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Famous people born on September 3
Short answer
Well-known people born on September 3 include Mario Draghi (1947), Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (1936), Carl David Anderson (1905) and Charlie Sheen (1965). Our list below has 92 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives September 3 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1695 (Pietro Locatelli) and the most recent is 2003 (Arjun Erigaisi). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on September 3?
- Mario Draghi 1947 Italian economist, academic, banker and politician; former prime minister of Italy
- Zine El Abidine Ben Ali 1936 Tunisian politician
- Carl David Anderson 1905 American physicist
- Charlie Sheen 1965 American actor
- Jean Jaurès 1859 French / Occitan socialist leader
- Jérôme Boateng 1988 German association football player
- Urho Kekkonen 1900 Eighth President of Finland
- Eduardo Galeano 1940 Uruguayan writer and journalist
- Ryōji Noyori 1938 Japanese chemist
- Frank Macfarlane Burnet 1899 Australian virologist
- Ferdinand Porsche 1875 Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor
- Júlio César 1979 Brazilian footballer
- Fritz Pregl 1869 Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist
- Kiran Desai 1971 Indian author
- Louis Sullivan 1856 American architect
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1953 French film director
- Maithripala Sirisena 1951 President of Sri Lanka from 2015 to 2019
- Gareth Southgate 1970 English professional football manager and former player
- Sadhguru 1957 Indian yogi and author
- Daron Acemoğlu 1967 Turkish-American economist and receiver of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economic sciences
- Niklas Süle 1995 German association football player
- Sergei Dovlatov 1941 Soviet writer
- James Joseph Sylvester 1814 English mathematician
- Levy Mwanawasa 1948 Former President of Zambia
- Redfoo 1975 American singer and rapper
- Olof Mellberg 1977 Swedish football manager
- Kjell Magne Bondevik 1947 33rd Prime Minister of Norway
- Stephen Laybutt 1977 Australian association football player
- Eugène de Beauharnais 1781 French statesman and military officer
- Joseph Wright of Derby 1734 18th-century British painter
- Alan Ladd 1913 American actor
- Eileen Gu 2003 American-born Chinese freestyle skier
- Dominic Thiem 1993 Austrian tennis player
- Thomas Delaney 1991 Danish association football player
- Garrett Hedlund 1984 American actor
- Scott Carson 1985 English association football player
- Matthew Boulton 1728 English manufacturer, industrialist, business partner of James Watt
- Gaston Thorn 1928 Luxembourgish politician
- Jack Dylan Grazer 2003 American actor
- Malcolm Gladwell 1963 Canadian journalist and science writer
- Gérard Houllier 1947 French football manager
- Kaia Gerber 2001 American model and actress
- Yoane Wissa 1996 Congolese-French footballer
- Sakshi Malik 1992 Indian wrestler
- Carla Suárez Navarro 1988 Spanish tennis player
- Noah Baumbach 1969 American filmmaker
- Andrew Wakefield 1956 British former doctor
- Lev Pontryagin 1908 Soviet mathematician
- Eileen Brennan 1932 American actress and singer
- José Pekerman 1949 Argentine association football player and manager
- Samir Amin 1931 Egyptian-French economist and political theorist
- Samuel Kuffour 1976 Ghanaian association football player
- Vivek Oberoi 1976 Indian actor
- Steve Schirripa 1957 American actor
- Valerie Perrine 1943 American actress
- Pietro Locatelli 1695 Italian Baroque composer and violinist
- Paolo Montero 1971 Uruguayan footballer
- Kelzang Gyatso 1708 7th Dalai Lama
- Pauline Collins 1940 British actress
- Nikolai Denkov 1962 Bulgarian physical chemist and politician
- Iman Vellani 2002 Canadian-Pakistani actress
- Shaun White 1986 American snowboarder and skateboarder
- Adolf Fick 1829 German-born physician and physiologist
- Bettina Heinen-Ayech 1937 German painter
- Nereu Ramos 1888 President of Brazil from 1955 to 1956
- Freddie King 1934 American blues guitarist and singer
- Tomo Miličević 1979 American musician
- Jenny Han 1980 American writer
- Ivan Vicelich 1976 New Zealand footballer
- Stanislav Smirnov 1970 Russian mathematician
- Tinkara Kovač 1978 Slovenian singer
- Mary Parker Follett 1868 American academic
- Holt McCallany 1963 American actor, writer, and producer
- Costas Mandylor 1965 Australian actor
- Dorothea Douglass 1878 English tennis and badminton player
- Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans 1810 French prince of the house of Orléans
- Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 1757 German noble
- Shakti Kapoor 1952 Indian film actor
- Joy 1996 South Korean singer and actress, born 1996
- Paz de la Huerta 1984 American actress
- Kitty Carlisle 1910 American stage and screen actress, singer, and spokesperson for the arts
- Brandon Williams 2000 English association football player
- Steve Jones 1955 English guitarist
- Negasso Gidada 1943 Ethiopian President
- Arjun Erigaisi 2003 Indian chess player
- Modibo Maïga 1987 Association football player from Mali
- Solomon Lefschetz 1884 Jewish American mathematician
- Alison Lurie 1926 American novelist and academic
- Gregorio Rosa Chávez 1942 Catholic cardinal
- Erwin Bowien 1899 German painter
- Danuta Siedzikówna 1928 Polish resistance fighter
- Ales Adamovich 1927 Soviet Belarusian writer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on September 3 share the 3rd of September as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.