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Born in 1943

The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.

Top 100 baby names of 1943

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Barbara
  3. Patricia
  4. Linda
  5. Carol
  6. Sandra
  7. Judith
  8. Sharon
  9. Nancy
  10. Betty
  11. Carolyn
  12. Shirley
  13. Judy
  14. Margaret
  15. Karen
  16. Joyce
  17. Donna
  18. Susan
  19. Dorothy
  20. Janet
  21. Joan
  22. Kathleen
  23. Elizabeth
  24. Diane
  25. Virginia
Boys
  1. James
  2. Robert
  3. John
  4. William
  5. Richard
  6. David
  7. Charles
  8. Thomas
  9. Ronald
  10. Michael
  11. Donald
  12. Larry
  13. Joseph
  14. George
  15. Kenneth
  16. Gary
  17. Jerry
  18. Edward
  19. Paul
  20. Dennis
  21. Frank
  22. Raymond
  23. Gerald
  24. Roger
  25. Daniel
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Janice
  2. Marilyn
  3. Helen
  4. Martha
  5. Gloria
  6. Frances
  7. Beverly
  8. Ruth
  9. Bonnie
  10. Brenda
  11. Jean
  12. Ann
  13. Alice
  14. Phyllis
  15. Doris
  16. Peggy
  17. Carole
  18. Lois
  19. Jane
  20. Marie
  21. Elaine
  22. Charlotte
  23. Catherine
  24. Joanne
  25. Rose
  26. Geraldine
  27. Rita
  28. Evelyn
  29. Pamela
  30. Gail
  31. Wanda
  32. Sally
  33. Norma
  34. Connie
  35. Joann
  36. Patsy
  37. Diana
  38. Jo
  39. Anna
  40. Jacqueline
  41. Roberta
  42. Ellen
  43. Eileen
  44. Annie
  45. Louise
  46. Sarah
  47. Sue
  48. Darlene
  49. Dolores
  50. Kathryn
  51. Mildred
  52. Sylvia
  53. Katherine
  54. Marjorie
  55. Anne
  56. Kay
  57. Ruby
  58. Glenda
  59. Christine
  60. Irene
  61. Suzanne
  62. Rebecca
  63. Dianne
  64. Loretta
  65. Arlene
  66. Juanita
  67. Sheila
  68. Paula
  69. Lorraine
  70. Julia
  71. Marcia
  72. Rosemary
  73. Anita
  74. Delores
  75. Theresa
Boys
  1. Walter
  2. Harold
  3. Douglas
  4. Stephen
  5. Arthur
  6. Henry
  7. Lawrence
  8. Carl
  9. Jack
  10. Joe
  11. Willie
  12. Billy
  13. Roy
  14. Peter
  15. Ralph
  16. Wayne
  17. Jimmy
  18. Albert
  19. Anthony
  20. Fred
  21. Bobby
  22. Eugene
  23. Howard
  24. Terry
  25. Harry
  26. Bruce
  27. Johnny
  28. Louis
  29. Stanley
  30. Leonard
  31. Norman
  32. Philip
  33. Steven
  34. Dale
  35. Earl
  36. Ernest
  37. Samuel
  38. Melvin
  39. Francis
  40. Bill
  41. Marvin
  42. Alan
  43. Clarence
  44. Patrick
  45. Frederick
  46. Ronnie
  47. Don
  48. Russell
  49. Leroy
  50. Jim
  51. Allen
  52. Tommy
  53. Alfred
  54. Andrew
  55. Eddie
  56. Phillip
  57. Barry
  58. Martin
  59. Ray
  60. Glenn
  61. Herbert
  62. Tom
  63. Danny
  64. Gene
  65. Mike
  66. Lee
  67. Bernard
  68. Steve
  69. Clifford
  70. Jimmie
  71. Theodore
  72. Victor
  73. Gordon
  74. Timothy
  75. Curtis
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1943.

