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Famous people born on March 16

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Well-known people born on March 16 include James Madison (1751), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Jens Stoltenberg (1959) and Georg Simon Ohm (1789). Our list below has 95 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives March 16 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1687 (Sophia Dorothea of Hanover) and the most recent is 1998 (Martin Hongla). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, politician.

Who was born on March 16?

  1. James Madison 1751 President of the United States from 1809 to 1817
  2. Sully Prudhomme 1839 French poet, Nobel prize for literature winner 1901
  3. Jens Stoltenberg 1959 Norwegian politician
  4. Georg Simon Ohm 1789 German physicist and mathematician
  5. Mark Carney 1965 24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
  6. Bernardo Bertolucci 1941 Italian film director and screenwriter
  7. Jerry Lewis 1926 American comedian, actor and film director
  8. Alexandra Daddario 1986 American actress
  9. Isabelle Huppert 1953 French actress
  10. Caroline Herschel 1750 German-British astronomer
  11. Frederick Reines 1918 American physicist
  12. Theo Walcott 1989 English association football player
  13. César Vallejo 1892 Peruvian writer
  14. Gabriel Attal 1989 Prime Minister of France in 2024
  15. Vladimir Komarov 1927 Soviet cosmonaut
  16. Pat Nixon 1912 First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974
  17. Andrew S. Tanenbaum 1944 American-Dutch computer scientist
  18. David MacMillan 1968 British chemist
  19. Matthew Flinders 1774 English navigator and cartographer
  20. Lauren Graham 1967 American actress, producer and novelist
  21. Rosa Bonheur 1822 French artist
  22. Blake Griffin 1989 American basketball player
  23. Traudl Junge 1920 Secretary to Adolf Hitler
  24. Alexander Belyayev 1884 Soviet writer
  25. Dominic Calvert-Lewin 1997 English association football player
  26. Taishi Taguchi 1991 Japanese association football player
  27. Gore Verbinski 1964 American film director
  28. Sienna Guillory 1975 British actress
  29. Martinus Wilhelm Beijerinck 1851 Dutch microbiologist
  30. Emperor Ninkō 1800 Emperor of Japan
  31. Anna Atkins 1799 English botanist and photographer
  32. Tsutomu Yamaguchi 1916 Japanese marine engineer
  33. Admir Mehmedi 1991 Swiss association football player
  34. Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf 1956 Swiss lawyer and politician
  35. Wilfried Sanou 1984 Burkinabé association football player
  36. Alan Tudyk 1971 American actor
  37. Victor Garber 1949 Canadian actor and singer
  38. Sophia Dorothea of Hanover 1687 Prussian royal consort of Frederick William I
  39. Ivan Toney 1996 English association football player
  40. Antoine-Jean Gros 1771 French painter of historical subjects
  41. Andreas Cornelius 1993 Danish footballer
  42. Napoléon, Prince Imperial 1856 French prince
  43. Walter Cunningham 1932 American astronaut
  44. Aladár Gerevich 1910 Hungarian fencer
  45. Kunihiko Kodaira 1915 Japanese mathematician
  46. Francisco Ayala 1906 Spanish novelist
  47. Irwin Keyes 1952 American character actor
  48. Joel Embiid 1994 Cameroonian and French basketball player
  49. Bernard Parker 1986 South African footballer
  50. Nikolai Kondratiev 1892 Soviet economist
  51. Marco Friedl 1998 Austrian footballer
  52. Jerome Flynn 1963 English actor and singer
  53. Florian Neuhaus 1997 German association football player
  54. Hisui Haza 1996 Japanese association football player
  55. Gösta Mittag-Leffler 1846 Swedish mathematician
  56. Daniel Patrick Moynihan 1927 American politician
  57. Jhené Aiko 1988 American singer-songwriter
  58. Édison Méndez 1979 Ecuadorian footballer
  59. Aspazija 1865 Latvian poet and playwright
  60. Robert Rossen 1908 American screenwriter, film director, and producer
  61. Karl Brugmann 1849 German linguist
  62. Parvin E'tesami 1907 Iranian poet
  63. Tim Kang 1973 American actor
  64. Raymond Vahan Damadian 1936 American scientist and inventor
  65. Christa Ludwig 1928 German mezzo-soprano
  66. Amos Tversky 1937 Israeli psychologist
  67. Robert Guéï 1941 Ivorian politician
  68. Belén Rueda 1965 Spanish actress
  69. Augusto Boal 1931 Brazilian writer
  70. Eduard Heine 1821 German mathematician
  71. Camilo Castelo Branco 1825 19th-century Portuguese writer
  72. Tonino Guerra 1920 Italian concentration camp survivor, poet, writer and screenwriter
  73. Haruka Kitaguchi 1998 Japanese javelin thrower
  74. Pathé Ciss 1994 Senegalese footballer
  75. Pierre Harmel 1911 Belgian politician
  76. Todd McFarlane 1961 Canadian artist and entrepreneur
  77. Tatsuya Enomoto 1979 Japanese association football player
  78. Felipe Reyes 1980 Spanish basketball player
  79. Carlos Velasco Carballo 1971 Spanish football referee
  80. Nancy Wilson 1954 American guitarist
  81. Agustín Marchesín 1945 Argentine association football player
  82. Kate Nelligan 1950 Canadian actress
  83. Andy Najar 1993 Honduran footballer
  84. Pál Dárdai 1976 Hungarian association football player and manager
  85. Fabiana Murer 1981 Pole vaulter
  86. Anna Grodzka 1954 Polish politician
  87. Brooke Burns 1978 American fashion model and game show host
  88. Martin Hongla 1998 Association football player
  89. Karlheinz Böhm 1928 Austrian actor
  90. Mark Sykes 1879 British politician, diplomatic advisor, and traveller
  91. Sydney Chaplin 1885 English actor
  92. Eiji Aonuma 1963 Japanese video game designer
  93. Kim Tu-bong 1886 Korean linguist and politician (1886–1958?)
  94. Solomon Mikhoels 1890 Soviet actor, Yiddish theatre performer
  95. José Iraragorri 1912 Spanish footballer

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on March 16 share the 16th of March as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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