Born in 1936
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1936
Girls
- Mary
- Shirley
- Barbara
- Betty
- Patricia
- Dorothy
- Joan
- Nancy
- Margaret
- Carol
- Helen
- Joyce
- Marilyn
- Virginia
- Doris
- Ruth
- Beverly
- Elizabeth
- Frances
- Jean
- Janet
- Donna
- Carolyn
- Martha
- Phyllis
Boys
- Robert
- James
- John
- William
- Richard
- Charles
- Donald
- Thomas
- George
- David
- Joseph
- Ronald
- Edward
- Kenneth
- Paul
- Frank
- Raymond
- Jerry
- Gerald
- Jack
- Harold
- Billy
- Joe
- Bobby
- Larry
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Lois
- Alice
- Ann
- Norma
- Dolores
- Janice
- Gloria
- Marie
- Evelyn
- Peggy
- Anna
- Rose
- Sandra
- Marlene
- Mildred
- Geraldine
- Jane
- Judith
- Catherine
- Annie
- Louise
- Eleanor
- Joanne
- Marjorie
- Elaine
- Ruby
- Patsy
- Sylvia
- Arlene
- Joann
- Wanda
- Irene
- Delores
- Sally
- Sharon
- Charlotte
- June
- Sarah
- Roberta
- Bonnie
- Jacqueline
- Kathleen
- Audrey
- Rita
- Loretta
- Edna
- Jo
- Carole
- Thelma
- Juanita
- Lorraine
- Josephine
- Wilma
- Lillian
- Florence
- Yvonne
- Pauline
- Darlene
- Gladys
- Emma
- Grace
- Edith
- Theresa
- Anne
- Ethel
- Clara
- Lucille
- Marion
- Jeanette
- Bernice
- Hazel
- Linda
- Kay
- Ellen
- Katherine
Boys
- Walter
- Carl
- Henry
- Eugene
- Arthur
- Ralph
- Willie
- Michael
- Albert
- Roger
- Fred
- Lawrence
- Gary
- Harry
- Howard
- Daniel
- Roy
- Norman
- Louis
- Wayne
- Jimmy
- Earl
- Anthony
- Marvin
- Francis
- Don
- Clarence
- Melvin
- Leonard
- Ernest
- Peter
- Leroy
- Stanley
- Dale
- Alfred
- Bill
- Herbert
- Philip
- Franklin
- Ray
- Gene
- Samuel
- Bernard
- Russell
- Frederick
- Jimmie
- Johnny
- Bruce
- Dennis
- Gordon
- Lee
- Bob
- Douglas
- Eddie
- Glenn
- Allen
- Leon
- Andrew
- Edwin
- Jim
- Floyd
- Theodore
- Lloyd
- Clyde
- Clifford
- Tommy
- Martin
- Vernon
- Leo
- Warren
- Alvin
- Harvey
- Jerome
- Stephen
- Lewis
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1936.
Famous people born in 1936
Robert Woodrow Wilson · American astronomerJanuary 10
Masashi Watanabe · Japanese association football player and managerJanuary 11
Alan J. Heeger · American chemist, physicistJanuary 22
Samuel C. C. Ting · Chinese-American physicistJanuary 27
Barry Barish · American physicistJanuary 27
Alan Alda · American actorJanuary 28
Ismail Kadare · Albanian writerJanuary 28
Burt Reynolds · American actorFebruary 11
Jim Brown · American football player and actorFebruary 17
J. Michael Bishop · American immunologist and microbiologistFebruary 22
Jim Clark · British racecar driverMarch 4
Dean Stockwell · American actorMarch 5
Sepp Blatter · 8th President of the International Federation of Association FootballMarch 10
Harald zur Hausen · German virologist and professor emeritusMarch 11
Ken Mattingly · American astronautMarch 17
F. W. de Klerk · 7th state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994March 18
Ursula Andress · Swiss actressMarch 19
Mario Vargas Llosa · Peruvian, Spanish and Dominican novelist and writerMarch 28
Amancio Ortega · Spanish business tycoonMarch 28
Valerie Solanas · American radical feminist and authorApril 9
Glen Campbell · American musicianApril 22
Roy Orbison · American musicianApril 23
Zubin Mehta · Indian conductorApril 29
Glenda Jackson · British actress and politicianMay 9
Albert Finney · British actorMay 9
Bobby Darin · American singer and actorMay 14
Dennis Hopper · American actor and film directorMay 17
Günter Blobel · German American biologistMay 21
Louis Gossett Jr. · American actorMay 27
Bruce Dern · American actorJune 4
Kenneth G. Wilson · Nobel prize winning US physicistJune 8
Ken Loach · English film director and screenwriterJune 17
Kris Kristofferson · American country singer, songwriter and actorJune 22
Richard Bach · American spiritual writerJune 23
Paul L. Smith · American actorJune 24
B. J. Habibie · 3rd President of Indonesia and 7th Vice President of IndonesiaJune 25
Assia Djebar · French Algerian writer, translator and film directorJune 30
Shirley Knight · American actressJuly 5
Yasuo Fukuda · Prime Minister of Japan from 2007 to 2008July 16
Yves Saint Laurent · French fashion designerAugust 1
Margaret Hamilton · American NASA scientist and mathematicianAugust 17
Robert Redford · American actor and directorAugust 18
Wilt Chamberlain · American basketball playerAugust 21
Benedict Anderson · American political scientistAugust 26
John McCain · American politicianAugust 29
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali · Tunisian politicianSeptember 3
Buddy Holly · American rock and roll singerSeptember 7
Ferid Murad · American physician and pharmacologistSeptember 14
Al Oerter · American athleteSeptember 19
Jim Henson · American puppeteerSeptember 24
Winnie Mandela · South African activist and politicianSeptember 26
Silvio Berlusconi · Italian media tycoon and politicianSeptember 29
Steve Reich · American composerOctober 3
Václav Havel · Czech statesmanOctober 5
Gerhard Ertl · German physicistOctober 10
Virna Lisi · Italian actressNovember 8
Mikhail Tal · Soviet-Latvian chess playerNovember 9
Don DeLillo · American novelist, playwright and essayistNovember 20
David Carradine · American actorDecember 8
Aga Khan IV · 49th Imam of Nizari Isma'ilism MuslimsDecember 13
Pope Francis · 266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025December 17
Mary Tyler Moore · American actress and television producerDecember 29