Share of the 51 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors33% (17 people)
Actors24% (12 people)
Musicians22% (11 people)
Creators20% (10 people)
Athletes18% (9 people)
Entrepreneurs18% (9 people)
Scientists14% (7 people)
Countries
22 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States13 (13 people)
United Kingdom7 (7 people)
Italy4 (4 people)
Nigeria3 (3 people)
Spain3 (3 people)
France2 (2 people)
Kingdom of Saxony2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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25David BowieNotable work: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20th century.
David Robert Jones, known as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. Regarded as among the most influential musicians of the 20th century, he was known for his frequent reinvention and visual presentation, and is often referred to as the "chameleon of rock".
Adam Bielawski, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.
Kim Jong Un is a North Korean politician and dictator who is currently serving as the supreme leader of North Korea since 2011, following the death of his father, Kim Jong Il.
Владимир Смирнов / ТАСС, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Cynthia Erivo is a British actress and singer. Known for her work on both stage and screen, she is the recipient of several accolades and one of few individuals nominated for an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award (EGOT), winning all but the Oscar.
Robert Sylvester Kelly, known professionally as R. Kelly, is an American former singer, songwriter, and record producer who is credited with prolific commercial success in contemporary R&B, hip-hop, and pop music recordings.
Miami Police Department, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Elisabeth Dee DeVos is an American politician, philanthropist, and former government official who served as the 11th United States secretary of education from 2017 to 2021.
U.S. Dept. of Education, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yvette Carmen Mimieux was an American film and television actress who was a major star of the 1960s and 1970s. Her breakout role was in The Time Machine (1960). She was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and a Photoplay Award during the course of her career.
Studio photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Carolina Herrera is a Venezuelan American fashion designer. Known for her personal style, she founded her namesake brand in 1980. Herrera has designed for various First Ladies of the United States, including Jacqueline Onassis, Laura Bush, Michelle Obama, and Melania Trump.
James Robert B. Quincey is a British businessman based in the United States. After starting his career at Bain & Co, he joined The Coca-Cola Company in 1996 and was later named chief operating officer (COO).
Francesco Coco is an Italian former footballer who played as a defender. Although naturally right-footed, he played as a left wing-back or, more commonly, as a left-back. He had spells with both AC Milan and Inter Milan, also spending a season at Barcelona.
Anatoly Eduardovich Serdyukov is a Russian politician and businessman. He was Russia's Minister of Defense from 15 February 2007 to 6 November 2012, and made several major reforms in the Russian military.
Министерство обороны Российской Федерации, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Noah Lindsey Cyrus is an American singer and actress. As a child actress, she voiced the titular character in the English dub of the film Ponyo (2008), and appeared in minor roles on shows including Hannah Montana and Doc.
Bruce Baker from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Damiano David is an Italian singer and songwriter. He is the frontman of the rock band Måneskin, which won the Sanremo Music Festival 2021 and subsequently the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 representing Italy with the song "Zitti e buoni".
Graham Chapman was a British actor, comedian and writer. He was one of the six members of the surrealist comedy group Monty Python. He portrayed authority figures such as The Colonel and the lead role in two Python films, Holy Grail (1975) and Life of Brian (1979).
Python (Monty) Pictures - Distributed in the USA by Cinema 5, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey is a Welsh singer, known for her career longevity, powerful voice and recording the theme songs to three James Bond films – the only artist to perform more than one officially. Bassey is one of the most popular vocalists in Britain.
David Josué Jiménez Silva is a Spanish former professional footballer who played mainly as a central or an attacking midfielder and occasionally as a winger or second striker.
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sarah Ellen Polley is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, political activist and actress. She first garnered attention as a child actress for her role as Ramona Quimby in the television series Ramona, based on Beverly Cleary's books.
nicolas genin from Paris, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jorge Resurrección Merodio, known as Koke, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for and serves as captain of La Liga club Atlético Madrid.
José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón was a Puerto Rican actor and director of stage, film and television. He was one of the most celebrated and esteemed Hispanic American actors during his lifetime and after, with a career spanning nearly 60 years between 1935 and 1992.
John Arundel/Local Kicks at http://www.localkicks.com/local_style/entertainment/A_Red_Carpet_Rollout_for_Injured_Vets_at, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Junichiro Koizumi is a Japanese retired politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics in 2009.
Carl Ransom Rogers was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of humanistic psychology and was known especially for his person-centered psychotherapy.
Abu al-Qasim Mansur bin Hasan Tosi (940–1025), better known by his pen name Ferdowsi, was a Persian poet who is notable for being the author of the Shahnameh, which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the greatest epic of the Persian-speaking countries.
ca. 1476–86 artist, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
William Henry Hartnell was an English actor, who is best known for portraying the first incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1963 to 1966; he reprised the role in the serial The Three Doctors (1972–1973).
Unknown photographerUnknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1824–1889 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1860), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps…
Rudolf Lehmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Manuel Locatelli is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serie A club Juventus, which he captains, and the Italy national team.
Kirill Venediktov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Amber Benson is an American actress, writer, director, and producer. She is best known for her role as Tara Maclay on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1999–2002), and has directed, produced and starred in her own films Chance (2002) and Lovers, Liars & Lunatics (2006).
Keith McDuffee from Northborough, MA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Adrian Mutu is a Romanian professional football manager and former player. During his playing career, he was deployed as a forward or an attacking midfielder.
Peng Shuai is a Chinese former professional tennis player. In February 2014, she was ranked as the world No. 1 doubles player by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), becoming the first Chinese tennis player to achieve that ranking in any discipline.
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
Jack Thomas Andraka is an American who, as a high school student, won the Gordon E. Moore Award at the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a method to possibly detect the early stages of pancreatic and other cancers.
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Stipe Pletikosa is a Croatian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. As of 29 July 2021, he works at the Croatian Football Federation as the technical director of the national senior and under-21 teams.
Светлана Бекетова, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Leonardo Sciascia was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician. Some of his works have been made into films, including Porte Aperte, Cadaveri Eccellenti, Todo Modo and Il giorno della civetta.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe was a German experimental physicist who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics with Max Born "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith."
Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 51 people born on January 8, 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 8. Read the full methodology.
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