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Famous people born on May 13
Short answer
Well-known people born on May 13 include Pius IX (1792), Alphonse Daudet (1840), Maria Theresa of Austria (1717) and Stevie Wonder (1950). Our list below has 97 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 13 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1655 (Innocent XIII) and the most recent is 1999 (Óscar Mingueza). The most common fields on this date: singer, football, politician.
Who was born on May 13?
- Pius IX 1792 Pope of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878
- Alphonse Daudet 1840 French novelist, playwright, and poet
- Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 Ruler of the Habsburg Dominions
- Stevie Wonder 1950 American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer
- Ronald Ross 1857 British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist
- Scott Morrison 1968 Prime Minister of Australia from 2018 to 2022
- Robert Pattinson 1986 English actor and film producer
- Romelu Lukaku 1993 Belgian footballer
- Georges Braque 1882 French painter and sculptor
- Innocent XIII 1655 Pope of the Catholic Church from 1721 to 1724
- Yaya Touré 1983 Ivorian association football player
- Daphne du Maurier 1907 British writer
- Alexander Rybak 1986 Norwegian singer, actor, violinist, composer, pianist
- Harvey Keitel 1939 American actor
- Giuliano Amato 1938 Italian politician
- Joe Louis 1914 American boxer
- Debby Ryan 1993 American singer and actress
- Dennis Rodman 1961 American basketball player
- Stephen Colbert 1964 American comedian and writer
- Lazare Carnot 1753 French political, engineering and mathematical figure
- Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed 1905 Politician, fifth President of India
- Candice King 1987 American actress and singer
- Inge Lehmann 1888 Danish seismologist who discovered the Earth's inner core
- Carrie Lam 1957 Hong Kong politician
- Pál Schmitt 1942 President of Hungary from 2010 to 2012
- John VI of Portugal 1767 King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves from 1816 to 1825
- Lena Dunham 1986 American writer, director, actress, and producer
- Roger Zelazny 1937 U.S. science fiction and fantasy writer and poet
- Bea Arthur 1922 American actress and comedienne
- Johnny Logan 1954 Irish singer and songwriter
- Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland 1979 Swedish prince, son of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- Samantha Morton 1977 British actress
- Takeo Takahashi 1947 Japanese association football player
- Hideki Maeda 1954 Japanese association football player and manager
- Witold Pilecki 1901 Polish underground resistance soldier, World War II concentration camp resistance leader
- Ritchie Valens 1941 American musician
- Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham 1730 British Prime Minister
- Ronnie Coleman 1964 American IFBB professional bodybuilder
- Arthur Sullivan 1842 English composer of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
- Ásgeir Ásgeirsson 1894 Icelandic politician, 2nd President of Iceland Governor of Surtsey
- Antonio Adán 1987 Spanish association football player
- Pavel Jozef Šafárik 1795 Slovak poet, linguist, literature historian, publicist, educator, publicist,…
- Luca Zidane 1998 French-Algerian footballer
- Chuck Schuldiner 1967 American musician
- John Kasich 1952 American politician and former television host
- Iwan Rheon 1985 British actor and musician
- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 1956 Indian guru and spiritual leader
- Francis Coquelin 1991 French footballer
- Francisco de Asís, Duke of Cádiz 1822 King consort of Spain from 1846 to 1868
- Oguchi Onyewu 1982 American soccer player
- Tones and I 1993 Australian singer, songwriter and record producer
- Andrea Leadsom 1963 British politician
- Georgios Papanikolaou 1883 Greek pathologist
- William Richard Tolbert 1913 President of Liberia 1971–1980
- Tom Cotton 1977 American politician and army officer
- Alexei Khomyakov 1804 Russian philosopher
- Óscar Mingueza 1999 Spanish association football player
- Bruce Chatwin 1940 English novelist
- Tammam Salam 1945 President of Lebanon, Prime Minister of Lebanon
- Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen 1742 Duchess of Teschen
- Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal 1699 Portuguese noble and diplomat
- Buckethead 1969 American guitarist
- Marianne Vos 1987 Dutch cyclo-cross, road bicycle racer and track racer
- Mike Bibby 1978 American basketball player and coach
- Zoë Wanamaker 1949 American-born British actress
- Grégory Lemarchal 1983 French singer
- Enrique Bolaños 1928 Nicaraguan politician, businessman and industrial engineer, president and vice president
- Mike Gravel 1930 American politician; United States Senator
- Alan Ball 1957 American screenwriter
- Claudie Haigneré 1957 French astronaut, politician, doctor
- Vladimir Dzhanibekov 1942 Soviet cosmonaut
- Stefan Kraft 1993 Austrian ski jumper
- Ozuna 1992 Puerto Rican singer
- Hunter Parrish 1987 American actor
- Joe Johnston 1950 American film director and effects artist
- Senta Berger 1941 Austrian actress
- Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah 1930 Emir of Kuwait in 2006
- Giovanni Sartori 1924 Italian journalist and political scientist
- Vyacheslav Shevchuk 1979 Ukrainian footballer
- Melanie Thornton 1967 American singer
- Li Hongzhi 1951 Chinese religious leader and dissident
- Aleksandr Kaleri 1956 Russian cosmonaut
- Chang Hye-jin 1987 South Korean archer
- Gil Evans 1912 American composer, arranger, bandleader, and pianist
- Herbert Ross 1927 American film director
- Jean-Noël Barrot 1983 Foreign minister of the Republic of France since 2024
- Stefano Tacconi 1957 Italian association football player
- Lorenzo Mascheroni 1750 Italian mathematician and poet
- Bang Min-ah 1993 South Korean singer and actress
- Siobhan Fallon Hogan 1961 American actress
- Cameron McEvoy 1994 Australian swimmer
- Ilse DeLange 1977 Dutch country and pop singer
- Javier Balboa 1985 Equatorial Guinean association football player
- Morgan Wallen 1993 American country singer
- Henry Murray 1893 American psychologist and academic
- Sumner Paine 1868 American sport shooter
- Tim Pigott-Smith 1946 English film and television actor and author
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 13 share the 13th of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.