August 14 is the birthday of 40 notable people we've found so far, including actors, creators, entrepreneurs and authors, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. is an American businessman and former professional basketball player. He is widely regarded as the greatest point guard of all time and one of the greatest basketball players in history.
Share of the 40 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors28% (11 people)
Creators25% (10 people)
Authors23% (9 people)
Entrepreneurs23% (9 people)
Musicians18% (7 people)
Scientists18% (7 people)
Athletes15% (6 people)
Countries
19 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States13 (13 people)
Nigeria4 (4 people)
France3 (3 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
United Kingdom2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on August 14 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
24Adam D'AngeloFounded Quora (2009)
~21Magic JohnsonReceived the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award (1980)
~24Emmanuelle BéartReceived the César Award for Best Supporting Actress (1987)
Halle Maria Berry is an American actress. She began her career as a model and beauty contestant becoming Miss Ohio USA in 1986, first runner-up in Miss USA 1986 and placing sixth in Miss World 1986.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for his trilogy of novels collectively called The Forsyte Saga, and two later trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Adam D'Angelo is an American internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the co-founder and CEO of Quora, based in Mountain View, California, and as the first chief technology officer of Facebook.
Philip Neustrom from San Francisco, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sergey Nikolayevich Galitsky is a Russian billionaire businessman, the founder and co-owner of Magnit, Russia's largest retailer, and president of FC Krasnodar. In 2021 Forbes Russia estimated his fortune at $3.5 billion.
Güler Sabancı is a Turkish businesswoman, a third-generation member of the Sabancı family, and the former chair of the family-controlled Sabancı Holding, the second-largest industrial and financial conglomerate in Turkey.
Sabanci Holding, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Vladimir Stefanovich Litvinenko is a Russian academic, businessman and Vladimir Putin's campaign manager. He is also rector of Saint Petersburg Mining University in St. Petersburg.
Dermot Desmond is an Irish businessman and financier. He is estimated to be worth €2.04 billion and is ranked by the Sunday Independent as the ninth-richest person in Ireland.
Augustine Azuka "Jay-Jay" Okocha is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He had 73 caps for the Nigeria national team between 1993 and 2006, scoring 14 goals, and was a member of three FIFA World Cup squads.
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
James Roy Horner was an American film composer and conductor. He is known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations, and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music.
Kofi Nahaje Sarkodie-Mensah is a Ghanaian professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he performs under the mononymous name Kofi and is one-half of The New Level with Austin Creed.
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel is an American writer best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling living author and the fourth-best-selling fiction author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold.
Giorgio Chiellini is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or left-back. Considered one of the best defenders of all time, Chiellini was known for his strength, aggressiveness, man-marking, and ability to play in either a three or four-man defence.
Emmanuelle Béart is a French actress who has appeared in over 60 film and television productions since 1972. An eight-time César Award nominee, she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film Manon des Sources.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Raymond William Johnson is an American comedian, internet celebrity, actor, and singer-songwriter best known for his eponymous YouTube channel and his web series on that channel, Equals Three.
1560–1612 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir John Harington, of Kelston, Somerset, England, but born in London, was an English courtier, author and translator popularly known as the inventor of the flush toilet.
Circle of Hieronimo Custodis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hans Christian Ørsted, sometimes transliterated as Oersted, was a Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields. This phenomenon is known as Oersted's law. He also discovered aluminium, a chemical element.
Christian Albrecht Jensen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Robin Bo Carl Söderling is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 4 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in November 2010.
Arcangela Felice Assunta "Lina" Wertmüller was an Italian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 1970s art house films Seven Beauties, The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, and Swept Away.
John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dani Rodrik is a Turkish economist and Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was formerly the Albert O.
Andrzej Barabasz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hadiza Blell, known professionally as Di'Ja, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. In 2009, she released her first single "Rock Steady", which was nominated for Best Urban/R&B Single at the 2009 Canadian Radio Music Awards.
Amotz Zahavi was an Israeli evolutionary biologist, a professor in the department of zoology at Tel Aviv University, and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.
Berthold Albrecht was a German businessman and one of Germany's wealthiest men. He was co-owner of the Aldi Nord chain of discount supermarkets, which they inherited upon the death of their father, Theo Albrecht, in July 2010.
Andre Blaze Henshaw is a Nigerian radio personality, rapper, television host and executive producer. He first gained notice as a member of the hip hop group Tuck Tyght Allstars.
Satoshi Tsunami is a Japanese football manager and former player. He is currently manager of Japan Football League club, Briobecca Urayasu. He last played for Japan national team until 1995.
This page lists 40 people born on August 14, 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 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 August 14. Read the full methodology.
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