February 5 is the birthday of 58 notable people we've found so far, including athletes, entrepreneurs, actors and authors, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains the Saudi Pro League club Al-Nassr and the Portugal national team.
Share of the 58 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Athletes26% (15 people)
Entrepreneurs24% (14 people)
Actors19% (11 people)
Authors19% (11 people)
Creators10% (6 people)
Musicians10% (6 people)
Scientists9% (5 people)
Countries
23 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States17 (17 people)
France5 (5 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Argentina3 (3 people)
Switzerland3 (3 people)
Croatia2 (2 people)
India2 (2 people)
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Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, known mononymously as Neymar, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a forward for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Santos which he captains.
Jennifer Jason Leigh is an American actress. She began her career on television during the 1970s before making her film breakthrough in the teen film Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982).
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress and director. She is the recipient of several awards, including four Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, five Tony Awards, and a BAFTA.
Maximilian Bühn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Hofstadter was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".
Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was an English physiologist and biophysicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bhuvneshwar Kumar Singh is an Indian cricketer who has played for the Indian cricket team in all three formats of the game. He plays for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the Indian Premier League and Uttar Pradesh in domestic cricket.
Akshayparmar.gu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kevin Jerome Gilyard, known professionally as Kevin Gates, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is currently signed to Bread Winners' Association with a partnership with Atlantic Records.
Atlantic Records, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
André-Gustave Citroën was a French industrialist and the founder of French automaker Citroën. He is also remembered for his application of double helical gears.
Agence de presse Mondial Photo-Presse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Tessa Charlotte Rampling is an English actress. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model. She was cast in the role of Meredith in the 1966 film Georgy Girl, which starred Lynn Redgrave.
Barbara Lynn Herzstein, better known as Barbara Hershey, is an American actress. In a career spanning more than 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres, including Westerns, horrors, and comedies.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
William Seward Burroughs II was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a postmodern author who influenced underground and popular culture and literature.
Revista Panorama Número 297 de Enero, 1973., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Carlos Alberto Tevez is an Argentine professional football manager and former player. A dynamic forward in his prime, Tevez was capable of playing as a striker, as a winger, as a supporting forward, or as an attacking midfielder.
Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson was an English actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards.
TomWilkinsonMar09.jpg: Andre Luis at https://www.flickr.com/photos/35982589@N07/ derivative work: RanZag (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Henry Louis Aaron, nicknamed "Hammer" or "Hammerin' Hank", was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1954 through 1976.
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Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan is an American musician. He was the bassist of hard rock band Guns N' Roses for twelve years, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Antje Naumann (AllSystemsRed), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was an American politician and diplomat who was the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965.
Warren K. Leffler., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sven-Göran Eriksson was a Swedish football player and manager. After a playing career as a right-back, Eriksson went on to experience major success in club management between 1977 and 2001, winning 18 trophies with a variety of league clubs in Sweden, Portugal, and Italy.
Doha Stadium Plus Qatar, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gheorghe Hagi is a Romanian football manager and former player, who is currently the head coach of the Romania national team. Deployed as an attacking midfielder, Hagi was considered one of the best players in the world during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Giovanni Christiaan van Bronckhorst is a Dutch football manager and former player. Originally a midfielder, he moved to left-back later in his career. He is currently the head coach of Eredivisie club Feyenoord.
Hans Ruedi Giger was a Swiss artist best known for his airbrushed images that blended human physiques with machines, an art style known as "biomechanical".
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Tatchakorn Yeerum, better known internationally as Tony Jaa and in Thailand as Jaa Phanom, is a Thai martial artist, actor, action choreographer, stuntman, and director.
Red Buttons was an American actor and comedian. He came to national prominence as the eponymous star of television's The Red Buttons Show (1952–55), before winning an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the film Sayonara (1957).
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Stefan de Vrij is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Super League Greece club Panathinaikos, whom he captains, and the Netherlands national team.
Andreas Georgiou Papandreou was a Greek academic and economist who was prime minister of Greece from 1981 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1996. He founded PASOK, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim was an American-born British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun. Maxim held patents on numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curling irons, a mousetrap, and steam pumps.
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Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans. He is most famous for the novel À rebours. He supported himself by way of a 30-year career in the French civil service.
Frédéric Boissonnas / André Taponier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Rodrigo Sebastián Palacio Alcalde is a former professional footballer who played as a second striker. He is the son of José Ramón Palacio, a historic player of Club Olimpo during the 1980s. Palacio holds a Spanish passport, allowing him to be counted as an EU player.
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Shams al-Dīn ʾAbū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʾAbī Bakr ibn ʾAyyūb al-Zurʿī al-Dimashqī al-Ḥanbalī, commonly known as Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya or Ibn al-Qayyim for short, or reverentially as al-Imam Ibn al-Qayyim in Sunni tradition, was an important medieval Syrian Arab Islamic jurist, theologian, and spiritual writer.
Vedran Ćorluka is a Croatian football coach and former player who played as a centre-back or right-back. He is an assistant to Zlatko Dalić in the Croatia national team.
Рыбакова Елена, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1840–1921 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Boyd Dunlop was a Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon who spent most of his career in Ireland. Familiar with making rubber devices, he invented the practical pneumatic tyres for his child's tricycle and developed them for use in cycle racing.
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Lev Isaakovich Shestov, born Yeguda Lev Shvartsman, was a Russian existentialist and religious philosopher. He is best known for his critiques of both philosophical rationalism and positivism.
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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, also widely known as Madame de Sévigné or Mme de Sévigné, was a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing.
https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/en/node/152696#infos-principales, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 58 people born on February 5, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 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 2026. 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 5. Read the full methodology.
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