April 29 is the birthday of 44 notable people we've found so far, including actors, entrepreneurs, authors and creators, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Chief Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga Jr is a Nigerian billionaire businessman, and the fifth richest person in Africa according to Forbes. His company Globacom is Nigeria's second-largest telecom operator and also has a presence in Ghana and Benin.
Share of the 44 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors27% (12 people)
Authors25% (11 people)
Entrepreneurs25% (11 people)
Creators20% (9 people)
Musicians20% (9 people)
Athletes18% (8 people)
Artists14% (6 people)
Countries
20 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States17 (17 people)
France3 (3 people)
Italy3 (3 people)
Argentina2 (2 people)
Croatia2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Nigeria2 (2 people)
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Uma Karuna Thurman is an American actress. Known for her collaborations with Quentin Tarantino, she has performed in over fifty film and television productions since the 1980s, across genres that range from comedies and dramas to science fiction and action.
Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor. Widely considered one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema, he is best known for intense method acting portrayed with eccentric characters in auteurs' films.
Emperor Shōwa, personal name Hirohito, was Emperor of Japan from 25 December 1926 until his death on 7 January 1989. He reigned during a period of increasing Japanese nationalism and militarism, culminating in the entry of the Empire of Japan into World War II as an Axis power.
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Willie Hugh Nelson is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and activist. He was one of the main figures of the outlaw country subgenre that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound.
Minette Layne, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Andre Kirk Agassi is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 101 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 1999.
Shinya Suzuki from New York, U.S.A., CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper publisher and politician. He laid the foundation for the Hearst family's mass media empire via his control of the Hearst Corporation.
James E. Purdy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
David Vaughan Icke is an English conspiracy theorist, author and a former semi-professional footballer, sports journalist and broadcaster. He has written over 20 books, self-published since the mid-1990s, and spoken in more than 25 countries.
Percy Robert Miller, better known by his stage name Master P, is an American rapper, actor, and entrepreneur. He founded No Limit Records in 1991, which was relaunched into the spin-off labels New No Limit Records and No Limit Forever Records.
Enrico Mattei was an Italian public administrator. After World War II, he was given the task of dismantling the Italian petroleum agency Agip, a state enterprise established by Fascist Italy. Instead, Mattei enlarged and reorganized it into the National Fuel Trust.
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Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American financier, con artist, and stock broker who was the admitted mastermind of the largest-known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange.
U.S. Department of Justice, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Music critic Ralph J. Gleason called him "America's most important composer".
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Katherine Kiernan Maria Mulgrew is an American actress and author. She is best known for playing Captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001) and Red in Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019).
Katherine Langford is an Australian actress. After appearing in several independent films, she had her breakthrough starring as Hannah Baker in the Netflix television series 13 Reasons Why (2017–2018), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination.
MTV International, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Raja Ravi Varma was an Indian painter. His works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic art with a purely Indian sensibility and iconography.
Anggun Cipta Sasmi (Indonesian: [ˌaŋɡʊn ˌt͡ʃip̚t̪a ˈsasmi]; is an Indonesian and French singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality. Born in Jakarta, she began performing at the age of seven and recorded a children's album two years later.
Johannes Pietsch, also known by his stage name JJ, is an Austrian singer. He won the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 for Austria with the song "Wasted Love".
Österreichisches Außenministerium, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jules Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The Last Universalist", since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime.
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Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović is a Croatian politician and diplomat who served as the president of Croatia from 2015 to 2020. She was the first woman to be elected to the office since the first multi-party elections in 1990 and independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.
Spinaker Graphics / Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Celeste Holm was an American actress. Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and was nominated for her roles in Come to the Stable (1949) and All About Eve (1950).
Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, known, especially in English, as Constantine P. Cavafy and often published as C. P. Cavafy, was a Greek poet, journalist, and civil servant from Alexandria.
Unknown photographer (signed: Pacino), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Preston Robert Tisch was an American businessman who was the chairman of the Loews Corporation, which he co-owned with his brother Laurence Tisch. From 1991 until his death, Tisch owned half of the New York Giants football team, sharing ownership with Wellington Mara.
Harold Clayton Urey was an American physical chemist who conducted pioneering work on isotopes. He earned the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen."
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Karl Freiherr von Drais was a noble German forest official and significant inventor in the Biedermeier period. He is regarded as "the father" and as the inventor of the bicycle.
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Peter Arthur Diamond is an American economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s.
The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier was a French author and librarian who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the conte fantastique, gothic literature, and vampire tales. His dream related writings influenced the later works of Gérard de Nerval.
Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jan Andrzej Paweł Kaczmarek was a Polish composer. He wrote scores for more than 70 feature films and documentaries, including Finding Neverland (2004), for which he won an Oscar and a National Board of Review Award.
Ramón Ismael Medina Bello, nicknamed El Mencho, is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker at club level in Argentina and Japan.
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Ladipo Eso, known professionally as Ladipoe and formerly as Poe, is a Nigerian rapper and singer. On 28 February 2017, Ladipoe signed a record deal with Mavin Records. He gained prominence following his feature on the song "Feel Alright" by Show Dem Camp.
Josephine Ylagan Ramirez-Sato is a Filipino politician. She served as a member of the Philippine House of Representatives representing the Lone District of Occidental Mindoro under the Liberal Party from 2013 to 2022.
Department of Science and Technology : Region IV-B, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 44 people born on April 29, 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 May 2024. 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 29. Read the full methodology.
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