January 7 is the birthday of 56 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, authors, politicians and athletes, and 6 of them are billionaires.
Ivan Glasenberg is a South African business executive and former chief executive officer of Glencore, one of the world's largest commodity trading and mining companies. He was the company's CEO from 2002 to 2021. Glasenberg has or had citizenship of South Africa and Australia.
Marian Bayoff Ilitch is an American billionaire businesswoman, and the co-founder of Little Caesars Pizza with her late husband, Mike Ilitch. As of March 2018, Ilitch was one of the world's seven richest women, according to Bloomberg.
Rick Joseph Caruso is an American billionaire businessman. The founder and former CEO of the real estate company Caruso, he previously served as the chair of the board of trustees of the University of Southern California.
Babasaheb Neelkanth Kalyani is an Indian billionaire businessman who served as the chairman and managing director of Bharat Forge, the flagship company of the Kalyani Group and the world's second-largest forging manufacturer after ThyssenKrupp of Germany.
World Economic Forum on Flickr / Eric Miller, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kostyantyn Valentynovych Zhevago is a Ukrainian businessman, philanthropist, and politician. He served as a member of the Verkhovna Rada continuously for 21 years from 1998 until 2019. Additionally, he served as the Executive Director of Ferrexpo from 2008 to 2019.
Share of the 56 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs34% (19 people)
Authors27% (15 people)
Politicians20% (11 people)
Athletes18% (10 people)
Actors14% (8 people)
Creators14% (8 people)
Musicians14% (8 people)
Countries
30 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States15 (15 people)
France4 (4 people)
Russia4 (4 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
India2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on January 7 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
~25Christian LindnerBecame general secretary (2004)
~24Eden HazardNamed PFA Players' Player of the Year (2015)
Nicolas Cage is an American actor and film producer. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards.
Moritz Barcelona from Barcelona, Catalunya, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jeremy Lee Renner is an American actor, author, singer, and producer. He began his career by appearing in independent films such as Dahmer (2002) and Neo Ned (2005), then supporting roles in bigger films, such as S.W.A.T. (2003) and 28 Weeks Later (2007).
Eden Michael Walter Lucien Hazard is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a left winger or attacking midfielder. Over the span of his sixteen-year career, he played for Lille, Chelsea, Real Madrid, and captained the Belgium national team.
Sir John Ernest Walker is a British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. As of 2015 Walker is Emeritus Director and Professor at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Mogens Engelund, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Millard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853. He was the last president to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House, and the last to be neither a Democrat nor a Republican. A former member of the U.S.
Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Randolph Thune is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from South Dakota, a seat he has held since 2005. A member of the Republican Party, Thune has served since 2025 as Senate majority leader and Senate Republican leader.
U.S. Senate Photographic Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Raila Amolo Odinga was a Kenyan politician who served as Prime Minister from 2008 to 2013. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Langata Constituency from 1992 to 2013. He was also the leader of Azimio la Umoja–One Kenya Coalition Party.
World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Adolph Zukor was a Hungarian-American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures. He produced one of America's first feature-length films, The Prisoner of Zenda, in 1913.
Unknown photographerUnknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
David Stephen Caruso is a retired American actor and producer, best known for his roles as Detective John Kelly on the ABC crime drama NYPD Blue (1993–1994) and Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the CBS series CSI: Miami (2002–2012).
USCG photo by Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Loftus., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Adidja Azim Palmer, better known as Vybz Kartel, is a Jamaican dancehall artist. Among his various nicknames, he is referred to as Worl' Boss, Teacha and King of Dancehall.
Pelpa Time Production, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Christian Wolfgang Lindner is a German retired politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who was the Federal Minister of Finance from 2021 until his dismissal in 2024 during a government crisis.
Bundesministerium für Finanzen, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lauren Cohan is an American–British actress known for her role as Maggie Rhee in the AMC post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead, a role she reprises in The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023–present).
Joseph Bonaparte, regnal name José I, was a French statesman, lawyer, diplomat and older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1806, Napoleon made him King of Naples, and then King of Spain and the Indies in 1808.
Jean-Baptiste Wicar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou.
Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gerald Malcolm Durrell was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928.
Byron Patchett, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sammo Hung Kam-bo is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, and filmmaker, known for his work in martial arts films, Hong Kong action cinema, and as a fight choreographer for other actors such as Kim Tai-chung, Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, and Yuen Wah.
William Peter Blatty was an American writer, director and producer. He is best known for his 1971 novel The Exorcist and for his screenplay for the 1973 film adaptation.
Szymon Marciniak is a Polish football referee. He has refereed the 2022 FIFA World Cup final between Argentina and France, the 2018 UEFA Super Cup between Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid, and the 2023 UEFA Champions League final between Manchester City and Inter Milan.
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music.
Unattributed, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mohammad Javad Zarif is an Iranian career diplomat and academic. He served as the vice president for strategic affairs from August 2024 to March 2025. He was the foreign minister of Iran from 2013 until 2021 in the government of Hassan Rouhani.
Robbert van de Corput, known professionally as Hardwell, is a Dutch DJ and record producer. He was voted the world's number one DJ by DJ Mag in 2013 and again in 2014. In 2022, he was ranked at number 43 in the top 100 DJs poll by DJ Mag.
Paul Keres was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s, and narrowly missed a chance at a World Chess Championship match on five occasions.
Charles Pierre Péguy was a French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism; by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing Catholic. From that time, Catholicism strongly influenced his works.
Jean-Pierre Laurens, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dieter Hoeneß is a German former professional football player and executive. A forward during his playing career, Hoeneß was primarily associated with Bayern Munich. After retiring, he remained involved in football, working extensively in executive roles for several clubs.
Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel was a French mathematician and politician. As a mathematician, he was known for his founding work in the areas of measure theory and probability.
Agence de presse Mondial Photo-Presse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Toshio Hayakawa, better known by his stage name Ichirou Mizuki, was a Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, voice actor and actor best known for his work on theme songs for anime and tokusatsu.
Georges Seguin (Okki), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Seo Jae-pil, better known by his English name Philip Jaisohn, was a Korean American politician, physician, and Korean independence activist. He was the first Korean to become a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19, and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme.
Sofi-Elina Oksanen is a Finnish writer and playwright. Oksanen has published six novels, of which "Purge" has gained the widest recognition. She has received several international and domestic awards for her literary work.
C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Siranush Hrachyayi Harutyunyan, known professionally as Sirusho, is an Armenian singer and songwriter. She received her first award when she was nine years old for her song "Lusabats".
Allen from London, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 56 people born on January 7, 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 July 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 7. Read the full methodology.
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