January 5 is the birthday of 44 notable people we've found so far, including authors, actors, creators and entrepreneurs, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Tony Tan Caktiong, is a Filipino businessman and investor. He is the founder and chairman of Jollibee Foods Corporation, and the co-chairman of DoubleDragon Properties.
Share of the 44 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors36% (16 people)
Actors25% (11 people)
Creators20% (9 people)
Athletes18% (8 people)
Entrepreneurs18% (8 people)
Politicians16% (7 people)
Musicians14% (6 people)
Countries
24 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States12 (12 people)
Germany4 (4 people)
India3 (3 people)
France2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Switzerland2 (2 people)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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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.
Diane Keaton was an American actress. Her career spanned more than five decades, during which she rose to prominence in the New Hollywood movement. She collaborated frequently with Woody Allen, appearing in eight of his films.
Firooz Zahedi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bradley Charles Cooper is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and three Grammy Awards. In addition, he has been nominated for twelve Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award.
Brian Hugh Warner, known professionally as Marilyn Manson, is an American rock musician. He is the lead singer and the only original member remaining of the same-titled band he founded in 1989.
Patrick Whitaker, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Deepika Prakash Padukone is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Hindi films. Her accolades include three Filmfare Awards. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2018 and awarded her the Time100 Impact Award in 2022.
Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the eighth chief minister of West Bengal from 2011 to 2026. She was the first and only woman to hold that office.
Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ulrich "Uli" Hoeneß is a German football executive and former professional player who played as a forward. He played for West Germany at one World Cup and two European Championships, winning one tournament of each competition.
Clarence James Brown III is an American actor. Prolific in film and television since the 1980s, Brown is often cast in villainous and authoritative roles.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
King Camp Gillette was an American businessman who invented a bestselling safety razor and was the founder of the Gillette razor company. Gillette's innovation was the thin, inexpensive, disposable blade of stamped steel.
Benjamin Joseph Falk, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mykhailo Petrovych Mudryk is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, on loan from Chelsea, and the Ukraine national team.
Dynamomania.com, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto NPk HPk was a Pakistani barrister, and statesman who served as the fourth president of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973, and as the ninth prime minister of Pakistan from 1973 until his overthrow in 1977.
Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jane Wyman, TOSD was an American actress. A star of both movies and television, she received an Academy Award for Best Actress, four Golden Globe Awards and nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Eiga no Tomo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian writer, novelist and screenwriter. Krasznahorkai is known for his difficult and demanding novels, often labeled postmodern, which explore dystopian and melancholic themes.
Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale was an American politician who was the 42nd vice president of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Frank-Walter Steinmeier is a German politician who has served as President of Germany since 2017. He was previously Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2017, as well as Vice-Chancellor of Germany from 2007 to 2009.
Press Service of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paramahansa Yogananda was an Indian and American Hindu monk, yogi, and guru who founded the Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF)/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS), a religious meditation and Kriya Yoga organization, to disseminate his teachings.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a Kenyan author and academic, who has been described as East Africa's leading novelist and an important figure in modern African literature.
Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Markus Thomas Theodor Söder is a German politician from Bavaria, Germany serving as Minister-President of Bavaria since 2018 and leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) since 2019.
Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Philip Rabinowitz, better known as Phil Ramone, was a South African-born American recording engineer, record producer, violinist and composer, and co-founder of A & R recording studio. Its success led to expansion into several studios and a record production company.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author's work included avant-garde dramas, philosophical crime novels, and macabre satire.
Elke Wetzig (elya), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Forugh Farrokhzad was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclastic, feminist author. Farrokhzad died in a car accident at the age of 32.
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Leroy Johan Fer is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Gulf United. He formerly represented the Netherlands national team, making eleven appearances between 2010 and 2014.
Alfred Brendel was a Czech-born Austrian classical pianist, poet, author, composer and lecturer, based in London. He is noted for his performances of music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and Franz Liszt.
Alfredbrendel.jpg: Jiyang Chen derivative work: Herzi Pinki (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nikola Kalinić is a Croatian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He was also formerly sports director of Croatian Football League club Hajduk Split.
Станислав Ведмидь, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan was a French mathematician, known both for his foundational work in group theory and for his textbook Cours d'analyse de l'École polytechnique.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/PictDisplay/Jordan.html, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1818–1899 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Mary Elizabeth Barber was a pioneering British-born amateur scientist of the nineteenth century. Without formal education, she made a name for herself in botany, ornithology and entomology.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Li Zhenguo is a Chinese billionaire and businessman, the founder and the president of LONGi Green Energy Technology, which specializes on photovoltaic solar modules.
This page lists 44 people born on January 5, 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 5. Read the full methodology.
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