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Famous people born on September 29
Short answer
Well-known people born on September 29 include Lech Wałęsa (1943), Enrico Fermi (1901), Silvio Berlusconi (1936) and Michelle Bachelet (1951). Our list below has 106 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives September 29 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1703 (François Boucher) and the most recent is 2001 (Lauren James). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, writer.
Who was born on September 29?
- Lech Wałęsa 1943 President of Poland from 1990 to 1995
- Enrico Fermi 1901 Italian–American physicist
- Silvio Berlusconi 1936 Italian media tycoon and politician
- Michelle Bachelet 1951 President of Chile from (2006–2010; 2014–2018)
- Julia Gillard 1961 Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013
- Masoud Pezeshkian 1954 9th President of Iran and former Co-Interim Supreme Leader of Iran (in 2026)
- Ian McShane 1942 English actor
- Andriy Shevchenko 1976 Ukrainian association football player
- Michelangelo Antonioni 1912 Italian film director and screenwriter
- Ludwig von Mises 1881 Austrian-American economist
- Jon Fosse 1959 Norwegian writer, playwright, and translator
- Anita Ekberg 1931 Swedish actress
- Elizabeth Gaskell 1810 British author
- Nikolai Ostrovsky 1904 Ukrainian-Russian writer
- Bujar Nishani 1966 Albanian politician
- Per Mertesacker 1984 German association football player
- Samora Moisés Machel 1933 1st President of Mozambique
- James Cronin 1931 American physicist
- Jerry Lee Lewis 1935 American rock 'n' roll musician
- Rainer Weiss 1932 American physicist
- Sebastian Coe 1956 British athlete and politician
- Greer Garson 1904 British-American actress
- François Boucher 1703 French painter
- Ivica Vastić 1969 Austrian association football player
- Peter D. Mitchell 1920 British biochemist
- László Bíró 1899 Hungarian-Argentine inventor
- Tayanna 1984 Ukrainian singer
- Wim Kok 1938 Dutch politician
- Walther Rathenau 1867 German businessman, writer, art collector and politician
- Mykhailo Hrushevskyi 1866 Ukrainian politician and historian
- Abdul Ghani Baradar 1963 Co-founder and political leader of the Afghan Taliban
- Zachary Levi 1980 American actor
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi 1941 Iranian architect and politician
- Silvio Piola 1913 Italian footballer and manager
- Wolfgang Overath 1943 German footballer
- Stanley Kramer 1913 American film director and producer
- Prince Henri, Count of Chambord 1820 French Royal
- Yevhen Konoplyanka 1989 Ukrainian footballer
- Gene Autry 1907 American actor and singer
- Karl Ludwig Harding 1765 German astronomer
- Adem Ljajić 1991 Serbian footballer
- Miguel Alemán Valdés 1900 53th President of Mexico
- Bill Nelson 1942 American politician and attorney
- Robert Benton 1932 American screenwriter and film director
- Trevor Howard 1913 English film, stage and television actor
- Giorgi Mamardashvili 2000 Georgian association football player
- Tore Pedersen 1969 Norwegian association football player
- Mylène Demongeot 1935 French actress
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 1934 Hungarian-American psychologist
- Erika Eleniak 1969 American-Canadian actress of Estonian-Ukrainian descent
- Nicholas Galitzine 1994 British actor
- Felice Gimondi 1942 Italian cyclist
- Ayaka Yamashita 1995 Japanese association football player
- Mikhail Skobelev 1843 Russian general
- Dani Pedrosa 1985 Spanish motorcycle racer
- Pier Luigi Bersani 1951 Italian politician
- Gaitana 1979 Ukrainian singer
- Madeline Kahn 1942 American actress, singer
- Nicolas Winding Refn 1970 Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer
- Charles Sturm 1803 Mathematician from Geneva
- Theo Jörgensmann 1948 German musician
- Hristijan Mickoski 1977 Macedonian politician
- Shane Smeltz 1981 New Zealand footballer
- Hans Martin Sutermeister 1907 Swiss physician writer
- Milad Mohammadi 1993 Footballer
- Charlotte, Princess Royal 1766 British princess; eldest daughter of George III
- Colin Dexter 1930 British writer
- Jeff Wall 1946 Canadian photographer
- Andreas Achenbach 1815 German artist
- Ali Shamkhani 1955 Iranian naval officer and politician
- Andrea Poli 1989 Italian association footballer player
- Kōichirō Matsuura 1937 Japanese diplomat
- Adhemar da Silva 1927 Brazilian triple jumper
- Niklas Moisander 1985 Finnish footballer
- Rhodri Morgan 1939 First Minister of Wales
- Carlos Salcedo 1993 Mexican association football player
- Rune Jarstein 1984 Norwegian association football player
- Russell Peters 1970 Canadian comedian, actor
- Paul Féval 1816 French novelist and dramatist 1817-1887
- Janne Andersson 1962 Swedish association football manager
- Thyra, Crown Princess of Hanover 1853 Youngest daughter of Christian IX of Denmark and Queen Louise
- Sasha Lane 1995 American actress
- Marina Berti 1924 British Italian actress
- Hugo Haase 1863 German jurist, politician (SPD), and pacifist
- Jon Brower Minnoch 1941 Heaviest ever recorded human
- Mihály Lantos 1928 Hungarian footballer
- Ahmad Kasravi 1890 Iranian academic
- Katarzyna Niewiadoma 1994 Polish professional cyclist
- Albert Celades 1975 Spanish association football player and manager
- Alexander Volkanovski 1988 Australian mixed martial artist and kickboxer
- Lauren James 2001 English association football player
- Lorenzo Baldisseri 1940 Italian Catholic cardinal
- Józef Wybicki 1747 Polish poet, author of the national anthem
- Virginia Bruce 1910 Actress from the United States
- Néstor Clausen 1962 Argentine footballer and manager
- Ante Čačić 1953 Croatian football manager
- Václav Neumann 1920 Czech conductor, violinist and viola player
- Josef Kadraba 1933 Czech footballer
- Monika Zehrt 1952 East German sprinter
- Mackenzie Crook 1971 English actor, director, comedian and writer
- Anaïs Demoustier 1987 French actress
- Giorgos Dalaras 1949 Greek singer, composer and musician
- Mehmood Ali 1932 Indian actor
- Yitzhak Yedid 1971 Israeli-born Australian musician
- Helena Dalli 1962 Maltese politician
- Siyabonga Sangweni 1981 South African footballer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on September 29 share the 29th of September as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.