August 20 is the birthday of 46 notable people we've found so far, including actors, authors, creators and entrepreneurs, and 4 of them are billionaires.
Patrick Drahi is a French–Israeli billionaire magnate and investor with interests in media and telecoms. He is the founder and controlling shareholder of the European-based telecom group Altice, and the majority owner of the international auction house Sotheby's.
Martha Robinson Rivers Ingram was an American billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist. In 1995, Ingram succeeded her late husband as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Ingram Industries, one of America's largest privately held companies.
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the founder of Infosys, and was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief mentor of the company before retiring and becoming chairman emeritus.
Share of the 46 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors33% (15 people)
Authors33% (15 people)
Creators24% (11 people)
Entrepreneurs22% (10 people)
Musicians15% (7 people)
Politicians13% (6 people)
Artists11% (5 people)
Countries
19 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States21 (21 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Australia2 (2 people)
France2 (2 people)
Poland2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Canada1 (1 people)
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Amy Lou Adams is an American actress. Known for both her comedic and dramatic roles, she has been featured three times in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actresses.
Robert Anthony Plant is an English singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin from its founding in 1968 until their break-up in 1980.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird, horror, fantasy, and science fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos, but his legacy is also apparent in terms like "Lovecraftian horror" and an enduring fandom.
Lucius B. Truesdell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ke Huy Quan, also known as Jonathan Ke Quan, is an American actor. His accolades include an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a BAFTA Award. Time magazine named Quan one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023.
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia—a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, and a great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a Founding Father.
Pach Brothers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Donald King is an American boxing promoter, known for his flamboyant and charismatic style, who was involved in some of the most famous boxing matches in history.
Fjohnsonphoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George John Mitchell Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer. A leading member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995, and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Steven David Daines is an American politician and businessman serving as the senior United States senator from Montana, a seat he has held since 2015. He is the first Republican Class II senator from Montana in 102 years.
United States Government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Linus Gabriel Sebastian is a Canadian YouTuber known for his technology-oriented channel Linus Tech Tips. He is the founder and former chief executive officer of Linus Media Group, and chief vision officer of the company, as well as a regular presenter.
Leslie Gonda was a Hungarian-born American businessman, philanthropist, and Holocaust survivor. He was the co-founder of International Lease Finance Corporation.
Ronald Ernest Paul is an American author, activist, medical doctor, and former politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977, and again from 1979 to 1985, as well as for Texas's 14th congressional district from 1997 to 2013.
United States Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
David Edward Williams, known professionally as David Walliams, is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television personality. He rose to prominence for his work with Matt Lucas on the BBC sketch comedy series Little Britain (2003–2006) and Come Fly with Me (2010–2011).
Peculiar Realm, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joan Allen is an American actress. Known for her work on stage and screen, she has received various accolades, including a Tony Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.
Jared Purdy at https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaredpurdy/, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John Noble is an Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as Denethor in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003), and Dr. Walter Bishop in the Fox science fiction series Fringe (2008–2013).
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
David Owen Russell is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He has earned numerous accolades including two British Academy Film Awards, and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for five Academy Awards.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Eero Saarinen was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer. Saarinen's work includes the General Motors Technical Center, the Dulles International Airport Main Terminal, the TWA Flight Center at John F.
Balthazar Korab, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1913 to 1920, and three times as Prime Minister of France. He was a conservative leader, primarily committed to political and social stability.
Harris & Ewing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Andrei Sergeyevich Konchalovsky is a Russian film and theatre director, screenwriter, and producer. His filmmaking career spans over 60 years in Soviet, Hollywood, and contemporary Russian cinema. Early in his career, he was a screenwriting collaborator of Andrei Tarkovsky.
Paul Johannes Tillich was a German and American Christian existentialist philosopher, religious socialist, and Lutheran theologian who was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century.
Jöns Jacob Berzelius was a Swedish chemist. Berzelius is considered, along with Robert Boyle, John Dalton, and Antoine Lavoisier, to be one of the founders of modern chemistry.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish and American architect, designer, and urban planner. Saarinen worked in a diverse range of styles in his native Finland and, after emigrating in 1923, the United States.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Laurent Pierre Emmanuel Fabius is a French politician who has served in a number of capacities, most recently as president of the Constitutional Council from 2016 to 2025.
Junta de Andalucía, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rudolf Karl Bultmann was a German Lutheran theologian and professor of the New Testament at the University of Marburg. He was one of the major figures of early 20th-century biblical studies.
Aleksander Głowacki, better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus, was a Polish journalist, novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, and a distinctive voice in world literature.
Wilhelm Feldman (1868-1919)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian poet and translator, awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times".
Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Roger Wolcott Sperry was an American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist, cognitive neuroscientist, who, together with David H. Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with split-brain research.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Joshua Blake Kennedy is an Australian former professional soccer who played as a striker for the Australia national soccer team. At club level, he played mostly for soccer clubs in Germany and Japan.
Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He became known in the West as the author of The Burn and of Generations of Winter, a family saga following three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953.
Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev was a Russian author and social critic who was arrested and exiled under Catherine the Great. He brought the tradition of radicalism in Russian literature to prominence with his 1790 work Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.
Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hideki Shirakawa was a Japanese chemist and engineer who was Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He was best known for his discovery of conductive polymers.
Afeez Oyetoro is a Nigerian comedian, theatre actor and artist popularly known as "Saka". His parents had eight children, of whom he is the fifth. He is currently married and has three children. He is also a lecturer of theatre arts at Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education.
Kristína Peláková, known professionally as Kristína, is a Slovak singer. She is best known for representing Slovakia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song “Horehronie”. The song placed 16th in the semi-final with a total of 24 points.
Flickr_-_aktivioslo_-_Slovakia_-_Kristina_Pelakova_(1).jpg: Aktiv I Oslo.no from Oslo, Norway derivative work: César (ta, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 46 people born on August 20, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 4 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 August 20. Read the full methodology.
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