January 3 is the birthday of 45 notable people we've found so far, including actors, entrepreneurs, authors and musicians, and 6 of them are billionaires.
Vladimir Olegovich Potanin is a Russian businessman, billionaire and statesman. He is the founder and president of Interros, which holds stakes in MMC Norilsk Nickel, Rosa Khutor, Rosbank, Yandex and TCS Group Holding.
Gordon Earle Moore was an American businessman, scientist, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation. He proposed Moore's law, which makes the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.
Staff photographer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Boris Romanovich Rotenberg is a Russian businessman and oligarch. He is co-owner of the SGM (StroyGazMontazh) group, the largest construction company for gas pipelines and electrical power supply lines in Russia.
Chang Pyung-soon is a South Korean businessman. The founder and chairman of Kyowon Group, he is among the richest people in South Korea. In April 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$1 billion and ranked him 41st richest in the country.
Industries of the companies the 6 wealthy people born on January 3 founded or led.
manufacturing50% (1 people)
retail50% (1 people)
Who shares January 3
What kind of people are born on January 3?
Share of the 45 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors36% (16 people)
Entrepreneurs33% (15 people)
Authors27% (12 people)
Musicians24% (11 people)
Creators18% (8 people)
Politicians13% (6 people)
Artists9% (4 people)
Countries
23 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States13 (13 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Ireland3 (3 people)
South Korea3 (3 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Austria1 (1 people)
British Raj1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on January 3 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.
By 25
~18Jonny EvansJoined Manchester United F.C. (2006)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and academic philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955).
Unknown photo studio commissioned by Tolkien's students 1925/6 (private communication from Catherine McIlwaine, Tolkien , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Florence Pugh is an English actress. Her accolades include a British Independent Film Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and three BAFTA Awards.
Kim Ji-soo, known mononymously as Jisoo, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, and actress. She rose to prominence as a member of the South Korean girl group Blackpink, which debuted under YG Entertainment in August 2016 and became one of the best-selling girl groups of all time.
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee was a British statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.
Presumably Yousuf Karsh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir George Henry Martin was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, and musician. He was commonly referred to as the "fifth Beatle" due to his extensive involvement in each of the Beatles' original albums.
Vicki Ree Principal, later known as Victoria Principal, is an American actress, producer, entrepreneur, and author, best known for her role as Pamela Barnes Ewing on the American primetime television soap opera Dallas.
Sakamoto Ryōma was a Japanese samurai, a shishi and influential figure of the Bakumatsu, and establishment of the Empire of Japan in the late Edo period.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Werner Michael Blumenthal is a German-American business leader, economist and political adviser who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1979.
United States Department of the Treasury, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lorenzo Joseph Fertitta is an American billionaire businessman. He is chairman of Fertitta Capital, director of Red Rock Resorts Inc, and former CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
United States Senate Democrats, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Paul Jones is an English musician, multi-instrumentalist and record producer who was the bassist and keyboardist for the English rock band Led Zeppelin between 1968 and 1980.
Asa Akira is an American pornographic film actress, writer and adult film director. Akira has appeared in 689 adult films as of June 2023. In 2013, she became the third Asian performer to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award.
Michael Dorausch, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Salvatore Loggia, known professionally as Robert Loggia, was an American actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Jagged Edge (1985) and won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for Big (1988).
Sergio Leone was an Italian filmmaker, credited as the pioneer of the spaghetti Western genre. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema.
Goo Hara, also known mononymously as Hara, was a South Korean singer and actress. She was a member of the K-pop girl group Kara, and had also appeared in television dramas including City Hunter (2011).
Ray Milland was a Welsh and American actor. Initially known as a star of light comedies, he achieved a dramatic breakthrough with his portrayal of an alcoholic writer in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend (1945).
Whitey Schafer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Wong Liu Tsong, known professionally as Anna May Wong, was an American actress, considered the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition.
Paramount photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Grant Evans is a Northern Irish professional football coach and former player who played as a centre-back. He is currently first-team coach at Premier League club Manchester United.
Tadeáš Bednarz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Børge Rosenbaum, known as Victor Borge, was a Danish-American actor, comedian, and pianist who achieved great popularity in radio and television in both North America and Europe.
Jesper Jurcenoks, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pola Negri was a Polish stage and film actress and singer. She achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles. She was also acknowledged as a sex symbol of her time.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thelma Schoonmaker is an American film editor, best known for her collaboration over five decades with director Martin Scorsese. She has received numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and four ACE Eddie Awards.
Eric Voegelin was a German-American political philosopher. He was born in Cologne, and educated in political science at the University of Vienna, where he became an associate professor of political science in the law faculty.
Michael Lee-Chin is a Jamaican-Canadian billionaire businessman, philanthropist and the chairman and CEO of Portland Holdings Inc, a privately held investment company in Ontario, Canada.
Marie Josephine Hull was an American stage and film actress who also was a director of plays. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film.
Vandamm Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Angelos Basinas is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He could also operate as a central midfielder and a centre back. He is the current sporting director of Super League 1 club Iraklis.
Stelios Tsaousidis, stelios@acebit.com, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.
Attributed to Martin van Meytens / Attributed to Pompeo Batoni, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Pierre-Édouard Robert Raymond Marie-Joseph Stérin is a French entrepreneur, billionaire and conservative activist. He is the cofounder of the gift card company Smartbox, the investment fund Otium Capital, and the philanthropic organization Fondation du Bien Commun.
Mikhail Osipovich Dolivo-Dobrovolsky was a Russian-born engineer, electrician, and inventor of Polish-Russian origins, active in the German Empire and also in Switzerland.
Taiwo Ajai-Lycett, OON is a Nigerian actress, journalist, television presenter, and cosmetologist. Lycett is a feminist and was the first editor of Africa Woman magazine in the 1970s.
Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach was a botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century. His father Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach was also a well-known botanist.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dr Zoii Nath Sarmah is an Indian politician who has served as MLA from the Sipajhar constituency in Assam from 1991 to 2001 on an Asom Gana Parishad ticket. He joined Indian National Congress on 2016 and contested from the Sipajhar constituency.
Lin Ming-cheng is a Taiwanese banker who is a member of the seventh generation of the Lin family from Banciao, one of the richest families of Taiwan. He is the only son of Lin Hsiung-cheng and a grandson of Lin Erh-kang.
This page lists 45 people born on January 3, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 6 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 April 2024. 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 3. Read the full methodology.
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