January 19 is the birthday of 41 notable people we've found so far, including historical figures, entrepreneurs, authors and athletes, and 4 of them are billionaires.
$13.6Bolder estimate, as of February 2021 · Forbes
Ricardo Benjamín Salinas Pliego is a Mexican business magnate, founder and chairman of Grupo Salinas, a corporate conglomerate with interests in telecommunications, media, financial services, and retail.
$8.5Breported estimate as of January 2026 · Forbes
Nassef Onsi Sawiris is an Egyptian businessman, and the youngest of Onsi Sawiris' three sons. As of January 2026, his net worth was estimated at US$8.5 billion, making him the richest Egyptian.
Gertraud "Traudl" Engelhorn-Vechiatto was an Austrian socialite, billionaire heiress and philanthropist. In 2022, Forbes estimated her net worth at $4.2 billion.
Jay Robert Pritzker is an American politician, philanthropist, and businessman serving since 2019 as the 43rd governor of Illinois. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Share of the 41 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs24% (10 people)
Authors22% (9 people)
Athletes17% (7 people)
Scientists17% (7 people)
Actors15% (6 people)
Artists15% (6 people)
Creators12% (5 people)
Countries
23 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
France3 (3 people)
Austria2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Kingdom of the Netherlands2 (2 people)
Argentina1 (1 people)
Egypt1 (1 people)
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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.
Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean was an American singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman. Dubbed the "Queen of Country", Parton was one of the most successful country music performers in history.
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre.
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Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer and songwriter. One of the most iconic and successful rock performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and her stage presence.
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Logan Wade Lerman is an American actor. He appeared in commercials in the mid-1990s, before starring in the series Jack & Bobby (2004–2005) and the movies The Butterfly Effect (2004) and Hoot (2006).
Ariela Ortiz-Barrantes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
James Watt was a Scottish inventor, engineer and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.
Henry Howard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Paula Ann Hiers Deen is an American chef, cookbook author, and TV personality. Deen resides in Savannah, Georgia. She has published fifteen cookbooks and owned and operated The Lady & Sons restaurant with her sons, Jamie and Bobby Deen, until its closure in 2025.
Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Toiete Jackson, U.S. Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1813–1898 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir Henry Bessemer was an English inventor, whose steel-making process was the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years.
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Lysander Spooner was an American abolitionist, entrepreneur, lawyer, essayist, natural rights legal theorist, pamphleteer, political philosopher, and writer often associated with the Boston anarchist tradition.
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Simon Michel is a Swiss businessman and politician who currently serves on the National Council (Switzerland) for The Liberals since 2023. Previously he served on the Cantonal Council of Solothurn between 2017 and 2024.
Nathalie Kay "Tippi" Hedren is an American former actress. Initially a fashion model, appearing on the front covers of Life and Glamour magazines, she became an actress after being discovered by director Alfred Hitchcock while appearing on a television commercial in 1961.
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Damien Sayre Chazelle is an American filmmaker. He directed the psychological drama Whiplash (2014), the musical romance La La Land (2016), the biographical drama First Man (2018), and the epic tragedy Babylon (2022).
isabelle VERONESE from ELBEUF, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte was a French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term.
Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Cézanne was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century and formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th-century Cubism.
Unknown; Cézanne was born in 1839 and died in 1906, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hikaru Utada, also known mononymously as Utada, is a Japanese-American singer, songwriter, and record producer. They are considered to be one of the most influential and best-selling musical artists in Japan.
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Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley.
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Stefan Edberg is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in both men's singles and men's doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), one of two players in the Open Era to hold both positions.
Cynthia Morris Sherman is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters.
New Zealand Government, Office of the Governor-General, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
João Mário Naval da Costa Eduardo, known as João Mário, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Super League Greece club AEK Athens.
Sport Lisboa e Benfica, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Margaret of Austria was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1507 to 1515 and again from 1519 until her death in 1530. She was the first of many female regents in the Netherlands.
Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar Guerra was a Peruvian diplomat and politician who served as the fifth secretary-general of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991. He later served as prime minister of Peru from 2000 to 2001.
Werner Sombart was a German economist, historian and sociologist. Head of the "Youngest Historical School," he was one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century. The term "late capitalism" is accredited to him.
Nicola Perscheid, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Valentin Alexandrovich Serov was a Russian painter and draughtsman during the Belle Époque, active in St. Petersburg and Moscow, generally considered the primary portraitist of his generation.
Karl Fischer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gustav Meyrink was the pseudonym of Gustav Meyer, an Austrian author, novelist, dramatist, translator, and banker, most famous for his novel The Golem. He has been described as the "most respected German language writer in the field of supernatural fiction".
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Johann Elert Bode was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name.
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre was a French writer and botanist. He is best known for his 1788 novel, Paul et Virginie, a very popular 18th-century classic of French literature.
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Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way. He found that the apparent movement of stars was not randomly distributed but had two preferential directions: the two star streams.
This page lists 41 people born on January 19, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 4 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 19. Read the full methodology.
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