Born in 1966
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1966
Girls
- Lisa
- Kimberly
- Mary
- Michelle
- Karen
- Susan
- Patricia
- Tammy
- Angela
- Jennifer
- Cynthia
- Donna
- Julie
- Pamela
- Deborah
- Elizabeth
- Sandra
- Linda
- Laura
- Christine
- Lori
- Melissa
- Tina
- Dawn
- Brenda
Boys
- Michael
- David
- James
- John
- Robert
- William
- Mark
- Richard
- Jeffrey
- Thomas
- Timothy
- Christopher
- Steven
- Brian
- Joseph
- Scott
- Kevin
- Paul
- Daniel
- Charles
- Kenneth
- Anthony
- Gregory
- Ronald
- Eric
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Kelly
- Barbara
- Sharon
- Teresa
- Amy
- Tracy
- Denise
- Nancy
- Cheryl
- Debra
- Michele
- Kathleen
- Stephanie
- Rhonda
- Rebecca
- Wendy
- Robin
- Kim
- Maria
- Diane
- Theresa
- Jacqueline
- Carol
- Jill
- Paula
- Sheila
- Andrea
- Sherry
- Catherine
- Margaret
- Cindy
- Janet
- Gina
- Kathy
- Carolyn
- Ann
- Suzanne
- Laurie
- Diana
- Beth
- Renee
- Christina
- Dana
- Tracey
- Connie
- Leslie
- Terri
- Debbie
- Valerie
- Monica
- Stacey
- Carla
- Katherine
- Annette
- Janice
- Lynn
- Regina
- Anne
- Wanda
- Sarah
- Kathryn
- Heidi
- Anita
- Shelly
- Bonnie
- Stacy
- Sherri
- Colleen
- Darlene
- Anna
- Tonya
- Judy
- Tamara
- Cathy
- Holly
Boys
- Stephen
- Donald
- Gary
- Todd
- Edward
- Patrick
- Keith
- Douglas
- Matthew
- Rodney
- Andrew
- George
- Larry
- Peter
- Terry
- Jerry
- Jeffery
- Frank
- Dennis
- Randy
- Craig
- Raymond
- Troy
- Tony
- Sean
- Roger
- Bryan
- Bruce
- Shawn
- Chris
- Carl
- Alan
- Vincent
- Wayne
- Gerald
- Russell
- Danny
- Darren
- Ricky
- Jonathan
- Lawrence
- Steve
- Bradley
- Mike
- Randall
- Phillip
- Jeff
- Johnny
- Joe
- Curtis
- Jon
- Jimmy
- Martin
- Jose
- Billy
- Samuel
- Bobby
- Walter
- Dean
- Dale
- Philip
- Barry
- Darryl
- Jason
- Glenn
- Jay
- Henry
- Willie
- Roy
- Darrell
- Arthur
- Allen
- Tracy
- Harold
- Albert
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1966.
Famous people born in 1966
Christian Kern · Austrian politician and businessmanJanuary 4
Patrick Dempsey · American actor and racecar driverJanuary 13
Stefan Edberg · Swedish tennis playerJanuary 19
Rainn Wilson · American actor, comedian, producer, and writerJanuary 20
Romário · Former Brazilian footballer, politician and Senator of Brazil since 2015January 29
Michelle Akers · American soccer playerFebruary 1
Rick Astley · British singerFebruary 6
Cindy Crawford · American modelFebruary 20
Didier Queloz · Swiss astronomerFebruary 23
Billy Zane · American actorFebruary 24
Téa Leoni · American actress and film producerFebruary 25
Zack Snyder · American filmmakerMarch 1
Mikhail Mishustin · Russian politicianMarch 3
Robin Wright · American actressApril 8
Cynthia Nixon · American actress and politicianApril 9
Jeffrey Dean Morgan · American actorApril 22
Stephen Baldwin · American actor and political activistMay 12
Janet Jackson · American singer, songwriter, dancer and actressMay 16
Lisa Edelstein · American actressMay 21
Eric Cantona · French footballer and actorMay 24
Helena Bonham Carter · British actressMay 26
Faure Gnassingbé · Togolese politicianJune 6
Grigori Perelman · Russian mathematicianJune 13
Dikembe Mutombo · Congolese-American basketball playerJune 25
J. J. Abrams · American filmmakerJune 27
John Cusack · American actor, producer, and screenwriterJune 28
Mike Tyson · American boxer and media personalityJune 30
Matthew Fox · American actorJuly 14
Enrique Peña Nieto · 64th President of MexicoJuly 20
Anna Rita Del Piano · Italian actress and theater directorJuly 26
James Gunn · American screenwriter and filmmakerAugust 5
André Sogliuzzo · American voice actorAugust 10
Halle Berry · American actressAugust 14
Enrico Letta · Italian politicianAugust 20
Salma Hayek · Mexican and American actressSeptember 2
Adam Sandler · American actor and comedianSeptember 9
Anousheh Ansari · Iranian-American engineer and entrepreneurSeptember 12
George Weah · President of Liberia from 2018 to 2024October 1
David Cameron · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016October 9
Carolyn Bertozzi · American chemistOctober 10
Bai Ling · Chinese-American actressOctober 10
Luke Perry · American actorOctober 11
Jon Favreau · American actor and filmmakerOctober 19
Roman Abramovich · Russian-Israeli oligarch and politicianOctober 24
Zoran Milanović · President of Croatia since 2020October 30
David Schwimmer · American actorNovember 2
Gordon Ramsay · British chef, restaurateur, and television personalityNovember 8
Benedicta Boccoli · Italian theater and movie actressNovember 11
Jeff Buckley · American musicianNovember 17
Sophie Marceau · French actressNovember 17
Vincent Cassel · French actorNovember 23
Sinéad O'Connor · Irish singer-songwriterDecember 8
Kirsten Gillibrand · American politicianDecember 9
Helle Thorning-Schmidt · Danish retired politician, former Prime Minister of DenmarkDecember 14
Kiefer Sutherland · British-Canadian actorDecember 21
Masahiro Fukuda · Japanese association football playerDecember 27
Maddie Taylor · American voice actressDecember 31