Famous birthdays
Famous people born on October 12
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 12 include Pedro I of Brazil (1798), Aleister Crowley (1875), Ramsay MacDonald (1866) and Trần Đại Quang (1956). Our list below has 81 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 12 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1687 (Sylvius Leopold Weiss) and the most recent is 1999 (Jens Petter Hauge). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on October 12?
- Pedro I of Brazil 1798 Emperor of Brazil from 1822 to 1831 and King of Portugal in 1826
- Aleister Crowley 1875 English occultist
- Ramsay MacDonald 1866 British prime minister in 1924 and 1929 to 1935
- Trần Đại Quang 1956 8th President of Vietnam
- Arthur Harden 1865 British biochemist
- Josh Hutcherson 1992 American actor
- Chen Shui-bian 1950 10th and 11th President of Republic of China(Taiwan)
- Saara Kuugongelwa 1967 Prime Minister of Namibia
- Pooja Hegde 1992 Indian actress
- Branko Crvenkovski 1962 President of the Republic of Macedonia
- Richard Meier 1934 American architect
- Marion Jones 1975 American athlete
- Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872 English composer
- Fumimaro Konoe 1891 Politician and former Prime Minister of Japan
- Kuniya Daini 1944 Japanese association football player
- Bode Miller 1977 American alpine ski racer
- Cristhian Stuani 1986 Uruguayan footballer
- Alex Brosque 1983 Australian soccer player
- Ledley King 1980 English association football player
- Satoshi Kon 1963 Japanese anime director and manga artist
- Hiroyuki Sanada 1960 Japanese actor
- Željko Milinovič 1969 Slovenian association football player
- Nikola Milenković 1997 Serbian association football player
- Ole-Johan Dahl 1931 Norwegian computer scientist
- César Pelli 1926 Argentine-American architect
- Ding Ling 1904 Chinese writer
- Ante Gotovina 1955 Croatian general
- Jens Petter Hauge 1999 Norwegian footballer
- Kajsa Bergqvist 1976 Swedish high jumper
- Köbi Kuhn 1943 Swiss association football player and manager
- Kirk Cameron 1970 American actor
- Shola Ameobi 1981 Nigerian footballer
- Roberto Sensini 1966 Argentine association football player and manager
- Paulo Henrique Ganso 1989 Brazilian footballer
- Riechedly Bazoer 1996 Curaçaoan footballer
- Konstrakta 1978 Serbian singer-songwriter
- Carlton Cole 1983 English footballer
- August Horch 1868 German automobile engineer
- Yannis Maniatis 1986 Greek footballer
- Ascanio Sobrero 1812 Italian chemist
- Aminata Touré 1962 Senegalese prime minister
- Nikita Simonyan 1926 Soviet and Russian footballer and coach
- Melody 1990 Spanish singer, songwriter, actress and model
- Roque Máspoli 1917 Uruguayan footballer
- Art Clokey 1921 American animator
- Diana Abgar 1859 Armenia ambassador
- Princess Elisabeth of Romania 1894 Romanian Royal; Queen Consort of Greece
- Bashkim Fino 1962 Albanian politician
- Lin Shaye 1943 American actress
- Bram Cohen 1975 American programmer, creator of BitTorrent protocol
- Djivan Gasparyan 1928 Armenian musician and composer
- Arthur Nikisch 1855 Hungarian conductor
- Jaroslav Drobný 1921 Czech tennis and ice hockey player
- Wim Jonk 1966 Dutch footballer
- Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia 1876 Head of the House of Romanov
- Oleg Novitskiy 1971 Russian cosmonaut
- Brian J. Smith 1981 American actor
- Michelle Carter 1985 American shot putter
- Paula von Preradović 1887 Austrian writer, poet
- Cláudia Pascoal 1994 Portuguese singer
- Alexei Kudrin 1960 Russian politician
- Carlos Bernard 1962 American actor
- Tyler Blackburn 1986 American actor, singer and model
- Cody Cameron 1970 American director and storyboard artist
- Henri Lansbury 1990 English association football player
- Calum Scott 1988 English singer
- Raimond Aumann 1963 German footballer
- Chendo 1961 Spanish footballer
- Jake Garn 1932 American politician and general
- Cláudia Abreu 1970 Brazilian actress
- Louis Hémon 1880 French writer
- Akshara Haasan 1992 Indian actress
- Helena Modjeska 1840 Polish-American actress
- Engin Akyürek 1981 Turkish actor
- Rick Parfitt 1948 British rock musician
- Marina Lewycka 1946 British writer
- V. J. Sukselainen 1906 Finnish politician
- Sylvius Leopold Weiss 1687 German composer and lutenist
- Joseph Laniel 1889 Prime Minister of France
- Rubén Yáñez 1993 Spanish footballer
- Cipriano Castro 1858 Venezuelan politician
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 12 share the 12th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.