February 1 is the birthday of 59 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, politicians and actors, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Li Zhongchu is a Chinese entrepreneur and information technology businessman; chairman and founder of Beijing Shiji Information Technology. Beijing Shiji Information Technology is an Information Technology company, providing IT support to 6,000 hotels in China.
Share of the 59 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors25% (15 people)
Entrepreneurs22% (13 people)
Politicians22% (13 people)
Actors20% (12 people)
Athletes19% (11 people)
Creators17% (10 people)
Musicians15% (9 people)
Countries
28 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States18 (18 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
India3 (3 people)
Kingdom of England3 (3 people)
Austria2 (2 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
France2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on February 1 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
By 25
~25Julia GarnerReceived the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (2019)
~18Darren FletcherJoined Scotland national under-21 football team (2002)
~52Francis BaconBecame Attorney General for England and Wales (1613)
66Louis St. LaurentBecame Prime Minister of Canada (1948)
The standouts
The most successful people born on February 1
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
actor
Lisa Marie Presley
Top tier
Actor
1968–2023 · United States
Lisa Marie Presley was an American singer-songwriter. The daughter of singer and actor Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley, she became the sole heir to her father's estate following the deaths of her grandfather and great-grandmother.
Harry Edward Styles is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. An influential figure in popular culture, he is known for his showmanship, artistry, and flamboyant fashion.
Ronda Jean Rousey is an American actress, retired professional wrestler, former judoka, and former mixed martial artist. She is best known for her tenures in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and WWE.
Shared Account, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
William Clark Gable was an American actor often referred to as the "King of Hollywood". He appeared in more than 60 motion pictures across a variety of genres during a 37-year career, three decades of which he spent as a leading man.
Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, theologian, and philosopher. He is considered one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Catholic theology and Western philosophy. He is the father of a school of thought known as Thomism.
Carlo Crivelli, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1961 to 1990.
Presidential Press and Information Office, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Leymah Roberta Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's non-violent peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003.
Fronteiras do Pensamento, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George Friedman is a Hungarian-born American futurologist, political scientist, and writer. He is a geopolitical author on international relations. He is the founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures.
Luc Van Braekel from Waregem, Belgium, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael Bradley Enzi was an American politician who served in the United States Senate from Wyoming as a member of the Republican Party from 1997 to 2021.
United States Senate, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Granville Stanley Hall was an American psychologist and educator who earned the first doctorate in psychology awarded in the United States of America. His interests focused on human life span development and evolutionary theory.
Frederick Gutekunst, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Founder · Dr. Reddy's Laboratories · pharmaceuticals
1939–2013 · India
Kallam Anji Reddy was an Indian entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical industry, the founder-chairman of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, which he established in 1984, and chairman of Dr Reddy's Foundation (DRF), the corporate social responsibility arm of the group, established 1996.
Brandon Bruce Lee was an American actor and martial artist. Establishing himself as a rising action star in the early 1990s, Lee landed what was to be his breakthrough role as Eric Draven in the supernatural superhero film The Crow (1994).
Michael Carlyle Hall is an American actor and musician. He is best known for playing the role of the titular character in the Showtime series Dexter and David Fisher in the HBO black-comedy drama series Six Feet Under, which earned him two Actor Awards.
Kristin Dos Santos, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I.
Paul van Somer I / Formerly attributed to Frans Pourbus the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Darren Barr Fletcher is a Scottish professional football coach and former player who is currently the head coach of Manchester United Under-18s. He also served as caretaker head coach of the Manchester United first team in early January 2026.
@cfcunofficial (Chelsea Debs) London, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jaikishan Kakubhai Saraf, known by his screen name Jackie Shroff, is an Indian actor and former model who primarily works in the Hindi film industry. In a career spanning over four decades, he has appeared in 250 films in multiple languages.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gabriel Omar Batistuta is an Argentine former professional footballer. During his playing career, Batistuta was nicknamed Batigol as well as El Ángel Gabriel.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Martin Feeney, better known as John Ford, was an American film director and producer. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers during the Golden Age of Hollywood, and was one of the first American directors to be recognized as an auteur.
Los Angeles Daily News, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Princess Stéphanie of Monaco is the youngest child of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and his wife, American actress Grace Kelly. She is the younger sister of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, and Caroline.
John Donne was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. Under royal patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London (1621–1631).
After Isaac Oliver, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Park Ji-hyo, known mononymously as Jihyo, is a South Korean singer. She is the leader and vocalist of the South Korean girl group Twice, formed by JYP Entertainment in 2015.
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Giuseppe Rossi is a former professional footballer who played as a forward. Born in the United States, he played for the Italy national team. He was most recently the Head of Soccer and Vice Chairman of USL League One club New York Cosmos.
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin, sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamiatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Juan Silveira dos Santos, commonly known as Juan, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He currently works as Brasil national football team assistant under Carlo Ancelotti.
Meyer Guggenheim was the patriarch of what became known as the Guggenheim family in the United States, which became one of the world's wealthiest families during the 19th century, and remained so during the 20th.
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Fritjof Capra is an Austrian-born American author, physicist, systems theorist and deep ecologist. In 1995, he became a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. He was on the faculty of Schumacher College, which was disestablished in 2024.
Zenobia Barlow, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George Pal was a Hungarian-American animator, film director and producer. He is known for his stop motion animated film series Puppetoons and his fantasy and science-fiction films. He became an American citizen after emigrating from Europe.
Alfreð Finnbogason is an Icelandic former professional footballer who played as a striker and who is currently working as the Sports director of Eliteserien club Rosenborg.
This page lists 59 people born on February 1, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of 2016. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on February 1. Read the full methodology.
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