Born in 1945
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1945
Girls
- Mary
- Linda
- Barbara
- Patricia
- Carol
- Sandra
- Nancy
- Sharon
- Judith
- Susan
- Betty
- Carolyn
- Judy
- Shirley
- Margaret
- Karen
- Donna
- Joyce
- Kathleen
- Dorothy
- Janet
- Diane
- Gloria
- Janice
- Joan
Boys
- James
- Robert
- John
- William
- Richard
- David
- Charles
- Thomas
- Michael
- Ronald
- Larry
- Donald
- Gary
- Joseph
- George
- Kenneth
- Paul
- Edward
- Dennis
- Jerry
- Frank
- Roger
- Raymond
- Daniel
- Gerald
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Elizabeth
- Marilyn
- Virginia
- Brenda
- Martha
- Helen
- Cheryl
- Ruth
- Frances
- Bonnie
- Jane
- Beverly
- Jean
- Ann
- Phyllis
- Alice
- Pamela
- Diana
- Elaine
- Peggy
- Doris
- Connie
- Lois
- Marie
- Catherine
- Carole
- Gail
- Joanne
- Rose
- Charlotte
- Geraldine
- Evelyn
- Wanda
- Rita
- Jo
- Ellen
- Christine
- Jacqueline
- Sally
- Kathryn
- Sue
- Paula
- Suzanne
- Annie
- Eileen
- Darlene
- Dianne
- Anna
- Norma
- Roberta
- Sarah
- Laura
- Louise
- Rosemary
- Joann
- Anne
- Katherine
- Sylvia
- Patsy
- Rebecca
- Maria
- Lorraine
- Marcia
- Sheila
- Cynthia
- Kay
- Glenda
- Mildred
- Marjorie
- Ruby
- Theresa
- Irene
- Jeanne
- Arlene
- Anita
Boys
- Stephen
- Walter
- Harold
- Douglas
- Lawrence
- Willie
- Jack
- Terry
- Arthur
- Wayne
- Joe
- Henry
- Peter
- Carl
- Roy
- Jimmy
- Billy
- Steven
- Ralph
- Johnny
- Anthony
- Harry
- Bruce
- Albert
- Eugene
- Fred
- Alan
- Bobby
- Howard
- Louis
- Danny
- Leonard
- Philip
- Stanley
- Ernest
- Dale
- Samuel
- Patrick
- Russell
- Norman
- Bill
- Ronnie
- Jim
- Mike
- Timothy
- Earl
- Mark
- Don
- Allen
- Francis
- Tommy
- Frederick
- Melvin
- Steve
- Marvin
- Eddie
- Clarence
- Leroy
- Barry
- Phillip
- Andrew
- Lee
- Tom
- Alfred
- Martin
- Jeffrey
- Ray
- Glenn
- Herbert
- Victor
- Gregory
- Curtis
- Bernard
- Clifford
- Gene
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1945.
Famous people born in 1945
Richard R. Schrock · American chemistJanuary 4
Rod Stewart · English singer and songwriterJanuary 10
Jeremy Rifkin · American economistJanuary 26
Tom Selleck · American actorJanuary 29
Bob Marley · Jamaican reggae musicianFebruary 6
Mia Farrow · American actressFebruary 9
Yoshinori Ohsumi · Japanese molecular biologistFebruary 9
Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein · Monarch of LiechtensteinFebruary 14
George Smoot · American astrophysicist and cosmologistFebruary 20
Anselm Kiefer · German painter and sculptorMarch 8
Rodrigo Duterte · President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022March 28
Eric Clapton · British musicianMarch 30
Linda Hunt · American actressApril 2
Ritchie Blackmore · British guitaristApril 14
Jeffrey C. Hall · American geneticist and chronobiologistMay 3
Keith Jarrett · American jazz/classical pianist and composerMay 8
Jupp Heynckes · German football managerMay 9
Yochanan Vollach · Israeli footballerMay 14
Pete Townshend · British musicianMay 19
Priscilla Presley · American actress and businesswomanMay 24
John Fogerty · American musicianMay 28
Laurent Gbagbo · 4th President of Ivory CoastMay 31
Adrienne Barbeau · American actressJune 11
Eddy Merckx · Belgian cyclistJune 17
Aung San Suu Kyi · Former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National LeagueJune 19
Chandrika Kumaratunga · President of Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2005June 29
Debbie Harry · American singer, songwriter and actress, frontwoman of BlondieJuly 1
Moncef Marzouki · Tunisian politicianJuly 7
Dean Koontz · American writer and screenwriterJuly 9
Helen Mirren · British actressJuly 26
Jim Davis · American cartoonistJuly 28
Patrick Modiano · French writerJuly 30
Douglas Osheroff · American physicistAugust 1
Loni Anderson · American actressAugust 5
Steve Martin · American comedian, actor, musician and writerAugust 14
Wim Wenders · German filmmakerAugust 14
Khaleda Zia · Prime Minister of BangladeshAugust 15
Vince McMahon · American professional wrestling promoterAugust 24
Marsha P. Johnson · Black American queer liberation activistAugust 24
Itzhak Perlman · Israeli-American violinist and conductorAugust 31
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi · President of Yemen from 2012 to 2022September 1
Franz Beckenbauer · German sports official and association football playerSeptember 11
Jessye Norman · American opera singerSeptember 15
Phil Jackson · American basketball player, coach and executiveSeptember 17
John McAfee · British-American programmer and businessmanSeptember 18
Ehud Olmert · Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009September 30
Ram Nath Kovind · President of India from 2017 to 2022October 1
Don McLean · American singer-songwriterOctober 2
Huell Howser · American television personalityOctober 18
John Lithgow · American actorOctober 19
Divine · American actor, singer and drag queenOctober 19
Angus Deaton · British microeconomistOctober 19
Nikita Mikhalkov · Russian film director, writer, producer and actorOctober 21
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva · President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011 and since 2023October 27
Henry Winkler · American actorOctober 30
Gerd Müller · German footballerNovember 3
Daniel Ortega · President of NicaraguaNovember 11
Neil Young · Canadian singer, songwriter and filmmakerNovember 12
Anni-Frid Lyngstad · Swedish singerNovember 15
Abdelmadjid Tebboune · President of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria since 2019November 17
Mahinda Rajapaksa · President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015November 18
Goldie Hawn · American actressNovember 21
James Avery · American actorNovember 27
Bette Midler · American singer and actressDecember 1
Marek Grechuta · Polish singer and composerDecember 10
Herman Cain · American businessmanDecember 13
Adly Mansour · Egyptian judge and statesmanDecember 23
Lemmy · British rock musicianDecember 24