April 28 is the birthday of 50 notable people we've found so far, including authors, actors, entrepreneurs and athletes, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors28% (14 people)
Actors22% (11 people)
Athletes18% (9 people)
Entrepreneurs18% (9 people)
Scientists18% (9 people)
Politicians16% (8 people)
Artists12% (6 people)
Countries
26 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
France3 (3 people)
Italy3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Iraq2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Kingdom of the Netherlands2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on April 28 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
~24Jessica AlbaNotable work: Fantastic Four (2005)
~24Penélope CruzReceived the Goya Award for Best Actress (1998)
~21Adaora ElonuNamed National Collegiate Athletic Association (2011)
~18Diego SimeoneJoined Argentina men's national football team (1988)
26 to 30
~29Walter ZengaNamed IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper (1989)
Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003 during the Iraq war.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jessica Marie Alba is an American actress and businesswoman. She rose to prominence at age 19 for portraying Max Guevara, the lead character in the television series Dark Angel (2000–2002), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination.
Penélope Cruz Sánchez is a Spanish actress. Prolific in Spanish and English-language films, her accolades include an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, a David di Donatello and three Goya Awards.
Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
James Monroe was a Founding Father and the fifth president of the United States, serving from 1817 to 1825. He was the last Founding Father to serve as president, as well as the last president of the Virginia dynasty.
Gilbert Stuart, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and humanitarian who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in German-occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ferruccio Lamborghini was an Italian automobile designer and industrialist who created Lamborghini Trattori in 1948 and Automobili Lamborghini in 1963, a maker of high-end sports cars in Sant'Agata Bolognese.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Princess Rajwa Al Hussein is a Saudi member of the Jordanian royal family. She is married to Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan, heir apparent to the Jordanian throne.
Royal Hashemite Court, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nicola Romeo was an Italian engineer and entrepreneur mostly known for founding the car manufacturer Alfa Romeo. He served as a senator in the 18th Legislature of the Kingdom of Italy.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Elaine Farrell Wynn was an American billionaire businesswoman, art collector, philanthropist and education reformer. She co-founded Mirage Resorts and Wynn Resorts with her former husband, Steve Wynn.
Governor Jim Justice, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966).
Mary Eileen McDonnell is an American film, stage, and television actress. She received Academy Award nominations for her roles as Stands With A Fist in Dances With Wolves and May-Alice Culhane in Passion Fish.
Miguel Discart & Kiri Karma, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Melanie Adele Martinez is an American singer-songwriter. Born in Astoria, Queens, and raised in Baldwin, New York, Martinez rose to fame in 2012 after appearing on season 3 of the American television talent show The Voice.
Sir Terence David John Pratchett was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.
Juan Manuel Mata García is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for A-League Men club Melbourne Victory. He primarily plays as an attacking midfielder, but can also play as a winger.
Станислав Ведмидь, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
António de Oliveira Salazar was a Portuguese dictator, academic, and economist who served as the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. Having come to power under the Ditadura Nacional, he reframed the regime as the corporatist Estado Novo, with himself as dictator.
Manuel Alves de San Payo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bruno Kirby was an American actor. He was best known for his roles in City Slickers, When Harry Met Sally., Good Morning, Vietnam, The Godfather Part II, The Freshman, Sleepers, Donnie Brasco, and This Is Spinal Tap. He voiced Reginald Stout in Stuart Little.
ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931) and is known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr.
George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jorge Garcia is an American actor and comedian. He first came to public attention with his performance as Hector Lopez on the television show Becker, but subsequently became best known for his portrayal of Hugo "Hurley" Reyes in the television series Lost from 2004 to 2010.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tariq Aziz was an Iraqi politician and journalist who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq from 1979 to 2003 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1991. He was a close advisor of President Saddam Hussein.
Presidential Press and Information Office, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Yves Klein was a French artist and an important figure in postwar European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme, founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Miloš Degenek is a professional soccer player who plays as a centre-back for Cypriot First Division club APOEL. Born in Croatia, he represents the Australia national team.
Karl Barry Sharpless is an American stereochemist. He is a two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry, known for his work on stereoselective reactions and click chemistry.
Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ian Ashley Murdock was an American software engineer, known for being the founder of the Debian project and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company.
Eugene Merle Shoemaker was an American geologist. He co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy. This comet hit Jupiter in July 1994: the impact was televised around the world.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Pietro Aretino was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer, who wielded influence on contemporary art and politics. He was one of the most influential writers of his time and an outspoken critic of the powerful.
Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton, known in her adult life as Hertha Ayrton, was an English electrical engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette.
Unknown authorUnknown author,for en:Bain News Service (publisher), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bhanu Athaiya was an Indian costume designer and painter. She was the first Indian to win an Academy Award. Alongside being Bollywood's most iconic costume designer, she had a historically important early career as an artist with contemporaries like M. F. Husain, F. N.
Aniruddha Gupta, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jan Hendrik Oort was a Dutch astronomer who made significant contributions to the understanding of the Milky Way and who was a pioneer in the field of radio astronomy.
Émile Henri Bernard was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne. Most of his notable work was accomplished at a young age, in the years 1886 through 1897.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 50 people born on April 28, 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 2022. 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 28. Read the full methodology.
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