April 2 is the birthday of 52 notable people we've found so far, including authors, athletes, historical figures and actors, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Heinz Hermann Thiele was a German businessman and the chairman of Knorr-Bremse AG, a German automobile brakes manufacturer, and chairman of Vossloh, a German transport technology manufacturer.
Beny Steinmetz,also known as Benjamin Steinmetz, is an Israeli businessman and entrepreneur, with a focus on the mining, energy, real estate and diamond-mining industries. He was convicted in Switzerland of corruption in connection with mining rights in Guinea.
Share of the 52 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors31% (16 people)
Athletes29% (15 people)
Actors19% (10 people)
Creators15% (8 people)
Entrepreneurs13% (7 people)
Politicians13% (7 people)
Musicians12% (6 people)
Countries
24 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States13 (13 people)
France5 (5 people)
Japan5 (5 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Brazil1 (1 people)
Cameroon1 (1 people)
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José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal is a Chilean and American actor. Known for his portrayals of parental figures on screen and stage, he has received numerous accolades including an Actor Award, in addition to nominations for a Golden Globe Award and four Primetime Emmy Awards.
Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael Fassbender is a German and Irish actor, racing driver and producer. His accolades include a win for one Volpi Cup and nominations for two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.
Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Marvin Pentz Gaye Jr. was an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. Commonly referred to as the "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul", he helped to shape the sound of Motown and soul music in the 1960s and 1970s.
Photograph by Jim Britt, whose other (copyrighted) photos of Gaye from the same session—many of them in full color—can b, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish writer. A prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is also best remembered for his literary fairy tales.
Thora Hallager, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nicholas Murray Butler was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. Butler was president of Columbia University, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the late James S.
Auguste Léon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Vishal Virender Devgan, known professionally as Ajay Devgn, is an Indian actor, film director and producer who mainly works in Hindi films. He has appeared in over 100 films and has won numerous accolades, including four National Film Awards and four Filmfare Awards.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Walter Percy Chrysler was an American industrial pioneer in the automotive industry, automotive industry executive, and the founder and namesake of American Chrysler Corporation.
Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ali Yıldırım Koç is a Turkish businessman. He is a third-generation member of Turkey's wealthiest Koç family and the youngest son of Rahmi Koç. From June 2018 to September 2025, he was the 37th president of Fenerbahçe Sports Club.
Joseph Joffo was a French author. A noted autobiographer, Joffo was perhaps best known for his memoir Un sac de billes, which has been translated into eighteen languages. Joseph Joffo was married to Brigitte Joffo and had 3 children, Alexandra, Boris, and Franck
Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood was a British racing driver and motorcycle road racer, who competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1958 to 1967, and Formula One between 1963 and 1974.
André Onana Onana is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Süper Lig club Trabzonspor, on loan from Premier League club Manchester United, and the Cameroon national team.
Rodney Glen King was an African-American man who on March 3, 1991 became a victim of police brutality when he was severely beaten by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) during his arrest after a high-speed pursuit on California's state freeway, Interstate 210 having initially evaded arrest.
Justin Hoch / Justin Hoch for a Hudson Union Society event, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Peter Meloni is an American actor. He is known for portraying NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler on the NBC legal drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and its spin-off Organized Crime (2021–2025), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
Colleen Sturtevant, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.
Emmylou Harris is an American singer, songwriter, musician, bandleader, and activist. She is considered one of the leading music artists behind the country rock genre in the 1970s and the Americana genre in the 1990s.
jess hodge (digboston), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Caterina di Jacopo di Benincasa, TOSD, known as Catherine of Siena, was an Italian Catholic mystic and diplomat who engaged in papal and Italian politics through extensive letter-writing and advocacy.
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was an Italian adventurer and writer who was born in the Republic of Venice and travelled extensively throughout Europe. He is chiefly remembered for his autobiography, written in French and published posthumously as Histoire de ma vie.
Francesco Giuseppe Casanova, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Clark Gregg Jr. is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He portrayed Phil Coulson in films and television series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from 2008 to 2024, and voiced Coulson in an animated television series and video games.
Edward Paul Sheringham is an English football manager and former player. He played as a forward, mostly as a second striker, in a 24-year professional career.
Miralem Pjanić is a Bosnian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is considered to be one of the greatest free-kick takers of all time.
Max Ernst was a German-born painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism in Europe.
Unknown authorUnknown author, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Camille Anna Paglia is an American academic, social critic and feminist. Paglia was a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1984 until the university's closure in 2024.
Fronteiras do Pensamento, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Zhang Yimou is a Chinese filmmaker. A leading figure of China's Fifth Generation directors, he is considered as one of the most successful filmmakers in the world.
Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, The Princess Royal is a member of the Thai royal family. She is the second daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit, and the younger sister of King Vajiralongkorn.
JF, Guterres, Presidency of East Timor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ibrahim Afellay is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or winger. He currently works for Dutch broadcaster NOS as a football pundit.
Jimmy Baikovicius, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
David Ferrer Ern is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in July 2013. Ferrer won 27 ATP Tour singles titles, including a Masters 1000 event at the 2012 Paris Masters.
William Holman Hunt was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolism.
William Holman Hunt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Carlos Arnoldo Salcido Flores is a Mexican former professional footballer. He started his career as a centre-back and played most of it as left-back, then converted to defensive midfielder and ended it as centre-back. He won the 2012 Olympic gold medal.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was a French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of Physiologie du goût, became celebrated for his culinary reminiscences and reflections on the craft and science of cookery and the art of eating.
Louis-Jean Allais / After Jean Baptist Ponce Lambert, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Joseph Cohen was an American mathematician, best known for his proofs that the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice are independent from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, for which he was awarded a Fields Medal.
Clément Ader was a French inventor and engineer who was born near Toulouse in Muret, Haute-Garonne, and died in Toulouse. He is remembered primarily for his pioneering work in aviation. In 1870 he was also one of the pioneers in the sport of cycling in France.
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben was a German poet associated with the Young Germany movement. He is best known for writing "Das Lied der Deutschen", whose third stanza is now the national anthem of Germany, and a number of popular children's songs.
Photographisches Atelier von W(ilhelm) Halffter, Berlin, Leipziger-Strasse 91, Ecke Mauerstraße, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Francesco Maria Grimaldi was an Italian Jesuit priest, mathematician and physicist who taught at the Jesuit college in Bologna. He was born in Bologna to Paride Grimaldi and Anna Cattani.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 52 people born on April 2, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 November 2019. 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 2. Read the full methodology.
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