January 10 is the birthday of 53 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, historical figures, politicians and athletes, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Wee Cho Yaw was a Singaporean banker, businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was chairman emeritus and honorary adviser of United Overseas Bank (UOB), and chairman of the UOL Group.
Joseph Steven Lacob is an American business executive who was a partner at Kleiner Perkins and is the principal owner of the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Golden State Valkyries of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 53 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs32% (17 people)
Athletes17% (9 people)
Politicians17% (9 people)
Actors15% (8 people)
Authors15% (8 people)
Musicians13% (7 people)
Scientists13% (7 people)
Countries
29 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States16 (16 people)
France4 (4 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Sweden2 (2 people)
Brazil1 (1 people)
Croatia1 (1 people)
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Jared Corey Kushner is an American businessman, investor, government official and politician. Through his marriage to Ivanka Trump, he is the son-in-law of the 45th and 47th president of the United States Donald Trump.
The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Roderick David Stewart is a British singer and songwriter. Known for his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart is among the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 120 million records worldwide.
Joe Bielawa from MInneapolis, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George Edward Foreman was an American professional boxer, businessman, minister, and author. In boxing, he competed between 1967 and 1997, and was nicknamed "Big George". He was a two-time world heavyweight champion and an Olympic gold medalist.
Bert Verhoeff, Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief: Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Fotopersbureau (ANEFO), , CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hritik Rakesh Nagrath, known professionally as Hrithik Roshan, is an Indian actor and producer who works in Hindi cinema. Referred to as the millennial superstar, he has portrayed a variety of characters and is known for his dancing skills.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Woodrow Wilson is an American astronomer who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arno Penzias "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation".
Victor R. Ruiz from Arinaga, Canary Islands, Spain, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Roy Edward Disney was an American businessman, media executive, and filmmaker. He was best known for serving as a senior executive for the Walt Disney Company and the chairman of its animation division, both of which were founded by his uncle, Walt Disney, and his father, Roy O.
Afeni Shakur Davis was an American political activist and member of the Black Panther Party. She was the mother of rapper Tupac Shakur and the executor of his estate.
Raúl Alejandro Ocasio Ruiz, known professionally as Rauw Alejandro, is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter. His music styles include genres such as reggaeton, Latin R&B, urbano, Latin trap, rhythmic pop, and ballads.
Junta de Andalucía, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Shuntaro Furukawa is a Japanese executive who is the president of the video game company Nintendo. He succeeded Tatsumi Kimishima as the company's sixth president in June 2018.
Fukuzawa Yukichi was a Japanese writer, educator, and philosopher who is regarded as one of the key figures of the Meiji era for his efforts to introduce and promote Western ideas and institutions in Japan. He was the founder of Keio Gijuku and the newspaper Jiji Shinpō.
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Abraham-Louis Breguet was a French horologist who made many innovations in the course of a career in watchmaking industry, including the tourbillon. He was the founder of the Breguet company, which is now a luxury watch division of the Swiss Swatch Group.
Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Patricia Mae Giraldo is an American singer and songwriter. In the US, she has two multi-platinum albums, five platinum albums, and 15 US Billboard top 40 singles, while in Canada she had eight straight platinum albums, and has sold over 36 million albums worldwide.
Heidy Escobar from VALPARAISO; LAGUNA VERDE, CHILE, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, was an Italian statesman, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.
Workshop of Bronzino, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kalki Koechlin is a French actress who works in films and stage. Known for her unconventional body of work, primarily in Hindi films, she is the recipient of several accolades, including a National Film Award and a Filmfare Award.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer science.
William Sanderson is an American retired actor. He played J. F. Sebastian in the feature film Blade Runner (1982), and had regular roles on several television series, playing Larry on Newhart (1982–1990), E. B. Farnum on Deadwood, and Sheriff Bud Dearborne on True Blood.
John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Marouane Chamakh is a former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is described as a prototypical target man and is noted for his "link-up play", "tall stature" and "excellent heading ability". Chamakh is also Bordeaux's eleventh highest goalscorer of all time.
Ronnie Macdonald, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Andries van Wezel, Latinized as Andreas Vesalius, was an anatomist and physician who wrote De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, which is considered one of the most influential books on human anatomy and a major advance over the long-dominant work of Galen.
Attributed to Jan van Calcar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christian Atsu Twasam was a Ghanaian professional footballer who primarily played as a winger, although he was deployed as an attacking midfielder or left back.
Pierre-Yves Beaudouin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1834–1902 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, better known as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, Liberal politician, and writer.
Allen & Co., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gunther von Hagens was a German anatomist, businessman, and lecturer. He developed the technique for preserving biological tissue specimens called plastination.
Roberto de Assis Moreira, commonly known as Assis, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a midfielder, and who is also the brother, manager, agent and adviser of footballer Ronaldinho. He is also the owner of Porto Alegre Futebol Clube.
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian and Soviet writer whose works span across many genres, but mainly belonged to science fiction and historical fiction.
Robert Woodward Rahal is an American racing driver and motorsports executive. As a driver, he won three championships and 24 races in the CART open-wheel series, including the 1986 Indianapolis 500.
Jacob Henry Schiff was a Jewish German-born American banker, businessman, and philanthropist. He helped finance the expansion of American railroads, and the Japanese military efforts against Tsarist Russia in the Russo-Japanese War.
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Jean Fouquet was a French painter and miniaturist. A master of panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature, he is considered one of the most important painters from the period between the late Gothic and early Renaissance.
Jean Fouquet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Samira Abdelrazak Bensaïd, professionally known as Samira Said, is a Moroccan-Egyptian singer who has lived in Egypt for more than 50 years and is known for her Egyptian Arabic genre. In 1980, she was the first artist to represent Morocco in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Katharine Burr Blodgett was an American physicist and chemist known for her work on surface chemistry, in particular her invention of "invisible" or non-reflective glass while working at General Electric.
Pantaleon Diaz Alvarez is a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the Representative of Davao del Norte's 1st district from 2016 to 2025, previously holding the position from 1998 to 2001. He served as the Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2016 to 2018.
House of Representatives of the Philippines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Karl Sune Detlof Bergström was a Swedish biochemist. In 1975, he was appointed to the Nobel Foundation Board of Directors in Sweden, and was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University, together with Bengt I. Samuelsson.
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Carl Gustaf Oscar Fredrik Christian, Prince Bernadotte, originally Prince Carl, Duke of Östergötland, was the youngest child and only son of Prince Carl of Sweden and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark and eventually a prince of the Belgian nobility.
Atelier G. Hård, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 53 people born on January 10, 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 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 January 10. Read the full methodology.
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