People Born on August 26

Macaulay Culkin

Top tier

Actor

1980 · United States

Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin is an American actor and musician. Considered one of the most successful child actors of the 1990s, Culkin has received several accolades including a Golden Globe Award nomination.

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Mother Teresa

Top tier

Musician

1910–1997 · Albania

Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and a Catholic saint.

Keke Palmer

Top tier

Actor

1993 · United States

Lauren Keyana "Keke" Palmer is an American actress, singer, and television host. She has received numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations for an Actor Award and three Daytime Emmy Awards.

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Dylan O'Brien

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Actor

1991 · United States

Dylan Rhodes O'Brien is an American actor. His first major role was as Stiles Stilinski in the MTV supernatural series Teen Wolf (2011–2017).

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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Top tier

Musician

1819–1861 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the husband of Queen Victoria and consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861. Victoria granted him the title Prince Consort in 1857.

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Chris Pine

Top tier

Actor

1980 · United States

Christopher Whitelaw Pine is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as James T. Kirk in the Star Trek reboot film series (2009–2016) and Steve Trevor in the DC Extended Universe films Wonder Woman (2017) and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020).

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Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester

Entrepreneur

1944 · United Kingdom

Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, is a member of the British royal family.

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Renato Soru

Entrepreneur · Tessellis · telecommunications

1957 · Italy

Renato Soru is an Italian politician and entrepreneur. He is the founder of the internet service company Tiscali, based in Cagliari. Forbes listed Soru as one of the world's richest people, with a net worth of over $4 billion as of September 2001.

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Kelly Madison

Entrepreneur

1967 · United States

American pornographic actress, director and producer

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Jay Pritzker

Entrepreneur

1922–1999 · United States

Jay Arthur Pritzker was an American businessman and member of the Pritzker family. He was a founder of the Hyatt Corporation, having purchased the first Hyatt Hotel in 1957, and was responsible for the corporation's evolution into a multinational hospitality conglomerate.

Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco

Entrepreneur

1962 · Morocco

Princess Lalla Meryem is the first daughter and eldest child of the late King Hassan II of Morocco and his wife, Princess Lalla Latifa.

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Ron Huldai

Entrepreneur

1944 · Israel

Ron Huldai is an Israeli politician and businessman who has been Mayor of Tel Aviv since 1998. Before taking office as mayor, Huldai served as a fighter pilot and commander in the Israeli Air Force.

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James Harden

Athlete

1989 · United States

James Edward Harden Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is widely regarded as one of the greatest shooting guards and scorers in NBA history.

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Melissa McCarthy

Actor

1970 · United States

Melissa Ann McCarthy is an American actress, comedian, and producer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, and nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.

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Katherine Johnson

Author

1918–2020 · United States

Creola Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician and human computer whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.

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Michael Jeter

Actor

1952–2003 · United States

Michael Jeter was an American actor. Known for his career on stage and screen, Jeter played diverse characters. He won a Tony Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. He portrayed Herman Stiles on the sitcom Evening Shade from 1990 until 1994.

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Thalía

Actor

1971 · United States

Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda is a Mexican singer and actress. Recognized for her enduring influence on Spanish-language music and television, she has been dubbed the "Queen of Latin Pop" and the "Queen of Telenovelas".

Tori Black

Actor

1988 · United States

Tori Black is an American pornographic film actress. In 2011, she became the first person to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award two years in a row. She was inducted in the XRCO and AVN Halls of Fame.

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Antoine Lavoisier

Author

1743–1794 · France

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.

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Edward Witten

Scientist

1951 · United States

Edward Witten is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions to string theory, topological quantum field theory, general relativity and various areas of mathematics.

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Christopher Isherwood

Creator

1904–1986 · United States

Christopher Isherwood was an English and American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist.

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Daphne Caruana Galizia

Author

1964–2017 · Malta

Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese writer, journalist, blogger and anti-corruption activist who reported on political events in Malta. She was known internationally for her investigation of the Panama Papers and subsequent assassination by a car bomb.

