March 2 is the birthday of 56 notable people we've found so far, including authors, musicians, actors and entrepreneurs, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone is an Italian businessman. He controls the holding company Caltagirone S.p.A. with interests in cement manufacturing, real estate, construction and publishing.
Share of the 56 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors27% (15 people)
Musicians25% (14 people)
Actors20% (11 people)
Entrepreneurs18% (10 people)
Athletes13% (7 people)
Creators13% (7 people)
Politicians13% (7 people)
Countries
25 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States17 (17 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Czech Republic3 (3 people)
Italy3 (3 people)
Australia2 (2 people)
Hungary2 (2 people)
Ireland2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on March 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.
By 25
25Jennifer JonesReceived the Academy Award for Best Actress (1944)
18Mikhail GorbachevReceived the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1949)
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
actor
Daniel Craig
Top tier
Actor
1968 · United States
Daniel Wroughton Craig is an English actor. He gained international fame by playing the fictional secret agent James Bond in the films Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Soviet and Russian politician who was the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1985, and additionally as head of state from 1988.
Leo Medvedev/Лев Леонидович Медведев, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John Francis Bongiovi Jr., known professionally as Jon Bon Jovi, is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor. He is best known as the founder and frontman of the rock band Bon Jovi, which was formed in 1983.
Laurent Fox--HUD, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Anthony John Martin is an English singer, songwriter and music producer. He is best known as the vocalist, pianist and co-founder of the rock band Coldplay, which he formed with Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion, at University College London.
Bryce Dallas Howard is an American actress and director. The eldest child of filmmaker Ron Howard, she studied acting at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. While portraying Rosalind in a 2003 production of As You Like It, Howard caught the attention of director M.
Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Karen Anne Carpenter was an American musician who was the lead vocalist and drummer of the highly successful duo the Carpenters, formed with her older brother Richard. With a distinctive three-octave contralto range, she was praised by her peers for her vocal skills.
White House photo by Knudsen, Robert L., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ivar Kreuger was a Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist. In 1908, he co-founded the construction company Kreuger & Toll Byggnads AB, which specialized in new building techniques.
unknown photographer (studio photo), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Roman Čechmánek was a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender. He played professionally in the United States, the Czech Republic, and Germany, including in the National Hockey League with the Philadelphia Flyers and Los Angeles Kings from 2000 to 2004.
Y2kcrazyjoker4, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
David Mikhaylovich Yakobashvili is one of the founders of the largest Russian companies – JSC Wimm-Bill-Dann – the manufacturer of dairy products, juices and beverages. In 2001 - 2010 he held the position of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of this company.
Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American children's author, illustrator, animator, and cartoonist. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss.
Al Ravenna, New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lewis Allan Reed was an American musician, songwriter, and poet. He was the guitarist, lead singer, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades.
Clifford Smith Jr., known professionally as Method Man, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. He is a member of the East Coast hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, and is half of the hip-hop duo Method Man & Redman.
Alyssa Tomfohrde from Oakland, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nathalie Joanne Emmanuel is an English actress. Emmanuel began her acting career appearing in theatre in the late 1990s, acquiring roles in various West End productions such as the musical The Lion King.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Henry James Redknapp, is an English former football manager and player. He has previously managed AFC Bournemouth, West Ham United, Portsmouth, Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, Queens Park Rangers, and Birmingham City.
James Boyes from UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pope Leo XIII was head of the Catholic Church from 1878 until his death in 1903. He had the fourth-longest reign and third-longest verified reign of any pope, behind those of St. Peter, Pius IX, and John Paul II.
Braun et Compagnie, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jai Hemant "Tiger" Shroff is an Indian actor and singer, who works in Hindi films. Born to actors Jackie Shroff and Ayesha Dutt, he made his acting debut with the action romance Heropanti (2014), for which he won the IIFA Award for Star Debut of the Year – Male.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
William Rory Gallagher was an Irish musician, singer, and songwriter. Regarded as "Ireland's first rock star", he is known for his virtuosic style of guitar playing and live performances. He has sometimes been referred to as "the greatest guitarist you've never heard of".
Shoko Asahara, born as Chizuo Matsumoto, was a Japanese cult leader and domestic terrorist who founded and led the doomsday cult known as Aum Shinrikyo.
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.
White House Photo by Susan Sterner., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
James Andrew Arthur is an English singer and songwriter. He rose to fame after winning the ninth series of The X Factor in 2012. His debut single, a cover of Shontelle's "Impossible", was released by Syco Music after the final, and debuted at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Damien Anthony Duff is an Irish professional football manager and former player, who is currently the assistant head coach of Premier League club Brentford.
Mikhail Slain, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in nine different years, and remains the most translated Greek author worldwide.
Μουσείο N. Καζαντζάκη / Kazantzakis Museum, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival". He has been regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kurt Julian Weill was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika was an Algerian politician and diplomat who served as the seventh president of Algeria from 1999 until his resignation in 2019, following mass protests.
Unknown authorUnknown author and Vikoula5, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Larry Eugene Carlton is an American guitarist who built his career as a studio musician in the 1970s and 1980s for acts including Steely Dan and Joni Mitchell.
Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a Jewish author and playwright who wrote in Yiddish and lived in the Russian Empire and in the United States.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoît Desmoulins was a French journalist, politician and prominent figure of the French Revolution. He is best known for playing an instrumental role in the events that led to the Storming of the Bastille.
Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Enrique Anselmo Klar Razon Jr. is a Filipino businessman. He is chairman and CEO of the Manila-listed company International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI), a Philippine port-handling company.
U.S. Embassy in the Philippines from Manila, Philippines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
János Arany was a Hungarian poet, writer, translator and journalist. He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 102 ballads that have been translated into over 50 languages, as well as the Toldi trilogy.
Miklós Barabás, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 56 people born on March 2, 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 March 2. Read the full methodology.
Discover another birthday →
Every date is a different rabbit hole. Try a friend's, a parent's, or a random one.
