Born in 1929
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1929
Girls
- Mary
- Betty
- Dorothy
- Helen
- Margaret
- Doris
- Barbara
- Ruth
- Shirley
- Patricia
- Virginia
- Jean
- Joan
- Dolores
- Elizabeth
- Frances
- Lois
- Mildred
- Evelyn
- Anna
- Alice
- Marie
- Joyce
- Phyllis
- Norma
Boys
- Robert
- James
- John
- William
- Charles
- Richard
- Donald
- George
- Joseph
- Edward
- Thomas
- Frank
- Paul
- Jack
- Raymond
- Harold
- David
- Kenneth
- Walter
- Eugene
- Henry
- Arthur
- Billy
- Albert
- Herbert
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Rose
- Martha
- Gloria
- Irene
- Marjorie
- Louise
- Nancy
- Marilyn
- Catherine
- Florence
- Ruby
- Annie
- Eleanor
- Beverly
- Lillian
- Thelma
- Lorraine
- Geraldine
- Gladys
- Josephine
- Ann
- Donna
- June
- Theresa
- Pauline
- Edna
- Rita
- Marion
- Grace
- Bernice
- Ethel
- Lucille
- Audrey
- Edith
- Juanita
- Wanda
- Jane
- Carol
- Hazel
- Clara
- Wilma
- Elaine
- Sarah
- Emma
- Peggy
- Esther
- Beatrice
- Charlotte
- Delores
- Marian
- Willie
- Carolyn
- Elsie
- Billie
- Rosemary
- Vivian
- Janet
- Eva
- Katherine
- Maxine
- Bonnie
- Jacqueline
- Julia
- Kathleen
- Laura
- Anne
- Jeanne
- Bertha
- Agnes
- Gertrude
- Ida
- Ellen
- Eileen
- Vera
- Maria
Boys
- Ralph
- Harry
- Carl
- Willie
- Joe
- Howard
- Louis
- Gerald
- Fred
- Roy
- Earl
- Clarence
- Lawrence
- Francis
- Norman
- Alfred
- Leonard
- Ernest
- Anthony
- Ronald
- Marvin
- Daniel
- Stanley
- Melvin
- Bobby
- Leroy
- Bernard
- Samuel
- Michael
- Peter
- Russell
- Ray
- Floyd
- Andrew
- Leo
- Jerry
- Lloyd
- Bill
- Roger
- Theodore
- Edwin
- Frederick
- Gene
- Wayne
- Elmer
- Vernon
- Clifford
- Dale
- Clyde
- Herman
- Philip
- Alvin
- Don
- Gordon
- Glenn
- Leon
- Vincent
- Martin
- Lewis
- Lee
- Allen
- Charlie
- Lester
- Bob
- Harvey
- Gilbert
- Warren
- Jesse
- Milton
- Arnold
- Chester
- Douglas
- Jimmie
- Curtis
- Victor
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1929.
Famous people born in 1929
Gordon Moore · American businessman, co-founder of Intel CorporationJanuary 3
Sergio Leone · Italian filmmakerJanuary 3
Alasdair MacIntyre · Scottish-American philosopherJanuary 12
Martin Luther King Jr. · American Baptist minister and civil rights leaderJanuary 15
Claes Oldenburg · American sculptor and printmakerJanuary 28
Isamu Akasaki · Japanese engineerJanuary 30
Jean Simmons · British-American actressJanuary 31
Jerry Goldsmith · American film composerFebruary 10
Frank Gehry · Canadian and American architectFebruary 28
Hebe Camargo · Brazilian recording artist, television host, actress and singerMarch 8
Zillur Rahman · 19th President of BangladeshMarch 9
Peter L. Berger · American sociologistMarch 17
Yayoi Kusama · Japanese artistMarch 22
P. Ramlee · Malaysian singer, actor and film directorMarch 22
Milan Kundera · Franco-Czechoslovak poet and novelistApril 1
Ivar Giaever · Norwegian-American physicistApril 5
André Previn · German-American conductor, pianist, and composerApril 6
Jacques Brel · Belgian singerApril 8
Max von Sydow · Swedish-French actorApril 10
George Steiner · American writerApril 23
Édouard Balladur · 91st Prime Minister of FranceMay 2
Audrey Hepburn · British actressMay 4
Ronald Golias · Brazilian actor and comedianMay 4
Paul Lauterbur · American chemistMay 6
Miyoshi Umeki · Japanese-American actress and singerMay 8
Adrienne Rich · American poet, essayist and feministMay 16
Beverly Sills · American operatic sopranoMay 25
Peter Higgs · British physicist and Nobel Prize winnerMay 29
Werner Arber · Swiss microbiologist and geneticistJune 3
Karolos Papoulias · 6th President of GreeceJune 4
E. O. Wilson · American biologist, naturalist, and writerJune 10
Anne Frank · German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victimJune 12
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah · Emir of KuwaitJune 16
Tigran Petrosian · Soviet Armenian Grandmaster and World Chess ChampionJune 17
Jürgen Habermas · German sociologist and philosopherJune 18
June Carter Cash · American singerJune 23
Carolyn S. Shoemaker · American astronomer, researcher and university teacherJune 24
Jean-Joseph Sanfourche · French artistJune 25
Oriana Fallaci · Italian journalistJune 29
Gerald Edelman · American biologistJuly 1
Imelda Marcos · Philippine former First LadyJuly 2
Hassan II · King of Morocco from 1961 to 1999July 9
Vasily Shukshin · Soviet actor, writer, screenwriter and film directorJuly 25
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis · First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963July 28
Bill Evans · American jazz pianistAugust 16
Francis Gary Powers · American pilot shot down flying a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet UnionAugust 17
Bob Newhart · American stand-up comedian and actorSeptember 5
Arnold Palmer · American golferSeptember 10
Murray Gell-Mann · American physicistSeptember 15
Barbara Walters · American broadcast journalistSeptember 25
Lata Mangeshkar · Indian singerSeptember 28
Richard F. Gordon Jr. · American astronautOctober 5
Ursula K. Le Guin · American fantasy and science fiction authorOctober 21
Yevgeny Primakov · 4th Russian Prime MinisterOctober 29
Bud Spencer · Italian actor, lawyer, professional swimmer and water polo playerOctober 31
Richard E. Taylor · Canadian physicistNovember 2
June Squibb · American actressNovember 6
Eric Kandel · American neuropsychiatristNovember 7
Imre Kertész · Hungarian authorNovember 9
Grace Kelly · American actress and Princess consort of MonacoNovember 12
Michael Ende · German writerNovember 12
Ed Asner · American actorNovember 15
John Cassavetes · Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriterDecember 9
Christopher Plummer · Canadian actorDecember 13
Chet Baker · American jazz trumpeter and vocalistDecember 23