Born in 1965
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1965
Girls
- Lisa
- Mary
- Karen
- Kimberly
- Susan
- Patricia
- Donna
- Linda
- Cynthia
- Angela
- Tammy
- Pamela
- Deborah
- Julie
- Sandra
- Elizabeth
- Laura
- Michelle
- Lori
- Jennifer
- Christine
- Sharon
- Brenda
- Teresa
- Barbara
Boys
- Michael
- John
- David
- James
- Robert
- William
- Mark
- Richard
- Thomas
- Jeffrey
- Joseph
- Timothy
- Kevin
- Steven
- Scott
- Paul
- Daniel
- Christopher
- Brian
- Charles
- Kenneth
- Anthony
- Gregory
- Ronald
- Eric
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Dawn
- Debra
- Denise
- Tina
- Kelly
- Cheryl
- Nancy
- Robin
- Kathleen
- Amy
- Tracy
- Rhonda
- Melissa
- Wendy
- Diane
- Rebecca
- Carol
- Kim
- Stephanie
- Theresa
- Maria
- Jacqueline
- Michele
- Paula
- Sheila
- Jill
- Margaret
- Cindy
- Kathy
- Janet
- Sherry
- Catherine
- Carolyn
- Ann
- Laurie
- Connie
- Debbie
- Andrea
- Diana
- Suzanne
- Beth
- Valerie
- Renee
- Terri
- Gina
- Annette
- Monica
- Janice
- Christina
- Leslie
- Carla
- Anne
- Dana
- Katherine
- Lynn
- Wanda
- Regina
- Darlene
- Stacey
- Tracey
- Judy
- Kathryn
- Cathy
- Joyce
- Bonnie
- Sherri
- Sarah
- Colleen
- Anita
- Jane
- Anna
- Penny
- Shelly
- Martha
- Melinda
Boys
- Donald
- Gary
- Stephen
- Edward
- Todd
- Patrick
- Douglas
- Rodney
- George
- Keith
- Matthew
- Andrew
- Larry
- Peter
- Terry
- Jerry
- Randy
- Frank
- Dennis
- Raymond
- Craig
- Jeffery
- Tony
- Roger
- Bruce
- Mike
- Darren
- Troy
- Carl
- Steve
- Danny
- Ricky
- Russell
- Alan
- Chris
- Vincent
- Jeff
- Bryan
- Gerald
- Wayne
- Lawrence
- Martin
- Darryl
- Shawn
- Phillip
- Joe
- Bradley
- Randall
- Jonathan
- Curtis
- Johnny
- Billy
- Jon
- Sean
- Bobby
- Jimmy
- Walter
- Dale
- Samuel
- Glenn
- Barry
- Philip
- Dean
- Jose
- Jay
- Darrell
- Allen
- Willie
- Henry
- Roy
- Arthur
- Tim
- Victor
- Harold
- Albert
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1965.
Famous people born in 1965
Julia Ormond · British actressJanuary 4
Diane Lane · American actressJanuary 22
Brandon Lee · American actorFebruary 1
Gheorghe Hagi · Romanian association football player and managerFebruary 5
Chris Rock · American comedian, actor, and filmmakerFebruary 7
Omar M. Yaghi · American chemist of Arabic descentFebruary 9
Adama Barrow · 3rd President of the GambiaFebruary 15
Michael Bay · American film director and producerFebruary 17
Dr. Dre · American rapper, record producer, record executive, and actorFebruary 18
Michael Dell · American businessman and CEOFebruary 23
Kristin Davis · American actressFebruary 23
Hansi Flick · German association football player and managerFebruary 24
Carrot Top · American stand-up comedianFebruary 25
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus · Ethiopian and politicianMarch 3
Khaled Hosseini · Afghan novelistMarch 4
Aamir Khan · Indian actorMarch 14
Mark Carney · 24th prime minister of Canada since 2025March 16
The Undertaker · American professional wrestlerMarch 24
Sarah Jessica Parker · American actressMarch 25
Rodney King · African American police brutality victimApril 2
Robert Downey Jr. · American actorApril 4
Martin Lawrence · American actor and comedianApril 16
Kevin James · American comedian and actorApril 26
Krist Novoselic · American rock musicianMay 16
Trent Reznor · American musicianMay 17
John C. Reilly · American actorMay 24
Yahya Jammeh · 2nd President of the GambiaMay 25
Brooke Shields · U.S. model and actressMay 31
Michael E. Brown · American planetary astronomerJune 5
Elizabeth Hurley · English actress and modelJune 10
Andrea M. Ghez · American astronomerJune 16
Jean Castex · Prime Minister of France from 2020 to 2022June 25
Shawn Michaels · American professional wrestlerJuly 22
Slash · British musicianJuly 23
José Luis Chilavert · Paraguayan association football playerJuly 27
J. K. Rowling · English authorJuly 31
Sam Mendes · British stage and film directorAugust 1
Fredrik Reinfeldt · Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014August 4
David Robinson · American basketball playerAugust 6
Viola Davis · American actress and producerAugust 11
Peter Krause · American actorAugust 12
Kyra Sedgwick · American actressAugust 19
Marlee Matlin · American actressAugust 24
Reggie Miller · American basketball playerAugust 24
Shania Twain · Canadian country music singer and songwriterAugust 28
Charlie Sheen · American actorSeptember 3
Moby · American musician, DJ and record producerSeptember 11
Dmitry Medvedev · President of Russia from 2008 to 2012September 14
Bryan Singer · American film director and producerSeptember 17
Kyle Chandler · American actorSeptember 17
Sunita Williams · American astronaut and USN officerSeptember 19
Scottie Pippen · American basketball playerSeptember 25
Petro Poroshenko · President of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019September 26
Steve Kerr · American basketball player and coachSeptember 27
Mia Mottley · Prime minister of Barbados since 2018October 1
Chris Penn · American actorOctober 10
William Zabka · American actorOctober 20
Waris Dirie · Somali model, author, actress, activistOctober 21
Shah Rukh Khan · Indian actor, producer and television personalityNovember 2
Ryan Murphy · American screenwriterNovember 9
Björk · Icelandic singerNovember 21
Mads Mikkelsen · Danish actorNovember 22
Ben Stiller · American actor and comedianNovember 30
Andrew Stanton · American animator, film director and screenwriterDecember 3
Jeffrey Wright · American actorDecember 7
Andy Dick · American comedian and actorDecember 21
Salman Khan · Indian actor and producerDecember 27
Nicholas Sparks · American writer and novelistDecember 31
Gong Li · Chinese-Singaporean actressDecember 31