April 25 is the birthday of 53 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, scientists, authors and politicians, and 3 of them are billionaires.
James Harris Simons was an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist. At the time of his death, Simons's net worth was estimated to be $31.4 billion, making him the 55th-richest person in the world.
Dennis J. "Chip" Wilson is an American-Canadian businessman, investor, and philanthropist who has founded several retail apparel companies, most notably the yoga-inspired athletic apparel company Lululemon Athletica.
Adam Neumann is an Israeli and American billionaire businessman. In 2010, he co-founded WeWork with Miguel McKelvey, where he was CEO from 2010 to 2019.
Share of the 53 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors25% (13 people)
Entrepreneurs25% (13 people)
Politicians25% (13 people)
Scientists25% (13 people)
Actors15% (8 people)
Athletes15% (8 people)
Creators13% (7 people)
Countries
26 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
France7 (7 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
Kingdom of the Netherlands2 (2 people)
Spain2 (2 people)
Sweden2 (2 people)
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Alfredo James Pacino is an American actor. Known for his intense performances on stage and screen, Pacino is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time.
Embajada de EEUU en la Argentina, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Renée Kathleen Zellweger is an American actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.
Hendrik Johannes Cruijff, internationally known as Johan Cruyff was a Dutch professional football player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest players in history and as the greatest Dutch footballer ever, he won the Ballon d'Or three times, in 1971, 1973, and 1974.
Jack Leon Ruby was an American nightclub owner. He murdered Lee Harvey Oswald two days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He was born in Chicago, and operated nightclubs in Texas.
Uncredited police photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Timothy Theodore Duncan is an American former professional basketball player and coach who spent his entire 19-year career with the San Antonio Spurs in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Keith Allison from Owings Mills, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Marconi Company · telecommunications
1874–1937 · Kingdom of Italy
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquess of Marconi, was an Italian electrical engineer, inventor, and politician known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system.
Pach Brothers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Adam Silver is an American lawyer and sports executive who is serving as the fifth and current commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Jen Pottheiser, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Louis Alphonse de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou is regarded by French Legitimists as the head of the House of Bourbon and the rightful claimant to the defunct throne of France under the name Louis XX.
FC (Secrétariat de Louis de Bourbon, Duc d'Anjou), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Peter Denis Sutherland was an Irish businessman, barrister and Fine Gael politician who served as UN Special Representative for International Migration from 2006 to 2017. He was known for serving in various international organisations, political and business roles.
Christian Lambiotte, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Talia Rose Shire is an American actress and member of the Coppola family. She is best known for her roles as Connie Corleone in The Godfather trilogy (1972–1990) and Adrian Pennino Balboa in the Rocky series (1976–1990).
American Broadcasting Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter and composer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella".
Lewin/Kaufman/Schwartz, Public Relations, Beverly Hills, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Björn Kristian Ulvaeus is a Swedish musician, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as a member of the musical group ABBA. He is also the co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia! He co-produced the films Mamma Mia! and Mamma Mia!
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David William Moyes is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Everton. He was the 2003, 2005 and 2009 League Managers Association Manager of the Year.
Raphaël Xavier Varane is a French former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Often called the term "Rolls-Royce" defender in football, he is regarded as one of the best defenders of his generation.
1843–1878 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Princess Alice was Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until her death in 1878 as the wife of Grand Duke Louis IV. She was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Franz Backofen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian theoretical physicist and a pioneer of quantum mechanics. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle".
Bettina Katzenstein, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn, also known as DSK, is a French economist and politician who served as the tenth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and was a member of the French Socialist Party.
International Monetary Fund (photographer uncredited), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Stanley Ford Rous was an English international football referee and administrator. He served as secretary of the Football Association from 1934 to 1962 and then served as the 6th president of FIFA from 1961 to 1974.
NL-HaNA, ANEFO / neg. stroken, 1945-1989, 2.24.01.05, item number 918-9827, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alberto Aleandro Uderzo, better known as Albert Uderzo, was a French comic book artist and scriptwriter. He is best known as the co-creator and illustrator of the Astérix series in collaboration with René Goscinny.
Georges Seguin (Okki), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, better known as Sir Edward Grey, was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who was the main force behind British foreign policy in the era of the First World War.
Felix Christian Klein was a German mathematician, mathematics educator and historian of mathematics, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and the associations between geometry and group theory.
Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn, was a prominent British civil servant, diplomat and politician who served as the acting secretary-general of the United Nations between 1945 and 1946.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Phillip James Edwin Peebles is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who gained the Albert Einstein Professorship in Science, emeritus, at Princeton University.
Juan Diego Soler, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Juha Petri Sipilä is a Finnish former politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2015 to 2019. A relative newcomer to politics, he had a successful background in business. He was the leader of the Centre Party from 2012 to 2019.
Anja Sofia Tess Pärson is a Swedish former alpine skier. She is an Olympic gold medalist, seven-time gold medalist at the World Championships, and two-time overall Alpine Skiing World Cup champion.
Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Christiaan Karel Appel was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement CoBrA in 1948.
Robert Peugeot is a French businessman. He is chairman of Peugeot Invest, the listed investment company that is one of the two main shareholders in Stellantis and majority-owned by Établissements Peugeot Frères.
Manal al-Sharif is a Saudi women's rights activist who helped start a right-to-drive campaign in 2011. Wajeha al-Huwaider filmed al-Sharif driving a car as part of the campaign. The video was posted on YouTube and Facebook.
Manal al-Shraif, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera is a Costa Rican political scientist, historian and politician who served as the 47th President of Costa Rica from 2014 to 2018. A member of the Citizens' Action Party, he has had an academic career spanning more than three decades.
Luis Manuel Madrigal, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Leon G. Cooperman is an American billionaire investor and hedge fund manager. He’s the chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors, a New York-based investment advisory firm managing over $3.3 billion in assets under management, the majority consisting of his personal wealth.
This page lists 53 people born on April 25, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 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 March 2025. 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 25. Read the full methodology.
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