January 6 is the birthday of 55 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, authors, creators and historical figures, and 3 of them are billionaires.
James Howard Goodnight is an American billionaire businessman and software developer. He has been the CEO of SAS since 1976, which he co-founded that year with other faculty members of North Carolina State University.
Henry Roberts Kravis is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of the private equity and investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mathew Randall Ishbia is an American businessman who is CEO and chairman of mortgage lender United Wholesale Mortgage. He is the majority owner of the Phoenix Suns of the NBA and Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA alongside his older brother, Justin.
Share of the 55 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs31% (17 people)
Authors27% (15 people)
Creators22% (12 people)
Actors16% (9 people)
Musicians16% (9 people)
Politicians16% (9 people)
Artists9% (5 people)
Countries
27 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States16 (16 people)
United Kingdom9 (9 people)
Belgium2 (2 people)
France2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
India2 (2 people)
Ottoman Empire2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on January 6 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
~21Gilbert ArenasReceived the NBA Most Improved Player Award (2003)
~17Andy CarrollJoined Newcastle United F.C. (2006)
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is an English actor, comedian, and writer. He first gained success on the sketch comedy show Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–1982), before going on to play the title roles in the sitcoms Blackadder (1983–1989) and Mr.
Irina Valeryevna Shaykhlislamova, also known as Irina Shayk, is a Russian fashion model and actress. She received international recognition when she appeared as the first Russian model on the cover of the 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
Conde Nast Russia, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett was an English singer, guitarist and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965.
Hit Parader magazine This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original versi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Edward John David Redmayne is an English actor. His accolades include an Academy Award, a Tony Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Olivier Awards.
Norman Mark Reedus is an American actor. Starting his career as a model, he first rose to prominence as an actor for his role as Murphy MacManus in The Boondock Saints (1999), which he reprised in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009).
Eric Frederick Trump is an American businessman, political activist, and former reality television presenter. He is the third child and second son of U.S. president Donald Trump and his first wife, Ivana.
Allah Rakha Rahman, also known as ARR, is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and philanthropist known for his works in Indian cinema; predominantly in Tamil and Hindi films, with occasional forays in international cinema.
Dani Charles Silverscreen Media Inc. (https://silverscreen.in), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Anthony Scaramucci is an American financier and broadcaster who briefly served as the White House communications director from July 21 to July 31, 2017.
Entrepreneur · DeLorean Motor Company · automotive
1925–2005 · United States
John Zachary DeLorean was an American engineer, inventor, and executive in the U.S. automobile industry. He is widely known as founder of the DeLorean Motor Company, as well as for his work at General Motors.
Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
August Oetker was a German inventor, food scientist and business person. He is known as the creator of baking powder as a ready-to-use product, and also as the founder of the Dr. Oetker company. He was the patriarch of the Oetker family.
Paul Emil Gabel (1875-1938), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kate McKinnon Berthold is an American comedian, actress and author. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2012 to 2022, where she became known for her character work and celebrity impressions.
Alan Wilson Watts was a British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience.
The University of Vermont Alumni Magazine vol. 39 no. 01, p. 22., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān, usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist. He was also considered a philosopher, although he himself rejected the title.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alexander David Turner is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, and the frontman of the rock band Arctic Monkeys. He is known for his lyricism ranging from kitchen sink realism to surrealist wordplay, which has been praised by music critics.
Jason Persse from Brooklyn, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Andrew Thomas Carroll is an English professional player who plays as a striker for National League South club Dagenham & Redbridge, where he also serves as assistant manager.
Malcolm Mitchell Young was an Australian musician who was a founding member of the hard rock band AC/DC. Young was a rhythm guitarist, songwriter, and backing vocalist in the band.
Pandemonium73, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gilbert Jay Arenas Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. Arenas attended Grant High School in the Valley Glen district of Los Angeles, and accepted a scholarship offer to the University of Arizona late in his junior year.
Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Anthony Minghella was a British playwright and filmmaker. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. He directed Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), The English Patient (1996), The Talented Mr.
John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, admiral of New England, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely.
derivative work: Spiderpig (talk) Captain_John_Smith_gravure.jpg: Frédéric, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rinko Kikuchi is a Japanese actress. She was the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years, for her work in Babel (2006).
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist. Initially influenced by Frédéric Chopin, he composed in a relatively tonal, late-Romantic idiom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Scriabin.jpg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Carl August Sandburg was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.
Al Ravenna, World Telegram staff photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow was an American novelist, editor, and professor, known for his historical fiction. He wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction and a stage drama, including the award-winning novels Ragtime (1975), Billy Bathgate (1989), and The March (2005).
Babrak Karmal was an Afghan communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Afghanistan, serving in the post of general secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1986.
United Press International, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Max Bruch was a German Romantic composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor who wrote more than 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire.
What We Hear in Music, Anne S. Faulkner, Victor Talking Machine Co., 1913, Imported from English Wikipedia: [1] original, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Valeriy Vasylyovych Lobanovskyi was а Soviet and Ukrainian football player and manager. He was Master of Sports of the USSR, Distinguished Coach of the USSR, and a laureate of the UEFA Order of Merit in Ruby (2002) and FIFA Order of Merit, the highest honour awarded by FIFA.
Rob Croes, Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief: Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Fotopersbureau (ANEFO), 1945, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nathan "Natie" Kirsh is a Swazi and South African billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He heads the Kirsh Group, which holds a majority stake in New York state cash and carry operation Jetro Holdings, owner of Restaurant Depot and Jetro Cash & Carry.
Hristo Botev, born Hristo Botyov Petkov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, poet and journalist. He participated in the Bulgarian revolutionary movement as a member of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee. Botev is honoured in Bulgaria.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo often known by his initials JMS, is a Uruguayan former lawyer, journalist and politician of the Colorado Party (PC) who served as the President of Uruguay as the 35th president from 1985 to 1990, and again as the 37th president from 1995 to 2000.
Embajada de EEUU en Uruguay, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Charles Bartlett Johnson is an American billionaire businessman, with an estimated current net worth of around $6.1 billion. He was chief executive officer of Franklin Templeton Investments from 1957 to 2004.
This page lists 55 people born on January 6, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 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 6. Read the full methodology.
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