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Famous people born on March 20
Short answer
Well-known people born on March 20 include Henrik Ibsen (1828), Chester Bennington (1976), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770) and Carl Reiner (1922). Our list below has 100 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives March 20 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1612 (Anne Bradstreet) and the most recent is 2006 (Barron Trump). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, singer.
Who was born on March 20?
- Henrik Ibsen 1828 Norwegian playwright and theatre director
- Chester Bennington 1976 American singer, songwriter and musician
- Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 German poet
- Carl Reiner 1922 American actor
- Fernando Torres 1984 Spanish footballer and manager
- B.F. Skinner 1904 American behaviorist
- John de Lancie 1948 American actor
- Napoleon II 1811 The second Emperor of the French (1815)
- Fred Rogers 1928 American television personality
- William Hurt 1950 American actor
- Holly Hunter 1958 American actress
- Abdul Hamid I 1725 27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Spike Lee 1957 American filmmaker
- Ivan Mazepa 1639 Hetman of Ukrainian Cossacks from 1687 to 1708
- Eiji Kawashima 1983 Japanese footballer
- Catherine Ashton 1956 British politician
- Marcos Rojo 1990 Argentine association football player
- René Coty 1882 17th President of the French Republic
- Brian Mulroney 1939 Prime Minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993
- Frederick Winslow Taylor 1856 American mechanical engineer
- Erwin Neher 1944 German biophysicist
- Alfonso García Robles 1911 Mexican diplomat and politician
- Vera Lynn 1917 British singer
- Xavier Dolan 1989 Canadian filmmaker
- David Thewlis 1963 British actor
- Phutthayotfa Chulalok 1737 King of Siam
- Bajram Begaj 1967 President of Albania
- Tomasz Kuszczak 1982 Polish footballer
- Jô 1987 Brazilian former football player
- Sloane Stephens 1993 US American tennis player
- Michael Redgrave 1908 British actor
- Alka Yagnik 1966 Indian playback singer
- Rudolf Kirchschläger 1915 Austrian diplomat, politician, judge, and eighth President of Austria
- Anne Bradstreet 1612 Anglo-American poet
- Márcio Miranda Freitas Rocha da Silva 1981 Brazilian association football player
- Ruby Rose 1986 Australian actor, model, DJ, and recording artist
- Christian Stocker 1960 Austrian politician
- Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck 1870 German army officer
- Gregg Binkley 1963 American actor
- Nicolas Lombaerts 1985 Belgian association football player
- Raymond Cattell 1905 British-American psychologist
- Beniamino Gigli 1890 Italian opera singer
- Miroslav Lajčák 1963 Slovak politician and diplomat
- Pierre Messmer 1916 83rd Prime Minister of France
- Theresa Russell 1957 American actress
- Letesenbet Gidey 1998 Ethiopian long-distance runner
- René Lesson 1794 French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist
- Pat Riley 1945 American basketball player, coach and executive
- Lois Lowry 1937 American writer
- Bobby Orr 1948 Canadian ice hockey player
- Freema Agyeman 1979 English actress
- Polina Zherebtsova 1985 Russian writer
- Sting 1959 American professional wrestler
- Natacha Atlas 1964 Tunisian-Belgian actor, musician and singer who combines Arabic and African elements…
- R'Bonney Gabriel 1994 American beauty pageant titleholder
- Josip Bozanić 1949 Croatian cardinal and Archbishop of Zagreb
- Thomas Kahlenberg 1983 Danish footballer
- Yvette Cooper 1969 British politician
- Jean-Antoine Houdon 1741 French artist
- Dara Shikoh 1615 Indian prince
- Sergei Novikov 1938 Soviet and Russian mathematician
- Michael Rapaport 1970 American actor
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe 1915 American gospel musician
- Lee "Scratch" Perry 1936 Jamaican music producer, singer-songwriter, sound engineer
- Sharbat Gula 1972 Sharbat Gula, subject of a notable photograph titled "Afghan Girl"
- Maud Menten 1879 Canadian physician and chemist
- Gerhard Barkhorn 1919 German general and fighter pilot during World War II
- Mattia Destro 1991 Italian footballer
- Barron Trump 2006 Son of Donald Trump
- Vera Panova 1905 Soviet writer, playwright, journalist, screenwriter
- Torbern Bergman 1735 Swedish chemist
- Lucie Jones 1991 British singer
- Carsten Ramelow 1974 German association football player
- Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia 1828 German general
- Azeglio Vicini 1933 Italian association football player and manager
- Mariya Takeuchi 1955 Japanese singer-songwriter
- Kathy Ireland 1963 American model and businesswoman
- Thomas Deng 1997 Australian association football player
- Jesper Olsen 1961 Danish footballer
- Alfréd Rényi 1921 Hungarian mathematician
- Chris Wedge 1957 American animator, director, producer, and writer
- Jamal Crawford 1980 American basketball player
- Robert Almer 1984 Austrian footballer
- Carl Palmer 1950 English drummer
- Román Torres 1986 Panamanian footballer
- Natalia Gherman 1969 Politician from Moldova
- Bianca Lawson 1979 American actress
- Evelyn Fox Keller 1936 American physicist, author and feminist
- Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt 1635 Electress Palatine
- Alexis Pinturault 1991 French alpine skier
- Morgan Amalfitano 1985 French footballer
- Pedro Lamy 1972 Portuguese racing driver
- Barbra Banda 2000 Zambian association football player
- Stephen Sommers 1962 American film director and screenwriter
- Jerry Reed 1937 American singer and actor
- Daniel Cormier 1979 American sport wrestler and mixed martial artist
- William Dalrymple 1965 Author and historian
- Hans Langsdorff 1894 Recipient of the Iron Cross
- Juan Garaizabal 1971 Spanish sculptor
- Jonas Thern 1967 Swedish 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 March 20 share the 20th of March as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.