Born in 1930
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1930
Girls
- Mary
- Betty
- Dorothy
- Helen
- Margaret
- Barbara
- Patricia
- Joan
- Doris
- Ruth
- Shirley
- Virginia
- Dolores
- Jean
- Elizabeth
- Frances
- Lois
- Joyce
- Evelyn
- Alice
- Mildred
- Marilyn
- Anna
- Nancy
- Norma
Boys
- Robert
- James
- John
- William
- Richard
- Charles
- Donald
- George
- Joseph
- Edward
- Thomas
- Paul
- Frank
- Jack
- David
- Raymond
- Kenneth
- Harold
- Walter
- Billy
- Eugene
- Henry
- Arthur
- Albert
- Ralph
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Marie
- Martha
- Phyllis
- Rose
- Gloria
- Louise
- Marjorie
- Irene
- Beverly
- Catherine
- Ruby
- Donna
- Florence
- Eleanor
- Annie
- Ann
- Rita
- Geraldine
- Lillian
- Thelma
- Lorraine
- June
- Gladys
- Josephine
- Theresa
- Edna
- Pauline
- Janet
- Carol
- Jane
- Wanda
- Juanita
- Bernice
- Lucille
- Marion
- Edith
- Grace
- Audrey
- Clara
- Ethel
- Delores
- Peggy
- Wilma
- Elaine
- Sarah
- Hazel
- Carolyn
- Emma
- Jacqueline
- Charlotte
- Beatrice
- Esther
- Bonnie
- Billie
- Marian
- Joanne
- Rosemary
- Anne
- Kathleen
- Katherine
- Eva
- Willie
- Elsie
- Laura
- Julia
- Vivian
- Jeanne
- Maxine
- Ida
- Bertha
- Gertrude
- Patsy
- Sally
- Maria
- Ellen
Boys
- Carl
- Joe
- Harry
- Willie
- Gerald
- Howard
- Fred
- Roy
- Louis
- Herbert
- Lawrence
- Ronald
- Earl
- Clarence
- Norman
- Bobby
- Francis
- Ernest
- Anthony
- Leonard
- Alfred
- Daniel
- Marvin
- Stanley
- Melvin
- Jerry
- Bernard
- Leroy
- Michael
- Samuel
- Peter
- Ray
- Roger
- Bill
- Russell
- Floyd
- Andrew
- Leo
- Dale
- Wayne
- Edwin
- Theodore
- Don
- Lloyd
- Gene
- Glenn
- Vernon
- Clifford
- Frederick
- Philip
- Clyde
- Gordon
- Herman
- Alvin
- Elmer
- Leon
- Lee
- Martin
- Vincent
- Allen
- Jimmie
- Lewis
- Bob
- Douglas
- Gilbert
- Charlie
- Harvey
- Milton
- Jesse
- Lester
- Warren
- Eddie
- Arnold
- Cecil
- Victor
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1930.
Famous people born in 1930
Robert Loggia · American actorJanuary 3
Tippi Hedren · American actress, model and activistJanuary 19
Buzz Aldrin · American astronautJanuary 20
Derek Walcott · Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwrightJanuary 23
Gene Hackman · American actor and novelistJanuary 30
Robert Wagner · American actorFebruary 10
John Frankenheimer · American film and television directorFebruary 19
Joanne Woodward · American actressFebruary 27
Leon Cooper · American physicistFebruary 28
Tom Wolfe · American author and journalistMarch 2
Ion Iliescu · President of RomaniaMarch 3
Lorin Maazel · French-American conductorMarch 6
Stanley Miller · American scientistMarch 7
Martin Karplus · Austrian-born American theoretical chemistMarch 15
Zhores Alferov · Soviet-Russian physicistMarch 15
James Irwin · American astronautMarch 17
Lina Kostenko · Ukrainian writerMarch 19
Stephen Sondheim · American composer and lyricistMarch 22
Steve McQueen · American actorMarch 24
Sandra Day O'Connor · American lawyer and juristMarch 26
Jerome Isaac Friedman · American physicistMarch 28
Helmut Kohl · Chancellor of West Germany and reunified GermanyApril 3
Anton LaVey · Founder of the Church of SatanApril 11
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir · Icelandic politician, 4th President of IcelandApril 15
Richard Donner · American film directorApril 24
James Baker · American lawyer and statesmanApril 28
George E. Smith · Nobel prize winning American physicistMay 10
Edsger W. Dijkstra · Dutch computer scientistMay 11
Jasper Johns · American painter and sculptorMay 15
Harvey Milk · American politician and gay rights activistMay 22
John Barth · American writerMay 27
Frank Drake · American astronomer and astrophysicistMay 28
Clint Eastwood · American actor and film directorMay 31
Pete Conrad · American astronaut and lunar explorerJune 2
Marion Zimmer Bradley · American novelist and editorJune 3
Robert Aumann · Israeli-American mathematicianJune 8
Gena Rowlands · American actressJune 19
Ross Perot · American businessman and politicianJune 27
Thomas Sowell · American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and authorJune 30
Carlos Menem · Argentinean president between 1989 and 1999July 2
Tadao Kobayashi · Japanese association football playerJuly 7
Harold Bloom · American literary critic, scholar, and writerJuly 11
Jacques Derrida · French philosopherJuly 15
Pierre Bourdieu · French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopherAugust 1
Lawrence Eagleburger · American statesman and diplomatAugust 1
Neil Armstrong · American astronaut and lunar explorerAugust 5
George Soros · Hungarian-American investor and philanthropistAugust 12
Frank McCourt · Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writerAugust 19
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon · British princessAugust 21
Vera Miles · American actressAugust 23
Sean Connery · Scottish actorAugust 25
Ben Gazzara · American actorAugust 28
Warren Buffett · American investor, entrepreneur and businessmanAugust 30
Sonny Rollins · American jazz saxophonist and composerSeptember 7
Baudouin of Belgium · Fifth king of the BelgiansSeptember 7
Edgar Mitchell · American astronautSeptember 17
Thomas P. Stafford · American astronautSeptember 17
Ray Charles · American singer, pianist and songwriterSeptember 23
John Young · American astronaut, naval officer, test pilot and aeronautical engineerSeptember 24
Immanuel Wallerstein · American sociologist and economic historianSeptember 28
Richard Harris · Irish actor and singerOctober 1
Reinhard Selten · German economistOctober 5
Hafez al-Assad · President of Syria from 1971 to 2000October 6
Harold Pinter · British playwrightOctober 10
Mobutu Sese Seko · Congolese politician and military officerOctober 14
Michael Collins · American astronautOctober 31
Ed White · American astronautNovember 14
J. G. Ballard · British novelistNovember 15
Chinua Achebe · Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and criticNovember 16
Gary Becker · American economistDecember 2
Jean-Luc Godard · French and Swiss film directorDecember 3
Maximilian Schell · Swiss and Austrian film and stage actorDecember 8
Tu Youyou · Chinese medical scientistDecember 30