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Famous people born on September 9
Short answer
Well-known people born on September 9 include Leo Tolstoy (1828), Lila Downs (1968), Luka Modrić (1985) and Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (1585). Our list below has 91 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives September 9 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1585 (Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu) and the most recent is 1999 (Bilal Hassani). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actor.
Who was born on September 9?
- Leo Tolstoy 1828 Russian author
- Lila Downs 1968 Mexican-American singer-songwriter
- Luka Modrić 1985 Croatian footballer
- Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 French clergyman, cardinal, noble and statesman
- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono 1949 6th President of Indonesia (2004—2014)
- Adam Sandler 1966 American actor and comedian
- Dennis M. Ritchie 1941 American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C…
- Hugh Grant 1960 British actor
- Akshay Kumar 1967 Actor
- Luigi Galvani 1737 Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher
- Cesare Pavese 1908 Italian writer, literary critic, and translator
- Reuven Rivlin 1939 10th President of Israel
- Michelle Williams 1980 American actress
- Oscar Luigi Scalfaro 1918 9th President of Italy
- Hans Georg Dehmelt 1922 German physicist
- Oscar 1991 Brazilian association football player
- Michael Bublé 1975 Canadian singer, songwriter and actor
- Kurt Zadek Lewin 1890 German-American psychologist
- Otis Redding 1941 American singer and songwriter
- Goran Višnjić 1972 Croatian actor
- Yusuf al-Qaradawi 1926 Egyptian Islamic theologian based in Doha, Qatar
- Daniel Carleton Gajdusek 1923 American medical researcher
- Cliff Robertson 1923 American actor
- Harland Sanders 1890 American entrepreneur who founded KFC
- Alex Song 1987 Cameroonian and French footballer
- Dara 1998 Bulgarian singer-songwriter
- Roberto Donadoni 1963 Italian association football player and manager
- Houston Stewart Chamberlain 1855 British-German racialist philosopher
- Francesco Gabbani 1982 Italian singer and songwriter
- Sergio Osmeña 1878 President of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946
- Chaim Topol 1935 Israeli actor
- Danilo Pereira 1991 Portuguese association football player
- Alisher Usmanov 1953 Russian billionaire
- Zoe Kazan 1983 American actress
- John Gorton 1911 Australian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia
- Ahmed Elmohamady 1987 Egyptian association football player
- Andrea Petkovic 1987 German tennis player
- William Bligh 1754 Officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator
- Nicholas Liverpool 1934 President of Dominica
- Afrojack 1987 Dutch electronic dance music producer and DJ
- James Hilton 1900 British novelist and screenwriter
- John Henry Poynting 1852 British physicist
- Jigme Thinley 1952 Prime Minister of Bhutan
- Brad Guzan 1984 American soccer player
- Oscar Montelius 1843 Swedish archaeologist
- Bilal Hassani 1999 French-Moroccan singer, songwriter and vlogger
- Yeldos Smetov 1992 Kazakhstani judoka
- Bersant Celina 1996 Kosovar association football player
- Shahbaz Bhatti 1968 Minister for Minorities Affairs, Pakistan
- Brittney Reese 1986 American female Olympic athlete
- Ruth Pfau 1929 German-Pakistani physician and Catholic nun
- Michalis Sifakis 1984 Greek footballer
- Avi Wigderson 1956 Israeli mathematician and computer scientist
- Danilo D'Ambrosio 1988 Italian footballer
- Milan Stanković 1987 Serbian singer
- Eric Stonestreet 1971 American actor
- Sol LeWitt 1928 American artist
- Emma de Caunes 1976 French actress
- Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden 1826 Sixth Grand Duke of Baden from 1856 to 1907
- Jane Greer 1924 American actress
- Kelsey Asbille 1991 American actress
- Chris Coons 1963 American lawyer and politician
- Šefik Džaferović 1957 Bosnian politician
- Manolis Glezos 1922 Greek politician
- Ri Myong-guk 1986 North Korean footballer
- Liza Marklund 1962 Swedish journalist and detective fiction writer
- Tom Wopat 1951 American actor
- Jeffrey Combs 1954 American actor (b. 1954)
- Sylvia Miles 1924 American actress
- Daniel Pipes 1949 American historian, writer, journalist and political scientist
- Elvin Jones 1927 American jazz drummer
- Jane Ellen Harrison 1850 British classical scholar, linguist and feminist
- Brassaï 1899 Hungarian-French photographer
- Prince Napoléon-Jérôme, Prince Napoléon 1822 Napoleon's nephew
- Andrey Silnov 1984 Russian Olympic high jumper
- Svetozar Marković 1846 Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher
- William Cranch Bond 1789 American astronomer
- Shane Battier 1978 American basketball player
- Julie Gonzalo 1981 Argentine actress and model
- Jaïro Riedewald 1996 Dutch association football player
- Henry Thomas 1971 American actor
- J. R. Smith 1985 American professional basketball player
- Stanislav Stratiev 1941 Bulgarian writer
- Vikram Batra 1974 Recipient of Param Vir Chakra
- László Bénes 1997 Slovak association football player
- Aleksandar Hemon 1964 Bosnian-American author, novelist, columnist
- Renato Gaúcho 1962 Brazilian footballer and manager
- José Aldo 1986 Brazilian mixed martial artist
- Zeki Fryers 1992 English footballer
- Liliyana Natsir 1985 Indonesian badminton player
- Blagoje Marjanović 1907 Serbian 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 9 share the 9th of September as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.