Born in 1928
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1928
Girls
- Mary
- Betty
- Dorothy
- Helen
- Margaret
- Ruth
- Doris
- Barbara
- Virginia
- Shirley
- Patricia
- Jean
- Frances
- Elizabeth
- Mildred
- Anna
- Evelyn
- Lois
- Alice
- Dolores
- Marie
- Martha
- Norma
- Rose
- Gloria
Boys
- Robert
- John
- James
- William
- Charles
- Richard
- Donald
- George
- Joseph
- Edward
- Thomas
- Frank
- Paul
- Harold
- Jack
- Raymond
- Kenneth
- Walter
- David
- Eugene
- Henry
- Arthur
- Albert
- Ralph
- Herbert
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Phyllis
- Joan
- Irene
- Marjorie
- Joyce
- Louise
- Florence
- Catherine
- Ruby
- Lillian
- Eleanor
- Annie
- Marilyn
- Lorraine
- Thelma
- Gladys
- Josephine
- Nancy
- June
- Edna
- Beverly
- Marion
- Pauline
- Theresa
- Geraldine
- Lucille
- Grace
- Bernice
- Ann
- Ethel
- Edith
- Rita
- Juanita
- Hazel
- Audrey
- Donna
- Jane
- Wanda
- Sarah
- Clara
- Esther
- Emma
- Elaine
- Wilma
- Beatrice
- Marian
- Charlotte
- Elsie
- Willie
- Katherine
- Peggy
- Carol
- Vivian
- Eva
- Julia
- Bertha
- Kathleen
- Laura
- Maxine
- Agnes
- Gertrude
- Ida
- Rosemary
- Bonnie
- Jeanne
- Carolyn
- Vera
- Anne
- Delores
- Janet
- Billie
- Jacqueline
- Ellen
- Kathryn
- Ella
Boys
- Harry
- Billy
- Carl
- Willie
- Joe
- Howard
- Louis
- Alfred
- Roy
- Clarence
- Fred
- Earl
- Lawrence
- Norman
- Francis
- Gerald
- Leonard
- Ernest
- Anthony
- Stanley
- Marvin
- Daniel
- Melvin
- Bernard
- Ronald
- Leroy
- Samuel
- Michael
- Floyd
- Russell
- Peter
- Ray
- Edwin
- Lloyd
- Andrew
- Leo
- Gene
- Bill
- Elmer
- Bobby
- Theodore
- Frederick
- Clifford
- Wayne
- Vernon
- Roger
- Alvin
- Philip
- Clyde
- Dale
- Glenn
- Gordon
- Herman
- Jerry
- Charlie
- Leon
- Vincent
- Martin
- Don
- Warren
- Lewis
- Lee
- Chester
- Lester
- Harvey
- Jesse
- Milton
- Allen
- Calvin
- Bob
- Gilbert
- Cecil
- Arnold
- Victor
- Jimmie
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1928.
Famous people born in 1928
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto · 4th President and 9th Prime Minister of PakistanJanuary 5
Walter Mondale · Vice President of the United States from 1977 to 1981January 5
Gene Sharp · American political scientistJanuary 21
Jeanne Moreau · French actress, singer, screenwriter and directorJanuary 23
Eduard Shevardnadze · Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomatJanuary 25
Roger Vadim · French filmmakerJanuary 26
Seymour Papert · MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educatorFebruary 29
Edward Albee · American playwrightMarch 12
Frank Borman · American astronautMarch 14
Fidel V. Ramos · President of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998March 18
Patrick McGoohan · Irish-American actorMarch 19
Fred Rogers · American television personalityMarch 20
Jim Lovell · American astronautMarch 25
Zbigniew Brzezinski · Polish-American diplomat and political scientistMarch 28
Alexander Grothendieck · French mathematicianMarch 28
Maya Angelou · American poet, author, and civil rights activistApril 4
James Watson · American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel LaureateApril 6
James Garner · American film and television actorApril 7
Alan J. Pakula · American film director, writer and producerApril 7
Estelle Harris · American actressApril 22
Shirley Temple · American actress and diplomatApril 23
Eugene Merle Shoemaker · American geologist and astronomerApril 28
Hosni Mubarak · President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011May 4
Arnold Rüütel · Estonian politician, former President of EstoniaMay 10
Burt Bacharach · American pianist, composer, producerMay 12
Rosemary Clooney · American singer and actressMay 23
Jack Kevorkian · American pathologist, euthanasia activistMay 26
Idi Amin · President of UgandaMay 30
Agnès Varda · French artist, film director, screenwriter and photographerMay 30
James Ivory · American film directorJune 7
Maurice Sendak · American illustrator and writer of children's booksJune 10
John Forbes Nash Jr. · American mathematician and economistJune 13
Martin Landau · American actorJune 20
Jean-Marie Le Pen · French politicianJune 20
Ralph Waite · American actorJune 22
Alexei Abrikosov · Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicistJune 25
Elias James Corey · American chemistJuly 12
Vera Rubin · American astronomer and physicistJuly 23
Stanley Kubrick · American filmmakerJuly 26
Francesco Cossiga · 8th President of ItalyJuly 26
Andy Warhol · American artist, film director, and producerAugust 6
James Randi · Canadian-American stage magician and skeptical movement adherentAugust 7
Bob Cousy · American basketball player and coachAugust 9
Karlheinz Stockhausen · German composerAugust 22
Herbert Kroemer · German-American physicsAugust 25
Osamu Shimomura · Japanese organic chemist and marine biologistAugust 27
James Coburn · American actorAugust 31
Adam West · American actorSeptember 19
Elie Wiesel · Romanian-born American writerSeptember 30
George Peppard · American actorOctober 1
Alvin Toffler · American writer, futurist and businessmanOctober 4
Mary Daly · American feminist philosopher and theologianOctober 16
Zhu Rongji · 5th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1998 to 2003October 23
Anthony Franciosa · American actorOctober 25
Daniel Nathans · American microbiologistOctober 30
Osamu Tezuka · Japanese cartoonist and animatorNovember 3
Anne Sexton · American poetNovember 9
Ennio Morricone · Italian composer, orchestrator and conductorNovember 10
Carlos Fuentes · Mexican writerNovember 11
Rance Howard · American actorNovember 17
Noam Chomsky · American linguist and activistDecember 7
Chinghiz Aitmatov · Soviet and Kyrgyz authorDecember 12
Friedensreich Hundertwasser · Austrian artistDecember 15
Philip K. Dick · American science fiction authorDecember 16
Martin Cooper · American engineer, father of mobile phoneDecember 26
Bo Diddley · American guitaristDecember 30