Born in 1950
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1950
Girls
- Linda
- Mary
- Patricia
- Barbara
- Susan
- Nancy
- Deborah
- Sandra
- Carol
- Kathleen
- Sharon
- Karen
- Donna
- Brenda
- Margaret
- Diane
- Pamela
- Janet
- Shirley
- Carolyn
- Judith
- Janice
- Cynthia
- Elizabeth
- Judy
Boys
- James
- Robert
- John
- Michael
- David
- William
- Richard
- Thomas
- Charles
- Gary
- Larry
- Ronald
- Joseph
- Donald
- Kenneth
- Steven
- Dennis
- Paul
- Stephen
- George
- Daniel
- Edward
- Mark
- Jerry
- Gregory
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Betty
- Joyce
- Christine
- Cheryl
- Gloria
- Beverly
- Martha
- Bonnie
- Catherine
- Dorothy
- Rebecca
- Marilyn
- Kathy
- Jane
- Joan
- Peggy
- Gail
- Virginia
- Connie
- Ann
- Kathryn
- Diana
- Jean
- Ruth
- Helen
- Frances
- Wanda
- Phyllis
- Paula
- Jacqueline
- Rita
- Alice
- Katherine
- Debra
- Elaine
- Vicki
- Sherry
- Laura
- Jo
- Theresa
- Ellen
- Joanne
- Marsha
- Rose
- Sheila
- Suzanne
- Marie
- Maria
- Doris
- Cathy
- Lynn
- Marcia
- Sally
- Darlene
- Charlotte
- Teresa
- Denise
- Lois
- Anne
- Constance
- Evelyn
- Glenda
- Sarah
- Maureen
- Dianne
- Eileen
- Irene
- Anna
- Victoria
- Jeanne
- Roberta
- Sylvia
- Joann
- Anita
- Sue
Boys
- Bruce
- Roger
- Douglas
- Frank
- Terry
- Raymond
- Timothy
- Lawrence
- Gerald
- Wayne
- Anthony
- Peter
- Patrick
- Danny
- Walter
- Alan
- Willie
- Jeffrey
- Carl
- Harold
- Arthur
- Henry
- Jack
- Dale
- Johnny
- Roy
- Ralph
- Philip
- Joe
- Jimmy
- Albert
- Billy
- Eugene
- Glenn
- Stanley
- Harry
- Samuel
- Howard
- Phillip
- Bobby
- Louis
- Russell
- Andrew
- Craig
- Randall
- Allen
- Christopher
- Kevin
- Barry
- Frederick
- Ronnie
- Leonard
- Keith
- Brian
- Randy
- Ernest
- Scott
- Steve
- Fred
- Martin
- Francis
- Melvin
- Rodney
- Eddie
- Norman
- Lee
- Earl
- Marvin
- Tommy
- Clarence
- Alfred
- Curtis
- Eric
- Theodore
- Clifford
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1950.
Famous people born in 1950
Richard Dean Anderson · American actorJanuary 23
Daniel Auteuil · French actor and directorJanuary 24
Jean-Marc Ayrault · Prime Minister of FranceJanuary 25
Jörg Haider · Austrian politicianJanuary 26
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa · King of BahrainJanuary 28
Natalie Cole · American singerFebruary 6
Mark Spitz · American Olympic swimmerFebruary 10
Peter Gabriel · British singer and musicianFebruary 13
Cybill Shepherd · American actressFebruary 18
John Hughes · American filmmakerFebruary 18
Sahle-Work Zewde · President of Federal Democratic Republic of EthiopiaFebruary 21
Julius Erving · American basketball playerFebruary 22
Néstor Kirchner · President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007February 25
Helen Clark · Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008February 26
Karen Carpenter · American singer and drummerMarch 2
Rick Perry · American politicianMarch 4
Bobby McFerrin · American jazz vocalist and composerMarch 11
William H. Macy · American actorMarch 13
Brad Dourif · American actorMarch 18
William Hurt · American actorMarch 20
Sergey Lavrov · Russian politician of Armenian origin, Minister of Foreign AffairsMarch 21
Alan Silvestri · American composer, conductor, orchestrator and music producerMarch 26
Robbie Coltrane · Scottish actorMarch 30
Agnetha Fältskog · Swedish singerApril 5
Bill Irwin · American actor, clown, and comedianApril 11
Joyce Banda · 4th President of MalawiApril 12
David Cassidy · American actor and singerApril 12
Ron Perlman · American actorApril 13
Francis Collins · American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of HealthApril 14
Jay Leno · American television host and comedianApril 28
Stevie Wonder · American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producerMay 13
Jill Stein · American politician and physicianMay 14
Georg Bednorz · PhysicistMay 16
Janez Drnovšek · Slovenian politicianMay 17
Suzi Quatro · American rock musicianJune 3
Sônia Braga · Brazilian-American actressJune 8
Viktor Yanukovych · President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014July 9
Prokopis Pavlopoulos · Greek politician, former president of the Hellenic RepublicJuly 10
Ma Ying-jeou · 12th and 13th President of Republic of ChinaJuly 13
Arianna Huffington · Greek and American businesswomanJuly 15
Richard Branson · British business magnateJuly 18
John Landis · American film director, screenwriter and producerAugust 3
Steve Wozniak · American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmerAugust 11
Anne, Princess Royal · Daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of EdinburghAugust 15
Roza Otunbayeva · President of KyrgyzstanAugust 23
Charles Fleischer · American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and musicianAugust 27
Phil McGraw · American television personalitySeptember 1
Julie Kavner · American actressSeptember 7
Joe Perry · American musicianSeptember 10
Amy Madigan · American actressSeptember 11
Narendra Modi · Prime Minister of India since 2014September 17
Bill Murray · American actor and comedianSeptember 21
Randy Quaid · American actorOctober 1
David Brin · American scientist and science fiction authorOctober 6
Jakaya Kikwete · President of Tanzania from 2005 to 2015October 7
Jody Williams · American teacher and aid workerOctober 9
Nora Roberts · American romance writerOctober 10
Chen Shui-bian · 10th and 11th President of Republic of ChinaOctober 12
Tom Petty · American musicianOctober 20
Ronald McNair · American physicist, astronautOctober 21
Abdullah Gül · 11th President of TurkeyOctober 29
Zaha Hadid · Iraqi British architect, designer and painterOctober 31
Robert B. Laughlin · American physicistNovember 1
James Rothman · American biologist and Nobel laureateNovember 3
Chuck Schumer · American politicianNovember 23
Ed Harris · American actor and directorNovember 28
Russell Alan Hulse · American astronomerNovember 28
Joe Hisaishi · Japanese composer, conductor, pianistDecember 6
Eric Maskin · American Nobel laureate in economicsDecember 12
Rajinikanth · Indian actorDecember 12
Vicente del Bosque · Spanish footballer and managerDecember 23
Bjarne Stroustrup · Danish computer scientist, creator of C++December 30