** **In the year 2000, the final daily original Peanuts comic strip is published(Jan 3), Playstation 2 is released in Japan (Mar 4), Pope John Paul II apologizes for the wrongdoings of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the ages (Mar 12), the American version of Survivor premiers on CBS (May 31), the Öresund Bridge between Sweden and Denmark is officially opened for traffic (Jul 1), the Nintendo GameCube is revealed (Aug 24), Bofors is sold to United Defense (Sep 6), the last day of no human presence in space takes place (Oct 30) - and all these fine people were born:

2000-0101 Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya* Russian-Australian pair skater - Moscow, Russia (2020/20) 2000-0103 Liam Kirk* hockey player - Maltby, South Yorkshire, England 2000-0106 Alexander Romanov* hockey player - Moscow, Russia 2000-0108 Noah Cyrus* singer/actress - Nashville, TN USA 2000-0109 Samuele Ceccarelli* athlete (sprinter) - Massa, Italy 2000-0110 2000-0111 Marrit Steenbergen* swimmer/EG - Ooststellingwerf, Netherlands 2000-0118 Ville Petman* hockey player - Lappeenranta, Finland 2000-0120 Selemon Barega* long-distance runner/OG - Gurage zone, Ethiopia 2000-0121 K’Andre Miller* hockey player - Saint Paul, MN USA 2000-0122 Laia Codina* football player - Campllong, Spain 2000-0125 2000-0126 Sophia Braun* football player/w Argentine mother - Beaverton, OR USA 2000-0201 Suvi Kokkonen* volleyball player - Laukaa, Finland 2000-0202 Jorinde van Klinken* athlete (shot put & discus) - Assen, Netherlands 2000-0203 Dominik Bokk* hockey player - Schweinfurt, Germany 2000-0203 Jack Drury* hockey player - New York City, NY USA 2000-0204 Enoch Banza* football player - Helsinki, Finland 2000-0207 Simon Ehammer* athlete (decathlon - long jump/WB) - Switzerland 2000-0210 Nicole Anyomi* football player - Krefeld, Germany 2000-0215 Anastasia Kulikova* Russian-Finnish tennis player - Rjazan, Russia 2000-0217 Joonas Oden* Finnish hockey player - Benton City, WA USA 2000-0218 Giada Greggi* football player - Rome, Italy 2000-0220 Kristóf Milák* swimmer/OG - Budapest, Hungary 2000-0221 Michael O’Sullivan* jockey - Lombardstown, County Cork, Ireland (2025/24) 2000-0222 2000-0223 Femke Bol* athlete (hurdles)/OB - Amersfoort, Netherlands 2000-0225 Joel Farabee* hockey player - Cicero, NY USA 2000-0225 Benedetta Orsi* football player - Sassuolo, Italy 2000-0226 Maggie Mac Neil* Chinese-Canadian swimmer/OG - Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China 2000-0227 2000-0229 Tyrese Haliburton* basketball player - Milwaukee, WI USA 2000-0229 Ferran Torres* football player - Foios, Spain 2000-0301 2000-0304 Zhang Boheng* 張博恒 artistic gymnast/WG - China 2000-0307 Rasmus Sandin* hockey player - Uppsala, Sweden 2000-0311 Justus Annunen* hockey goalie - Kempele, Finland 2000-0312 Oscar Bäck* hockey player - Karlstad, Sweden 2000-0312 Tigist Mengistu* Paralympic athlete (runner)/OG - Ethiopia 2000-0313 Ashley Moloney* athlete (decathlon)/OB - Brisbane, QLD Australia 2000-0314 Samuel Fagemo* hockey player - Gothenburg, Sweden 2000-0314 Mattias Samuelsson* hockey player/son of Kjell Samuelsson - Philadelphia, PA USA 2000-0315 Rasmus Kupari* hockey player - Kotka, Finland 2000-0317 Taylor Heise* hockey player - Lake City, MN USA 2000-0320 Barbra Banda* boxer/ football player - Lusaka, Zambia 2000-0322 2000-0324 Otto Kivenmäki* hockey player - Pori, Finland 2000-0325 Camden Pulkinen* figure skater - Scottsdale, AZ USA 2000-0326 Andrei Svechnikov* hockey player - Barnaul, Russia 2000-0327 Sophie Nélisse* actress/of French descent - Windsor, ON Canada 2000-0330 Saga Andersson* athlete (pole vault) - Vantaa, Finland 2000-0331 2000-0401 2000-0410 2000-0411 David Gustafsson* hockey player - Tingsryd, Sweden 2000-0413 Rasmus Dahlin* hockey player - Trollhättan, Sweden 2000-0427 Annik Kälin* athlete (heptathlon) - Switzerland 2000-0427 Toni Utunen* hockey player - Kokkola, Finland 2000-0428 Ellie Carpenter* football player - Cowra, NSW Australia 2000-0501 2000-0502 Thomas Dean* swimmer/OG - England/UK 2000-0502 Jiang Ranxin* sport shooter/OB - China 2000-0503 Alexander Ogando* athlete (sprinter)/OS - San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic 2000-0504 Amara Miller* actress - California USA 2000-0510 Destanee Aiava* tennis player/of Samoan origin - Melbourne, Australia 2000-0515 Dayana Yastremska* tennis player - Odesa, Ukraine 2000-0519 Samuel Purola* athlete (sprinter) - Oulu, Finland 2000-0520 Kieran Smith* swimmer/OB - Ridgefield, CT USA 2000-0522 2000-0523 Ella Rappich* actress - Sigtuna, Sweden 2000-0524 Brianna Pinto* football player - New Haven, CT USA 2000-0527 Maëlle Lakrar* football player - Orange, France 2000-0531 Sampo Ranta* hockey player - Naantali, Finland 2000-0601 2000-0603 Juuso Heikkilä* hockey player - Haapavesi, Finland 2000-0603 Racheal Kundananji* football player - Zambia 2000-0605 2000-0606 2000-0609 Barrett Hayton* hockey player - Peterborough, ON Canada 2000-0609 Laurie Hernandez* gymnast/OG - Old Bridge Township, NJ USA 2000-0610 2000-0612 Olga Carmona* football player - Seville, Spain 2000-0613 Oliver Wahlstrom* Swedish American hockey player/son of Joakim Wahlström - Yarmouth, ME USA 2000-0615 Mary Moraa* athlete (middle-distance runner) - Kenya 2000-0616 Bianca Andreescu* tennis player - Mississauga, ON Canada 2000-0617 2000-0618 Sara Bejedi* basketball player/w Moroccan-Kamerun background - Espoo, Finland 2000-0619 Sydney Lohmann* football player - Pürgen, Germany 2000-0622 Lukáš Dostál* hockey goalie - Brno, Czech Republic 2000-0623 Kim Hyun-soo* actress - Osan, South Korea 2000-0626 Yuka Orihara* ice dancer/active in Finland - Tokyo, Japan 2000-0629 Santeri Airola* hockey player - Imatra, Finland 2000-0630 2000-0701 Lalu Muhammad Zohri* sprinter - North Lombok, Indonesia 2000-0704 Brendon Smith* swimmer/OB - Melbourne, VIC Australia 2000-0705 2000-0706 Jesperi Kotkaniemi* hockey player/grandson of Kirsti Wallasvaara - Pori, Finland 2000-0707 2000-0709 Kliment Kolesnikov* swimmer/OS - Moscow, Russia 2000-0709 Akira Sone* 素根 輝 judoka/OG - Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan 2000-0710 Yang Qian* sport shooter/OG - Ningbo, China 2000-0714 Uta Abe* 阿部 詩 judoka/OG - Kobe, Japan 2000-0715 Paulo “Paulinho” Filho* football player - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2000-0716 Getnet Wale* steeplechase runner - Ethiopia 2000-0717 Remi Koyama* 小山 玲弥 hockey player - Japan 2000-0718 Angelina Melnikova* artistic gymnast/OB - Voronezh, Russia 2000-0721 Erling Braut Håland* Norwegian football player - Leeds, England 2000-0726 