People who are born as Taureans are known for their reliable, determined, loyal, and honest nature. If you were born anywhere from April 20th to May 20th, check out all the famous Taurus personalities you share your birthday with.
Did You Know?
For the ancient Egyptians, the Taurus sign symbolized Osiris and Isis, the Bull God and the Cow Goddess, worshiped for good fortune in regards to the afterlife and nature magic.
Those people who are born under the Taurus sign are mostly known for their strong and determined characteristics. These people are loyal, dedicated to family and work, and generally warmhearted and compassionate in nature. They will usually build their relationships with tender and genuine interest. However, on the flip side, Taureans can be quite bullish, as they can be seen to be stubborn, possessive, indecisive, and prejudiced, which could make them lazy, self-centered, and narrow in their mindset.
People born between the period of April starting from the 20th and ending on May 20th come under the Taurus sun sign. This sun sign has given the world with many talented men and women over the centuries. These include an immense number of famous Taurean musicians, athletes, singers, actors, actresses, and a number of renowned celebrities from history. So much so, that is extremely difficult to mention all of them in a single list. In the following section, we shall look at some of the most famous people who fall under the Taurus sun sign.
Famous Taurus Men
Taio Cruz
Date of Birth: April 23, 1985
Profession: Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer, Rapper
Quote: “All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.”
George Clooney
Date of Birth: May 6, 1961
Profession: Actor, Writer, Producer, Director, Political Activist
Quote: “Directing is really exciting. In the end, it’s more fun to be the painter than the paint.”
Andy Murray
Date of Birth: May 15, 1987
Profession: Professional Tennis Player (2-time Grand Slam Winner)
Quote: “In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were, but just out of reach.”
Channing Tatum
Date of Birth: April 26, 1980
Profession: Actor, Producer, Dancer, Model
Quote: “I don’t know what you’re going through life doing if you’re not really trying to collect some really great memories.”
Mark Zuckerberg
Date of Birth: May 14, 1984
Profession: Computer Programmer, Internet Entrepreneur (Co-founder of Facebook)
Quote: “Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”
Dwayne Johnson
Date of Birth: May 2, 1972
Profession: Actor, Producer, Professional Wrestler
Quote: “I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.”
Paul David Hewson (Bono)
Date of Birth: May 10, 1960
Profession: Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Venture Capitalist, Philanthropist
Quote: “You’ve gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we’re just nice, sort of ‘death by cupcake.”
Lee Westwood
Date of Birth: April 24, 1973
Profession: Professional Golfer
Quote: “Sometimes Americans don’t quite get my sense of humor. My good ol’ British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.”
Jason Michael Lee
Date of Birth: April 25, 1970
Profession: Actor, Producer, Professional Skateboarder
Quote: “When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.”
James McAvoy
Date of Birth: April 21, 1979
Profession: Film Actor, Television Actor
Quote: “Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That’s all it is. And yet we get treated as though we’re important.”
Henry Cavill
Date of Birth: May 5, 1983
Profession: Film Actor
Quote: “I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you’ve already admitted defeat.”
Robert Pattinson
Date of Birth: May 13, 1986
Profession: Actor, Producer, Musician, Model
Quote: “I’m afraid of buying a house or anything, ’cause if there’s one paparazzi outside for one day, then they’ll never leave.”
Pierce Brosnan
Date of Birth: May 16, 1953
Profession: Actor, Producer, Environmental Activist
Quote: “It’s the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It’s pretty simple.”
Jim Sturgess
Date of Birth: May 16, 1981
Profession: Actor, Singer, Songwriter
Quote: “Actually, I feel like this every time I come out of the cinema. If that film’s about being a hippie, then I’m like, “That’s it, I’m gonna grow my own vegetables.”
Tom Welling
Date of Birth: April 26, 1977
Profession: Actor, Director, Producer, Model
Quote: “I have so much chaos in my life, it’s become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they’re wrong.”
Wes Anderson
Date of Birth: May 1, 1969
Profession: Film Director, Screenwriter
Quote: “I’ve never had a movie that got great reviews. I’ve had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.”
Emperor Hirohito
Date of Birth: April 29, 1901
Profession: 124th Emperor of Japan
Quote: “We declared war on America and Britain out of our sincere desire to ensure Japan’s self-preservation and the stabilization of East Asia, it being far from our thought either to infringe upon the sovereignty of other nations or to embark upon territorial aggrandizement.”
Orson Welles
Date of Birth: May 6, 1915
Profession: Actor, Writer, Producer, Director
Quote: “Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”
Olly Murs
Date of Birth: May 14, 1984
Profession: Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Television Presenter
Quote: “Whenever you’re in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.”
Salvador Dali
Date of Birth: May 11, 1904
Profession: Surrealist Painter, Sculptor
Quote: “At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”
John Wilkes Booth
Date of Birth: May 10, 1838
Profession: Stage Actor (Responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln)
Quote: “I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.”
Karl Marx
Date of Birth: May 5, 1818
Profession: Philosopher, Economist, Sociologist, Journalist
Quote: “Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”
William Shakespeare
Date of Birth: April 23, 1564
Profession: Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: “A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
Date of Birth: April 22, 1904
Profession: Theoretical Physicist, Professor of Physics, Technical Director of the Manhattan Project for creating the first atomic bomb
Quote: “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
James Monroe
Date of Birth: April 28, 1758
Profession: 5th President of the United States
Quote: “It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.”
David Beckham
Date of Birth: May 2, 1975
Profession: Professional Footballer
Quote: “I’m a very stubborn person. I think it has helped me over my career. I’m sure it has hindered me at times as well, but not too many times. I know that if I set my mind to do something, even if people are saying I can’t do it, I will achieve it.”
