List of Famous people born on September 2nd

Aleksander Aleksandrovich "Sasha" Barkov is a Finnish-Russian professional ice hockey centre and captain of the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Barkov was selected by the Panthers in the first round, second overall, of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft. He is the son of former Russian hockey player Alexander Barkov Sr. and holds dual Finnish and Russian citizenship. He grew up in Tampere, Finland, where his father was playing for Tappara of the Finnish SM-Liiga at the time. Aleksander Barkov Jr. himself joined Tappara’s junior system and started his professional career with the club in the Finnish Elite League.

Jens Steinigen is a former East German and German biathlete.

Jean-Pierre Rivère is a French businessman and chairman of football club OGC Nice. Born in Condom, Gers in 1957, he founded Nice Iselection, a realty software firm that was eventually acquired by Nexity. In 2011, he assumed the chairman's role of OGC Nice.

Josep Rull i Andreu is a Spanish politician from Catalonia. He served as the Counselor of Territory and Sustainability of Catalonia at the Government of Carles Puigdemont between 2016 and 2017, when Spanish Rajoy's Government ceased the Catalan executive following the Catalan declaration of independence amid the application of Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution.

Irek Faritovich Gimayev is a Russian retired ice hockey defenceman.

Marek Mintál is a Slovak retired footballer. He is the current manager of 1. FC Nürnberg II and assistant coach of the Slovakia national football team.

Júlio César Jacobi, known as Júlio César, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense.

Julia Sude is a German beach volleyball player.

Linda Dallmann is a German women's footballer. She plays for Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga and the German national team.

Mitoizumi Masayuki is a former sumo wrestler from Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. His professional career spanned 22 years, from 1978 until 2000. The highest rank he reached was sekiwake. He won over 800 career bouts and took the yūshō or championship in the top makuuchi division in 1992. Mitoizumi was nicknamed the "Salt Shaker", due to his habit of throwing enormous quantities of purifying salt onto the ring (dohyō) during the pre-match preliminaries. He is now a coach, and is known as Nishikido Oyakata.