August 16 is the birthday of 53 notable people we've found so far, including actors, entrepreneurs, politicians and creators, and 4 of them are billionaires.
$20.1Bolder estimate, as of October 2012 · Bloomberg
Forrest Edward Mars Jr. was an American heir and businessman. He was the eldest son of Audrey Ruth (Meyer) and Forrest Mars Sr., and the grandson of Franklin Clarence Mars, the founder of Mars Inc. He served as co-president of the confectionery company from 1975 to 1999.
Friedhelm Loh is a German billionaire businessman. He is the founder and chairman of the Friedhelm Loh Group, a group of companies that grew out of a business he inherited from his father.
Yin Yen-liang, also known by his English name Samuel Yin, was a Taiwanese billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He was best known for the establishment of the Tang Prize, and as chairman of the Ruentex Financial Group.
Aziz Akhannouch is a Moroccan politician, businessman, and billionaire who has served as the Prime Minister of Morocco since 2021. He served as Minister of Agriculture from 2007 to 2021 and is also the CEO of Akwa Group.
United States Department of State Africa U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit: Photos and Videos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Madonna Louise Ciccone is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Dubbed the "Queen of Pop", she is known for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, songwriting, and visual presentation.
Share of the 53 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors30% (16 people)
Creators23% (12 people)
Entrepreneurs23% (12 people)
Politicians23% (12 people)
Athletes19% (10 people)
Authors19% (10 people)
Musicians19% (10 people)
Countries
27 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States15 (15 people)
France4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
Ireland2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Poland2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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20Timothy HuttonReceived the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (1981)
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athlete
Jannik Sinner
Top tier
Athlete
2001 · Italy
Jannik Sinner is an Italian professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No. 1 by Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), and was the year-end No. 1 in 2024.
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Founder · Lightstorm Entertainment · entertainment
1954 · Canada
James Francis Cameron is a Canadian filmmaker and explorer. His films combine cutting-edge film technology with classical filmmaking techniques and have grossed over $10 billion worldwide, making him the second highest-grossing film director of all time.
Steven John Carell is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He starred as Michael Scott in the NBC sitcom The Office, and also worked at several points as a producer, executive producer, writer, and director.
Thomas Edward Lawrence was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the First World War.
Harris & Ewing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Angela Evelyn Bassett is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the 1980s, she has received various accolades, including an Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards.
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Fess Elisha Parker Jr. was an American film and television actor best known for his portrayals of the title characters in Walt Disney Productions' television miniseries Davy Crockett and the television series Daniel Boone.
SPC 5 JEROME HOWARD, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Douglas Allen Collins is an American government official and politician serving as the 12th United States secretary of veterans affairs since February 2025.
Unknown photographer, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Julie Newmar is an American actress, dancer, and singer known for a variety of stage, screen, and television roles. She is also a writer, lingerie designer, and real estate mogul.
Victoria Swarovski is an Austrian pop singer, model, television presenter, and businesswoman. She is an heiress to the multi-billion dollar Austrian private company Swarovski, active in the fashion, crystal, and jewellery industries.
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2007 until his death in May 2010. He won the Nigerian presidential election held on 21 April 2007, and was sworn in on 29 May 2007.
Cristin Milioti is an American actress and musician. Known for her roles on stage and screen, she has received various accolades including a Grammy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as nominations for an Actor Award and a Tony Award.
Saif Ali Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi is an Indian actor and film producer who primarily works in Hindi films. The titular head of the Pataudi family since 2011, he is the son of actress Sharmila Tagore and cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi.
Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles.
Timothy Hutton is an American actor and film director. He is the youngest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he won at age 20 for Ordinary People (1980).
Manisha Koirala is a Nepalese actress who works in Indian cinema, predominantly in Hindi and Tamil films. Born into the politically prominent Koirala family, she is the daughter of Prakash Koirala and the granddaughter of B. P. Koirala.
Micheál Martin is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician serving as Taoiseach since January 2025, having previously held the position from 2020 to 2022. Martin served as Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence from December 2022 to January 2025.
The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Cameron Joslin Gigandet is an American actor whose credits include a recurring role on The O.C. and appearances in feature films Twilight, Pandorum, Never Back Down, Burlesque, Easy A, Priest, and The Magnificent Seven. He also starred in the CBS legal drama series Reckless.
Anne Marie Blythe, known professionally as Ann Blyth, was an American actress and singer whose career spanned five decades. She began her career in radio as a child before transitioning to Broadway, where she appeared in Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine (1941–42).
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Joleon Patrick Lescott is an English former professional footballer, coach and sports pundit. He works as an interim coach with the England senior team and plays in the Baller League for Deportrio.
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Diana Wynne Jones was a British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic, and short story writer. She principally wrote speculative fiction novels for children and young adults.
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was a German physiologist, philosopher, professor, and one of the fathers of modern psychology. Wundt, who distinguished psychology as a science from philosophy and biology, was the first person to call himself a psychologist.
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Hugo Gernsback was a Luxembourgish American editor and magazine publisher whose publications included the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories.
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Pierre Richard is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films. Richard is considered by some, such as Louis de Funès and Gérard Depardieu, to be one of the greatest French comedians of the last 50 years.
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Helmut Rahn, known as Der Boss, was a German footballer who played as a forward. He became a legend for having scored the winning goal in the final of the 1954 FIFA World Cup.
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Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin was a Russian illustrator and stage designer who took part in the Mir iskusstva, contributed to the Ballets Russes, co-founded the Union of Russian Artists, and from 1937 was a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR.
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1821–1895 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Arthur Cayley was an English mathematician who worked mostly on algebra. He helped found the modern British school of pure mathematics, and was a professor at Trinity College, Cambridge for 35 years.
Herbert Beraud (1845–1896), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
James Alix Michel, GCSK is a Seychellois politician who served as the third President of Seychelles from 2004 to 2016. He previously served as vice-president under his predecessor, France-Albert René, from 1996 to 2004.
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Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann was a French applied physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908 for his invention of the Lippmann plate, a method of photographically reproducing colours based on the interference phenomenon.
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Wendell Meredith Stanley was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Stanley's work contributed to lepracidal compounds, diphenyl stereochemistry, and the chemistry of the sterols.
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Mirko Cvetković is a Serbian economist and former politician who served as the prime minister of Serbia from 2008 to 2012 and as finance minister from 2007 to 2008, and again from 2011 to 2012.
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Pierre François André Méchain was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep-sky objects and comets.
Tomasz Frankowski is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a striker. With 168 goals in 302 matches in Polish Ekstraklasa he is the league's third all-time scorer and was top league goalscorer four times.
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This page lists 53 people born on August 16, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 5 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 16. Read the full methodology.
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