Famous birthdays
Famous people born on September 2
Short answer
Well-known people born on September 2 include Keanu Reeves (1964), Salma Hayek (1966), Wilhelm Ostwald (1853) and Frederick Soddy (1877). Our list below has 88 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives September 2 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1661 (Georg Böhm) and the most recent is 2002 (Bradley Barcola). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, actor.
Who was born on September 2?
- Keanu Reeves 1964 Canadian actor and musician
- Salma Hayek 1966 Mexican and American actress
- Wilhelm Ostwald 1853 Baltic German chemist
- Frederick Soddy 1877 English radiochemist
- Ahmad Shah Massoud 1953 Tajik military leader
- Liliʻuokalani 1838 Monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom
- Arthur Ashkin 1922 American physicist
- Andrej Babiš 1954 Czech politician and businessman, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
- Joseph Roth 1894 Austrian novelist and journalist
- Bill Shankly 1913 Scottish footballer and manager
- Henry George 1839 American political economist and journalist
- Jimmy Connors 1952 American tennis player
- Daniel arap Moi 1924 Kenyan President (2nd)
- Yevgeny Leonov 1926 Soviet and Russian actor
- Chuck McCann 1934 American voice actor and comedian
- Alexandre Pato 1989 Brazilian football player
- Carlos Valderrama 1961 Colombian footballer
- Paul Bourget 1852 French writer, playwright and critic
- Louis Bonaparte 1778 King of Holland, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, member of the House of Buonaparte
- Mathieu Kérékou 1933 Politician
- Javi Martínez 1988 Spanish footballer
- Christa McAuliffe 1948 American educator and astronaut
- Bradley Barcola 2002 French footballer
- Mark Harmon 1951 American actor
- Joey Barton 1982 English professional football manager and former player
- Toshinobu Katsuya 1961 Japanese association football player
- René Thom 1923 French mathematician
- Andreas Möller 1967 German footballer
- Savo Milošević 1973 Serbian footballer
- Robert Habeck 1969 German politician and writer, Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2021 to 2025
- Billy Preston 1946 American R&B musician
- Zedd 1989 German electronic music producer
- Zdravko Krivokapić 1958 Prime Minister of Montenegro from 2020 to 2022
- Stanislav Cherchesov 1963 Russian association football player and manager
- Lennox Lewis 1965 British-Canadian boxer Vc
- Werner von Blomberg 1878 German Army field marshal and Military Chief of the Wehrmacht Military Forces…
- Momodu Mutairu 1976 Nigerian association football player
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe 1949 Austrian school economist and libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher
- Giuliano Gemma 1938 Italian actor
- Frédéric Kanouté 1977 Malian-French footballer
- Kjetil André Aamodt 1971 Norwegian alpine ski racer and TV host
- Gélson Fernandes 1986 Swiss footballer
- John Zorn 1953 American composer, saxophonist and bandleader
- Olivier Panis 1966 French racecar driver
- Andrew Grove 1936 Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author
- Rafik Halliche 1986 Algerian association football player
- Régis Debray 1940 Intellectual, journalist, official, professor
- Milan Nedić 1878 Serbian general and politician
- Kevin Farrell 1947 Irish-American Roman Catholic cardinal
- Francesc Cambó 1876 Spanish politician
- Scott Moir 1987 Canadian ice dancer
- Davy Pröpper 1991 Dutch association football player
- Ernst Curtius 1814 German archaeologist and historian
- Ronela Hajati 1989 Albanian singer
- Cynthia Watros 1968 American actress
- Hal Ashby 1929 American film director and film editor
- Maurice René Fréchet 1878 French mathematician
- Sadhana Shivdasani 1941 Indian actress
- Yıldırım Akbulut 1935 Prime Minister of Turkey
- César Sánchez 1971 Spanish footballer
- Marge Champion 1919 American dancer and actress
- Terry Bradshaw 1948 American football player and sports analyst
- Horace Silver 1928 American jazz pianist and composer
- Henry Mintzberg Storch 1939 Canadian business theorist
- Lionel Aingimea 1965 Nauruan politician, president from 2019
- Alexander Povetkin 1979 Russian professional boxer
- Princess Marie Joséphine, Countess of Provence 1753 Savoyard and French Royal
- Sergio Escudero Palomo 1989 Spanish footballer
- Nate Archibald 1948 American basketball player
- Brandon Ingram 1997 American basketball player
- Dimitrij Ovtcharov 1988 German table tennis player
- Danny Shittu 1980 Nigerian footballer
- Claude Nicollier 1944 Swiss astronaut
- Austin Abrams 1996 American actor
- Sam Rivers 1977 American bassist
- Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria 1883 Archduchess of Austria
- Claude Puel 1961 French football manager
- Katt Williams 1973 American comedian and actor
- Guy Laliberté 1959 Canadian businessman, investor, poker player, space tourist, and musician
- Jack Lang 1939 French politician
- Adam Nemec 1985 Slovak soccer player
- Elitsa Todorova 1977 Bulgarian singer
- Justine Musk 1972 Canadian author
- Ella Toone 1999 English association football player
- Georg Böhm 1661 German composer and organist
- Ibrahim Nasir 1926 Maldivian politician, 2nd president of the Maldives
- Adam Kszczot 1989 Polish middle distance runner
- Marek Mintál 1977 Slovak footballer and manager
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on September 2 share the 2nd of September as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.