Born in 1944
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1944
Girls
- Mary
- Barbara
- Linda
- Patricia
- Carol
- Sandra
- Nancy
- Sharon
- Judith
- Betty
- Carolyn
- Judy
- Susan
- Margaret
- Shirley
- Karen
- Donna
- Joyce
- Dorothy
- Kathleen
- Janet
- Joan
- Elizabeth
- Diane
- Gloria
Boys
- James
- Robert
- John
- William
- Richard
- David
- Charles
- Thomas
- Michael
- Ronald
- Donald
- Larry
- Joseph
- George
- Gary
- Kenneth
- Paul
- Edward
- Jerry
- Dennis
- Frank
- Raymond
- Roger
- Gerald
- Daniel
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Virginia
- Marilyn
- Janice
- Martha
- Brenda
- Helen
- Ruth
- Frances
- Bonnie
- Beverly
- Cheryl
- Jean
- Alice
- Ann
- Phyllis
- Jane
- Doris
- Carole
- Pamela
- Peggy
- Elaine
- Lois
- Marie
- Catherine
- Charlotte
- Connie
- Rose
- Geraldine
- Joanne
- Rita
- Gail
- Evelyn
- Wanda
- Sally
- Diana
- Jo
- Sue
- Ellen
- Jacqueline
- Joann
- Norma
- Sarah
- Kathryn
- Louise
- Roberta
- Annie
- Patsy
- Eileen
- Anna
- Christine
- Darlene
- Katherine
- Suzanne
- Glenda
- Maria
- Mildred
- Paula
- Sylvia
- Rebecca
- Marjorie
- Anne
- Ruby
- Kay
- Marcia
- Dianne
- Irene
- Dolores
- Lorraine
- Juanita
- Anita
- Theresa
- Delores
- Loretta
- Rosemary
- Sherry
Boys
- Walter
- Harold
- Stephen
- Jack
- Arthur
- Willie
- Lawrence
- Joe
- Douglas
- Henry
- Carl
- Wayne
- Billy
- Roy
- Peter
- Jimmy
- Ralph
- Terry
- Albert
- Johnny
- Anthony
- Fred
- Eugene
- Harry
- Bobby
- Bruce
- Steven
- Howard
- Louis
- Alan
- Leonard
- Stanley
- Norman
- Ernest
- Philip
- Dale
- Samuel
- Russell
- Patrick
- Earl
- Bill
- Melvin
- Jim
- Ronnie
- Tommy
- Francis
- Don
- Frederick
- Clarence
- Marvin
- Danny
- Allen
- Leroy
- Eddie
- Mike
- Andrew
- Alfred
- Phillip
- Barry
- Lee
- Ray
- Tom
- Glenn
- Steve
- Herbert
- Martin
- Timothy
- Mark
- Bernard
- Gene
- Theodore
- Curtis
- Jimmie
- Clifford
- Warren
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1944.
Famous people born in 1944
Omar al-Bashir · President of Sudan from 1989 to 2019January 1
Mohammad Abdul Hamid · President of Bangladesh in 2013-2023January 1
Jimmy Page · English guitaristJanuary 9
William Sanderson · American actorJanuary 10
Joe Frazier · American boxerJanuary 12
Alexander Van der Bellen · President of Austria since 2017January 18
Rutger Hauer · Dutch actorJanuary 23
Angela Davis · American political activist, scholar, and authorJanuary 26
Mairead Maguire · Peace activistJanuary 27
Alice Walker · American author and activistFebruary 9
Jerry Springer · American television personality and politicianFebruary 13
Stockard Channing · American actressFebruary 13
Dzhokhar Dudayev · Soviet general, Chechen leaderFebruary 15
Jonathan Demme · American filmmakerFebruary 22
David J. Wineland · American physicistFebruary 24
Roger Scruton · English conservative philosopher and writerFebruary 27
Ene Ergma · Estonian politician and astrophysicistFebruary 29
Michael Rosbash · American geneticist and chronobiologistMarch 7
Andrew S. Tanenbaum · American-Dutch computer scientistMarch 16
R. Lee Ermey · American actor and soldierMarch 24
Diana Ross · American singer and actressMarch 26
Nana Akufo-Addo · President of Ghana from 2017 to 2025March 29
Gerhard Schröder · Chancellor of West GermanyApril 7
Makoto Kobayashi · Japanese theoretical physicistApril 7
Nguyễn Phú Trọng · General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 2011 to 2024April 14
James Heckman · American economistApril 19
Jill Clayburgh · American actressApril 30
John Rhys-Davies · Welsh actorMay 5
George Lucas · American filmmaker and philanthropistMay 14
Danny Trejo · Native Mexican-American character actorMay 16
Peter Mayhew · British-American actorMay 19
Joe Cocker · British singerMay 20
Mary Robinson · Former President of Ireland and former United Nations High CommissionerMay 21
Frank Oz · British and American director, actor, and puppeteerMay 25
Rudy Giuliani · American attorney and politicianMay 28
Michelle Phillips · American singer and actressJune 4
Phillip Allen Sharp · American biologistJune 6
Ban Ki-moon · 8th Secretary-General of the United NationsJune 13
Gary Busey · American actorJune 29
Ernő Rubik · Hungarian inventorJuly 13
Carlos Alberto Torres · Brazilian association football player and managerJuly 17
John Atta Mills · Sixth President of the Republic of GhanaJuly 21
Geraldine Chaplin · British-American actressJuly 31
Robert C. Merton · American economistJuly 31
Robert Mueller · American attorney and sixth director of the FBIAugust 7
Sam Elliott · American actorAugust 9
Larry Ellison · American internet entrepreneur and businessmanAugust 17
Rajiv Gandhi · Prime Minister of IndiaAugust 20
Donna Haraway · American philosopherSeptember 6
Serge Haroche · French physicist, Nobel laureateSeptember 11
Barry White · American soul singerSeptember 12
Jacqueline Bisset · English actressSeptember 13
Yoweri Museveni · President of Uganda since 1986September 15
Reinhold Messner · Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorerSeptember 17
Michael Douglas · American actor, producer and activistSeptember 25
Miloš Zeman · Czech politician, president of the Czech Republic from 2013 to 2023September 28
Kuniya Daini · Japanese association football playerOctober 12
Sali Berisha · Albanian politicianOctober 15
David Trimble · First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002October 15
Jean-Pierre Sauvage · French nanotechnologistOctober 21
Rafic Hariri · Prime Minister of LebanonNovember 1
Gigi Riva · Italian association football playerNovember 7
Danny DeVito · American actor, comedian, director and producerNovember 17
Harold Ramis · American actor, comedian, and filmmakerNovember 21
Ben Stein · American actor, writer, commentator, lawyer, teacher, humoristNovember 25
Ibrahim Rugova · President of KosovoDecember 2
Andris Bērziņš · Eighth president of LatviaDecember 10
Teri Garr · American actressDecember 11
Kary Mullis · American biochemistDecember 28