Lasha Bekauri* judoka/OG - Akhmeta, Georgia 2000-0726 Andre Lee* hockey player - Karlstad, Sweden EP - 2000-0726 Thomasin McKenzie* actress - Wellington, New Zealand 2000-0727 Thomas Young* British paralympic athlete (sprinter)/OG - Croydon, England 2000-0731 Kim Sae-ron* actress - Seoul, South Korea (2025/24) 2000-0801 2000-0802 Sandeep Lamichhane* cricketer - Aruchaur, Nepal 2000-0805 2000-0807 Lauren Hemp* football player/EC - North Walsham, Norfolk, England 2000-0809 Erica Sullivan* swimmer/OS - Las Vegas, NV USA 2000-0810 Sophia Smith* football player - Windsor, CO USA 2000-0811 2000-0815 Adam Boqvist* hockey player - Falun, Sweden 2000-0815 Tobias Neuber* alpine skier - Füssen, Germany 2000-0816 Anastasiia Moskalenko* Paralympic athlete (shot put)/OG  -Ukraine 2000-0817 Kristian Tanus* hockey player - Tampere, Finland 2000-0820 2000-0824 Griffin Gluck* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA 2000-0828 2000-0829 Julia Grosso* foootball player - Vancouver, BC Canada 2000-0901 2000-0904 Peter Gwargis* Swedish football player/to Sweden at age 3 - Sydney, Australia 2000-0907 Ariarne Titmus* swimmer/OG - Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 2000-0910 2000-0915 2000-0919 Jakob Ingebrigtsen* middle-distance runner - Sandnes, Norway 2000-0924 Lassi Thomson* hockey player/father from Scotland - Tampere, Finland 2000-1001 Kalle Rovanperä* rally driver/WC/son of Harri Rovanperä - Jyväskylä, Finland 2000-1005 Anttoni Honka* hockey player - Jyväskylä, Finland 2000-1010 Daria Bilodid* judoka/OB - Kiev, Ukraine 2000-1011 Bobirjon Omonov* Paralympic athlete (shot put)/OG - Andijan, Uzbekistan 2000-1014 Matias Maccelli* hockey player - Turku, Finland 2000-1031 Willow Smith* actress/ singer/dancer/daughter of Will Smith - Los Angeles, CA USA 2000-1102 Alphonso Davies* Canadian football player - Buduburam, Ghana 2000-1108 Jade Pettyjohn* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA 2000-1108 Nicolai Uznik* sport climber - Austria 2000-1109 2000-1110 Dylan Fabre* hockey player -Grenoble, France 2000-1110 Mackenzie Foy* model/actress - Los Angeles, CA USA 2000-1111 2000-1112 2000-1114 Jacob Kiplimo* long-distance runner/OB - Bukwo District, Uganda 2000-1114 Kim Nousiainen* hockey player - Kuopio, Finland 2000-1115 2000-1116 Ragnar Carlsson* athlete (hammer) - Falun, Sweden 2000-1120 Connie Talbot* singer (BGT1) - Streetly, Walsall, West Midlands, England 2000-1121 Isabel May* actress (1883) - Santa Monica, CA USA 2000-1126 Lamecha Girma* steeplechase runner/OS - Oromia, Ethiopia 2000-1128 Owen Ansah* athlete (sprinter) - Hamburg, Germany 2000-1129 Yohann Ndoye Brouard* swimmer/EG - Chambéry, France 2000-1201 Sophia Flörsch* racing driver - Grünwald, Germany 2000-1207 Klara Bühl* football player - Münstertal, Germany 2000-1208 Chiamaka Nnadozie* football goalie - Orlu, Nigeria 2000-1209 2000-1210 Lucas Jade Zumann* actor - Chicago, IL USA 2000-1220 Nils Höglander* hockey player - Bockträsk, Sweden 2000-1220 Ninos “Gaboro” Khouri* rapper/ songwriter/Assyrian heritage - Norrköping, Sweden (2024/23) 2000-1224 2000-1226 Isac Elliot* singer - Kauniainen, Finland 2000-1227 Kyren Lacy* Am. football player - Thibodaux, LA USA (2025/24) 2000-1231 2000-0 2000-0 2000-0 Updated 2025-0509 Helsinki -Turku Search for another year here