August 21 is the birthday of 45 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, scientists, authors and actors, and 7 of them are billionaires.
$265Breported estimate as of August 2026 · Bloomberg
Sergey Mikhailovich Brin is an American computer scientist and businessman who co-founded Google with Larry Page. He was the president of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., until stepping down from the role in 2019.
François Henri Joseph Pinault is a French billionaire businessman, founder of the luxury group Kering and the investment holding company Groupe Artémis. In the early 1960s, Pinault started a timber-trading business.
Joseph Gebbia Jr. is an American designer and entrepreneur, and a co-founder of Airbnb. In 2025, he joined the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Gebbia was appointed by President Donald Trump as the first Chief Design Officer to lead the National Design Studio.
Mohammed VI is King of Morocco. A member of the Alawi dynasty, he has reigned since 1999. Mohammed was born during the reign of his father, King Hassan II. At an early age, he began partaking in public engagements on behalf of his father.
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Cameron Howard Winklevoss is an American cryptocurrency investor, former Olympic rower, and cofounder of Winklevoss Capital Management and Gemini cryptocurrency exchange.
Bernardo Matte Larraín is a Chilean billionaire businessman, and a major shareholder in the Chilean forestry and paper company CMPC, founded by his father.
Industries of the companies the 7 wealthy people born on August 21 founded or led.
hospitality50% (1 people)
technology50% (1 people)
Who shares August 21
What kind of people are born on August 21?
Share of the 45 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs31% (14 people)
Scientists27% (12 people)
Actors18% (8 people)
Authors18% (8 people)
Creators18% (8 people)
Musicians18% (8 people)
Athletes13% (6 people)
Countries
20 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States18 (18 people)
France5 (5 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
Morocco2 (2 people)
Poland2 (2 people)
Australia1 (1 people)
Austrian Empire1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on August 21 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.
Robert Lewandowski is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Major League Soccer club Chicago Fire and captains the Poland national team.
Светлана Бекетова, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent is an American businessman, financial commentator, and government official serving since 2025 as the 79th United States secretary of the treasury.
United States Department of the Treasury, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Wilton Norman Chamberlain was an American professional basketball player. Standing 7 feet 1 inch (2.16 m) tall, he played center in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 14 seasons.
Wilt_Chamberlain2.jpg: Fred Palumbo, World Telegram staff photographer derivative work: JoeJohnson2 (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Leonid Hurwicz was a Polish–American economist and mathematician, known for his work in game theory and mechanism design. He originated the concept of incentive compatibility, and showed how desired outcomes can be achieved by using incentive compatible mechanism design.
Dong Oh (square by Juan Pablo Arancibia Medina), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John Lewis "Jan" Hall is an American physicist. He shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence."
Paetongtarn Shinawatra is a Thai politician and businesswoman who served as the 31st prime minister of Thailand from 2024 until her removal from office in 2025. She led the Pheu Thai Party from 2023 until her resignation in 2025.
Emiliano Mercado del Toro was a Puerto Rican supercentenarian and military veteran who was, at age 115, the world's oldest person following the death of 116-year-old Elizabeth Bolden on December 11, 2006, until his own death on January 24, 2007.
Kim Victoria Cattrall is a British and Canadian actress. She is known for her portrayal of Samantha Jones on HBO's Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actress.
Serj Tankian is an Armenian-American musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the heavy metal band System of a Down, which was formed in 1994.
Carrie-Anne Moss is a Canadian actress. After early roles on television, she rose to international prominence for her role of Trinity in The Matrix series (1999–present).
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Alicia Roanne Witt is an American actress and musician. She first came to fame as a child actress after being discovered by David Lynch, who cast her in Dune (1984) as Alia and Twin Peaks (1990) as Gersten Hayward, a role she reprised in Twin Peaks: The Return (2017).
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Stephen McDannell Hillenburg was an American animator, writer, producer, director, voice actor, and marine biology educator. He is best known for creating the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants for Nickelodeon in 1999.
Carlos Cazurro Burgos (http://www.cazurro.com/), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria was the only son and third child of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. He was heir apparent to the imperial throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from birth.
Károly Koller, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Graham Mellor, known professionally as Joe Strummer, was a British musician. He was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of punk rock band the Clash.
Sofyan Amrabat is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Dutch Eredivisie club Ajax. Born in the Netherlands, he plays for the Morocco national team.
Alizée Lyonnet, known mononymously as Alizée, is a French pop singer. She is one of the best-selling French female artists of the 21st century, and the singer with the most exports out of France. Her best-known single is 2000's "Moi.
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William James "Count" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording.
James J. Kriegsmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a French mathematician, engineer, and physicist. He was one of the first to rigorously state and prove the key theorems of calculus, pioneered the field of complex analysis, and the study of permutation groups in abstract algebra.
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Isadore "Friz" Freleng, credited as I. Freleng early in his career, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer known for his work at Warner Bros.
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Marie-Juliette Olga Boulanger, professionally known as Lili Boulanger, was a French composer and musician, associated with the Symbolist and Impressionist movements.
unidentified photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Stéphane Jean-Abel Michel Charbonnier, better known as Charb, was a French satirical caricaturist and journalist. He was assassinated during the Charlie Hebdo shooting on 7 January 2015.
Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of expressionism in Russian literature. He is regarded as one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age literary period.
Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev (1871 - 1919), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Guillaume Du Fay was a composer and music theorist of early Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered the leading European composer of his time, his music was widely performed and reproduced.
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Maria Helena Kaczyńska was the First Lady of Poland from 2005 to 2010 as the wife of President Lech Kaczyński. She and her husband died in a plane crash in the Russian city of Smolensk.
Nikolay Nikolayevich Bogolyubov was a Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist known for his significant contributions to quantum field theory, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, and the theory of dynamical systems; he was the recipient of the 1992 Dirac Medal for his works and studies.
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Glib Zagoriy, is a Ukrainian businessman, scholar. He is a co-owner of the PrJSC Pharmaceutical company "Darnitsa". He was a member of the Ukrainian Parliament of the 8th convocation (2014—2019).
This page lists 45 people born on August 21, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 7 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 August 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 21. Read the full methodology.
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