January 9 is the birthday of 59 notable people we've found so far, including politicians, authors, entrepreneurs and actors, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Share of the 59 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Politicians29% (17 people)
Authors25% (15 people)
Actors24% (14 people)
Entrepreneurs24% (14 people)
Athletes17% (10 people)
Musicians15% (9 people)
Creators14% (8 people)
Countries
30 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States9 (9 people)
United Kingdom6 (6 people)
India4 (4 people)
Italy4 (4 people)
France3 (3 people)
Spain3 (3 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on January 9 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.
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974.
Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nikolina Kamenova Dobreva, known professionally as Nina Dobrev, is a Canadian actress. She is known for portraying Elena Gilbert and Katherine Pierce in The CW's supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries (2009–2015).
Nicola Anne Peltz Beckham is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Katara in the film The Last Airbender (2010), Bradley Martin in the A&E drama series Bates Motel (2013–2015) and Tessa Yeager in the film Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014).
Photograph by Justin Campbell Derivative by Keraunoscopia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Catherine, Princess of Wales is a member of the British royal family. She is married to William, Prince of Wales, the heir apparent to the British throne.
Jonathan Kimble Simmons is an American actor. Considered among the most established and enduring character actors of his generation, he has amassed over 200 screen and stage credits since his 1986 debut.
Frederick II was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220, and King of Jerusalem from 1225 to 1228.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Edward Jenrick is an English politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Newark since the 2014 by-election. Elected as a member of the Conservative Party, he joined Reform in January 2026.
David Ferris Ellison is an American film producer, media proprietor, and former actor serving as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Paramount Skydance since August 2025.
Matthew Griswold Bevin is an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 62nd governor of Kentucky from 2015 to 2019, losing re-election in 2019 to Democrat Andy Beshear. He is the CEO of Neuronetrix Solutions, LLC.
usbotschaftberlin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Joan Chandos Baez is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice. Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing more than 30 albums.
Dame Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton is an English actress and singer. After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Staunton began her career in repertory theatre in 1976 and appeared in various stage productions in the West End and across the UK.
Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques is a Jamaican rapper, singer and songwriter. His first album, Stage One, was released in 2000. He gained international fame with his second album, Dutty Rock, in 2002.
Piero Martín Hincapié Reyna is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or left-back for Premier League club Arsenal and the Ecuador national team.
Farhan Akhtar is an Indian actor, filmmaker and singer who works in Hindi films. Born to screenwriters Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani, he established the production company Excel Entertainment, along with Ritesh Sidhwani, in 1999.
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is an Indian politician and retired diplomat who currently serves as the minister of external affairs since 2019. He is the longest-serving minister for external affairs to hold the portfolio exclusively.
U.S. Secretary of Defense, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rodrygo Silva de Goes, better known as Rodrygo, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays primarily as a winger for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Brazil national team.
Junta de Andalucía, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dominik Livaković is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Barcelona and the Croatia national team. Livaković has spent the bulk of his career with NK Zagreb, being the club's youth product, and with Dinamo Zagreb.
Susannah Yolande Fletcher, known professionally as Susannah York, was an English actress. Her appearances in various films of the 1960s, including Tom Jones (1963) and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), formed the basis of her international reputation.
Alberto Botella, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Sajjad, also known as Zayn al-Abidin was the great-grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the fourth of the Twelve Imams, succeeding his father Husayn, his uncle Hasan, and his grandfather Ali.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert, known professionally as Lara Fabian, is a Belgian and Canadian singer and songwriter. Having sold over 12 million records worldwide, she is one of the best-selling Belgian artists of all time.
Michel Aflaq was a Syrian philosopher, sociologist and Arab nationalist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of Ba'athism and its political movement; he is considered by several Ba'athists to be the principal founder of Ba'athist thought.
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Karel Čapek was a Czech writer, playwright, critic and journalist. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel War with the Newts (1936) and play R.U.R., which introduced the word robot.
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Lucas Pezzini Leiva, known as Lucas or Lucas Leiva, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder for Grêmio, Liverpool, Lazio and the Brazil national team.
Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W.
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Carrie Chapman Catt was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920.
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Domenico Modugno was an Italian singer, songwriter, actor and, later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament. He is known for his 1958 international hit song "Nel blu dipinto di blu", for which he received the first Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Levon Hakobi Ter-Petrosyan, also known by his initials LTP, is an Armenian politician and historian who served as the first president of Armenia from 1991 until his resignation in 1998.
Мелик Багдасарян, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kurt Tucholsky was a German journalist, satirist, and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel.
This page lists 59 people born on January 9, 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 October 2020. 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 9. Read the full methodology.
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