Born in 1955
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1955
Girls
- Mary
- Deborah
- Linda
- Debra
- Susan
- Patricia
- Barbara
- Karen
- Nancy
- Donna
- Cynthia
- Pamela
- Sandra
- Diane
- Carol
- Sharon
- Kathleen
- Brenda
- Cheryl
- Janet
- Elizabeth
- Kathy
- Denise
- Margaret
- Janice
Boys
- Michael
- David
- James
- Robert
- John
- William
- Richard
- Thomas
- Mark
- Steven
- Charles
- Gary
- Joseph
- Donald
- Kenneth
- Paul
- Daniel
- Ronald
- Larry
- Jeffrey
- Stephen
- Timothy
- Dennis
- Gregory
- Edward
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Teresa
- Rebecca
- Catherine
- Joyce
- Carolyn
- Judith
- Judy
- Robin
- Beverly
- Connie
- Betty
- Shirley
- Theresa
- Paula
- Christine
- Laura
- Gail
- Ann
- Cathy
- Bonnie
- Joan
- Gloria
- Lisa
- Marilyn
- Jane
- Peggy
- Vicki
- Martha
- Rose
- Diana
- Sherry
- Sheila
- Jo
- Kathryn
- Jean
- Wanda
- Lynn
- Debbie
- Dorothy
- Katherine
- Virginia
- Julie
- Vickie
- Maria
- Ruth
- Rhonda
- Rita
- Jacqueline
- Phyllis
- Kim
- Darlene
- Elaine
- Cindy
- Helen
- Valerie
- Ellen
- Victoria
- Terry
- Anne
- Terri
- Suzanne
- Alice
- Joanne
- Lori
- Wendy
- Laurie
- Marie
- Michele
- Anita
- Sally
- Frances
- Michelle
- Marcia
- Leslie
- Maureen
Boys
- George
- Kevin
- Terry
- Douglas
- Randy
- Anthony
- Bruce
- Jerry
- Frank
- Peter
- Raymond
- Roger
- Scott
- Keith
- Brian
- Patrick
- Lawrence
- Alan
- Wayne
- Danny
- Ricky
- Carl
- Gerald
- Christopher
- Craig
- Walter
- Dale
- Randall
- Willie
- Johnny
- Arthur
- Russell
- Roy
- Glenn
- Jack
- Henry
- Philip
- Harold
- Stanley
- Rodney
- Andrew
- Ralph
- Joe
- Billy
- Barry
- Samuel
- Steve
- Jeffery
- Phillip
- Bobby
- Albert
- Martin
- Jimmy
- Curtis
- Ronnie
- Eugene
- Louis
- Howard
- Allen
- Eric
- Frederick
- Micheal
- Leonard
- Harry
- Ernest
- Darrell
- Eddie
- Tony
- Marvin
- Melvin
- Lee
- Fred
- Kim
- Vincent
- Francis
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1955.
Famous people born in 1955
Rowan Atkinson · English actor, comedian, and screenwriterJanuary 6
J. K. Simmons · American actorJanuary 9
Katalin Karikó · Hungarian biochemistJanuary 17
Kevin Costner · American actorJanuary 18
Jeff Koons · American sculptor and painterJanuary 21
Eddie Van Halen · Dutch-American rock guitaristJanuary 26
Nicolas Sarkozy · 23rd president of the French Republic from 2007 to 2012January 28
Miguel Ferrer · American actorFebruary 7
John Grisham · American writerFebruary 8
Mo Yan · Chinese novelist and screenwriterFebruary 17
Jeff Daniels · American actor, musician and playwrightFebruary 19
Kelsey Grammer · American actorFebruary 21
Steve Jobs · American entrepreneurFebruary 24
Alain Prost · French racing driverFebruary 24
Gilbert Gottfried · American stand-up comedianFebruary 28
Denis Mukwege · Congolese gynecologist and Nobel Peace Prize laureateMarch 1
Ornella Muti · Italian actressMarch 9
Nina Hagen · German singer, songwriter, and actressMarch 11
Gary Sinise · American actorMarch 17
Bruce Willis · American actorMarch 19
Jair Bolsonaro · 38th President of the Federative Republic of BrazilMarch 21
Moses Malone · American basketball playerMarch 23
Mariano Rajoy · Spanish politicianMarch 27
Reba McEntire · American country singer and actressMarch 28
Akira Toriyama · Japanese manga artist and character designerApril 5
Michael Rooker · American actorApril 6
Akira Nishino · Japanese association football player and managerApril 7
Barbara Kingsolver · American author, poet and essayistApril 8
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg · Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of LuxembourgApril 16
Svante Pääbo · Swedish geneticistApril 20
Eric Schmidt · Software engineer, businessman, former Google CEOApril 27
Kate Mulgrew · American actressApril 29
Donatella Versace · Italian fashion designerMay 2
Meles Zenawi · Ethiopian politicianMay 8
Debra Winger · American actressMay 16
Bill Paxton · American actor and filmmakerMay 17
Chow Yun-fat · Hong Kong actorMay 18
James Gosling · Canadian computer scientistMay 19
Sergei Shoigu · Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024May 21
Richard Schiff · American actorMay 27
Brian Kobilka · American physiologistMay 30
Tim Berners-Lee · English computer scientistJune 8
Laurie Metcalf · American actressJune 16
Michel Platini · French football player, manager and executiveJune 21
Isabelle Adjani · French actressJune 27
Egils Levits · Latvian judge, jurist and politicianJune 30
Lindsey Graham · American politician and attorneyJuly 9
Marcelo Bielsa · Argentinian association football player and managerJuly 21
Willem Dafoe · American actorJuly 22
Iman · Somali model and actressJuly 25
Asif Ali Zardari · President of PakistanJuly 26
Billy Bob Thornton · American actor, filmmaker, and musicianAugust 4
Wayne Knight · American actorAugust 7
Peter Gallagher · American actorAugust 19
Edwin Moses · American track and field athleteAugust 31
Pope Leo XIV · 267th Pope of the Catholic ChurchSeptember 14
Indra Nooyi · Indian-American business executive and former CEO of PepsiCoSeptember 28
Yo-Yo Ma · American cellistOctober 7
Thomas Newman · American composer and conductorOctober 20
Bill Gates · American businessman, investor, and philanthropistOctober 28
David Julius · American physiologist and Nobel laureate 2021November 4
Matti Vanhanen · Finnish politician and the 40th prime minister of FinlandNovember 4
Kris Jenner · American media personality, socialite, and businesswomanNovember 5
Paul Romer · American economistNovember 6
Roland Emmerich · German filmmakerNovember 10
Friedrich Merz · German politician, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of GermanyNovember 11
Whoopi Goldberg · American actress, comedian, author and television personalityNovember 13
Guillermo Lasso · 55th President of Ecuador from 2021 to 2023November 16
Najib Mikati · President of Lebanon, Prime Minister of LebanonNovember 24
Bill Nye · American science educatorNovember 27
Binali Yıldırım · Prime Minister of TurkeyDecember 20
Martin Schulz · German politicianDecember 20
Thomas C. Südhof · German biochemistDecember 22
Liu Xiaobo · Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activistDecember 28