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Geraldine Ferraro

Politician

1935–2011 · United States

Geraldine Anne Ferraro was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, representing New York's 9th congressional district.

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Julio Cortázar

Author

1914–1984 · France

Julio Florencio Cortázar was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator.

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Guillaume Apollinaire

Actor

1880–1918 · France

Guillaume Apollinaire was a Polish-French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Polish, Swiss and Italian descent.

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John Buchan

Politician

1875–1940 · United Kingdom

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was a Scottish novelist, historian, British Army officer, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.

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Tariq Ramadan

Author

1962 · Switzerland

Tariq Ramadan is a Swiss-born Egyptian academic, philosopher and writer, who was convicted of three counts of rape by a French court in 2026.

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Dr. Alban

Musician

1957 · Nigeria

Ogbuagu Alban Uzoma Nwapa, better known by his stage name Dr. Alban, is a Nigerian-Swedish musician and producer with his own record label, Dr. Records. His music can best be described as Eurodance/hip-hop reggae in a dancehall style.

Yun Po-sun

Politician

1897–1990 · South Korea

Yun Po-sun was a South Korean politician and activist who served as the second president of South Korea from 1960 to 1962.

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Benedict Anderson

Author

1936–2015 · Ireland

Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson was an Anglo-Irish political scientist and historian who lived and taught in the United States. Anderson is best known for his 1983 book Imagined Communities, which explored the origins of nationalism.

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Albert B. Sabin

Inventor

1906–1993 · United States

Albert Bruce Sabin was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In 1969–1972, he served as the president of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

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Zemfira

Musician

1976 · Russia

Zemfira Talgatovna Ramazanova, mononymously knowm as Zemfira, is a Russian rock musician. She has been performing since 1998 and has been popular in Russia and other former Soviet republics. To date Zemfira has sold over 3 million records.

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Pansy Ho

Entrepreneur

1962 · Canada

Hong Kong businesswoman

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Lee de Forest

Inventor

1873–1961 · United States

Lee de Forest was an American inventor, electrical engineer, and early pioneer in electronics of fundamental importance. He invented the first practical electronic amplifier, the three-element "Audion" triode vacuum tube in 1908.

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James Franck

Scientist

1882–1964 · United States

James Franck was a German–American physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom."

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Johann Heinrich Lambert

Author

1728–1777 · France

Johann Heinrich Lambert was an Alsatian polymath from the Republic of Mulhouse—then an associate of the Swiss Confederacy—who made fundamental contributions to mathematics, physics, philosophy, astronomy, and map projections.

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Charles Richet

Author

1850–1935 · France

Charles Robert Richet was a French physiologist at the Collège de France and immunology pioneer. In 1913, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis".

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Agostino Carracci

Artist

1557–1602 · Papal States

Agostino Carracci was an Italian painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, and art teacher. He was, together with his brother, Annibale Carracci, and cousin, Ludovico Carracci, one of the founders of the Accademia degli Incamminati in Bologna.

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Robert J. Fisher

Entrepreneur

1954 · United States

Robert Joseph Fisher is an American businessman who is the chairman of Gap Inc. and has been a director since 1990; he was previously chairman (2004–2007) and interim chief executive officer. The son of Gap Inc. co-founders Donald Fisher and Doris F.

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Nichi Vendola

Politician

1958 · Italy

Nicola "Nichi" Vendola is an Italian left-wing politician and LGBT activist who was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Apulia from 1992 to 2005 and President of Apulia from 2005 to 2015. Since 2023, he has been the President of the Italian Left.

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Boris Pahor

Politician

1913–2022 · Italy

Boris Pahor, OMRI was a Slovene novelist from Trieste, Italy, who was best known for his heartfelt descriptions of life as a member of the Slovenian minority in pre–Second World War increasingly fascist Italy as well as a Nazi concentration camp survivor.

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Jules Romains

Creator

1885–1972 · France

Jules Romains was a French poet and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement. His works include the play Knock ou le Triomphe de la médecine, and a cycle of works called Les Hommes de bonne volonté.

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