Vladimir Lenin
Date of Birth: April 22, 1870
Profession: Russian Communist Revolutionary, Political Theorist, Politician
Quote: “It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.”
Sigmund Freud
Date of Birth: May 6, 1856
Profession: Neurologist (Developer of Psychoanalysis)
Quote: “The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?”
Sachin Tendulkar
Date of Birth: April 24, 1973
Profession: Professional Cricketer
Quote: “I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.”
Ulysses S. Grant
Date of Birth: April 27, 1822
Profession: 18th President of the United States
Quote: “Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.”
Saddam Hussein
Date of Birth: April 28, 1937
Profession: 5th President of Iraq
Quote: “I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I’ve said what I’ve said, and I’m not guilty.”
Famous Taurus Women
Kirsten Dunst
Date of Birth: April 30, 1982
Profession: Actress, Director, Singer, Model
Quote: “What are you going to do if it’s the end of the world? You better go out having fun instead of stressing about it.”
Janet Jackson
Date of Birth: May 16, 1966
Profession: Actress, Singer, Songwriter
Quote: “I kinda see everyone as competition. I’m a very competitive person. But I think that’s good. Competition is great. And as long as its friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it’s cool.”
Tina Fey
Date of Birth: May 18, 1970
Profession: Actress, Writer, Producer, Comedian
Quote: “A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby’s temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who’s boss.”
Rosario Dawson
Date of Birth: May 9, 1979
Profession: Actress, Singer, Writer
Quote: “This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.”
Michelle Pfeiffer
Date of Birth: April 29, 1958
Profession: Actress, Singer
Quote: “You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.”
Cate Blanchett
Date of Birth: May 14, 1969
Profession: Stage and Film Actress
Quote: “We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!”
Jessica Alba
Date of Birth: April 28, 1981
Profession: Actress, Model, Businesswoman
Quote: “I don’t put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.”
Shirley MacLaine
Date of Birth: April 24, 1934
Profession: Film,Television, Theater Actress, Singer, Dancer, Author, Political Activist
Quote: “I love the idea that I’m the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!”
Uma Thurman
Date of Birth: April 29, 1970
Profession: Actress, Model
Quote: “It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.”
Lily Allen
Date of Birth: May 2, 1985
Profession: Actress, Singer, Songwriter, Television Presenter
Quote: “I hang out with models, the biggest pop stars and, you know, really and honestly, I hate saying this, but none of them are achieving those body shapes by being healthy.”
Renée Zellweger
Date of Birth: April 25, 1969
Profession: Actress, Producer, Voice Artist
Quote: “I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood.”
Sofia Coppola
Date of Birth: May 14, 1971
Profession: Actress, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Quote: “For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn’t expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.”
Ellie Kemper
Date of Birth: May 2, 1980
Profession: Actress, Writer, Comedian
Quote: “I’ve never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I’ve never felt any sort of unfairness because of that – but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn’t exist.”
Barbra Streisand
Date of Birth: April 24, 1942
Profession: Actress, Singer, Songwriter, Filmmaker
Quote: “Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.”
Kelly Clarkson
Date of Birth: April 24, 1982
Profession: Singer, Songwriter
Quote: “I’m actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it’s a depressing word. I don’t want to hope – I want to know. Like I don’t hope there’s a God, I know there’s a God.”
Christina Hendricks
Date of Birth: May 3, 1975
Profession: Actress
Quote: “I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I’m trying to learn my lesson.”
Amber Heard
Date of Birth: April 22, 1986
Profession: Actress, Model
Quote: “I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we’re held to.”
Megan Fox
Date of Birth: May 16, 1986
Profession: Actress, Model
Quote: “As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don’t care if it’s self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.”
Ashley Wagner
Date of Birth: May 16, 1991
Profession: Champion Figure Skater
Quote: “Some skaters, they live for skating, and they are home-schooled. I’m very lucky my parents let me go to school and have a normal life.”
Ellen Ochoa
Date of Birth: May 10, 1958
Profession: Astronaut, Director of the Johnson Space Center
Quote: “Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they’re passionate about, something that’s challenging and worthwhile.”
Charlotte Brontë
Date of Birth: April 21, 1816
Profession: Novelist, Poet
Quote: “If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
Florence Nightingale
Date of Birth: May 12, 1820
Profession: Social Reformer, Statistician, Founder of Modern Nursing
Quote: “The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.”
Dianna Agron
Date of Birth: April 30, 1986
Profession: Actress, Director, Singer, Dancer
Quote: “Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it’s really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That’s the ultimate demise of any good thing.”
Coretta Scott King
Date of Birth: April 27, 1927
Profession: Author, Civil Rights Activist
Quote: “If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.”</em<
Audrey Hepburn
Date of Birth: May 4, 1929
Profession: Actress, Humanitarian
Quote: “I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.”
Jacqueline Cochran
Date of Birth: May 11, 1906
Profession: Aviation Pioneer, Racing Pilot
Quote: “To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.”
Linda Evangelista
Date of Birth: May 10, 1965
Profession: Model
Quote: “On days when I do not work, I am working on my image. I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.”
Queen Elizabeth II
Date of Birth: April 21, 1926
Profession: Queen of 16 Member States in the Commonwealth of Nations, Supreme Governor of the Church of England
Quote: “Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”
Adele
Date of Birth: May 5, 1988
Profession: Singer, Songwriter
Quote: “I am quite loud and bolshie. I’m a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.”
This was our list of 60 famous people born under the Taurus sun sign. Do you share a birthday with any of the people we’ve mentioned here? This is not an exhaustive list of famous taureans, so if you can think of someone that is worth a mention, please feel free to add your thoughts in the comments section below.
