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Famous People Born on January 2(150 people)
Claudio Echeverri, Argentine footballer
Cole Caufield, American ice hockey player
Spencer Arrighetti, American baseball player
Georgios Kalaitzakis, Greek basketball player
Fernando Tatís Jr., Dominican baseball player
Aaron Wiggins, American professional basketball player
Jonah Bolden, Australian-American basketball player
Ronald Darby, American football player
Bryson Tiller, American singer and rapper
Alexey Marchenko, Russian ice hockey player
Teemu Pulkkinen, Finnish ice hockey player
Korbin Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player
Luke Harangody, American basketball player
Damien Tussac, French-German rugby player
Shelley Hennig, American actress and model
Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player
Brian Boucher, American ice hockey player and sportscaster
Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby player
Juha Lind, Finnish ice hockey player
Rodney MacDonald, Canadian educator and politician, 26th Premier of Nova Scotia
Shiraz Minwalla, Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist
Mattias Norström, Swedish ice hockey player and manager
Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress
Eric Whitacre, American composer and conductor
István Bagyula, Hungarian pole vaulter
William Fox-Pitt, English horse rider and journalist
Róbert Švehla, Slovak ice hockey player
Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor and producer
Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion
Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player
Jón Gnarr, Icelandic actor and politician; 20th Mayor of Reykjavík
Chris Welp, German-American basketball player (died 2015)
Pernell Whitaker, American boxer (died 2019)
David Cone, American baseball player and sportscaster
Edgar Martínez, American baseball player
Todd Haynes, American film director, screenwriter, and producer
Craig James, American football player and sportscaster
Robert Wexler, American lawyer and politician
Henry Bonilla, American broadcaster and politician
Évelyne Trouillot, Haitian playwright and author
Indulis Emsis, Latvian biologist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Latvia
Christopher Durang, American playwright and screenwriter (died 2024)
Iris Marion Young, American political scientist and academic (died 2006)
Deborah Watling, English actress (died 2017)
Jack Hanna, American zoologist and author
Calvin Hill, American football player
David Shapiro, American poet, historian, and critic (died 2024)
Charlie Davis, Trinidadian cricketer
Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer and conductor (died 2024)
Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian field marshal and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (died 2021)
Mohamed Ali Yusuf, Somali politician (died 2024)
Janet Akyüz Mattei, Turkish-American astronomer (died 2004)
Thomas Hammarberg, Swedish lawyer and diplomat
Dennis Hastert, American educator and politician, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian economist and politician, Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2015)
David Bailey, English photographer and painter
Lynn Conway, American computer scientist and electrical engineer (died 2024)
Robert Smithson, American sculptor and photographer (died 1973)
Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (died 1992)
John Hollowbread, English footballer, goalkeeper (died 2007)
Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese lawyer and politician, 76th Prime Minister of Japan (died 2022)
Charles Beaumont, screenwriter and American author of speculative fiction (died 1967)
Tellervo Koivisto, Finnish politician, former First Lady of Finland
Dan Rostenkowski, American politician (died 2010)
Gino Marchetti, American football player (died 2019)
Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2007)
Bob Feerick, American basketball player and coach (died 1976)
Ernest Bender, American Indologist (died 1996)
Beatrice Hicks, American engineer (died 1979)
Willi Graf, German physician and activist (died 1943)
Vera Zorina, German-Norwegian actress and dancer (died 2003)
Juanita Jackson Mitchell, American lawyer and activist (died 1992)
Anna Lee, English-American actress (died 2004)
Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author (died 2009)
Barry Goldwater, American politician, businessman, and author (died 1998)
Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor (died 1998)
Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter (died 1991)
Walter Heitler, German physicist and chemist (died 1981)
Kane Tanaka, Japanese Supercentenarian, Oldest Japanese person ever, Second oldest verified person in world history (died 2022)
Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer (died 2007)
Bob Marshall, American activist, co-founded The Wilderness Society (died 1939)
Una Ledingham, British physician, known for research on diabetes in pregnancy (died 1965)
Theodore Plucknett, English legal historian (died 1965)
Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (died 1954)
Lawrence Wackett, Australian commander and engineer (died 1982)
Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (died 1948)
Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (died 1962)
Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (died 1990)
Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (died 1973)
Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English explorer and author (died 1959)
Gordon Flowerdew, Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1918)
Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli historian and politician, 4th Israeli Minister of Education (died 1973)
Jaakko Mäki, Finnish politician (died 1938)
Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai, Indian activist, founded the Nair Service Society (died 1970)
Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer and theorist (died 1960)
Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (died 1897)
Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (died 1938)
Tex Rickard, American boxing promoter and businessman (died 1929)
Gilbert Murray, Australian-English playwright and scholar (died 1957)
Dugald Campbell Patterson, Canadian engineer (died 1931)
William Corless Mills, American historian and curator (died 1928)
M. Carey Thomas, American educator and activist (died 1935)
Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist and composer (died 1910)
Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (died 1917)
Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (died 1893)
Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician (died 1914)
Rudolf Clausius, Polish-German physicist and mathematician (died 1888)
Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician and academic (died 1869)
Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor and educator (died 1857)
František Brixi, Czech organist and composer (died 1771)
Nathaniel Bacon, English-American rebel leader (died 1676)
Henry of Stolberg, German nobleman (died 1572)
Piero di Cosimo, Italian painter (died 1522)
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💰 Richest People Born on January 2
Net worth of notable people who share this birthday. Tap a name for the full breakdown.
Who Was Born on January 2?
Our records list 150 notable people born on January 2, with confirmed birth years spanning from 869 (Yōzei, Japanese emperor (died 949)) to 2006 (Claudio Echeverri, Argentine footballer). At least 150 of them have no recorded death year.
Most Common Fields for January 2 Births
The people in our list for this date are concentrated in a handful of fields:
- Notable Figure — 32 people
- Athlete — 30 people
- Actor — 18 people
- Politician — 16 people
- Scientist — 11 people
- Writer — 10 people
January 2 is also the birthday of 5 people tracked in our net-worth data, led by Oleg Deripaska. See the full breakdown in the “Richest People Born on This Day” section above.
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