List of Famous people born in September
Hirai Shinji
Shinji Hirai is a Japanese politician the governor of Tottori Prefecture in Japan, first elected in 2007. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with the B.L. degree in 1984 and joined the Ministry of Home Affairs upon graduation.
Lee Jung-shin
Lee Jung-shin is a South Korean musician, singer, rapper, and actor. He is the bassist of South Korean rock band CNBLUE, which debuted in January 2010 in South Korea.
Hirofumi Yamanaka
Hirofumi Yamanaka is a Japanese former baseball pitcher. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Martin Johnsrud Sundby
Martin Johnsrud Sundby is a Norwegian cross-country skier who has competed since 2003. He is the silver medalist of the 2010 Winter Olympics in the team relay and the bronze medalist of the 2014 Winter Olympics in the 30 km skiathlon. In 2014, he became the first Norwegian to win the Tour de Ski.
Alexander Matovnikov
Aleksandr Anatolyevich Matovnikov, is a Russian statesman and military leader, who is a Lieutenant General as of 2018, and currently the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces of the Russian Federation since 22 January 2020. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 2017.
Michaëlle Jean
Michaëlle Jean is a Canadian stateswoman and former journalist who served as Governor General of Canada from 2005 to 2010, the 27th since Canadian Confederation. She is the first Haitian Canadian to hold this office.
Olivier Panis
Olivier Panis is a French professional racing driver. Panis drove in Formula One for ten seasons, scoring one win at the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix for the Ligier team. He was the last French driver to win a Formula One Grand Prix before Pierre Gasly’s victory in the 2020 Italian Grand Prix in September 2020.
Peter Müller
Peter Aloysius Müller is a German politician belonging to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From 1999 to 2011, he has held the position of Premier (Ministerpräsident) of the state of Saarland, serving as President of the Bundesrat in 2008/09. In December 2011, Müller was elected as judge of German Bundesverfassungsgericht.
Alexia Sedykh
Alexia Sedykh is a French athlete specialising in the hammer throw. She is the daughter of the current world record holder in the men's hammer throw, Yuriy Sedykh and the current world record holder in the women's shot put, Natalya Lisovskaya, both of whom won Olympic gold medals in their disciplines. She is the reigning Youth Olympic Games champion in the girls' hammer throw, having won the inaugural event in Singapore.
Steffen Heitmann
Steffen Heitmann is a German Protestant theologian, church jurist and former politician. From 1990 to 2000 he was Minister of Justice of Saxony, and was a member of the Saxon Landtag from 1994 to 2009. From 1991 until his retirement in 2015 he was a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).