Famous birthdays by year
Famous People Born in 1951
Born in 1951? Meet the well-known people who share your birth year, from the biggest names to the ones you might not expect, month by month.
Turning 75 in 2026 · Chinese zodiac: Year of the Rabbit
The 1950s
The most famous people born in 195183
1951–2014Robin Williams
American comedian and actor of Mrs Doubtfire, Dead Poets Society and Aladdin who won an Oscar for Good Will Hunting
Photo: Eva Rinaldi · CC BY-SA 2.0
Gordon Brown
Photo: Unknown photographer · OGL 3
Michelle Bachelet
Paediatrician who served two terms as Chile's first female president and later led UN Women and the UN human rights office
Photo: Government of Chile · CC BY 3.0 cl
Mohamed Morsi
Muslim Brotherhood leader who became Egypt's first democratically elected president in 2012 and was ousted by the army in 2013
Photo: Wilson Dias/ABr · CC BY 3.0 br
Juan Manuel Santos
Former President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Photo: File:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Juan Manuel Santos.jpg : Image Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Juan Manuel Santos (Wils · CC BY 3.0 br
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Former leader of al-Qaeda and Egyptian physician
Photo: Hamid Mir · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sting
Lead singer of The Police and successful solo music artist
Photo: Raph_PH · CC BY 2.0
Phil Collins
British singer-songwriter and drummer for the rock band Genesis
Photo: Raph_PH · CC BY 2.0
Born in 1951, month by month
- January
- Jan Fischer (January 2) · Czech politician who served as the Prime Minister from 2009 to 2010
- Michel Barnier (January 9) · French politician and former lead Brexit negotiator for the European Union
- Kirstie Alley (January 12) · Emmy-winning actress known for the sitcom Cheers and Look Who's Talking
- Shimon Sakaguchi (January 19) · Acclaimed Japanese immunologist who discovered regulatory T cells
- Alveda King (January 22)
- Phil Collins (January 30) · British singer-songwriter and drummer for the rock band Genesis
- February
- Blaise Compaoré (February 3) · Former president of Burkina Faso who ruled for twenty-seven years
- Kevin Keegan (February 14) · Renowned English football player and manager who won the Ballon d'Or
- Jane Seymour (February 15) · British actress known for starring in Live and Let Die
- Isabel Preysler (February 18)
- Gordon Brown (February 20)
- March
- Chris Rea (March 4) · British singer-songwriter known for his distinctive gravelly voice
- Kenny Dalglish (March 4) · Scottish football legend who played for and managed Liverpool
- Kurt Russell (March 17) · American actor who starred in Escape from New York and The Thing
- Carl Wieman (March 26) · Nobel Prize-winning physicist who created the first Bose-Einstein condensate
- Roger Myerson (March 29) · Nobel Prize-winning economist known for mechanism design theory
- Angus Young (March 31) · Lead guitarist and co-founder of the hard rock band AC/DC
- April
- Gloria Diaz (April 5)
- Hilda Heine (April 6) · First female President of the Marshall Islands
- Olivia Hussey (April 17) · Actress best known for playing Juliet in Zeffirelli's 1968 film
- Enda Kenny (April 24) · Irish politician who served as Taoiseach for six years
- May
- Li Hongzhi (May 13)
- Frank Wilczek (May 15) · Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered asymptotic freedom
- Azimzhan Askarov (May 17)
- Ben Feringa (May 18) · Nobel Prize-winning chemist who created the world's first molecular motor
- Anatoly Karpov (May 23) · Russian chess grandmaster and former long-time World Chess Champion
- Antonis Samaras (May 23) · Former Prime Minister of Greece during the country's debt crisis
- François Bayrou (May 25) · Prominent centrist politician and leader of the French Democratic Movement
- Sally Ride (May 26) · Physicist and the first American woman to travel into space
- David Kabua (May 26)
- Fernando Lugo (May 30) · Former President of Paraguay and former Roman Catholic bishop
- June
- Jill Biden (June 3) · American educator who served as First Lady of the United States
- Bonnie Tyler (June 8) · Welsh singer with a husky voice known for Total Eclipse of the Heart
- Stellan Skarsgård (June 13) · Swedish actor known for Breaking the Waves and Mamma Mia!
