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Famous people born on May 9

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Well-known people born on May 9 include J. M. Barrie (1860), Howard Carter (1874), Glenda Jackson (1936) and José Ortega y Gasset (1883). Our list below has 109 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 9 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1661 (Jahandar Shah) and the most recent is 2005 (Chemsdine Talbi). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.

Who was born on May 9?

  1. J. M. Barrie 1860 Scottish writer and playwright
  2. Howard Carter 1874 British egyptologist
  3. Glenda Jackson 1936 British actress and politician
  4. José Ortega y Gasset 1883 Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist
  5. János Áder 1959 President of Hungary from 2012 to 2022
  6. Billy Joel 1949 American singer, songwriter, and pianist
  7. Manfred Eigen 1927 German biophysical chemist
  8. John Brown 1800 American abolitionist
  9. Candice Bergen 1946 American actress
  10. Albert Finney 1936 British actor
  11. Jupp Heynckes 1945 German football manager
  12. Michael Levitt 1947 Biophysicist and Professor of Structural biology
  13. Genki Haraguchi 1991 Japanese association football player
  14. Majlinda Kelmendi 1991 Kosovo-Albanian judoka
  15. Nataša Pirc Musar 1968 President of Slovenia since 2022
  16. Bulat Okudzhava 1924 Soviet and Russian writer and singer
  17. Rosario Dawson 1979 American actress
  18. Denis Pushilin 1981 Russian politician and head of the Donetsk People's Republic
  19. Norihiro Nishi 1980 Japanese association football player
  20. James L. Brooks 1940 American director, writer, and producer
  21. Katie Bouman 1989 American engineer and computer scientist
  22. Zita of Bourbon-Parma 1892 Empress of Austria from 1916 to 1918
  23. Marek Jankulovski 1977 Czech association football player
  24. Gregory Bateson 1904 English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist
  25. Gopal Krishna Gokhale 1866 Indian political leader and social reformer
  26. Noah Centineo 1996 American actor
  27. Nicolae Dică 1980 Romanian footballer
  28. Dave Gahan 1962 English singer
  29. Marie-José Pérec 1968 French track and field sprinter
  30. Fyodor Bondarchuk 1967 Russian cinematographist
  31. Mike Wallace 1918 American journalist, game show host and actor
  32. Douglas Luiz 1998 Brazilian association football player
  33. Pedro Armendáriz 1912 Mexican actor
  34. John Ashcroft 1942 79th United States Attorney General
  35. John Corbett 1961 American actor and country music singer
  36. Benjamin Graham 1894 American economist and investor
  37. Yukiya Amano 1947 Director General/International Atomic Energy Agency
  38. Dan Burn 1992 English association football player
  39. Kevin Gameiro 1987 French footballer
  40. Marco Antônio da Silva 1966 Brazilian association football player
  41. Jahandar Shah 1661 The eighth Mughal Emperor from 1712 to 1713
  42. Richard Barthelmess 1895 American actor
  43. Harriet Lane 1830 First Lady of the United States from 1857 to 1861
  44. Adam Opel 1837 Founder of the German automobile company Adam Opel AG
  45. Fulvio Collovati 1957 Italian footballer
  46. Rafael Moneo 1937 Spanish architect
  47. Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi 1773 Swiss economist and historian
  48. Pancho Gonzales 1928 American tennis player
  49. J. A. Bayona 1975 Spanish film director
  50. Elizabeth Magie 1866 American board game designer
  51. Charles Simic 1938 Serbian born American poet
  52. Jenni Hermoso 1990 Spanish footballer
  53. Chris Diamantopoulos 1975 Canadian actor
  54. Beth Mead 1995 English footballer
  55. Koji Morisaki 1981 Japanese association football player
  56. Bebe 1978 Spanish singer
  57. Mallika Sarabhai 1954 Activist and Indian classical dancer from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
  58. Anton von Werner 1843 German painter
  59. Sai Pallavi 1992 Indian actress and influencer
  60. Lucian Blaga 1895 Romanian writer
  61. Abdulrashid Sadulaev 1996 Russian wrestler
  62. Kevin Peter Hall 1955 American actor
  63. Gordon Bunshaft 1909 American architect
  64. Alan Bennett 1934 English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter
  65. Ellen White 1989 English footballer
  66. Ralph Boston 1939 Olympic athlete
  67. Henry J. Kaiser 1882 American industrialist
  68. Leandro Cufré 1978 Argentine association football player and manager
  69. Pierre Bouvier 1979 Canadian singer and musician
  70. Christian de Portzamparc 1944 French architect
  71. C418 1989 German composer and record producer
  72. Gilles Muller 1983 Luxembourgian tennis player
  73. Kim Jung-woo 1982 South Korean association football player
  74. Gustaf de Laval 1845 Swedish engineer
  75. Rachel Boston 1982 American actress
  76. Ghostface Killah 1970 American rapper
  77. Hugo Maradona 1969 Argentine association football player
  78. Laura Muir 1993 British middle- and long-distance runner
  79. Vince Cable 1943 British politician
  80. Maria Mazzarello 1837 Italian saint
  81. Chuck Russell 1952 American director, producer, and screenwriter
  82. Roger Hargreaves 1935 British author and illustrator
  83. Jean Girault 1924 French film director
  84. Kazuyuki Morisaki 1981 Japanese association football player
  85. Empress Shōken 1849 Japanese empress
  86. Chemsdine Talbi 2005 Moroccan footballer
  87. Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara 1949 Nigerien President
  88. Ernest Shonekan 1936 President of Nigeria
  89. Daniela Silivaș 1972 Romanian artistic gymnast
  90. Timm Klose 1988 Swiss association football player
  91. Vance D. Brand 1931 Test pilot and NASA astronaut
  92. Marcheline Bertrand 1950 American actress and producer
  93. Mary Mouser 1996 American actress and YouTuber
  94. Dayne St. Clair 1997 Canadian soccer player
  95. Zdeněk Nehoda 1952 Czech footballer
  96. Princess Marianne of the Netherlands 1810 Dutch royal; youngest child of King William I of the Netherlands and Princess…
  97. Péter Márki-Zay 1972 Hungarian politician, economist, mayor of Hódmezővásárhely
  98. Kota Ueda 1986 Japanese association football player
  99. Nemanja Bjelica 1988 Serbian basketball player
  100. Tanja Fajon 1971 Slovenian politician
  101. Anne Sofie von Otter 1955 Swedish mezzo-soprano
  102. Yevhen Selin 1988 Ukrainian footballer
  103. Mohamed Amoura 2000 Algerian footballer
  104. Rachid Ghezzal 1992 Algerian-French footballer
  105. Chris Zylka 1985 American actor and model
  106. Grant Hackett 1980 Australian swimmer
  107. Johnny MaloCuliaoHerrera 1981 Chilean footballer
  108. Carlo Maria Giulini 1914 Italian conductor
  109. Diego Mariño Villar 1990 Spanish 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 9 share the 9th of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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