Famous people born in 1943

Shannon Lucid · American biochemist and retired NASA astronautJanuary 14
Holland Taylor · American actressJanuary 14
Janis Joplin · American singerJanuary 19
Sharon Tate · American actress and modelJanuary 24
Tobe Hooper · American film director, screenwriter and producerJanuary 25
Blythe Danner · American actressFebruary 3
Ken Thompson · American programmer and computer scientistFebruary 4
Michael Mann · American film director, screenwriter, and producerFebruary 5
Nolan Bushnell · American entrepreneurFebruary 5
Joseph Stiglitz · American economistFebruary 9
Joe Pesci · American actorFebruary 9
Horst Köhler · German politicianFebruary 22
George Harrison · English musician and member of the BeatlesFebruary 25
Bobby Fischer · American chess playerMarch 9
David Cronenberg · Canadian filmmakerMarch 15
Mario Monti · Italian economist and politicianMarch 19
Mario Molina · Mexican chemical engineerMarch 19
George Benson · American guitarist and singerMarch 22
Bob Woodward · American investigative journalistMarch 26
John Major · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997March 29
Vangelis · Greek composerMarch 29
Christopher Walken · American actorMarch 31
Robert Lefkowitz · American physician and biochemistApril 15
Louise Glück · U.S. poet and Nobel laureateApril 22
Michael Palin · English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenterMay 5
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson · Icelandic politician, 5th President of IcelandMay 14
Betty Williams · Northern Irish peace activistMay 22
Richard Smalley · American chemistJune 6
Malcolm McDowell · British actorJune 13
Johnny Hallyday · French musician, singer and actorJune 15
Newt Gingrich · American politician and former speaker of the United States HouseJune 17
Barry Manilow · American singerJune 17
J. Michael Kosterlitz · British-American physicistJune 22
Vint Cerf · American computer scientistJune 23
Carly Simon · American musicianJune 25
Klaus von Klitzing · German physicistJune 28
Toto Cutugno · Italian recording artistJuly 7
Arthur Ashe · American tennis playerJuly 10
Howard Gardner · American developmental psychologist & academicJuly 11
Thomas J. Sargent · American economistJuly 19
Mick Jagger · British singer and songwriterJuly 26
Louis E. Brus · American chemistAugust 10
Pervez Musharraf · Pakistani soldier and politicianAugust 11
Barbara Bouchet · German-American actress and entrepreneuseAugust 15
Robert De Niro · American actorAugust 17
Roger Waters · English musician, co-founder of Pink FloydSeptember 6
Sani Abacha · Nigerian military rulerSeptember 20
Jerry Bruckheimer · American film and television producerSeptember 21
Julio Iglesias · Spanish singer and lawyerSeptember 23
Antonio Tabucchi · Italian writer and literary scholarSeptember 24
Lech Wałęsa · President of Poland from 1990 to 1995September 29
Jean-Jacques Annaud · French film director, screenwriter and producerOctober 1
Chevy Chase · American actor, comedian and writerOctober 8
R. L. Stine · American novelistOctober 8
Mohammad Khatami · President of Iran from 1997 to 2005October 14
Penny Marshall · American actress, director and producerOctober 15
Tariq Ali · British political activist, writer, and historianOctober 21
Catherine Deneuve · French actressOctober 22
Sam Shepard · American playwright and actorNovember 5
Michael Spence · American economistNovember 7
Joni Mitchell · Canadian musicianNovember 7
Wallace Shawn · American actor and playwrightNovember 12
Billie Jean King · American tennis playerNovember 22
Denis Sassou Nguesso · President of the Republic of the CongoNovember 23
Takaji Mori · Japanese association football player and managerNovember 24
Marilynne Robinson · American novelist and essayistNovember 26
Randy Newman · American singer-songwriter and pianistNovember 28
Terrence Malick · American film director and screenwriterNovember 30
Finn E. Kydland · Norwegian economistDecember 1
Jim Morrison · American singer and poetDecember 8
John Kerry · American politician and diplomatDecember 11
Keith Richards · British musician, guitarist of the Rolling StonesDecember 18
Paul Wolfowitz · American politician and diplomatDecember 22
Queen Silvia of Sweden · Queen consort of SwedenDecember 23
Tarja Halonen · President of Finland from 2000 to 2012December 24
John Denver · American singerDecember 31
Ben Kingsley · English actorDecember 31

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