January 13 is the birthday of 45 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, creators, athletes and politicians, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude. Before that, he was the vice president of research at OpenAI.
Share of the 45 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs24% (11 people)
Creators22% (10 people)
Athletes20% (9 people)
Authors18% (8 people)
Politicians18% (8 people)
Actors16% (7 people)
Scientists11% (5 people)
Countries
24 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States13 (13 people)
France4 (4 people)
Brazil3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Colombia2 (2 people)
People's Republic of China2 (2 people)
Argentina1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on January 13 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.
~33Julia Louis-DreyfusReceived the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film (1994)
~31Euzhan PalcyNotable work: A Dry White Season (1989)
41 to 50
~47Wilhelm WienReceived the Nobel Prize in Physics (1911)
43Khoo Teck PuatFounded Maybank (1960)
41Thomas MassieBecame United States representative (2012)
46Daniel ScioliBecame Vice President of Argentina (2003)
After 50
~75Sydney BrennerReceived the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2002)
~54Eric BetzigReceived the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2014)
64Euzhan PalcyReceived the Academy Honorary Award (2022)
~51Andy JassyBecame CEO of Amazon Web Services (2019)
The standouts
The most successful people born on January 13
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
actor
Orlando Bloom
Top tier
Actor
1977 · United Kingdom
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom is an English actor. He made his breakthrough as the character Legolas in The Lord of the Rings film series (2001–03), earning him three Actors Award nominations, winning once. He reprised his role in The Hobbit film series (2013–14).
Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Natalia Danielle Dyer is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Nancy Wheeler in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things (2016–2025).
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus is an American actress, comedian, and producer. She is known for her roles in a string of successful comedy series and several comedy films.
Neil Grabowsky, for the Montclair Film Festival, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Liam Hemsworth is an Australian actor. He played the roles of Josh Taylor in the soap opera Neighbours and Marcus in the children's television series The Elephant Princess.
Patrick Galen Dempsey is an American actor and racecar driver who is best known for playing neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd in Grey's Anatomy. He is also known for his leading man romantic film roles, such as Enchanted (2007).
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Harold Massie is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, Massie has been the United States representative for Kentucky's 4th congressional district since 2012.
House Creative Services, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Andrew Yang is an American businessman, lobbyist and political commentator. He founded the political party and action committee Forward Party in 2021, for which he serves as co-chair alongside former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman and Michael S. Willner.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Viktor Anatolyevich Bout is a Russian arms dealer and politician. A weapons manufacturer and former Soviet military translator, he used his companies to smuggle arms from Eastern Europe to Africa and the Middle East during the 1990s and early 2000s.
ЛДПР — Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Winifred Byanyima is the executive director of UNAIDS. She is a Ugandan aeronautical engineer, politician, human rights activist, feminist, and diplomat.
Tan Sri Dato' Khoo Teck Puat was a banker and hotel owner, who, with an estimated fortune of S$4.3 billion (US$3,195,953,500), was the wealthiest man in Singapore at one point.
Fernando Chui Sai On is a Macau politician who served as the 2nd chief executive of Macau from 2009 to 2019. He served as secretary for social and cultural affairs from 1999 to 2009.
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Moulay Hafid Elalamy is a Moroccan businessman and politician. He is the founder and owner of the Saham Group. He served as the Minister of Industry, Trade, & New Technologies until 2021.
World Trade Organization from Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Luis Fernando Díaz Marulanda is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder and winger for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Colombia national team. Regarded as one of the best wingers in the world, he is known for his pace, dribbling, and pressing ability.
Penelope Ann Miller, sometimes credited as Penelope Miller, is an American actress. She began her career on Broadway in the original run of Biloxi Blues (1985–1986), later appearing in the 1988 film adaptation of the same name.
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Andrew R. Jassy is an American business executive who is the president and chief executive officer of Amazon since July 2021, succeeding founder Jeff Bezos, who remains executive chairman.
Lisi Mezistrano Wolf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rakesh Sharma is an Indian cosmonaut and a pilot of the Indian Air Force. He became the first Indian to travel to outer space, when he flew aboard Soyuz T-11 on 3 April 1984 as part of the Soviet Interkosmos programme.
Subhav Sharma, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Chaïm Soutine was a French painter of Belarusian-Jewish origin of the School of Paris, who made a major contribution to the Expressionist movement while living and working in Paris.
Mario Alberto Yepes Díaz is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is well known for his time in Paris Saint-Germain, where he was considered to be one of the best defenders at the time, being dubbed by fans as "Super Mario".
Sydney Brenner was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston.
OIST from Onna Village, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jean Maurice Jules Cabut, known by the pen-name Cabu, was a French comic strip artist and caricaturist. He was murdered in the January 2015 shooting attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices. Cabu was a staff cartoonist and shareholder at Charlie Hebdo.
By Erio Tac - FRANCE -, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien was a German physicist who used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from the emission at any one reference temperature.
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Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov was a Russian and Soviet filmmaker and film theorist, one of the founders of the world's first film school, the Moscow Film School. He was given the title People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1969.
Yevgeni Bauer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Eric Betzig is an American physicist who works as a professor of physics and professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a senior fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia.
Ecole polytechnique Université Paris-Saclay, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Daniel Osvaldo Scioli is an Argentine politician, businessman, and former sportsman. He is serving as the Secretary of Tourism, Environment and Sports since January 2024. He was Vice President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007 and Governor of Buenos Aires Province from 2007 to 2015.
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen was a Dutch landscape painter. The scope of his landscape subjects was very broad as he painted forest landscapes, marine paintings, river landscapes, beach scenes, winter landscapes, cityscapes, architectural views and landscapes with peasants.
Gerard ter Borch, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Euzhan Palcy is a Martinican film director, screenwriter, and producer. Her films are known to explore themes of race, gender, and politics, with an emphasis on the perpetuated effects of colonialism.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ernestine Louise Rose was a suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker who has been called the "first Jewish feminist." Her career spanned from the 1830s to the 1870s, making her a contemporary to the more famous suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds. History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 1, 1848-1861 (Ne, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Şarık Tara was a Turkish billionaire who founded Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş., one of Turkey's largest construction company, with Sadi Gülçelik, in 1957. As well as being an international engineer, contractor, industrialist, he was known for his philanthropy.
Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş., CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 45 people born on January 13, 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 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 January 13. Read the full methodology.
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