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Famous people born on May 20
Short answer
Well-known people born on May 20 include Honoré de Balzac (1799), John Stuart Mill (1806), Cher (1946) and Sigrid Undset (1882). Our list below has 107 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 20 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1743 (Toussaint Louverture) and the most recent is 2000 (Brian RodríguezF). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on May 20?
- Honoré de Balzac 1799 French novelist and playwright
- John Stuart Mill 1806 British philosopher and political economist
- Cher 1946 American musician, singer, actress and television personality
- Sigrid Undset 1882 Norwegian writer
- Iker Casillas 1981 Spanish association football player
- James Stewart 1908 American actor and military officer
- Joe Cocker 1944 British singer
- Eduard Buchner 1860 German chemist (1907 Nobel Prize)
- Moshe Dayan 1915 Israeli military leader and politician
- Yoshihiko Noda 1957 Prime Minister of Japan from 2011 to 2012
- Max Euwe 1901 Dutch chess player and mathematician
- Frédéric Passy 1822 French economist and statesman
- Petr Čech 1982 Czech footballer
- Toussaint Louverture 1743 Haitian national hero
- Anton Zeilinger 1945 Austrian quantum physicist
- Boris Akunin 1956 Russian writer, translation, and historian
- Chris Froome 1985 British cyclist
- Roger Milla 1952 Cameroonian footballer and manager
- Israel Kamakawiwoʻole 1959 Hawaiian singer
- Edward B. Lewis 1918 American biologist
- Mike Havenaar 1987 Japanese association football player
- Władysław Sikorski 1881 Polish military and political leader
- Dolley Madison 1768 First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817
- Goh Chok Tong 1941 2nd Prime Minister of Singapore from 1990 to 2004
- Piotr Zieliński 1994 Polish association football player
- Timothy Olyphant 1968 American actor
- Gerónimo Rulli 1992 Argentine association football player
- Emile Berliner 1851 German-born American inventor
- Hector Malot 1830 French writer
- Aleksandr Dedyushko 1962 Russian actor
- Albano Carrisi 1943 Italian singer and actor
- Leonard Susskind 1940 American physicist
- Kaoru Mitoma 1997 Japanese association football player
- Óscar Cardozo 1983 Paraguayan footballer
- Tony Goldwyn 1960 American actor and director
- Dietrich Mateschitz 1944 Austrian businessman
- Stéphane Mbia 1986 Cameroonian and French professional footballer
- Joakim Mæhle 1997 Danish association football player
- Graham Potter 1975 English association football player and manager
- Jack Gleeson 1992 Irish actor
- Bernardino Rivadavia 1780 First President of Argentina (born 1780-1845)
- Wolfgang Borchert 1921 German playwright, and short story writer
- Wes Hoolahan 1982 Irish association football player
- Esko Aho 1954 Prime minister of Finland from 1991 to 1995
- David Paterson 1954 55th Governor of New York from 2008 to 2010
- Walter Isaacson 1952 American author, journalist and professor
- Bill Hewlett 1913 American electrical engineer, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard
- Josh O'Connor 1990 British actor
- N. T. Rama Rao Jr. 1983 Indian actor, dancer, singer and television presenter (b. 1983)
- Juliana Pasha 1980 Albanian singer
- Giorgos Vasiliou 1931 3rd President of the Republic of Cyprus
- George Phillips Bond 1825 American astronomer
- Nancy Fraser 1947 American philosopher
- Leo Franco 1977 Argentine footballer
- Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece 1967 Former Crown Prince of Greece
- Lorenzo Fernández 1900 Uruguayan footballer
- David McClelland 1917 American psychologist
- Dilara Kazimova 1984 Azerbaijani singer, songwriter, dancer and actress
- Robert Skov 1996 Danish association football player
- Annie M.G. Schmidt 1911 Dutch writer
- Nereo Rocco 1912 Italian football manager
- Jhala Nath Khanal 1950 Nepalese politician
- Henry Gantt 1861 American engineer
- Alexander Löhr 1885 Austrian Air Force commander and German general
- Lucélia Santos 1957 Brazilian actress and film director
- Christiane F. 1962 German author
- Zbigniew Preisner 1955 Polish composer
- Rachel Platten 1981 American singer, songwriter and author
- Rosa Linn 2000 Arminian singer-songwriter
- Franz Jägerstätter 1907 Austrian martyr and conscientious objector
- Damir Džumhur 1992 Bosnian-Herzegovinian tennis player
- Gerson Santos Putin 1997 Brazilian footballer
- Tahmoh Penikett 1975 Canadian actor
- Wei Jingsheng 1950 Chinese democracy activist and dissident
- Anton Corbijn 1955 Dutch film director, video director and photographer
- Henri-Edmond Cross 1856 French Neo-Impressionist painter
- Dieter Rams 1932 German industrial designer
- Stanislav Markelov 1974 Russian lawyer
- Juanmi Jiménez 1993 Spanish footballer
- Cindy McCain 1954 American diplomat and businesswoman
- Rafael Cabral 1990 Brazilian association football player
- Margery Allingham 1904 English writer of detective fiction, editor
- Johann Gottfried Schadow 1764 German sculptor
- Matt Czuchry 1977 American actor
- Mike Crapo 1951 American politician and Senator of Idaho since 1999
- Cate Campbell 1992 Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder
- Alexander von Kluck 1846 German general
- John Billingsley 1960 American actor
- Tara Davis-Woodhall 1999 American track and field athlete
- Marcelo Antônio Guedes Filho 1987 Brazilian association football player
- Ramy Rabia 1993 Egyptian association football player
- William Smith 1813 English lexicographer
- Astrid Kirchherr 1938 German photographer and artist
- Teodoro Fernández 1913 Peruvian footballer
- Miodrag Belodedici 1964 Romanian footballer
- Mike Flanagan 1978 American filmmaker
- Andrew Scheer 1979 Canadian politician
- Jules Méline 1838 French politician
- Paweł Dawidowicz 1995 Polish association football player
- Bronson Pinchot 1959 American actor
- Ralph Firman 1975 Irish racecar driver
- Ondina Valla 1916 Italian athletics competitor
- Erri De Luca 1950 Italian novelist, poet and translator
- Gustaw Herling-Grudziński 1919 Polish writer, World War II underground fighter, and political dissident
- Maria Teresa Horta 1937 Portuguese writer, journalist and poet
- Aleksandr Deyneka 1899 Russian artist
- Brian RodríguezF 2000 Uruguayan footballer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 20 share the 20th of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.