Argentine pianist
- Rick Riordan 1964 American author
- Ken Follett 1949 British novelist
- Jeff Garlin 1962 American comedian and actor
- Troye Sivan 1995 Australian singer-songwriter and actor
- Hélène Cixous 1937 French philosopher and writer
- Takayuki Suzuki 1976 Japanese association football player
- Johan Gadolin 1760 Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist
- Laurie Anderson 1947 American artist and musician
- Michael E. Brown 1965 American planetary astronomer
- Jacques Demy 1931 French film director
- Elena Cornaro Piscopia 1646 Venetian philosopher
- Tony Richardson 1928 English theatre and film director and producer
- Koji Noguchi 1970 Japanese association football player
- Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover 1771 King of Hanover from 1837 to 1851
- Haluk Bilginer 1954 Turkish actor
- Martin Braithwaite 1991 Danish association football player
- Kenny G 1956 American saxophonist
- Zvjezdan Misimović 1982 Bosnian footballer
- Kieran Tierney 1997 Scottish association football player
- Joseph Pitton de Tournefort 1656 French botanist
- Stefania Sandrelli 1946 Italian actress
- Joe Clark 1939 16th Prime Minister of Canada
- Achille Emaná 1982 Cameroonian association football player
- Yogi Adityanath 1972 21st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
- Nicko McBrain 1952 British drummer
- Rudolf Peierls 1907 German-born British physicist
- Kathleen Kennedy 1953 American film producer
- Pu Songling 1640 Chinese writer
- Princess Astrid, Archduchess of Austria-Este 1962 Belgian and Austria-Este Imperial and Royal
- Rubén 1985 Spanish footballer
- David Bisbal 1979 Spanish singer
- Nick Kroll 1978 American comedian and actor
- Pierre Kalulu 2000 French and Congolese footballer
- Pierre Jean George Cabanis 1757 French physiologist and materialist philosopher
- Carmine Crocco 1830 Italian brigand
- Pete Wentz 1979 American musician
- Žydrūnas Ilgauskas 1975 Lithuanian basketball player
- Fernando Meira 1978 Portuguese footballer
- Whitfield Diffie 1944 American cryptographer
- Luis Romo 1995 Mexican association football player
- Estelle Reiner 1914 American actress and singer
- Thomas Chippendale 1718 British cabinet-maker
- William Kahan 1933 Canadian mathematician and computer scientist
- Eraldo Monzeglio 1906 Italian footballer and manager
- Ron Livingston 1967 American actor
- Liza Weil 1977 American actress
- Ninja 1991 American livestreamer and vlogger
- Margaret Drabble 1939 British novelist, biographer, and critic
- Amanda Crew 1986 Canadian actress
- Junior Hoilett 1990 Canadian soccer player
- Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi 1958 Former President of Comoros
- Maurice Duverger 1917 French academic
- Alexánder Domínguez 1987 Ecuadorian footballer
- Toivo Mikael Kivimäki 1886 Finnish politician
- Christy Brown 1932 Irish artist
- Cornelius Ryan 1920 Irish American journalist
- Barbara Brylska 1941 Polish actress
- Carl Swartz 1858 Swedish 20th century prime minister
- Velimir Bata Živojinović 1933 Yugoslav and Serbian actor and politician
- Chad Allen 1974 Actor
- John Carlos 1945 American track and field athlete
- Karin Balzer 1938 East German hurdler
- Kurt Hahn 1886 German educator
- Tamara Živković 2000 Montenegrin singer
- Ona Carbonell 1990 Spanish synchronized swimmer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on June 5 share the 5th of June as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.