Born in 1959
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1959
Girls
- Mary
- Susan
- Linda
- Karen
- Donna
- Patricia
- Debra
- Cynthia
- Deborah
- Lisa
- Barbara
- Pamela
- Sandra
- Nancy
- Kathy
- Brenda
- Sharon
- Cheryl
- Diane
- Debbie
- Elizabeth
- Carol
- Kathleen
- Teresa
- Cindy
Boys
- Michael
- David
- James
- John
- Robert
- Mark
- William
- Richard
- Thomas
- Steven
- Charles
- Timothy
- Joseph
- Kevin
- Kenneth
- Jeffrey
- Paul
- Daniel
- Donald
- Gary
- Ronald
- Brian
- Gregory
- Scott
- Larry
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Julie
- Lori
- Janet
- Denise
- Laura
- Tammy
- Robin
- Kimberly
- Theresa
- Kim
- Margaret
- Janice
- Rebecca
- Cathy
- Catherine
- Judy
- Carolyn
- Christine
- Ann
- Rhonda
- Terri
- Michelle
- Connie
- Diana
- Joyce
- Paula
- Sheila
- Tina
- Dawn
- Beverly
- Laurie
- Peggy
- Sherry
- Betty
- Valerie
- Shirley
- Maria
- Lynn
- Annette
- Wanda
- Darlene
- Jane
- Angela
- Kathryn
- Judith
- Bonnie
- Martha
- Vicki
- Kelly
- Gail
- Joan
- Jean
- Jennifer
- Katherine
- Beth
- Gloria
- Anne
- Wendy
- Leslie
- Amy
- Jill
- Anita
- Michele
- Rose
- Vickie
- Ellen
- Joanne
- Virginia
- Dorothy
- Terry
- Suzanne
- Ruth
- Rita
- Anna
- Renee
Boys
- Anthony
- Edward
- Stephen
- Dennis
- Douglas
- Randy
- George
- Terry
- Ricky
- Christopher
- Jerry
- Mike
- Bruce
- Keith
- Peter
- Steve
- Frank
- Patrick
- Craig
- Raymond
- Eric
- Roger
- Danny
- Dale
- Alan
- Wayne
- Jeff
- Tony
- Carl
- Jeffery
- Russell
- Joe
- Andrew
- Randall
- Tim
- Gerald
- Lawrence
- Matthew
- Billy
- Johnny
- Walter
- Rodney
- Philip
- Jimmy
- Jim
- Chris
- Bobby
- Barry
- Phillip
- Curtis
- Ronnie
- Arthur
- Willie
- Glenn
- Martin
- Roy
- Tom
- Henry
- Ralph
- Jack
- Samuel
- Jay
- Harold
- Rick
- Darrell
- Greg
- Bill
- Albert
- Bryan
- Dean
- Micheal
- Allen
- Stanley
- Todd
- Louis
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1959.
Famous people born in 1959
Clancy Brown · American actorJanuary 5
Rigoberta Menchú · Guatemalan human rights activistJanuary 9
Maurizio Sarri · Italian association football managerJanuary 10
Gilmar Rinaldi · Brazilian association football playerJanuary 13
Sade · British singerJanuary 16
Linda Blair · American actressJanuary 22
Frank Darabont · American film director, screenwriter and producerJanuary 28
Mauricio Macri · President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019February 8
Ali Bongo · President of GabonFebruary 9
John McEnroe · American former tennis playerFebruary 16
Kyle MacLachlan · American actorFebruary 22
Ahmet Davutoğlu · Turkish statesperson and writerFebruary 26
Takaaki Kajita · Japanese physicist and astronomerMarch 9
Nina Hartley · American pornographic film actressMarch 11
Jens Stoltenberg · Norwegian politicianMarch 16
Luc Besson · French filmmakerMarch 18
Irene Cara · American singer and actressMarch 18
Laura Chinchilla · 46th President of Costa RicaMarch 28
Alberto Fernández · President of Argentina from 2019 to 2023April 2
Emma Thompson · English actress and screenwriterApril 15
Sean Bean · British actorApril 17
Robert Smith · English singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriterApril 21
Andrew Fire · American biologistApril 27
Stephen Harper · 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015April 30
János Áder · President of Hungary from 2012 to 2022May 9
Peter Greene · American actorMay 10
Ving Rhames · American actorMay 12
Abdulla Yameen · President of the Maldives from 2013 to 2018May 21
Donna Strickland · Canadian physicist, Nobel laurateMay 27
Mike Pence · Vice President of the United States from 2017 to 2021June 7
Carlo Ancelotti · Italian football player and managerJune 10
Hugh Laurie · English actor, comedian, director, musician and writerJune 11
Klaus Iohannis · President of Romania from 2014 to 2025June 13
Boyko Borisov · Prime Minister of BulgariaJune 13
Christian Wulff · 10th German Federal PresidentJune 19
Vincent D'Onofrio · American actor and filmmakerJune 30
Victoria Abril · Spanish actressJuly 4
Veronica Guerin · Irish crime reporterJuly 5
Robert Knepper · American actorJuly 8
Suzanne Vega · American singer-songwriterJuly 11
Richie Sambora · American rock musicianJuly 11
Kevin Spacey · American actorJuly 26
John C. McGinley · American actorAugust 3
Rosanna Arquette · American actressAugust 10
Magic Johnson · American basketball player and entrepreneurAugust 14
Marcia Gay Harden · American actressAugust 14
Jonathan Franzen · American writerAugust 17
Rebecca De Mornay · American actressAugust 29
Stephen Wolfram · British-American scientist and businessmanAugust 29
Drew Weissman · American physician-scientistSeptember 7
Jim Meskimen · American actorSeptember 10
Saul Perlmutter · American astrophysicist and Nobel laureateSeptember 22
Jason Alexander · American actor, comedian, director and television hostSeptember 23
Jon Fosse · Norwegian writer, playwright, and translatorSeptember 29
Lai Ching-te · 16th President of Taiwan since 2024October 6
Boris Nemtsov · Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politicianOctober 9
Ken Watanabe · Japanese actorOctober 21
"Weird Al" Yankovic · American comedy musicianOctober 23
Sam Raimi · American filmmakerOctober 23
Evo Morales · President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019October 26
John Magufuli · 5th President of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021October 29
Bryan Adams · Canadian singer-songwriter and musicianNovember 5
Allison Janney · American actressNovember 19
Sean Young · American actressNovember 20
Rahm Emanuel · American politicianNovember 29
Satoru Iwata · Japanese video game programmer and businessmanDecember 6
Jim Yong Kim · South Korean-American physician and anthropologistDecember 8
Florence Griffith Joyner · American track and field athleteDecember 21
Patricia Clarkson · American actressDecember 29
Tracey Ullman · British-American actressDecember 30
Val Kilmer · American actorDecember 31