January 14 is the birthday of 50 notable people we've found so far, including authors, actors, politicians and historical figures, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Ramon See Ang, also known by his initials RSA, is a Filipino businessman, mechanical engineer and former racing driver. He is the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Top Frontier Investment Holdings, Inc., the largest shareholder of San Miguel Corporation (SMC).
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors32% (16 people)
Actors26% (13 people)
Politicians20% (10 people)
Creators16% (8 people)
Artists12% (6 people)
Athletes12% (6 people)
Entrepreneurs12% (6 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States17 (17 people)
France5 (5 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
India2 (2 people)
Russian Empire2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on January 14 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.
Declan Rice is an English professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Arsenal and the England national team. Known for his versatility, stamina, ball-carrying and tackling, he is considered one of the best midfielders in the world.
David Eric Grohl is an American musician and songwriter. He founded the rock band Foo Fighters, of which he is the lead singer, guitarist, principal songwriter, and only consistent member.
Raphael Pour-Hashemi, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kimitake Hiraoka, known by his pen name Yukio Mishima, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, short story writer, actor, martial artist, model, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his seppuku.
Adar Villoo Cyrus Poonawalla is an Indian businessman. He is the CEO of Serum Institute of India and chairman of Poonawalla Fincorp. His father is Cyrus Poonawalla, founder of the Serum Institute of India.
Patrick Joseph Kennedy was an American businessman and Democratic Party politician from Boston. He was the earliest member of the Kennedy family to take an active involvement in politics and became a major figure in local and state politics. Through his son Joseph P.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Chung Mong-gyu is a South Korean businessman. He is one of his country's top business leaders and chairman of HDC Group. Since 2013, he has served two consecutive terms as the 53rd president of the Korea Football Association (KFA). In May 2017, he won a seat on the FIFA Council.
Thananon Charnvirakul is a Thai businesswoman. She is the spouse of Anutin Charnvirakul, the 32nd prime minister of Thailand. She is an honorary advisor to the Interior Ministry Housewives Association.
Presidential Communications Office, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dorothy Faye Dunaway is an American actress. She is the recipient of many accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award.
Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American filmmaker, cinematographer, and editor. A pioneer of modern independent cinema, Soderbergh later drew acclaim for formally inventive films made within the studio system.
Carl Weathers was an American actor, director and football player. His prominent roles included boxer Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films (1976–1985), Colonel Al Dillon in Predator (1987), Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore (1996), and Combat Carl in the Toy Story franchise.
James Todd Smith, known professionally as LL Cool J, is an American rapper and actor. He is one of the earliest rappers to realize crossover commercial success, alongside fellow new-school hip-hop acts like Run-DMC.
The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mark Ian Addy is an English actor best known for his roles as DC Gary Boyle in the sitcom The Thin Blue Line (1995–1996), Bill Miller in the American TV comedy Still Standing (2002–2006), Andy Richmond in Trollied (2011–2013), King Robert Baratheon in the first season of Game…
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer was a German polymath from Alsace. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician.
Thomas Grant Gustin is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Barry Allen / The Flash on The CW series The Flash (2014–2023) as part of the Arrowverse and as Sebastian Smythe on the Fox series Glee.
Tim Blackmon for Galaxy Con, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller was a German theologian and Lutheran pastor. He opposed the Nazi regime during the late 1930s, and was sent to a concentration camp for his affiliation with the Confessing Church and his opposition to state involvement in Church.
Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi, known in the Latin West as Alpharabius, was an early Islamic philosopher and music theorist. He has been designated as "Father of Islamic Neoplatonism", and the "Founder of Islamic Political Philosophy".
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton was a British photographer, designer, and diarist. Renowned for his elegant and often theatrical style, Beaton's work appeared in leading publications such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
Lafayette Ltd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Harold John Avery Russell was an American World War II veteran and actor. After losing his hands during his military service, Russell was cast in the epic drama film The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Samuel Goldwyn Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III is an American record producer, guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a guitarist in Bob Dylan's band during the 1970s. Burnett has won several Grammy Awards for his work on film soundtracks, including O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach Sr. was an American film and television producer, director, and screenwriter, who was the founder of the namesake Hal Roach Studios.
Anonymous photographer, not identified anywhere, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Murray Bookchin was an American social theorist, author, orator, historian, and political philosopher. Influenced by the works of G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and Peter Kropotkin, he was a pioneer in the environmental movement.
Su Shi, courtesy name Zizhan (子瞻), art name Householder Dongpo (東坡居士), was a Chinese literatus, scholar-official, and artist of the Song dynasty. Born into a prominent literary family in Meizhou, he was the son of Su Xun and brother of Su Zhe.
Morihiro Hosokawa is a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1993 to 1994. He led an eight-party coalition government which was the first Japanese government not headed by a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) premier since 1955.
Mahasweta Devi was an Indian Bengali language writer and activist. Her notable literary works include Hajar Churashir Maa, Rudali, and Aranyer Adhikar.
Ignace Henri Jean Theodore Fantin-Latour was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.
Didier Descouens, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid is an American biochemist and retired NASA astronaut. She has flown in space five times, including a prolonged mission aboard the Russian space station Mir in 1996, and is the only American woman to have stayed on Mir.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/portraits/lucid.jpg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ralph Marvin Steinman was a Canadian physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 discovered and named dendritic cells while working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Zanvil A. Cohn, also at Rockefeller University.
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke was a Dutch liberal statesman. As the leading figure in the Constitutional Reform of 1848, he is considered the founder of parliamentary democracy in the Netherlands, and the most important Dutch statesman of the 19th century.
Johan Heinrich Neuman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 50 people born on January 14, 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 January 14. Read the full methodology.
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