List of Famous people who born in 1985

Monta Ellis is a former American professional basketball player who played twelve seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Ellis attended Lanier High School in Jackson, Mississippi, where he was a McDonald's All-American and first-team Parade All-American. He entered the NBA directly out of high school, being drafted with the 40th overall pick by the Golden State Warriors in the 2005 NBA draft. In 2007, he was named the NBA Most Improved Player. During his time with the Warriors, Ellis was one of the best scorers in the league, averaging close to 25 points per game on two occasions. After six and a half seasons with Golden State, he was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks in March 2012. A season and a half with the Bucks was followed by two seasons with the Dallas Mavericks and two seasons with the Indiana Pacers.

Kyle Thomas Busch is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. As of 2020, he competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 18 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing, part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 54 Toyota Supra for JGR, and part-time in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, driving the No. 51 Toyota Tundra for Kyle Busch Motorsports. KBM runs multiple trucks in the Truck Series and a Super Late Model team. Busch is the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series champion and the 2015 and 2019 Cup Series champion.

Eva Maria Olivia Amurri is an American film and television actress.

Rebecca Elizabeth Sauerbrunn is an American soccer player for Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the highest division of women's professional soccer in the United States. Since 2021, Sauerbrunn is the captain of the United States women's national soccer team. She previously captained Utah Royals FC and—from 2016 to 2018—co-captained the national team with Carli Lloyd.

Abdul Razak Alhassan is a Ghanaian mixed martial artist who competes in the welterweight division of the UFC. A professional since 2013, he formerly fought in Bellator and Legacy Fighting Championship.

Dustin Byfuglien is an American professional ice hockey player who is an unrestricted free agent. He previously played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Atlanta Thrashers and Winnipeg Jets. Drafted as a defenseman, he has played both forward and defense in his career, although he has generally played defense in recent years.

Adrian Lewis is an English professional darts player currently playing in the PDC. He is a two-time PDC World Darts Champion, winning in 2011 and 2012. He is nicknamed Jackpot, as he won a jackpot gambling in Las Vegas in 2005, but he was unable to collect the money as he was 20 years old, below the US legal gambling age of 21.

Sergiy Vyacheslavovich Derevyanchenko, is a Ukrainian professional boxer who has challenged three times for world middleweight titles; the IBF title in 2018; the IBF and IBO titles in 2019; and the WBC title in September 2020. As an amateur, he won the bronze medal at middleweight at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships. As of February 2021, he is ranked as the world's fourth best active middleweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, eighth by BoxRec and fourth by The Ring magazine.

Vignesh Shivan, credited sometimes as Vignesh Shivn, is an Indian film director, film producer, actor and lyricist who works in Tamil cinema.

Jaime Lynn Long, known professionally as J. Long is a musician and entrepreneur who has written, composed, produced, and performed both R&B and contemporary inspirational music. He was a featured member of hip hop group Pretty Ricky, and also featured the group on his song "Personal Freak". In April of 2015, before departing from the music industry, Long toured one last time with his bandmates in Europe.