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Famous people born on May 30

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 30 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1653 (Claudia Felicitas of Austria) and the most recent is 2001 (Patrick Wimmer). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, singer.

Who was born on May 30?

1. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 Russian revolutionary anarchist and philosopher
2. Idi Amin 1928 President of Uganda
3. Steven Gerrard 1980 English association football player and manager
4. Alexey Leonov 1934 Soviet-Russian pilot and cosmonaut, first human to conduct a spacewalk
5. Hannes Alfvén 1908 Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author, winner of…
6. Katerina Sakellaropoulou 1956 Greek judge, former president of the Hellenic Republic
7. Benny Goodman 1909 American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
8. Agnès Varda 1928 French artist, film director, screenwriter and photographer
9. Amadeo I of Spain 1845 Italian Royal and temporary Head of State of Spain
10. Fernando Lugo 1951 47.° President of Paraguay
11. Andry Rajoelina 1974 President of Madagascar (2009–2014; 2019–2023; 2023–2025)
12. Brian Kobilka 1955 American physiologist
13. CeeLo Green 1975 American singer, songwriter, rapper, actor and record producer
14. Peter Carl Fabergé 1846 Russian jeweller
15. Julius Axelrod 1912 American biochemist
16. Howard Hawks 1896 American film director, producer and screenwriter
17. Idina Menzel 1971 American actress and singer
18. Alexander Archipenko 1887 American sculptor and artist of Ukrainian origin
19. Nasrin Sotoudeh 1963 Iranian lawyer and human right activist
20. David Sassoli 1956 President of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2022
21. Marissa Mayer 1975 American business executive and engineer, former CEO of Yahoo!
22. Aleksandr Golovin 1996 Russian association football player
23. Marie Fredriksson 1958 Swedish singer, songwriter, pianist, and lead vocalist of pop-rock duo Roxette
24. Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth 1757 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1801 to 1804
25. Im Yoon-ah 1990 South Korean singer and actress
26. Irving Thalberg 1899 American film producer
27. Zhou Guanyu 1999 Chinese racing driver
28. Jennifer Winget 1985 Indian film and television actress
29. Mel Blanc 1908 American voice actor
30. Thomas Häßler 1966 German footballer
31. Katsuyoshi Kuwahara 1944 Japanese association football player
32. Tom Morello 1964 American guitarist and musician
33. Dragan Džajić 1946 Serbian footballer
34. Helen Sharman 1963 British chemist who became the first Briton in space
35. Hugh Griffith 1912 Welsh actor
36. Georg von Küchler 1881 German field marshal
37. Colm Tóibín 1955 Irish novelist and writer
38. Mikel San José 1989 Spanish association football player
39. Bertrand Delanoë 1950 13th Mayor of Paris
40. Mark Sheppard 1964 English actor and musician
41. Eugène Charles Catalan 1814 French and Belgian mathematician
42. Kostas Chalkias 1974 Greek footballer
43. Colm Meaney 1953 Irish actor
44. Tomomi Fujimura 1978 Japanese association football player
45. Pasha Parfeni 1986 Moldovan singer
46. Ailee 1989 South Korean-American singer
47. Eddie Nketiah 1999 English association football player
48. Ruja Ignatova 1980 Bulgarian businesswoman, prosecuted for cryptocurrency fraud
49. René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño 1919 President of Bolivia
50. Stephen Tobolowsky 1951 American actor
51. Timo Soini 1962 Finnish politician
52. Duncan Jones 1971 British film director
53. Christine Jorgensen 1926 First American to become widely known for having sex reassignment surgery
54. Jamie Uys 1921 South African film director, film producer, screenwriter and film editor
55. Paresh Rawal 1950 Indian actor and politician
56. Arnau Francisco Tenas Bazan 2001 Spanish association football player
57. Hal Clement 1922 American author
58. Patrick Wimmer 2001 Austrian association football player
59. Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark 1906 Greco-Danish princess; sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
60. Keir Dullea 1936 American actor
61. Michael J. Pollard 1939 American actor
62. Jake Roberts 1955 American professional wrestler
63. Big L 1974 American rapper
64. Jake Short 1997 American teen actor
65. Amanda Nunes 1988 Brazilian mixed martial artist
66. Alfred Austin 1835 British writer and poet
67. Vladimir Nazor 1876 Croatian writer and politician
68. Gustav Leonhardt 1928 Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor
69. Gianmaria Bruni 1981 Formula One and sportscar racing driver, three-time winner of the FIA World Endurance…
70. Amir Sarkhosh 1991 Iranian snooker player
71. Slava Metreveli 1936 Soviet and Georgian footballer
72. Lesia Tsurenko 1989 Ukrainian female tennis player
73. Michael López-Alegría 1958 American astronaut
74. George Zweig 1937 American physicist
75. Libor Kozák 1989 Czech soccer player and soccer representant
76. Fabian Ernst 1979 German footballer
77. Vizma Belševica 1931 Latvian writer
78. Fábio Vieira 2000 Portuguese footballer
79. Claudia Felicitas of Austria 1653 Queen of Bohemia
80. Anton Ažbe 1862 Slovenian artist
81. Ted McGinley 1958 American actor
82. John Cocke 1925 American computer scientist
83. Devendra Banhart 1981 American folk singer
84. Zdravko Čolić 1951 Bosnian singer
85. Vanessa Bell 1879 British painter and interior designer
86. Manny Ramirez 1972 Dominican-American baseball player
87. Naomi Kawase 1969 Japanese filmmaker
88. Hyomin 1989 South Korean singer and actress, member of girl group T-ara
89. Jared S. Gilmore 2000 American actor
90. Akwá 1977 Angolan footballer
91. Lyoto Machida 1978 Brazilian mixed martial artist
92. Beatriz Haddad Maia 1996 Brazilian tennis player
93. Kim Kyong-hui 1946 Daughter of founding North Korean leader Kim Il-sung and sister of the late leader Kim…
94. Andrea Montermini 1964 Italian racing driver
95. Naoki Naito 1968 Japanese association football player
96. Toichi Suzuki 2000 Japanese association football player
97. Naohisa Takato 1993 Japanese judoka
98. Sarah Bonnici 1998 Maltese singer
99. Sheynnis Palacios 2000 Nicaraguan model, periodista
100. Alexandra Dulgheru 1989 Romanian tennis player
101. Rasho Nesterović 1976 Slovenian basketball player
102. Godfrey Binaisa 1920 Ugandan President from May 1979 to June 1980

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

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