Share of the 52 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors33% (17 people)
Authors27% (14 people)
Politicians23% (12 people)
Creators19% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs19% (10 people)
Musicians17% (9 people)
Scientists15% (8 people)
Countries
22 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States20 (20 people)
France6 (6 people)
Italy4 (4 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Switzerland2 (2 people)
United Kingdom2 (2 people)
Afghanistan1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on April 9 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.
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~22Kristen StewartReceived the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress (2012)
Kristen Jaymes Stewart is an American actress and filmmaker. Known for her work in blockbusters and arthouse dramas, Stewart has been ranked among the world's highest paid actors and her films have collectively grossed over $4 billion worldwide.
Dennis William Quaid is an American actor. He is known for his starring roles in many successful films, including Breaking Away (1979), Jaws 3-D (1983), Innerspace (1987), Great Balls of Fire!
Leighton Marissa Meester is an American actress, singer, and model. She is known for her starring role as Blair Waldorf on The CW television series Gossip Girl (2007–2012).
Jenna Marie Massoli, known professionally as Jenna Jameson, is an American businesswoman, writer, television personality, and former pornographic film actress. She has been named the world's most famous adult entertainment performer and "The Queen of Porn".
Hugh Marston Hefner was an American magazine publisher and businessman. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication with sexualized photographs of women, articles, and fiction, and lengthy interviews with politicians, musicians, artists, and writers.
1806–1859 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was an English civil and marine engineer considered "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution", "perhaps the most eminent Victorian engineer", and one whose work "altered the lives of almost every person in Britain, and millions abroad".
Robert Howlett, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Douglas Anthony Ducey is an American businessman and Republican politician who served as the 23rd governor of Arizona from 2015 to 2023 as well as Arizona State Treasurer from 2011 to 2015. He also was CEO of the ice cream parlor chain Cold Stone Creamery from 1995 to 2007.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George Wallace Ferguson McCain was a Canadian businessman and co-founder of McCain Foods. With an estimated net worth of $US 4.15 billion, McCain was ranked by Forbes as the 13th wealthiest Canadian and 512th in the world.
Wesley Mendonça Batista is a Brazilian billionaire businessman, and founder of JBS S.A. Batista was the president of the JBS group and was responsible for the implementation of JBS operations in the US since the acquisition of Swift in 2007.
Gerard Arthur Way is an American singer, songwriter, and comic book writer, best known as the lead vocalist and co-founder of the rock band My Chemical Romance.
Montero Lamar Hill, better known by his stage name Lil Nas X, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He rose to prominence with the release of his 2018 country rap single "Old Town Road", which spent a then-record 19 weeks atop the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Jesse McCartney is an American actor, singer, and songwriter. He achieved fame in the late 1990s on the daytime drama All My Children as JR Chandler. He later joined the boy band Dream Street, and eventually branched out into a solo musical career.
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, and are based on observations of real life.
Paul Leroy Robeson was an American bass-baritone concert artist, actor, professional football player, and activist who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political stances.
Gordon Parks, Office of War Information; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:13, 3 February 2011 (UTC), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Bernard Fowler is an English football coach and former professional player. He most recently managed Saudi First Division League side Al-Qadsiah. He is best known for his time playing for Liverpool, initially from 1993 to 2001.
Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff was a Prussian-born German general and politician. He achieved fame during World War I (1914–1918) for his central role in the German victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914.
Alexander Binder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Giovani Lo Celso is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for La Liga club Real Betis and the Argentina national team.
Blaise Matuidi (French: [blɛz matɥidi]; born 9 April 1987) is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He most notably played for Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, and the France national team, with which he won the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Mary Jackson was an American aerospace engineer and mathematician at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
NASA Langley Research Center, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Isaac Hempstead Wright is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Bran Stark in the HBO television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), which earned him a Young Artist Award nomination as Best Young Supporting Actor in a TV Series.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Carl Lee Perkins was an American country, rockabilly, and rock and roll guitarist, singer and songwriter. A rockabilly great and pioneer of rock and roll, he began his recording career at the Sun Studio in Memphis in 1954.
CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.
Rainer Zenz Public domain This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
André Léon Blum was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France. As a Jew, he was heavily influenced by the Dreyfus affair of the late 19th century.
Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was a prominent Palestinian author and militant, considered to be a leading novelist of his generation and one of the Arab world's leading writers. Kanafani's works have been translated into more than 17 languages.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jørn Oberg Utzon was a Danish architect. In 1957, he won an international design competition for his design of the Sydney Opera House in Australia. Utzon's revised design, which he completed in 1961, was the basis for the landmark, although it was not completed until 1973.
Mohammad Nadir Shah was King of Afghanistan from 1929 until his assassination in 1933. He became the king after crushing the Afghan Civil War of 1928–1929. Previously, he served as Minister of War, Afghan Ambassador to France, and as a general in the Royal Afghan Army.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yitzhak Rachamim Navon was an Israeli politician, diplomat, playwright, and author. He served as the president of Israel between 1978 and 1983 as a member of the centre-left Alignment party.
IPPA photographer, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alain Berset is a Swiss politician and economist who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2012 to 2023. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS), he headed the Federal Department of Home Affairs from when he took office.
Elias Lönnrot was a Finnish polymath, physician, philosopher, poet, musician, linguist, journalist, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 52 people born on April 9, 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 2026. 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 9. Read the full methodology.
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