April 8 is the birthday of 53 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, politicians and actors, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Allan William Buchanan Gray was a South African billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He founded the eponymous investment management company, the nonprofit Allan Gray Orbis Foundation, and the Allan and Gill Gray Charitable Trust.
Share of the 53 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors30% (16 people)
Entrepreneurs28% (15 people)
Politicians21% (11 people)
Actors19% (10 people)
Scientists19% (10 people)
Athletes17% (9 people)
Musicians17% (9 people)
Countries
27 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States17 (17 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Canada3 (3 people)
Kingdom of the Netherlands2 (2 people)
Australia1 (1 people)
Austrian Empire1 (1 people)
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Robin Gayle Wright is an American actress, producer and director. She has received accolades including a Golden Globe Award, and nominations for eight Primetime Emmy Awards.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Patricia Arquette is an American actress. Known for her roles on film and television, she has received an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Christopher Scott Kyle was a United States Navy SEAL sniper and author. Kyle served four tours in the Iraq War and was awarded the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, and a Combat Action Ribbon.
Cpl. Damien Gutierrez, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mehmed II, commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire twice, from August 1444 to September 1446 and again from February 1451 to May 1481.
16th century artist, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat and statesman who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.
US Mission in Geneva, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ronald Harold Johnson is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Wisconsin, a seat he has held since 2011. A Republican, Johnson was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010, defeating Democratic incumbent Russ Feingold.
Office of Senator Ron Johnson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood was an English fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. In 2022, Sky Arts ranked her the 4th most influential artist in Britain of the past 50 years.
Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Connie Stevens is an American actress and traditional pop singer. Born in Brooklyn to musician parents, Stevens was raised there until the age of 12, when she was sent to live with family friends in rural Missouri.
Gene Trindl of Topix [1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Katee Sackhoff is an American actress known for playing Lieutenant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on Battlestar Galactica (2003–2009), Victoria "Vic" Moretti on Longmire (2012–2017), Niko Breckenridge on Another Life (2019–2021), and Bo-Katan Kryze on The Mandalorian (2020–2023).
Miguel Discart & Kiri Karma, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Julian Charles John Lennon is an English musician, photographer, author, and philanthropist. He is the son of Beatles member John Lennon and his first wife Cynthia; Julian is named after his paternal grandmother Julia.
Allu Arjun is an Indian actor who works in Telugu cinema. He is one of the highest-paid actors in Indian cinema and has been featured in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2014.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mathew David Ryan is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Levante and captains the Australia national team.
Kim Jong-hyun, known mononymously as Jonghyun, was a South Korean singer-songwriter, record producer, radio host, and author under the SM Entertainment label.
Elizabeth Anne Ford was First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977, as the wife of President Gerald Ford. As first lady, she was active in social policy, and set a precedent as a politically active presidential spouse.
Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Emil Mihai Cioran was a Romanian philosopher, aphorist and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French. His work has been noted for its pervasive philosophical pessimism, style, and aphorisms.
Photographer of Keyston agency/Getty Images before Rivarol Premium. Photo taken in the last years of Cioran's life-in-Ro, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Barbara Ellen Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo; and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally.
John Joseph Havlicek, often nicknamed Hondo, was an American professional basketball player who spent his entire 16-year career with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jacques Romain Georges Brel was a Belgian singer and actor who composed and performed theatrical songs. He generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, but later throughout the world. He is considered a master of the modern chanson.
Jack de Nijs for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sonja Henie was a Norwegian figure skater and film star. She was a three-time Olympic champion in women's singles, a ten-time World champion (1927–1936) and a six-time European champion (1931–1936). Henie won more Olympic and World titles than any other ladies' figure skater.
Toronto Star, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Andrej Plenković is a Croatian politician who has served as prime minister of Croatia since 2016. He is the leader of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), serving since 2016. Plenković is the longest-serving Croatian prime minister.
Grzegorz Bolesław Lato is a Polish former professional football player and manager who played as a winger. He was a member of Poland's golden generation of football players who rose to fame in the 1970s and early 80s.
Richard Joseph Neutra was an Austrian-American architect. Living and building for most of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered a prominent and important modernist architect.
Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Louis Johnson is an American entrepreneur, media magnate, executive, philanthropist, and investor. He is the co-founder of BET, which was acquired by Viacom in 2001. He also founded RLJ Companies, a holding company that invests in various business sectors.
Shealeah Craighead, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Dale DeLay is an American author and retired politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives. A Republican, DeLay represented Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1985 until 2006. He served as House majority leader from 2003 to 2005.
United States Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Anouk Schemmekes, professionally known by the mononym Anouk, is a Dutch singer, songwriter and producer. After her 1997 breakthrough rock single "Nobody's Wife", she had additional hit records in the Dutch and Belgian charts.
John Fante was an American novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Ask the Dust (1939) about the life of Arturo Bandini, a struggling writer in Depression-era Los Angeles.
Melvin Ellis Calvin was an American biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants".
David Rittenhouse was an American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman, and public official. Rittenhouse was a member of the American Philosophical Society and the first director of the United States Mint.
Charles Willson Peale, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dionysios Solomos was a Greek poet from Zakynthos, who is considered to be Greece's national poet. He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty, which was set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros and became the Greek and Cypriot national anthem in 1865 and 1966 respectively.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Arcadi Aleksandrovich Gaydamak is a Russian-born French-Israeli businessman, philanthropist, and President of the Congress of Jewish Religious Communities and Organizations of Russia (KEROOR).
This page lists 53 people born on April 8, 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 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 8. Read the full methodology.
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