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Famous people born on September 12
Short answer
Well-known people born on September 12 include Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Paul Walker (1973), Emmy Rossum (1986) and Jesse Owens (1913). Our list below has 80 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives September 12 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1725 (Guillaume Le Gentil) and the most recent is 1996 (Colin Ford). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, singer.
Who was born on September 12?
- Irène Joliot-Curie 1897 French chemist and physicist
- Paul Walker 1973 American actor
- Emmy Rossum 1986 American actress
- Jesse Owens 1913 American track and field athlete
- Hans Zimmer 1957 German film composer
- H. H. Asquith 1852 British politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916
- Jennifer Hudson 1981 American singer, actress, model and spokesperson
- Juscelino Kubitschek 1902 President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961
- Maurice Chevalier 1888 French singer, actor, and entertainer
- Yūto Nagatomo 1986 Japanese association football player
- Akira Suzuki 1930 Japanese chemist
- H. L. Mencken 1880 American journalist and writer
- Yao Ming 1980 Chinese basketball player
- Anousheh Ansari 1966 Iranian-American engineer and entrepreneur
- Ian Holm 1931 British actor
- Harvey J. Alter 1935 American medical researcher
- Thomas Meunier 1991 Belgian association football player
- Amílcar Cabral 1924 Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean politician
- Barham Salih 1960 President of Iraq
- Bertie Ahern 1951 11th Taoiseach of Ireland from 1997 to 2008
- Louis C.K. 1967 American comedian, actor, and filmmaker
- Barry White 1944 American soul singer
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb 1960 Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author
- RM 1994 South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and leader of the boy band BTS
- Elina Svitolina 1994 Ukrainian tennis player
- Michael Ondaatje 1943 Canadian novelist and poet
- Leslie Cheung 1956 Hong Kong singer and actor
- Hiroki Mizumoto 1985 Japanese association football player
- Sigmar Gabriel 1959 German politician (SPD)
- Mahmood 1992 Italian singer
- Hisashi Kaneko 1959 Japanese association football player
- Oleg Pashinin 1974 Uzbekistani footballer
- George Jones 1931 American country musician
- Yoshio Kikugawa 1944 Japanese association football player and manager
- Nobuyuki Oishi 1939 Japanese association football player
- Irina Rodnina 1949 Russian politician and figure skater
- Joachim Frank 1940 German-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate
- Joe Pantoliano 1951 American actor
- Paul F. Tompkins 1968 American comedian and actor
- Alfie Allen 1986 British actor
- Joshua Cheptegei 1996 Ugandan athletics competitor
- Dino Merlin 1962 Bosnian singer
- Ben McKenzie 1978 American actor
- Nan Goldin 1953 American photographer
- Desmond Llewelyn 1914 British actor
- Yaroslava Shvedova 1987 Kazakhstani tennis player
- Rafał Majka 1989 Polish road racing cyclist
- Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev 1952 President of Chechnya
- Ryan Potter 1995 American actor
- Arthur Auwers 1838 German astronomer
- Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse 1837 Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 1877 to 1892
- Akiko Niwata 1984 Japanese association football player
- Steven Gardiner 1995 Bahamian sprinter
- Neil Peart 1952 Canadian-American drummer
- Anselm Feuerbach 1829 German painter
- Nuno Valente 1974 Portuguese footballer
- Richard Jordan Gatling 1818 American firearm designer
- Domenico Tedesco 1985 German-Italian football manager
- Feroze Gandhi 1912 Indian politician and journalist
- Linda Gray 1940 American actress
- Colin Ford 1996 American actor
- Rachel Ward 1957 British actress
- Prachi Desai 1988 Indian actress
- Júnior Díaz 1983 Costa Rican footballer
- Elisabetta Canalis 1978 Italian model and actress
- Scott Brown 1959 American diplomat and politician
- Sam Brownback 1956 American politician and 46th Governor of Kansas
- Glenn Davis 1934 American track athlete and football player
- Fernand Khnopff 1858 Belgian painter
- Guillaume Le Gentil 1725 French astronomer
- Mhairi Black 1994 Scottish politician
- Petra Marklund 1984 Swedish singer and songwriter
- Chandra Sturrup 1971 Bahamian athletics competitor
- Yang Mi 1986 Chinese actress
- Isabelle Caro 1982 French actress and model
- Dieter Hecking 1964 German association football player and manager
- Imri Ziv 1991 Israeli singer representer of Eurovision 2017
- Lee Cheol-ha 1970 South Korean film director
- Mathé Altéry 1927 French opera singer
- Friedrich Ebert Jr. 1894 German politician
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on September 12 share the 12th of September as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.