June 2 is the birthday of 45 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, actors, musicians and creators, and 2 of them are billionaires.
$36.2Bolder estimate, as of October 2021 · Bloomberg
Klaus-Michael Kühne was a German billionaire businessman. In October 2021, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated Kühne's net worth to be US$36.2 billion, making him the richest person in Germany.
$3.2Breported estimate as of October 2025 · Forbes
Nandan Mohanrao Nilekani is an Indian entrepreneur. He co-founded Infosys and is the non-executive chairman of Infosys replacing R Seshasayee and Ravi Venkatesan, who were the co-chairs of the board, on 24 August 2017.
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Share of the 45 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs29% (13 people)
Actors27% (12 people)
Creators22% (10 people)
Musicians22% (10 people)
Politicians16% (7 people)
Athletes11% (5 people)
Authors11% (5 people)
Countries
23 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
India3 (3 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Argentina1 (1 people)
Czech Republic1 (1 people)
Germany1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on June 2 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.
~89Lloyd ShapleyReceived the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2012)
58Ion AntonescuBecame Prime Minister of Romania (1940)
54Nadhim ZahawiBecame Secretary of State for Education (2021)
The standouts
The most successful people born on June 2
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
actor
Morena Baccarin
Top tier
Actor
1979 · United States
Morena Silva de Vaz Setta Baccarin is an American actress. Known for her lead role as Mickey Fox in the CBS television series Sheriff Country since 2025, Baccarin has played multiple television and film roles.
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Justin Jacob Long is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. Long is known for his film roles, particularly in comedy and horror films. For his notable work in horror cinema, he has come to be recognized as a scream king.
Daniel Benavides from Austin, TX, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nora Lum, known professionally as Awkwafina, is an American actress and rapper. She rose to prominence in 2012 when her rap song "My Vag" became popular on YouTube.
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Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade was a French writer, libertine, political activist, and nobleman best known for his libertine novels and imprisonment for sex crimes, blasphemy, and pornography.
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Lloyd Stowell Shapley was an American mathematician and Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist. He contributed to the fields of mathematical economics and especially game theory.
Karl Adolph Gjellerup was a Danish poet and novelist who together with his compatriot Henrik Pontoppidan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917. He is associated with the Modern Breakthrough period of Scandinavian literature. He occasionally used the pseudonym Epigonos.
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Sergio Leonel Agüero del Castillo, also known as Kun Agüero, is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation and one of the greatest players in the history of the Premier League.
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Nadhim Zahawi is an Iraqi-born British politician who served in various ministerial positions under prime ministers Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak from 2018 to 2023.
Richard Townshend, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Natarajan Chandrasekaran is an Indian business executive. He is the chairman of Tata Sons and Tata Group. He was chief operating officer (COO) and executive director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), where in 2009, he became chief executive officer (CEO).
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Jitse Groen is a Dutch businessman and the founder of Just Eat Takeaway.com, a global food delivery platform. He is the outgoing chief executive officer of the company, having announced his resignation following the firm's acquisition by Prosus in 2025.
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Dominic Edward Cooper is an English actor known for his portrayal of comic book characters Jesse Custer on the AMC show Preacher (2016–2019) and young Howard Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with appearances in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and the ABC series…
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Wentworth Earl Miller III is an American actor known for playing the role of Michael Scofield in Prison Break, for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 2005.
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Walter Stacy Keach Jr. is an American actor, active in theatre, film and television since the 1960s. Keach first distinguished himself in Off-Broadway productions and is a prominent figure in American theatre, particularly as a noted Shakespearean.
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Sonakshi Sinha is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films and series. The daughter of actors and politicians Poonam and Shatrughan Sinha, she has appeared in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list from 2012 to 2017, and in 2019. Her accolades include a Filmfare Award.
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Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth.
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Charles Robert Watts was an English musician who was the drummer of the Rolling Stones from 1963 until his death in 2021.
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Kevin Feige is an American film and television producer. He has been the president of Marvel Studios and the primary producer of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) franchise since 2007.
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Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.
Johnny Weissmuller was an American Olympic swimmer, water polo player and actor. He set world records alongside winning five gold medals in the Olympics.
Sally Clare Kellerman was an American actress whose acting career spanned 60 years. Her role as Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in Robert Altman's film M*A*S*H (1970) earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Ion Antonescu was a Romanian military officer and marshal who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II.
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Mary Abigail Wambach is an American former professional soccer player who played as a forward. She played for the U.S. women's national soccer team from 2003 to 2015.
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch was an American composer and conductor. He is one of a handful of people to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards, a feat dubbed the "EGOT". He and composer Richard Rodgers are the only people to have won those prizes and a Pulitzer Prize ("PEGOT").
Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer, aviator, and test pilot who commanded the Apollo 12 mission, on which he became the third person to walk on the Moon. Conrad was selected for NASA's second astronaut class in 1962.
Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallström is a Swedish film director. He first became known for directing almost all music videos by the pop group ABBA, and came to international attention with My Life as a Dog (1985).
Lena_Olin_and_Lasse_Hallström.jpg: Jan Videren from Stockholm, Sweden derivative work: RanZag (talk), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Toghon Temür, also known by his temple name as Emperor Huizong of Yuan and by his posthumous name as Emperor Shun of Yuan, was the last emperor of the Yuan dynasty and the first emperor of the Northern Yuan dynasty. He was a son of Kusala.
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Nikolay Vladimirovich Davydenko is a Russian former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3 in November 2006.
Jacopo Carucci or Carrucci, usually known as Jacopo (da) Pontormo or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School.
Pieter Brueghel the Younger was a Flemish painter known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Bruegel the Elder's work, as well as original compositions and Bruegelian pastiches.
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Yi So-yeon is a South Korean astronaut and biotechnologist who became the first South Korean to fly into space.
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Chief Bode Akindele was a Nigerian industrialist and business magnate. He was the founder and chairman of the Modandola Group, a conglomerate trading in maritime, manufacturing, real estate, financial, and flour milling industries, with headquarters in the United Kingdom.
Simona Kijonková is a Czech entrepreneur and investor. In 2010, she founded Zásilkovna, a parcel delivery company that later became part of the international logistics group Packeta. She served as chief executive of Packeta as the business expanded across Europe.
This page lists 45 people born on June 2, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 2025. 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 2. Read the full methodology.
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