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Famous people born on May 29

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Well-known people born on May 29 include John F. Kennedy (1917), G. K. Chesterton (1874), Peter Higgs (1929) and Tenzing Norgay (1914). Our list below has 88 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 29 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1627 (Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans) and the most recent is 2006 (Gukesh D). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, actor.

Who was born on May 29?

  1. John F. Kennedy 1917 President of the United States from 1961 to 1963
  2. G. K. Chesterton 1874 English author and Christian apologist
  3. Peter Higgs 1929 British physicist and Nobel Prize winner
  4. Tenzing Norgay 1914 Nepalese Indian Sherpa mountaineer
  5. Oswald Spengler 1880 German historian and philosopher
  6. Bob Hope 1903 American entertainer
  7. Annette Bening 1958 American actress
  8. Andrey Arshavin 1981 Russian association football player
  9. Gukesh D 2006 Indian chess grandmaster
  10. Louise Michel 1830 French author and anarchist
  11. Noel Gallagher 1967 British singer and guitarist
  12. Danny Elfman 1953 American film composer
  13. Abdülmecid II 1868 Last caliph of the Ottoman Dynasty
  14. Abdoulaye Wade 1926 3rd President of Senegal
  15. Rupert Everett 1959 British actor
  16. Alfonsina Storni 1892 Argentine writer and poet
  17. Hernanes 1985 Brazilian association football player
  18. Carmelo Anthony 1984 American basketball player
  19. Patrick Henry 1736 American Founding Father, orator and politician
  20. Arne Friedrich 1979 German association football player
  21. Alpay Özalan 1973 Turkish association football player
  22. Laverne Cox 1972 American actress and LGBT advocate
  23. John Harsanyi 1920 Hungarian economist
  24. Massimo Ambrosini 1977 Italian association football player
  25. Iannis Xenakis 1922 Greek-French composer, architect and engineer
  26. Giovanni Gentile 1875 Italian philosopher, educator, fascist theoretician and politician
  27. Roberto Di Matteo 1970 Italian association football player and manager
  28. Nicolas Pépé 1995 Ivorian footballer
  29. Melanie Brown 1975 British singer and television personality
  30. Noritaka Hidaka 1947 Japanese association football player
  31. Josef von Sternberg 1894 Austrian-American film director
  32. Farooq Leghari 1940 Pakistani politician
  33. André Brink 1935 South African writer
  34. Riley Keough 1989 American actress
  35. Erich Wolfgang Korngold 1897 Austrian-born American composer and conductor
  36. Jean Makoun 1983 Cameroonian footballer
  37. Ted Levine 1957 American actor
  38. Helmut Berger 1944 Austrian actor
  39. Maika Monroe 1993 American actress
  40. Ana Beatriz Barros 1982 Brazilian model
  41. Mohsen Makhmalbaf 1957 Iranian film director, writer, editor, and producer
  42. Melissa Etheridge 1961 American singer-songwriter
  43. T. H. White 1906 English author
  44. Vitaliy Mykolenko 1999 Ukrainian association football player
  45. Tan Zhongyi 1991 Chinese chess player
  46. Jean-Christophe Yoccoz 1957 French mathematician
  47. Rebbie Jackson 1950 Singer from the United States
  48. Aleksandr Abdulov 1953 Soviet and Russian actor
  49. Paul R. Ehrlich 1932 American biologist and environmentalist
  50. Daniel Tosh 1975 American stand-up comedian and television host
  51. Richard Carapaz 1993 Ecuadorian bicycle racer
  52. Ramil Guliyev 1990 Turkish sprinter of Azerbaijani ancestry
  53. Thibaut Pinot 1990 French racing cyclist
  54. Leah Goldberg 1911 Israeli poet
  55. David Burtka 1975 American actor and professional chef
  56. Gregg Toland 1904 American cinematographer
  57. Tobin Heath 1988 American soccer player
  58. Maurice Bishop 1944 Revolutionary and Grenada 's second Prime Minister
  59. Nataliya Dobrynska 1982 Ukrainian heptathlete
  60. Héctor Yazalde 1946 Argentine footballer
  61. Yaimé Pérez 1991 Cuban athletics competitor
  62. Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans 1627 Duchess of Montpensier
  63. Leila Ahmed 1940 Egyptian-American writer and professor
  64. Felix Passlack 1998 German association football player
  65. Ukyo Katayama 1963 Japanese racecar driver
  66. Hibari Misora 1937 Japanese singer and actress
  67. Arijan Ademi 1991 Macedonian footballer
  68. Konstantin Batyushkov 1787 Russian poet, essayist and translator
  69. Hornswoggle 1986 American professional wrestler
  70. David Meyler 1989 Irish association football player
  71. Masaharu Nishi 1977 Japanese association football player
  72. Taihō Kōki 1940 Japanese sumo wrestler and the 48th Yokozuna
  73. Besa 1986 Albanian pop singer
  74. David Bruce 1855 Australian-British physician, pathologist and microbiologist
  75. Francis Rossi 1949 British rock musician
  76. Gabriel Gómez 1984 Panamanian footballer
  77. Carme Forcadell 1955 Spanish political activist and language teacher
  78. Emilio Sánchez 1965 Spanish tennis player
  79. Jerry Moran 1954 United States Senator from Kansas
  80. Martín Campana 1989 Uruguayan footballer
  81. Elyas M'Barek 1982 Austrian-German
  82. Gregg Sulkin 1992 British actor
  83. Sebastian Shaw 1905 British actor and author
  84. Blaze Bayley 1963 British heavy metal singer
  85. Brian Kidd 1949 English association football player and manager
  86. Sébastien Grosjean 1978 French tennis player
  87. Alberto Medina 1983 Mexican association football player
  88. Kim Min-seok 1964 South Korean politician

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 29 share the 29th of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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