April 18 is the birthday of 51 notable people we've found so far, including actors, scientists, entrepreneurs and creators, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Saad El-Din Rafik Al-Hariri is a Lebanese businessman and politician who served as the prime minister of Lebanon from 2009 to 2011 and 2016 to 2020. The son of Rafic Hariri, he founded and has been leading the Future Movement party since 2007.
Share of the 51 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors33% (17 people)
Scientists24% (12 people)
Entrepreneurs22% (11 people)
Athletes18% (9 people)
Authors18% (9 people)
Creators18% (9 people)
Musicians16% (8 people)
Countries
20 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States21 (21 people)
United Kingdom6 (6 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
Hungary2 (2 people)
Poland2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Belgium1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on April 18 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
By 25
~15Hayley MillsReceived the Academy Juvenile Award (1961)
~23America FerreraReceived the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy (2007)
62Tadeusz MazowieckiBecame Prime Minister of Poland (1989)
The standouts
The most successful people born on April 18
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
actor
Vanessa Kirby
Top tier
Actor
1988 · United Kingdom
Vanessa Nuala Kirby is a British actress. She rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Princess Margaret in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2016–2017), for which she won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress.
David John Tennant is a Scottish actor. He is best known for portraying the lead character in Doctor Who, headlining the show as the Tenth Doctor from 2005–2010, and returning as the Fourteenth Doctor in 2023.
James Howard Woods is an American actor. Known for fast-talking, intense roles on screen and stage, he has received numerous accolades, including three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and three Actor Awards.
Eric Anthony Roberts is an American actor. He has amassed more than 700 credits and is one of the most prolific English-speaking screen actors, acting in 74 films in 2017 alone.
Miguel Discart & Kiri Karma, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kourtney Kardashian Barker is an American media personality, socialite and businesswoman. In 2007, she and her family began starring in the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Andrew Yan-Tak Ng is a British-American computer scientist and technology entrepreneur focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Ng was a cofounder and head of Google Brain and was the former Chief Scientist at Baidu.
Melissa Joan Hart is an American actress, director and producer. She had starring roles as the title characters in the sitcoms Clarissa Explains It All, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Melissa & Joey, and she appeared as Liz in No Good Nick.
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Jessica Jung is an American and South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, author, and businesswoman. She is best known for her work as a former member of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation.
James Child Drury Jr. was an American actor. He is best known for having played the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series The Virginian, which was broadcast on NBC from 1962 to 1971.
NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Samantha Gwendoline Cameron, Lady Cameron of Chipping Norton, is an English businesswoman. Until 2010, she was the creative director of Smythson of Bond Street.
Lawrence Jackson, White House Photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dmitry Arkadievich Mazepin is a Belarusian-Russian oligarch and businessman. He is the former owner and former CEO of Uralchem. As of March 2022, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Dmitry Mazepin has been sanctioned by both the European Union and the United Kingdom.
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Frederick Allan Moranis is a Canadian comedian and actor, known for roles in several feature films in the 1980s. He appeared in the sketch comedy series Second City Television (SCTV) in the 1980s.
America Georgina Ferrera is an American actress. She has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award.
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Eli Raphael Roth is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. As a director and producer, he is most closely associated with the horror genre, namely splatter films, having directed Cabin Fever (2002) and Hostel (2005).
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Denzel Justus Morris Dumfries is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a right-back or right wing-back for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Netherlands national team.
Jeffrey Douglas Dunham is an American ventriloquist, stand-up comedian and actor who has also appeared on numerous television shows, including Late Show with David Letterman, Comedy Central Presents, The Tonight Show, and Sonny with a Chance.
Richard McLaren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ahmed I was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 to 1617. Ahmed's reign is noteworthy for marking the first breach in the Ottoman tradition of royal fratricide; henceforth, Ottoman rulers would no longer systematically execute their brothers upon accession to the throne.
Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British and American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.
Fronteiras do Pensamento, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
David Ricardo was a British economist and politician. He is recognized as one of the most influential classical economists, alongside figures such as Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith and James Mill.
Thomas Phillips, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Phillips Huntington was an American political scientist, adviser, and academic. He was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he directed the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org), swiss-image.ch/Photo by Photo by Peter Lauth, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Leopold Anthony Stokowski was a British conductor. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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Matthew James Upson is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre back. Upson played for England at full international level, including at the 2010 World Cup.
Haile Gebrselassie is an Ethiopian former long-distance track, road running athlete, and businessman. He won two Olympic gold medals and four World Championship titles over the 10,000 metres and won the Berlin Marathon on four consecutive occasions between 2006 and 2009.
Sayako Kuroda, formerly Sayako, Princess Nori, is the youngest child and only daughter of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko, and the younger sister of the current Emperor of Japan, Naruhito.
Miklós Rózsa was a Hungarian and American composer. Best known for his nearly 100 film scores, he nevertheless maintained a steadfast allegiance to absolute concert music throughout what he called his "double life".
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Tadeusz Mazowiecki was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime minister since 1946, having held the post from 1989 to 1991.
Lars Valerian Ahlfors was a Finnish mathematician and the leading figure in complex analysis during the 20th century. He is remembered for his work on Riemann surfaces, quasiconformal mappings and Teichmüller spaces, and for his textbook on complex analysis.
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld was an Austro-Hungarian, and later American electrical engineer and physicist who has been credited with the first patent on the field-effect transistor in 1925. He was never able to build a working practical semiconductor device based on his concept.
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Bengt Robert Holmström is a Finnish economist who is currently Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Together with Oliver Hart, he received the Central Bank of Sweden Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016.
Said Mikhailovich Gutseriev is a Russian-British businessperson of Ingush descent. He is the son of Russian oligarch Mikhail Gutseriev. Since 2018, he has been included by Forbes into the list of wealthiest businessmen in the world.
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Joseph Leonard Goldstein ForMemRS is an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1985, along with fellow University of Texas Southwestern researcher, Michael Brown, for their studies regarding cholesterol.
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Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, also spelled Ivana Berlic-Mazuranic in English, was a Croatian writer. She has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.
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Peter Del Vecho is an American film producer at Walt Disney Animation Studios, where he is also senior vice president of production. He is best known for producing Frozen and Frozen 2 together with directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee.
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This page lists 51 people born on April 18, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of May 2018. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on April 18. Read the full methodology.
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