Famous birthdays
Famous people born on March 6
Short answer
Well-known people born on March 6 include Gabriel García Márquez (1927), Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806) and Shaquille O'Neal (1972). Our list below has 83 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives March 6 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1619 (Cyrano de Bergerac) and the most recent is 2001 (Zoi Sadowski-Synnott). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actress.
Who was born on March 6?
- Gabriel García Márquez 1927 Colombian writer and Nobel laureate
- Valentina Tereshkova 1937 Russian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 English poet
- Shaquille O'Neal 1972 American basketball player
- Andrzej Wajda 1926 Polish film director
- Jintara Poonlarp 1969 Thai female singer
- Rob Reiner 1947 American filmmaker and actor
- Joseph von Fraunhofer 1787 Bavarian physicist and optical lens manufacturer
- Cyrano de Bergerac 1619 French novelist and dramatist
- Alan Greenspan 1926 American economist and financial advisor
- Timo Werner 1996 German association football player
- Kevin-Prince Boateng 1987 Ghanaian footballer
- Tim Howard 1979 American soccer player
- Stanisław Jerzy Lec 1909 Polish writer
- Moira Kelly 1968 American actress (b. 1968)
- Simon Mignolet 1988 Belgian association football player
- Giorgos Karagounis 1977 Greek association football player
- Agnieszka Radwańska 1989 Polish tennis player
- Choummaly Sayasone 1936 Former General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
- Teruaki Kurobe 1978 Japanese association football player
- Rodrigo 1991 Spanish association football player
- Kiri Te Kanawa 1944 New Zealand opera singer
- Dick Fosbury 1947 American athletics competitor, high jumper
- Philip Sheridan 1831 United States Army general
- Toni Schumacher 1954 German association football player
- Gordon Cooper 1927 American astronaut
- Lorin Maazel 1930 French-American conductor
- Shaukat Aziz 1949 Pakistani banker and politician
- Fazil Iskander 1929 Soviet and Russian writer
- Aleksandar Dragović 1991 Austrian association football player
- Connie Britton 1967 American actress
- Janhvi Kapoor 1997 Indian actress
- Carolyn Porco 1953 American planetary scientist
- Glenn Greenwald 1967 American journalist, lawyer and writer
- Bronisław Geremek 1932 Polish social historian and politician
- Will Eisner 1917 American cartoonist, writer and entrepreneur
- Özlem Türeci 1967 Turkish-German physician
- Donald Davidson 1917 American philosopher
- Tom Arnold 1959 American stand-up comedian and actor
- Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest 1784 French zoologist
- Andranik Teymourian 1983 Iranian footballer
- Karl I of Württemberg 1823 Third King of Württemberg
- Rodrigo Taddei 1980 Brazilian footballer
- Shabani Nonda 1977 Congolese-Burundian footballer
- Kōjun 1903 Japanese empress
- Iliman Ndiaye 2000 Senegalese-French association football player
- Cyprien Ntaryamira 1955 5th President of Burundi
- Lewis Gilbert 1920 British film director, producer and screenwriter
- Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian 1755 French writer
- Masanori Sanada 1968 Japanese association football player
- Marina Erakovic 1988 New Zealand tennis player
- Alisha Boe 1997 Norwegian actress
- Agnes Carlsson 1988 Swedish singer
- Lou Costello 1906 American actor and comedian
- George Robert Waterhouse 1810 English scientist
- Gorka Iraizoz 1981 Spanish footballer
- Ken Anderson 1976 American professional wrestler and actor
- Nathan Redmond 1994 English association football player
- Antoine-Henri Jomini 1779 French-Swiss officer who served as a general with the French and Russian armies and…
- Svetlana Gannushkina 1942 Human rights activist
- Obafemi Awolowo 1909 Nigerian politician
- Clara Lago 1990 Spanish actress
- Avdija Vršajević 1986 Bosnian association football player
- Harini Amarasuriya 1970 Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
- Mihai Tudose 1967 66th Prime Minister of Romania
- Chris Broderick 1970 American guitarist
- Stephen Schwartz 1948 American musical theatre lyricist and composer
- José Antonio Aguirre 1904 Basque association football player and politician
- Norodom Suramarit 1896 Cambodian king
- Paul Aguilar 1986 Mexican association football player
- Casimir Pulaski 1745 Polish nobleman, general in the American Revolutionary War
- Sandro Rosell 1964 Spanish businessman
- Lobo Carrasco 1959 Spanish footballer
- Christian Coleman 1996 American sprinter
- Derek Drouin 1990 Canadian high jumper
- Garry Monk 1979 English footballer
- Mary Wilson 1944 American singer
- Jonathas de Jesus 1989 Brazilian footballer
- Stjepan Tomas 1976 Croatian association football player
- Leïla Bekhti 1984 French actress
- Bambie Thug 1993 Irish singer, songwriter, composer and musician
- Zoi Sadowski-Synnott 2001 New Zealand snowboarder
- Lee Seung-yeoul 1989 South Korean 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 6 share the 6th of March as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.