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Born in 1949

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

Top 100 baby names of 1949

Girls
  1. Linda
  2. Mary
  3. Patricia
  4. Barbara
  5. Susan
  6. Sandra
  7. Nancy
  8. Carol
  9. Kathleen
  10. Sharon
  11. Karen
  12. Donna
  13. Brenda
  14. Margaret
  15. Deborah
  16. Judith
  17. Carolyn
  18. Shirley
  19. Diane
  20. Judy
  21. Pamela
  22. Betty
  23. Janet
  24. Janice
  25. Elizabeth
Boys
  1. James
  2. Robert
  3. John
  4. William
  5. Michael
  6. David
  7. Richard
  8. Thomas
  9. Charles
  10. Larry
  11. Ronald
  12. Gary
  13. Donald
  14. Joseph
  15. Kenneth
  16. Dennis
  17. Paul
  18. George
  19. Stephen
  20. Steven
  21. Edward
  22. Daniel
  23. Jerry
  24. Mark
  25. Roger
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Joyce
  2. Cynthia
  3. Cheryl
  4. Gloria
  5. Christine
  6. Beverly
  7. Dorothy
  8. Marilyn
  9. Martha
  10. Bonnie
  11. Joan
  12. Catherine
  13. Peggy
  14. Virginia
  15. Rebecca
  16. Jane
  17. Kathy
  18. Connie
  19. Ann
  20. Jean
  21. Helen
  22. Ruth
  23. Diana
  24. Frances
  25. Phyllis
  26. Gail
  27. Kathryn
  28. Alice
  29. Rita
  30. Paula
  31. Wanda
  32. Elaine
  33. Jacqueline
  34. Katherine
  35. Jo
  36. Joanne
  37. Suzanne
  38. Theresa
  39. Ellen
  40. Laura
  41. Rose
  42. Marie
  43. Sherry
  44. Doris
  45. Vicki
  46. Charlotte
  47. Maria
  48. Lois
  49. Lynn
  50. Darlene
  51. Sally
  52. Sheila
  53. Marcia
  54. Marsha
  55. Evelyn
  56. Cathy
  57. Teresa
  58. Constance
  59. Sarah
  60. Dianne
  61. Anne
  62. Glenda
  63. Sue
  64. Maureen
  65. Geraldine
  66. Anna
  67. Jeanne
  68. Lynda
  69. Sylvia
  70. Eileen
  71. Victoria
  72. Roberta
  73. Rosemary
  74. Anita
  75. Charlene
Boys
  1. Bruce
  2. Frank
  3. Terry
  4. Douglas
  5. Raymond
  6. Gregory
  7. Lawrence
  8. Gerald
  9. Timothy
  10. Wayne
  11. Anthony
  12. Walter
  13. Peter
  14. Patrick
  15. Danny
  16. Willie
  17. Harold
  18. Carl
  19. Arthur
  20. Alan
  21. Henry
  22. Jack
  23. Jeffrey
  24. Johnny
  25. Ralph
  26. Roy
  27. Joe
  28. Jimmy
  29. Dale
  30. Philip
  31. Albert
  32. Billy
  33. Eugene
  34. Harry
  35. Stanley
  36. Glenn
  37. Samuel
  38. Howard
  39. Ronnie
  40. Louis
  41. Phillip
  42. Bobby
  43. Steve
  44. Russell
  45. Frederick
  46. Allen
  47. Fred
  48. Barry
  49. Leonard
  50. Andrew
  51. Ernest
  52. Craig
  53. Francis
  54. Randall
  55. Eddie
  56. Christopher
  57. Melvin
  58. Martin
  59. Tommy
  60. Keith
  61. Brian
  62. Rodney
  63. Mike
  64. Marvin
  65. Norman
  66. Earl
  67. Randy
  68. Lee
  69. Clarence
  70. Kevin
  71. Alfred
  72. Curtis
  73. Don
  74. Scott
  75. Theodore
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1949.

