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Famous people born on October 29
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 29 include Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (1938), Abdullah Gül (1950), Winona Ryder (1971) and Ahmed al-Sharaa (1982). Our list below has 97 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 29 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1790 (Adolph Diesterweg) and the most recent is 1998 (Lance Stroll). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, actress.
Who was born on October 29?
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 1938 24th president of Liberia
- Abdullah Gül 1950 11th President of Turkey
- Winona Ryder 1971 American actress
- Ahmed al-Sharaa 1982 President of Syria since 2025
- Edwin van der Sar 1970 Dutch association football player
- Franz von Papen 1879 German general staff officer, politician, diplomat, nobleman and Chancellor of Germany
- Dan Castellaneta 1957 American actor
- Richard Dreyfuss 1947 American actor
- John Magufuli 1959 5th President of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021
- Jean Giraudoux 1882 French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright
- Necmettin Erbakan 1926 23rd Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey
- Baruj Benacerraf 1920 Venezuelan-American immunologist
- Evgeny Primakov 1929 4th Russian Prime Minister
- Robert Pires 1973 French footballer
- Isao Takahata 1935 Japanese filmmaker
- A. J. Ayer 1910 English philosopher
- Masakiyo Maezono 1973 Japanese association football player
- Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah 1952 Namibian politician
- Lance Stroll 1998 Canadian and Belgian racing driver
- Phillip Cocu 1970 Dutch association football player and manager
- Marie of Romania 1875 Last Queen consort of Romania (1875-1938; r. 1914-1927)
- Niki de Saint Phalle 1930 Plastician, painter and sculptor
- Bob Ross 1942 American painter, art instructor, television host, and Air Force master sergeant
- Gabrielle Union 1972 American actress, singer and model
- Hisao Sekiguchi 1954 Japanese association football player
- Ben Foster 1980 American actor
- Louis Blanc 1811 French politician and historian
- Kuniharu Nakamoto 1959 Japanese association football player
- Elvira Nabiullina 1963 Russian economist and Governor of the Bank of Russia
- Tove Lo 1987 Swedish singer
- Alexandre Lopes 1974 Brazilian association football player
- Eric Saade 1990 Swedish singer, songwriter and television presenter
- Ma Huateng 1971 Chinese internet entrepreneur
- Rufus Sewell 1967 English actor
- Othniel Charles Marsh 1831 American paleontologist
- Peter Green 1946 British blues rock guitarist
- Jérémy Mathieu 1983 French footballer
- Lee Child 1954 British thriller writer
- Primož Roglič 1989 Slovenian ski jumper and bicycle racer
- Frida Boccara 1940 French singer
- Adolph Diesterweg 1790 German educator and philosopher
- Zbigniew Herbert 1924 Polish writer and poet
- Abraham Kuyper 1837 Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- Akim Tamiroff 1899 American actor
- Fredric Brown 1906 American novelist, short story author
- Xu Yuhua 1976 Chinese chess player
- Fabiola Gianotti 1960 Italian particle physicist and CERN Director-General
- Kazuyo Sejima 1956 Japanese architect
- Kayne Vincent 1988 New Zealand association football player
- Frans de Waal 1948 Dutch primatologist and ethologist
- Ruslan Rotan 1981 Ukrainian footballer
- Andy King 1988 Welsh association football player, born 1988
- Vijender Singh 1985 Indian boxer
- Carl Djerassi 1923 American chemistry professor, inventor, author, playwright
- Robert Hardy 1925 British actor
- Klaus Roth 1925 British mathematician
- Charles Maung Bo 1948 Burmese Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal
- Li Dazhao 1889 Co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party
- Johann Olav Koss 1968 Norwegian speed skater
- Álvaro Rafael González 1984 Uruguayan footballer
- Fanny Brice 1891 American actress, singer and comedian
- Norman Hunter 1943 English footballer
- Frank Baumann 1975 German footballer
- Kate Jackson 1948 American actress, producer, and director
- Randy Jackson 1961 American singer
- Harold Garfinkel 1917 American sociologist
- Evan Fournier 1992 French basketball player
- Thorsten Fink 1967 German association football player and manager
- Shu Kamo 1939 Japanese association football player and manager
- Ruslan Stefanchuk 1975 Ukrainian politician and lawyer
- India Eisley 1993 American actress
- Tracee Ellis Ross 1972 American actress
- Marcia Fudge 1952 American attorney and politician
- Hans-Valentin Hube 1890 German general
- Danielle Mitterrand 1924 Wife of François Mitterrand
- Jon Abrahams 1977 American film and television actor
- Felix Kulov 1948 Kyrgyz politician and former Prime Minister
- Aksel Hennie 1975 Norwegian actor, screenwriter, and director
- Ruslan Aushev 1954 Russian politician and general
- Denny Laine 1944 British rock musician
- Ernst Hartert 1859 German ornithologist
- Agim Çeku 1960 Kosovar military commander and politician
- Astrid S 1996 Norwegian singer
- Valeri Tokarev 1952 Russian cosmonaut
- Alexander Zinoviev 1922 Russian philosopher and writer
- Dušan Ivković 1943 Basketball coach
- Janet Montgomery 1985 British actress
- Omara Portuondo 1930 Cuban singer
- Joel Ward 1989 English association football player
- Jenő Fuchs 1882 Hungarian fencer
- Kosuke Yamamoto 1989 Japanese association football player
- Þorsteinn Pálsson 1947 Prime Minister of Iceland
- Cal Crutchlow 1985 British motorcycle racer
- Christa Deguchi 1995 Japanese Canadian judoka
- Ariajasuru Hasegawa 1988 Japanese footballer
- Alberto Bettiol 1993 Road racing cyclist
- Ariel Lin 1982 Taiwanese singer-actress
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 29 share the 29th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.