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Famous people born on May 6
Short answer
Well-known people born on May 6 include Sigmund Freud (1856), Tony Blair (1953), Maximilien Robespierre (1758) and George Clooney (1961). Our list below has 102 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 6 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1635 (Johann Joachim Becher) and the most recent is 2019 (Prince Archie). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, actress.
Who was born on May 6?
- Sigmund Freud 1856 Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis
- Tony Blair 1953 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
- Maximilien Robespierre 1758 French revolutionary lawyer and politician
- George Clooney 1961 American-French actor and filmmaker
- Orson Welles 1915 American actor and filmmaker
- Daniel Alves 1983 Brazilian footballer
- Harry Martinson 1904 Swedish writer
- Victor Grignard 1871 French chemist
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880 German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker
- Rudolph Valentino 1895 Italian actor
- Cole Palmer 2002 English footballer
- Robert Peary 1856 Explorer from the United States
- Mateo Kovačić 1994 Croatian association football player
- Moon Geun-young 1987 South Korean actress
- Takashi Usami 1992 Japanese association football player
- Naomi Scott 1993 British actress and singer
- Paul Lauterbur 1929 American chemist
- Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan 1918 Sheikh of Abu Dhabi from 1966 to 2003
- Dries Mertens 1987 Belgian association football player
- Chris Paul 1985 American basketball player
- Christian Morgenstern 1871 German author
- Ludwig Börne 1786 German writer
- Gaston Leroux 1868 French author and journalist
- Masato Kudō 1990 Japanese football player
- Gabourey Sidibe 1983 American actress
- Martha Nussbaum 1947 American philosopher
- André Masséna 1758 French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
- Djemal Pasha 1872 Turkish general and politician
- Samuel Doe 1951 21st President of Liberia
- Willem de Sitter 1872 Dutch cosmologist (*1872 – †1934)
- Dominika Cibulková 1989 Slovak tennis player
- Marko Pjaca 1995 Croatian association football player
- André Weil 1906 French mathematician
- Hiroyuki Sakashita 1959 Japanese association football player
- Nozomi Hiroyama 1977 Japanese association football player
- Prince Archie 2019 Son of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan Markle
- Christian Clavier 1952 French actor and screenwriter
- Motilal Nehru 1861 Indian lawyer and politician
- Anne Parillaud 1960 French actress
- Péter Gulácsi 1990 Hungarian association football player
- Wilhelm, German Crown Prince 1882 Prussian Crown Prince
- Byun Baek-hyun 1992 South Korean singer
- Itamar Ben-Gvir 1976 Israeli lawyer and far-right politician, Israel's Minister of National Security since 2022
- Juan Musso 1994 Argentine footballer
- Frans Timmermans 1961 Dutch politician
- Chiaki Mukai 1952 Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut
- Vlad Filat 1969 Moldovan politician
- Graeme Souness 1953 Scottish association football player and manager
- Willie Mays 1931 American baseball player
- Mikhail Myasnikovich 1950 Chairman of the ECC Board
- Max Ophüls 1902 German film director
- Gustavo Gómez 1993 Paraguayan association football player
- Adrianne Palicki 1983 American actress
- Rolf Sievert 1896 Swedish medical physicist, professor
- Erich Fried 1921 Austrian writer
- Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany 1769 Grand Duke of Tuscany
- Goran Dragić 1986 Slovenian basketball player
- Ron Rivest 1947 American cryptographer
- Emily Armstrong 1986 American rock musician
- Bob Seger 1945 American singer-songwriter
- Bedřich Hrozný 1879 Czech archeologist, linguist and orientalist
- Jonas Valančiūnas 1992 Lithuanian basketball player
- Gerd Kanter 1979 Estonian athletics competitor and coach
- Johann Joachim Becher 1635 German physicist, scientific alchemist, pioneer of chemistry, scholar, courtier, and…
- Emily Alyn Lind 2002 American actress
- Stewart Granger 1913 British actor
- Dora Bakoyannis 1954 Greek politician 1954-
- Lyubov Popova 1889 Russian artist
- Lolita Flores 1958 Spanish actress and singer
- Denny Landzaat 1976 Dutch footballer
- Richard Shelby 1934 United States Senator from Alabama
- Dana Hill 1964 American actress
- Rubin Carter 1937 American boxer
- Juan Pablo Carrizo 1984 Argentine footballer
- Ricardo Oliveira 1980 Brazilian football player
- Konrad Henlein 1898 Czechoslovak German nation politician
- Alan Dale 1947 New Zealand actor
- Iván de la Peña 1976 Spanish footballer
- Ghena Dimitrova 1941 Bulgarian lyric singer
- William D. Leahy 1875 United States admiral, ambassador to France, Chief of Staff
- Adriana Caselotti 1916 American actress
- Tony Estanguet 1978 Canoe racer
- Craig Dawson 1990 English association football player
- Kamisese Mara 1920 President of Fiji
- Robert H. Dicke 1916 American astronomer
- Martin Brodeur 1972 Canadian-American ice hockey player
- Tokugawa Iesada 1824 Edo shogun
- Karl Christian Friedrich Krause 1781 German philosopher
- Daouda Malam Wanké 1946 President of Niger
- Yolanda Díaz 1971 Spanish politician and lawyer
- Naoko Takahashi 1972 Japanese long-distance and marathon runner
- Achraf Dari 1999 Moroccan association football player
- Mahmoud al-Zahar 1945 Palestinian politician and physician; co-founder of Hamas
- Vladimir Etush 1922 Soviet and Russian actor
- Juan Donoso Cortés 1809 Spanish author, political theorist and diplomat
- Dilshod Nazarov 1982 Tajikistani track and field athlete
- Gregg Henry 1952 American actor
- Ryan Anderson 1988 American basketball player
- Jeffery Deaver 1950 American novelist, journalist, lawyer
- Yasushi Inoue 1907 Japanese writer
- Manuel da Costa 1986 Moroccan, Portuguese and French association football player
- Ilia Vekua 1907 Russian mathematician
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 6 share the 6th of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.