August 28 is the birthday of 56 notable people we've found so far, including actors, entrepreneurs, athletes and creators, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Sheryl Kara Sandberg is an American technology executive, philanthropist and writer. She was the chief operating officer of Meta Platforms from 2008 to 2022 and is the founder of LeanIn.Org.
Share of the 56 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors25% (14 people)
Athletes20% (11 people)
Creators20% (11 people)
Entrepreneurs20% (11 people)
Musicians18% (10 people)
Authors16% (9 people)
Politicians14% (8 people)
Countries
20 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States20 (20 people)
Japan7 (7 people)
Canada5 (5 people)
France3 (3 people)
Spain3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on August 28 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
~15LeAnn RimesReceived the Grammy Award for Best New Artist (1997)
~56George WhippleReceived the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1934)
~65Tjalling KoopmansReceived the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1975)
65Paul MartinBecame Prime Minister of Canada (2003)
56William CohenBecame United States Secretary of Defense (1997)
The standouts
The most successful people born on August 28
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
actor
Jack Black
Top tier
Actor
1969 · United States
Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He has played leading roles in family and comedy films, in addition to his voice work in animated features.
Eilleen Regina "Shania" Twain is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She has sold more than 100 million records, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time and the best-selling female artist in country music history.
Jennifer Coolidge is an American actress. She gained recognition for her comedic roles, including the American Pie (1999–2012) and Legally Blonde (2001–2003) film series.
Adam Chitayat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tjalling Charles Koopmans was a Dutch-American mathematician and economist. He was the joint winner with Leonid Kantorovich of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on the theory of the optimum allocation of resources.
Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, also known as Paul Martin Jr., is a Canadian lawyer and retired politician who served as the 21st prime minister of Canada and the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2003 to 2006.
Kate Gottli on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Satoshi Tajiri is a Japanese video game designer and director who is the creator of the Pokémon franchise and the co-founder and president of video game developer Game Freak.
Atsushi Inaba is a Japanese video game producer and businessman. He was the former CEO and producer of the Capcom subsidiary Clover Studio, who developed the games Viewtiful Joe, Ōkami, and God Hand.
Raffaele Torre (Dynax), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Shigenobu Nagamori is a Japanese billionaire businessman, and the chairman and CEO of Nidec, the world's largest manufacturer of micromotors for hard disks and optical drives.
Abhisit Vejjajiva, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Margaret LeAnn Rimes Cibrian is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She originally rose to success as a country music artist at the age of 13 and has since crossed over into pop, contemporary Christian, and other musical genres.
Florence Leontine Mary Welch is an English singer. She is the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the indie rock band Florence and the Machine. The band's debut studio album, Lungs (2009), topped the UK Albums Chart and won the Brit Award for Best British Album.
Alterna2 http://www.alterna2.com Foto: Rosario López, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Daniel Jacob Stern is an American actor, artist, director, comedian, and screenwriter. In film, he starred as Marv in Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Phil Berquist in City Slickers (1991) and City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994).
Barbara Bach, Lady Starkey is an American retired actress and model. She played the Bond girl Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me. She is married to former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.
United Artists, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Weston James Earl McKennie is an American professional soccer player who plays primarily as a midfielder for Serie A club Juventus and the United States national team.
Jack Kirby was an American comic book artist, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators.
Jason Bradford Priestley is a Canadian-American actor and television director. Priestley starred as virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210.
Biagio Anthony "Ben" Gazzara was an American actor and director of film, stage, and television. He received numerous accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Drama Desk Award, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and three Tony Awards.
NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Amanda Tapping is a Canadian actress and director. She is best known for portraying Samantha Carter in the Canadian–American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate Universe. She starred as Dr.
Lisa West Photography, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, was an English courtier and statesman who was a notable patron of the arts. He was a favourite and self-described "lover" of King James VI and I.
Peter Paul Rubens, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile.
Jindřich Nosek (NoJin), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ons Jabeur is a Tunisian inactive tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of No. 2, achieved on 27 June 2022, making her the highest-ranked African and Arab tennis player in WTA and ATP rankings' history.
Charles Boyer was a French-American actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in American films during the 1930s.
Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gilad Shalit is an Israeli former soldier who, on 25 June 2006, was captured by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid via tunnels near the Israeli border. Hamas held him captive for over five years until his release on 18 October 2011 as part of a prisoner exchange deal.
Israel Defense Forces, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John Holbrook Vance was an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and mysteries. He wrote several mystery novels under pen names, including Ellery Queen.
User Hayford Peirce on en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lev Sergeyevich Termen, better known as Leon Theremin, was a Russian inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced. He also worked on early television research.
Bettmann, Corbis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, was an English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.
Frederick Hollyer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
James Wong Howe, ASC was a Chinese-born American cinematographer and film director, who worked on over 130 films during the Golden Age of Hollywood and well into the 1970s.
UCLA Library Special Collections, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Carl Laemmle Jr. was an American film producer, studio executive and heir of Carl Laemmle, who had founded Universal Studios. He was head of production at the studio from 1928 to 1936.
Bain News Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Chang Myon was a South Korean statesman, educator, diplomat, journalist and social activist as well as a Roman Catholic youth activist. He was the only prime minister of the parliamentary Second Republic.
Chang_Myun.jpg: Unknown derivative work: Daffy123, kaganer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 56 people born on August 28, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 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 July 2025. 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 28. Read the full methodology.
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