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Famous people born on March 2

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Well-known people born on March 2 include Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Pius XII (1876), Leo XIII (1810) and Daniel Craig (1968). Our list below has 88 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives March 2 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1707 (Louis-Michel van Loo) and the most recent is 2016 (Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, actor.

Who was born on March 2?

  1. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991
  2. Pius XII 1876 Pope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958
  3. Leo XIII 1810 Pope of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903
  4. Daniel Craig 1968 English actor
  5. Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa 1937 President of Algeria from 1999 to 2019
  6. Anthony Albanese 1963 31st prime minister of Australia
  7. Dr. Seuss 1904 American children's author and cartoonist
  8. Jon Bon Jovi 1962 American musician
  9. Chris Martin 1977 English singer-songwriter
  10. Jennifer Jones 1919 American actress
  11. Multatuli 1820 Dutch author
  12. Toby Alderweireld 1989 Belgian association football player
  13. Alexander Oparin 1894 Soviet biochemist
  14. Mauricio Pochettino 1972 Argentine association football player and coach
  15. Bryce Dallas Howard 1981 American actress and filmmaker
  16. Murray Rothbard 1926 American economist
  17. Sam Houston 1793 American statesman, politician, and soldier
  18. John Irving 1942 American novelist and screenwriter
  19. Karen Carpenter 1950 American singer and drummer
  20. Camille Desmoulins 1760 French journalist, politician and revolutionary
  21. János Arany 1817 Hungarian poet, journalist, writer and translator
  22. Ricardo Lagos 1938 Chilean politician, president of Chile from 2000 to 2006
  23. Tom Wolfe 1930 American author and journalist
  24. Kurt Weill 1900 German composer
  25. Kevin Kurányi 1982 German footballer
  26. Becky G 1997 American singer
  27. Harry Redknapp 1947 English association football player and manager
  28. Tiger Shroff 1990 Indian actor
  29. Masao Ono 1923 Japanese association football player
  30. Method Man 1971 American rapper and actor
  31. Rebel Wilson 1980 Australian actress, writer, and producer
  32. Damien Duff 1979 Irish footballer and manager
  33. Petr Jiráček 1986 Czech Supercup winner, soccer player and player on the Czech national soccer team
  34. Dean Barrow 1951 Prime Minister of Belize from 2008 to 2020
  35. Françoaldo Sena de Souza 1976 Brazilian association football player
  36. Sergei Stepashin 1952 Russian politician
  37. Sérgio Manoel 1972 Brazilian association football player
  38. Nathalie Emmanuel 1989 British actress
  39. Rory Gallagher 1948 Irish guitarist
  40. Norbert Hofer 1971 Austrian politician
  41. Vito Mannone 1988 Italian association football player and manager
  42. Nikita Mazepin 1999 Russian racing driver
  43. Mariya Yaremchuk 1993 Ukrainian pop singer who represented Ukraine in Eurovision 2014
  44. James Arthur 1988 British singer
  45. Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne 2016 Son of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland
  46. Pilou Asbæk 1982 Danish actor
  47. Jong Tae-se 1984 North Korean association football player
  48. Louis-Gabriel Suchet 1770 French military commander
  49. Iñaki Peña 1999 Spanish association football player
  50. Lisandro López 1983 Argentine footballer
  51. Eduardo Rodríguez 1956 Former president of Bolivia
  52. Lothar de Maizière 1940 German politician and the last Prime Minister of the GDR
  53. Luis Advíncula 1990 Peruvian association football player
  54. Dejan Bodiroga 1973 Serbian basketball player
  55. Carl Schlechter 1874 Austro-Hungarian chess player
  56. Georgy Flyorov 1913 Soviet physicist
  57. Desi Arnaz 1917 Cuban-born American musician, actor and television producer
  58. Mitsumasa Yonai 1880 Prime Minister of Japan
  59. Lazar Marković 1994 Serbian association football player
  60. Carl Schurz 1829 Union Army general, politician
  61. Martin Ritt 1914 American film director
  62. Lee Se-dol 1983 South Korean Go player
  63. Gates McFadden 1949 American actress and choreographer
  64. Andrea Conti 1994 Italian association football player
  65. Andrei Linde 1948 Russian-born American theoretical physicist
  66. Ann Leckie 1966 American science-fiction author
  67. Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy 1843 Daughter of Vittorio Emanuele II
  68. Nikkie de Jager 1994 Dutch video blogger and make-up artist
  69. Theodor Nöldeke 1836 German orientalist and scholar
  70. Mikhail Tyurin 1960 Russian cosmonaut
  71. Matthew Mitcham 1988 Australian diver
  72. Lee Sun-kyun 1975 South Korean actor
  73. Ken Salazar 1955 United States Ambassador to Mexico from 2021 to 2025
  74. Russ Feingold 1953 Wisconsin politician; three-term U.S. Senator
  75. Luke Combs 1990 American country singer
  76. Alfred J. Lotka 1880 American mathematician
  77. Illan Meslier 2000 French footballer (2000)
  78. Louis-Michel van Loo 1707 French painter
  79. Jonas Jerebko 1987 Swedish basketball player
  80. Ciriaco Sforza 1970 Swiss footballer
  81. Friedebert Tuglas 1886 Estonian writer and critic
  82. Leif Segerstam 1944 Finnish conductor and composer
  83. Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg 1886 German general
  84. Hiroto Mogi 1984 Japanese association football player
  85. Pandelela Rinong 1993 Malaysian Olympic diver
  86. Marlyn Meltzer 1922 Programmer for the ENIAC computer
  87. Sergei Kovalev 1930 Russian politician
  88. Kevin Curren 1958 South African tennis player

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on March 2 share the 2nd of March as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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