Born On Your Day
Kemi Badenoch
©House of Commons / Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

authorpoliticianTop tier

Kemi Badenoch

Politician · born January 2, 1980

XWhatsAppFacebook

About

Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke "Kemi" Badenoch is a British politician who has served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2024. Badenoch previously worked in the Cabinet for prime ministers Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak from 2022 to 2024.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Milestones, by age

Dated facts from Wikidata; ages marked “about” come from year-only dates.

  1. 43Became Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and TradeFebruary 7, 2023
  2. ~44Named BBC 100 Women2024
  3. 44Became Leader of the OppositionNovember 2, 2024
  4. 44Became Leader of the Conservative PartyNovember 2, 2024

Sources

Every fact on this page traces to one of these.

Sources (2)

Also born on January 2

Kemi's most notable birthday twins

Isaac Asimov
author

Isaac Asimov

Creator

1920–1992 · United States

Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke.

Phillip Leonian [1] from New York World-Telegram & Sun.[2], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Full profile →

Sources (2)
Cuba Gooding Jr.
actor

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Actor

1968 · United States

Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. is an American actor. After his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991), he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor playing a football star in Jerry Maguire (1996).

Bandit1155, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources (2)
Tia Carrere
actor

Tia Carrere

Actor

1967 · United States

Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo, known professionally as Tia Carrere, is an American actress and singer who got her first big break as a regular on the daytime soap opera General Hospital.

Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources (2)
Thérèse of Lisieux
author

Thérèse of Lisieux

Author

1873–1897 · France

Thérèse of Lisieux, religious name Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, was a French Discalced Carmelite who is widely venerated in modern times.

Céline Martin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources (2)
Slobodan Praljak
entrepreneur

Slobodan Praljak

Entrepreneur

1945–2017 · Bosnia and Herzegovina

Slobodan Praljak was a Bosnian Croat general found guilty by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of committing violations of the laws of war, crimes against humanity, and breaches of the Geneva Conventions during the 1992–1994 Croat–Bosniak War.

Zoran Lesic, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources (2)