Born in 1941
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1941
Girls
- Mary
- Barbara
- Patricia
- Carol
- Linda
- Judith
- Betty
- Nancy
- Sandra
- Shirley
- Carolyn
- Margaret
- Joyce
- Dorothy
- Sharon
- Judy
- Joan
- Janet
- Karen
- Donna
- Elizabeth
- Janice
- Virginia
- Helen
- Martha
Boys
- James
- Robert
- John
- William
- Richard
- Charles
- David
- Thomas
- Ronald
- Donald
- Larry
- Joseph
- George
- Jerry
- Kenneth
- Michael
- Edward
- Paul
- Gary
- Gerald
- Frank
- Raymond
- Dennis
- Harold
- Roger
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Gloria
- Susan
- Ruth
- Beverly
- Marilyn
- Frances
- Jean
- Bonnie
- Alice
- Phyllis
- Kathleen
- Ann
- Doris
- Peggy
- Diane
- Brenda
- Marie
- Lois
- Elaine
- Geraldine
- Jane
- Norma
- Carole
- Rose
- Evelyn
- Catherine
- Patsy
- Wanda
- Joanne
- Charlotte
- Anna
- Dolores
- Joann
- Annie
- Sarah
- Sally
- Louise
- Rita
- Mildred
- Sylvia
- Jo
- Ellen
- Gail
- Ruby
- Kay
- Marjorie
- Roberta
- Jacqueline
- Irene
- Sue
- Darlene
- Arlene
- Eleanor
- Connie
- Delores
- Loretta
- Anne
- Marlene
- Juanita
- Katherine
- Rebecca
- Kathryn
- Julia
- Edna
- June
- Anita
- Josephine
- Lorraine
- Rosemary
- Theresa
- Glenda
- Suzanne
- Jeanette
- Emma
- Diana
Boys
- Walter
- Billy
- Henry
- Carl
- Joe
- Daniel
- Jack
- Arthur
- Lawrence
- Bobby
- Willie
- Wayne
- Ralph
- Roy
- Albert
- Stephen
- Eugene
- Fred
- Peter
- Jimmy
- Anthony
- Howard
- Harry
- Norman
- Louis
- Bruce
- Philip
- Douglas
- Johnny
- Leonard
- Melvin
- Stanley
- Earl
- Dale
- Francis
- Ernest
- Clarence
- Marvin
- Terry
- Samuel
- Don
- Leroy
- Bill
- Frederick
- Patrick
- Tommy
- Gene
- Allen
- Alfred
- Russell
- Herbert
- Phillip
- Eddie
- Ronnie
- Jim
- Lee
- Andrew
- Ray
- Alan
- Martin
- Glenn
- Bernard
- Tom
- Jimmie
- Steven
- Barry
- Gordon
- Leon
- Clifford
- Theodore
- Lloyd
- Edwin
- Franklin
- Jesse
- Curtis
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1941.
Famous people born in 1941
Hayao Miyazaki · Japanese animator, filmmaker, and mangakaJanuary 5
Joan Baez · American contemporary folk musicianJanuary 9
Faye Dunaway · American actressJanuary 14
Captain Beefheart · American musician and painterJanuary 15
Plácido Domingo · Spanish tenor and conductorJanuary 21
Neil Diamond · American recording artistJanuary 24
Dan Shechtman · Israeli scientistJanuary 24
Dick Cheney · Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009January 30
Leslie Lamport · American computer scientistFebruary 7
Nick Nolte · American actorFebruary 8
David Gross · American particle physicist and string theoristFebruary 19
Mahmoud Darwish · The national Palestinian poet, and authorMarch 13
Bernardo Bertolucci · Italian film director and screenwriterMarch 16
Bruno Ganz · Swiss actorMarch 22
Richard Dawkins · English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and authorMarch 26
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. · American astronomerMarch 29
Vivienne Westwood · British fashion designerApril 8
Michael Stuart Brown · American geneticist and Nobel laureateApril 13
Michael D. Higgins · President of IrelandApril 18
Ryan O'Neal · American actorApril 20
Ray Tomlinson · American computer programmerApril 23
Richard Holbrooke · American diplomatApril 24
Fethullah Gülen · Turkish preacher and imamApril 27
Karl Barry Sharpless · American chemist and Nobel LaureateApril 28
Nona Gaprindashvili · Soviet chess playerMay 3
Nora Ephron · American film director and writerMay 19
Bob Dylan · American singer-songwriterMay 24
William Nordhaus · American economistMay 31
Louis Ignarro · American physiologistMay 31
Stacy Keach · American actorJune 2
Martha Argerich · Argentine pianistJune 5
Jon Lord · English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ playerJune 9
Chick Corea · American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composerJune 12
Václav Klaus · President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013June 19
Joe Flaherty · American actor, writer, and comedianJune 21
Julia Kristeva · Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academicJune 24
Krzysztof Kieślowski · Polish film director and screenwriterJune 27
Otto Sander · German film, theater, and voice actorJune 30
Alfred G. Gilman · American pharmacologistJuly 1
Robert Forster · American actorJuly 13
George Clinton · American funk musician, singer, songwriter and music producerJuly 22
Sergio Mattarella · President of ItalyJuly 23
Jules A. Hoffmann · French biologistAugust 2
Martha Stewart · American businesswoman, writer, TV personalityAugust 3
David Crosby · American singer, guitarist and songwriterAugust 14
Slobodan Milošević · Yugoslav–Serbian politicianAugust 20
Cesária Évora · Cape Verdean singer-songwriterAugust 27
Bernie Sanders · United States Senator from VermontSeptember 8
Dennis Ritchie · American computer scientistSeptember 9
Otis Redding · American singer and songwriterSeptember 9
Stephen Jay Gould · American biologist and historian of scienceSeptember 10
Óscar Arias · President of Costa RicaSeptember 13
Ahmet Necdet Sezer · 10th President of TurkeySeptember 13
Cass Elliot · American singerSeptember 19
Linda McCartney · American photographer, musician and animal rights activistSeptember 24
Chubby Checker · American rock 'n roll singerOctober 3
Anne Rice · American authorOctober 4
Jesse Jackson · American Baptist ministerOctober 8
Paul Simon · American singer-songwriterOctober 13
Anne Tyler · American novelistOctober 25
Theodor W. Hänsch · German physicist and nobel laureateOctober 30
Art Garfunkel · American singerNovember 5
Pete Best · British musician, former member of the BeatlesNovember 24
Lee Myung-bak · President of South Korea from 2008 to 2013December 19
M. Stanley Whittingham · Nobel laureate in chemistry & American chemistDecember 22
Alex Ferguson · Scottish association football manager and former playerDecember 31