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Famous people born on May 16
Short answer
Well-known people born on May 16 include Megan Fox (1986), Andrzej Duda (1972), Pierce Brosnan (1953) and Janet Jackson (1966). Our list below has 95 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 16 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1627 (Willem van Aelst) and the most recent is 2002 (Tomás Araújo). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, actor.
Who was born on May 16?
- Megan Fox 1986 American actress and model
- Andrzej Duda 1972 Politician and lawyer, president of Poland from 2015 to 2025
- Pierce Brosnan 1953 Irish actor
- Janet Jackson 1966 American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress
- Henry Fonda 1905 American actor
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 Italian mathematician and philanthropist
- Celâl Bayar 1883 3rd President of the Republic of Turkey
- Laura Pausini 1974 Italian singer
- Georg Bednorz 1950 Physicist
- IU 1993 South Korean singer, songwriter and actress
- Nancy Ajram 1983 Lebanese singer and actress
- William H. Seward 1801 American lawyer and politician
- Tucker Carlson 1969 American conservative political commentator
- Krist Novoselic 1965 American rock musician
- Olga Korbut 1955 Belarusian gymnast (*1955)
- Adrienne Rich 1929 American poet, essayist and feminist
- Lionel Scaloni 1978 Argentine football coach
- Gabriela Sabatini 1970 Argentine tennis player
- Friedrich Rückert 1788 German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages
- Debra Winger 1955 American actress
- Tamara de Lempicka 1898 Polish painter
- Levi P. Morton 1824 Vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893
- Nílton Santos 1925 Brazilian association football player
- Ryan Gravenberch 2002 Dutch association football player
- Kenji Mizoguchi 1898 Japanese film director and screenwriter
- Clark Gregg 1923 American economist
- Mario Monicelli 1915 Italian film director and screenwriter
- Joseph Morgan 1981 English actor and director
- Robert Fripp 1946 English guitarist, composer and record producer
- David Boreanaz 1969 American actor
- Ricardo Costa 1981 Portuguese footballer
- Margaret Sullavan 1909 American actress
- Robert B. Wilson 1937 American economist and Nobel laureate
- Grigor Dimitrov 1991 Bulgarian tennis player
- Ephraim Katzir 1916 Israeli scientist, 4th President of Israel - (born 1916-2009)
- Dawda Kairaba Jawara 1924 1st President of the Gambia
- Liberace 1919 American pianist
- Arley Dinas 1974 Colombian association football player
- Louis Nicolas Vauquelin 1763 French professor of chemistry
- Lynn Collins 1977 American actress
- Tori Spelling 1973 American actress
- Thomas Brodie-Sangster 1990 English actor
- Ivan Sutherland 1938 American computer scientist and Internet pioneer
- George Gaynes 1917 American actor
- Jim Sturgess 1978 English actor and singer-songwriter
- Johannes Thingnes Bø 1993 Norwegian biathlete
- Issey Nakajima-Farran 1984 Canadian soccer player
- Clément Turpin 1982 French football referee
- Karl Lehmann 1936 German theologian, Bishop of Mainz, catholic Cardinal
- Emilíana Torrini 1977 Icelandic singer, composer and producer
- Massimo Moratti 1945 Italian oil tycoon
- Vujadin Boškov 1931 Serbian footballer
- Nancy Roman 1925 American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project
- Studs Terkel 1912 American author, historian and broadcaster
- Johann Voldemar Jannsen 1819 Estonian journalist and cultural activist
- Desanka Maksimović 1898 Serbian writer
- Can Bonomo 1987 Turkish singer
- Miles Heizer 1994 American actor
- Melanie Lynskey 1977 New Zealand actress
- Yuri Shevchuk 1957 Russian singer
- Olga Bergholz 1910 Soviet poet
- Nguyễn Tuấn Anh 1995 Vietnamese association football player
- Woody Herman 1913 American jazz musician and bandleader
- Jens Spahn 1980 German politician
- Ove Kindvall 1943 Swedish association football player
- Elin Wägner 1882 Swedish writer, journalist and Suffragette
- David Edward Hughes 1831 Welsh-American scientist and musician
- Mare Winningham 1959 American actress
- Joan Benoit Samuelson 1957 American distance runner
- Martine Carol 1920 French actress
- Vicky Kaushal 1988 Indian actor
- Willem van Aelst 1627 Painter from the Northern Netherlands
- Dan Coats 1943 5th Director of National Intelligence, former United States Senator from Indiana
- Khary Payton 1972 American actor
- Felipe Augusto de Almeida Monteiro 1989 Brazilian footballer
- Kenneth Taylor 2002 Dutch association football player
- Christian Lacroix 1951 French fashion and theater designer
- José Mauri 1996 Italian footballer
- Łukasz Kubot 1982 Polish tennis player
- Olga Zaitseva 1978 Russian biathlete
- Betty Carter 1929 American jazz singer, recording artist, songwriter
- John Conyers 1929 American politician
- Jason Acuña 1973 American stunt performer and television personality
- Virgil Widrich 1967 Austrian director and scriptwriter
- Ryuya Nishio 2001 Japanese association football player
- Tomás Araújo 2002 Portuguese footballer
- Darío Cvitanich 1984 Argentine footballer
- Antonín Puč 1907 Czech footballer
- Billy Cobham 1944 Panamanian jazz drummer and composer
- Carlos Osoro 1945 Spanish priest and theologian
- Harry Carey 1921 American actor
- Yvonne Craig 1937 American actress
- Anja Mittag 1985 German footballer
- Emmanuel Todd 1951 Historian, demographer, anthropologist, sociologist, political scientist
- Ľuboš Micheľ 1968 Slovak soccer referee and manager
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 16 share the 16th of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.