February 9 is the birthday of 59 notable people we've found so far, including actors, authors, athletes and historical figures, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Georgina Hope Rinehart is an Australian billionaire mining magnate and businesswoman. She is the executive chairman of Hancock Prospecting, a privately owned mineral exploration and extraction company founded by her father, Lang Hancock.
Otto Happel is a Swiss-based German billionaire businessman, the former owner and CEO of GEA Group. As of May 2026, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$4.1 billion.
Hubert Burda is a German billionaire publisher. He is the owner, publisher and general partner of Hubert Burda Media, a global media company of more than 600 media products, including websites, print magazines and other brands.
Hubert Burda Media, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 59 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors27% (16 people)
Authors27% (16 people)
Athletes20% (12 people)
Creators17% (10 people)
Musicians17% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs15% (9 people)
Politicians12% (7 people)
Countries
26 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States17 (17 people)
Germany8 (8 people)
Japan5 (5 people)
France3 (3 people)
Spain3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Australia1 (1 people)
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Michael Bakari Jordan is an American actor, producer, and director. His accolades include an Academy Award, three Actor Awards, and a Producers Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Awards.
Thomas William Hiddleston is an English actor. He gained international fame portraying Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), beginning with Thor in 2011 and including the Disney+ series Loki (2021–2023).
Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Maria de Lourdes Villiers "Mia" Farrow is an American actress and activist. She first gained notice for her role as Allison MacKenzie in the prime-time television soap opera Peyton Place and gained further recognition for her subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra.
William Henry Harrison was the ninth president of the United States from March to April 1841. He died 31 days into his term, making him the shortest serving president and the first president to die in office.
James Lambdin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Rose Eleanor Arbuthnot-Leslie is a Scottish actress. She portrayed Gwen Dawson in the ITV drama series Downton Abbey and Ygritte in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones.
Christopher Paul Gardner, Sr. is an American businessman and motivational speaker. He became a stockbroker in the mid-1970s and eventually founded his own brokerage firm, Gardner Rich & Co, in 1987. In 2006, Gardner sold his minority stake in the firm and published a memoir.
Wilhelm Maybach was an early German engine designer and industrialist. During the 1890s he was hailed in France, then the world centre for car production, as the "King of Designers".
User Enslin on de.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Filipe Jacinto Nyusi is a Mozambican politician who was the president of Mozambique from 2015 to 2025. He has also served as the Chairman of the Southern African Development Community from 2020 to 2022.
Christian Schenk is a former decathlete who competed for East Germany and Germany. He won the gold medal in the decathlon in the 1988 Summer Olympics, held in Seoul, South Korea.
Zhang Ziyi, sometimes credited as Ziyi Zhang, is a Chinese actress, known for playing independent and strong-willed characters. Born and raised in Beijing, Zhang was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama in 1996.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Amrita Shivender Singh, also known as Aziza, is an Indian actress who mainly works in Hindi films. Singh made her acting debut with Betaab (1983), and established herself as a leading actress of the 1980s and early 1990s.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple.
Liberty Media for Women, LLC, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Omar Mwannes Yaghi is a chemist best known for developing metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and pioneering reticular chemistry. He was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Richard Robson and Susumu Kitagawa, for this work.
File:Yaghi3.jpg: Boasap (talk) derivative work: Michał Ski, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jalen Romande Green is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a consensus five-star recruit and the best shooting guard in the 2020 class, with ESPN ranking him number one overall.
All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Makoto Niitsu, known as Makoto Shinkai, is a Japanese filmmaker and novelist. A founder of CoMix Wave Films, he is known for his anime feature films enriched with visually-appealing animation and romantic stories depicting teenagers and high school students.
Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Niclas Füllkrug is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bundesliga club Werder Bremen, on loan from EFL Championship club West Ham United, and the Germany national team.
Amber Valletta is an American model and actress. She began her career as a fashion model, landing her first of 17 American Vogue covers in February 1993.
John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language.
Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, known professionally as Carmen Miranda, was a Portuguese-born Brazilian singer, dancer, and actress. Nicknamed "the Brazilian Bombshell," she was known for her signature fruit hat outfits that she wore in her American films.
New York Sunday News, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, political activist, and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979).
Jérémy Barande, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Marinus Jacobus Hendricus "Rinus" Michels was a Dutch football player and coach. He played his entire career for Ajax, which he later managed, and played for and later managed the Netherlands national team for four spells. Throughout his career, he played as a forward.
Ronald Charles Colman was an English actor who started his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, then emigrated to the United States, where he had a highly successful Hollywood film career.
Natsume Sōseki was a Japanese novelist, poet, and scholar. He is considered one of the greatest writers in modern Japanese history and is often called the first modern novelist of Japan.
Ogawa Kazumasa, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Tallis was an English composer of High Renaissance music. His compositions are primarily vocal, and he occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mario Pašalić is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A side Atalanta. Born in Germany, he plays for the Croatia national team.
Brendan Francis Aidan Behan was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican, an activist who wrote in both English and Irish.
New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Albertin, Walter, photographer., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era.
Ali Bongo Ondimba is a Gabonese former politician and dictator who was the third president of Gabon from 2009 until he was deposed in a coup in 2023. A member of the Gabonese Democratic Party, Bongo is the son of Omar Bongo, who was president from 1967 until his death in 2009.
United States Department of State Africa U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit: Photos and Videos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
David Dean Rusk was the United States secretary of state from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the second-longest serving secretary of state after Cordell Hull from the Franklin Roosevelt administration.
LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 59 people born on February 9, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 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 May 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 9. Read the full methodology.
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