- Alexander Sokurov (June 14) · Acclaimed Russian film director known for his innovative cinematic techniques
- Ayman al-Zawahiri (June 19) · Former leader of al-Qaeda and Egyptian physician
- Mary McAleese (June 27) · First woman from Northern Ireland to be President of Ireland
- July
- Sylvia Rivera (July 2)
- Jean-Claude Duvalier (July 3) · Haitian dictator who held power from 1971 until 1986
- Geoffrey Rush (July 6) · Oscar-winning Australian actor known for Shine and The King's Speech
- Shigemi Ishii (July 7) · Former Japanese international footballer who played as a defender
- Anjelica Huston (July 8) · Oscar-winning actress who played Morticia Addams in The Addams Family
- Chris Cooper (July 9) · Oscar-winning actor known for roles in Adaptation and American Beauty
- Rajnath Singh (July 10) · Senior Indian politician serving as the Minister of Defence
- Nikolai Patrushev (July 11) · Russian politician and former head of the Federal Security Service
- Elio Di Rupo (July 18) · Former Prime Minister of Belgium and leader of the Socialist Party
- Robin Williams (July 21) · American comedian and actor of Mrs Doubtfire, Dead Poets Society and Aladdin who won an Oscar for Good Will Hunting
- Santiago Calatrava (July 28) · Spanish architect and engineer known for his sculptural public buildings
- August
- Mohamed Morsi (August 8) · Muslim Brotherhood leader who became Egypt's first democratically elected president in 2012 and was ousted by the army in 2013
- Louis van Gaal (August 8) · Successful Dutch football manager for clubs including Ajax and Barcelona
- Juan Manuel Santos (August 10) · Former President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (August 16) · Former President of Nigeria who sought to reform electoral systems
- John Deacon (August 19) · Bass guitarist and songwriter for the rock band Queen
- Akhmad Kadyrov (August 23) · Former Chief Mufti and President of the Chechen Republic
- Orson Scott Card (August 24) · Science fiction writer known for the novel Ender's Game
- Edward Witten (August 26) · Renowned theoretical physicist and pioneer of string theory
- Angelique Rockas (August 31) · Actress and activist who founded the Internationalist Theatre
- September
- Irving Finkel (September 1)
- Mark Harmon (September 2) · Actor best known for playing Leroy Jethro Gibbs in NCIS
- Maithripala Sirisena (September 3) · Former president of Sri Lanka
- Michael Keaton (September 5) · Actor acclaimed for his roles in Batman and Birdman
- Paul Breitner (September 5) · German footballer who won the World Cup and European Championship
- Bertie Ahern (September 12) · Former Irish politician who served as Taoiseach
- Salva Kiir Mayardit (September 13) · South Sudanese politician who became the nation's first President
- Duncan Haldane (September 14) · British physicist and Nobel laureate known for studying exotic matter
- Jared Taylor (September 15)
- Aslan Maskhadov (September 21) · Former President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
- David Coverdale (September 22) · Lead singer of Whitesnake and former frontman of Deep Purple
- Shehbaz Sharif (September 23) · Pakistani politician serving as the Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Mark Hamill (September 25) · American actor best known for playing Luke Skywalker in Star Wars
- Michelle Bachelet (September 29) · Paediatrician who served two terms as Chile's first female president and later led UN Women and the UN human rights office
- Barry Marshall (September 30) · Nobel laureate who proved that bacteria cause stomach ulcers
- October
- Sting (October 2) · Lead singer of The Police and successful solo music artist
- Romina Power (October 2)
- Bob Geldof (October 5) · Lead singer of The Boomtown Rats and Live Aid co-founder
- Prabowo Subianto (October 17) · Indonesian politician and former general who became President in 2024
- Claudio Ranieri (October 20) · Manager who led Leicester City to the Premier League title
- Fatmir Sejdiu (October 23) · First President of the Republic of Kosovo following its independence declaration
- November
- Traian Băsescu (November 4) · Romanian politician who served ten years as president
- Kim Peek (November 11)
- Ilona Staller (November 26) · Hungarian-Italian adult film star who served in the Italian parliament
- Kathryn Bigelow (November 27) · First woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director
- December
- Alvin Eliot Roth (December 18) · Nobel Prize-winning economist noted for his work on market design