June 1 is the birthday of 50 notable people we've found so far, including actors, entrepreneurs, musicians and creators, and 4 of them are billionaires.
Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry was an Indian-born Irish businessman. He was chairman of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group and a major shareholder of India's largest private conglomerate, Tata Group.
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors34% (17 people)
Entrepreneurs30% (15 people)
Creators24% (12 people)
Musicians24% (12 people)
Authors16% (8 people)
Politicians14% (7 people)
Artists12% (6 people)
Countries
25 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
United Kingdom7 (7 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
France2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
India2 (2 people)
Switzerland2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on June 1 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
~21Alanis MorissetteReceived the Grammy Award for Album of the Year (1995)
~22NargisNotable work: Awaara (1951)
~22Dayana MendozaNamed Miss Universe (2008)
~21Javier HernándezJoined Mexico men's national football team (2009)
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "Blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution.
Morgan Freeman is an American actor, producer, and narrator. In a career spanning six decades, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award and a Tony Award.
U.S. Secretary of Defense, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Heidi Klum is a German and American model, television host, actress, producer, and businesswoman. She appeared on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1998 and was the first German model to become a Victoria's Secret Angel.
Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter. Regarded as the "Queen of Alt-Rock Angst", she became a cultural phenomenon in the 1990s, gaining international fame for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting.
Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kip Stephen Thorne is an American astrophysicist and author. He shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".
Keenan Pepper, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Markus Alexej Persson, also known by the pseudonym Notch, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is the creator of Minecraft, the best-selling video game in history. He founded the video game development company Mojang Studios in 2009.
Yongmee Michele Kang is an American businesswoman, philanthropist, investor, and owner of multiple association football teams. She became vice president of the e-Business unit of Northrop Grumman in 2000.
U.S. Air Force photo by Eric Dietrich, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, is an English architect and urbanist. He is widely recognised as a seminal pioneer of high-tech architecture and a defining figure in British modernism.
Dayana Sabrina Mendoza Uribe is a Venezuelan actress, model, film producer, director, and beauty queen. She is the winner of the titles of Miss Venezuela 2007 and Miss Universe 2008.
Jorge Mejía peralta from Managua, Nicaragua, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Javier Hernández Balcázar, commonly known by the nickname Chicharito, is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a striker for USL Championship club Atlético Dallas. He is known for his clinical finishing, pace, and technical ability.
Andy Samuel Griffith was an American actor, comedian, television producer, singer, and writer whose career spanned seven decades in music and television.
CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Amy Beth Schumer is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director. Schumer ventured into comedy in the early 2000s before appearing as a contestant on the fifth season of the NBC reality competition series Last Comic Standing in 2007.
Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan is an Armenian politician who is serving as the 16th and current prime minister of Armenia since 2018. A journalist by profession, Pashinyan founded his own newspaper in 1998, which was shut down a year later for libel.
René Marie Murat Auberjonois was an American actor. He was a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award winner, and a three-time Emmy Award nominee, among other accolades.
Sarah Wayne Callies is an American actress. She is known for starring as Sara Tancredi in Fox's Prison Break, Lori Grimes in AMC's The Walking Dead, and more recently, as Birdie Nicolletti in ABC's The Company You Keep.
Justine Henin is a Belgian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 117 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2003, 2006 and 2007.
Gregory Edward Abel is a Canadian-American businessman who has been president and chief executive officer of the American multinational conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway since January 2026.
Giorgian Daniel de Arrascaeta Benedetti is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Flamengo and the Uruguay national team.
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with co-creating the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention which was technically unfeasible at the time.
British Government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Colleen McCullough was an Australian author. Raised in Sydney, she trained as a neurophysiologist and spent her early career working at hospitals and universities in Australia and overseas.
Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, known as Sadi Carnot, was a French military engineer and physicist. A graduate of the École polytechnique, Carnot served as an officer in the Engineering Arm of the French Army.
Louis-Léopold Boilly, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Edward Masefield, OM was an English poet and writer. He was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967, during which time he lived at Burcot, Oxfordshire, near Abingdon-on-Thames.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Joseph Fisher is an American businessman. He is the principal owner of the Athletics of Major League Baseball, the San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer, and the Texas Rattlers of the Professional Bull Riders organization.
Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists. His contemporaries would call him the "Knight of Beauty" as he embodied both European and Russian traditions of painting.
William Standish Knowles was an American chemist. He was born in Taunton, Massachusetts. Knowles was one of the recipients of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
This page lists 50 people born on June 1, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 4 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 June 1. Read the full methodology.
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