Famous people born in 1949

George Foreman · American professional boxerJanuary 10
Linda Lovelace · American pornographic actressJanuary 10
Haruki Murakami · Japanese writerJanuary 12
Rakesh Sharma · First Indian astronautJanuary 13
Andy Kaufman · American entertainerJanuary 17
Göran Persson · Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006January 20
Trương Tấn Sang · Former president of VietnamJanuary 21
John Belushi · American actorJanuary 24
David Strathairn · American actorJanuary 26
Peter Agre · American chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in ChemistryJanuary 30
Brent Spiner · American actorFebruary 2
Richard Neal · American politicianFebruary 14
Ivana Trump · Czech-American businesswomanFebruary 20
Niki Lauda · Austrian former Formula 1 driverFebruary 22
Amin Maalouf · Francophone Lebanese writer based in FrancesFebruary 25
Sergei Bagapsh · Abkhazian politicianMarch 4
Bernard Arnault · French entrepreneurMarch 5
Valery Leontiev · Russian singerMarch 19
Slavoj Žižek · Slovenian philosopherMarch 21
Michael W. Young · American geneticist, chronobiologistMarch 28
Shing-Tung Yau · American mathematician from Hong KongApril 4
Judith Resnik · American engineer and astronautApril 5
Horst Ludwig Störmer · German physicistApril 6
Valentina Matviyenko · Russian politicianApril 7
Christopher Hitchens · English American author and journalistApril 13
Alla Pugacheva · Soviet-Russian singer, composer, and actressApril 15
Jessica Lange · American actressApril 20
Dominique Strauss-Kahn · French economistApril 25
António Guterres · Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2017April 30
Billy Joel · American singer, songwriter, and pianistMay 9
Ashraf Ghani · President of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2021May 19
Alan García · President of PeruMay 23
Jim Broadbent · English actorMay 24
Ward Cunningham · American computer programmerMay 26
Jeremy Corbyn · British politician, leader of the Labour Party 2015 to 2020May 26
Pam Grier · American actressMay 26
Ken Follett · British novelistJune 5
Jim Varney · American actor and comedianJune 15
Lech Kaczyński · Polish politicianJune 18
Jarosław Kaczyński · 13th Prime Minister of the Republic of PolandJune 18
Lionel Richie · American singer, songwriter and actorJune 20
Meryl Streep · American actressJune 22
Elizabeth Warren · American politicianJune 22
Vera Wang · American fashion designerJune 27
Shelley Duvall · American actressJuly 7
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum · Ruler of DubaiJuly 15
Kgalema Motlanthe · President of South AfricaJuly 19
Alan Menken · American composerJuly 22
Michael Richards · American actor and comedianJuly 24
Thaksin Shinawatra · Prime Minister of Thailand form 2001 to 2006July 26
Arif Alvi · 13th President of Pakistan from 2018 to 2024July 29
Kurmanbek Bakiyev · Kyrgyzstani politicianAugust 1
Eric Carmen · American singer-songwriter, guitarist and keyboardistAugust 11
Mark Knopfler · British musicianAugust 12
Anna Lee Fisher · American astronautAugust 24
Gene Simmons · Israeli-American musician and songwriterAugust 25
Richard Gere · American actorAugust 31
Hugh David Politzer · American physicistAugust 31
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono · 6th President of IndonesiaSeptember 9
Twiggy · British model, actress and singerSeptember 19
Bruce Springsteen · American rock singerSeptember 23
Pedro Almodóvar · Spanish filmmakerSeptember 25
Annie Leibovitz · American photographerOctober 2
Alice Walton · American heiress to the fortune of Wal-Mart Stores, IncOctober 2
Sigourney Weaver · American actressOctober 8
Carlos the Jackal · Venezuelan-born international terror operativeOctober 12
Benjamin Netanyahu · Prime Minister of IsraelOctober 21
Arsène Wenger · French football managerOctober 22
Caitlyn Jenner · American media personality and retired decathleteOctober 28
Lois McMaster Bujold · American novelistNovember 2
Bonnie Raitt · American musicianNovember 8
Garry Shandling · American comedianNovember 29
Pablo Escobar · Colombian politician and drug lordDecember 1
Sebastián Piñera · Chilean entrepreneur and politicianDecember 1
Jeff Bridges · American actorDecember 4
Tom Waits · American singer-songwriter and actorDecember 7
Don Johnson · American actor and singerDecember 15
Thomas Sankara · President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987December 21
Sissy Spacek · American actressDecember 25
Nawaz Sharif · Former prime minister of PakistanDecember 25
José Ramos-Horta · 2nd and 5th President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureateDecember 26

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