August 30 is the birthday of 45 notable people we've found so far, including historical figures, scientists, entrepreneurs and authors, and 4 of them are billionaires.
$149Breported estimate as of January 2026 · Forbes
Warren Edward Buffett is an American investor and philanthropist who is the chairman and former CEO of the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway. As a result of his success, Buffett is one of the best-known investors in the world.
Gary W. Rollins is an American billionaire businessman. Prior to his retirement he was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Rollins, Inc., the US's largest pest control company.
Stephen Philip Lansdown CBE is an English-born Guernsey billionaire. He co-founded the British financial services firm Hargreaves Lansdown with Peter Hargreaves.
Share of the 45 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Scientists22% (10 people)
Authors20% (9 people)
Entrepreneurs20% (9 people)
Politicians18% (8 people)
Artists13% (6 people)
Athletes13% (6 people)
Actors11% (5 people)
Countries
22 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
France3 (3 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Kingdom of the Netherlands2 (2 people)
Russian Empire2 (2 people)
Sweden2 (2 people)
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.
Richard Rothwell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko is a Belarusian politician who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, making him the current longest-tenured European president.
Пресс-служба Раиса Республики Татарстан, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, was a New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described as "the father of nuclear physics" and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday."
George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. was a Dutch physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemist, in 1901 Van 't Hoff won the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for his] discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions".
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Edward Mills Purcell was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Felix Bloch for his independent discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in liquids and in solids.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Behgjet Isa Pacolli is a Kosovan and Swiss politician and businessman who was President of Kosovo and also served as the first deputy prime minister of Kosovo between 2011 and 2014.
Vincenzo Cardone, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Guy Takeo Kawasaki is an American marketing specialist, author, and venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing their Macintosh computer line in 1984.
VGrigas (WMF), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Wojciech Fibak is a Polish former professional tennis player, entrepreneur, and art collector. Fibak is best known for his doubles success with Dutch pro Tom Okker and Australian Kim Warwick, although he also reached the Top 10 in singles.
Marcel Antonisse / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Wolfgang Wagner was a German opera director. He is best known as the director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival, a position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951 until the latter's death in 1966.
Andrew Stephen Roddick is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 13 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2003.
Pavel Nedvěd is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Czech players of all time.
Frederick Martin MacMurray was an American actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films and a successful television series in a career that spanned nearly a half-century.
Paramount Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Leonard Swigert Jr. was an American NASA astronaut, test pilot, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, United States Air Force pilot, and politician. In April 1970, as command module pilot of Apollo 13, he became one of 24 Apollo astronauts who reached the Moon.
Shirley Booth was an American actress. One of 24 performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, Booth was the recipient of an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Tony Awards.
The Theatre Guild/photographer-Marcus Blechman. New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a New Zealand-born Australian nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, and briefly pursued a postwar career as an intelligence officer in the Air Ministry.
Australian War Memorial on line catalogue ID Number: P00885.001, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was a Russian investigative journalist who reported on political and social events in Russia, in particular, the Second Chechen War (1999–2005). She was found murdered in the elevator of her apartment block in Moscow on 7 October 2006.
Dana Rosemary Scallon, known professionally as Dana, is an Irish singer, songwriter and politician. While still a schoolgirl she won the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 with "All Kinds of Everything". It became a worldwide million-seller and launched her music career.
Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov was a Russian military intelligence officer, explorer, and general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I. He served as Supreme Commander of the Russian Army and as the military leader of the Whites in the Russian Civil War.
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Sylvia Alice Earle is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, writer, and lecturer. She has been a National Geographic Explorer at Large since 1998. Earle was the first chief scientist of the U.S.
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber bin Mohammed bin Thani Al Thani, also known informally by his initials HBJ, is a Qatari politician. He was the Prime Minister of Qatar from 3 April 2007 to 26 June 2013, and foreign minister from 11 January 1992 to 26 June 2013.
World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jean-Claude Killy is a French former World Cup alpine ski racer. He dominated the sport in the late 1960s, and was a triple Olympic champion, winning the three alpine events at the 1968 Winter Olympics, becoming the most successful athlete there.
User:Efilguht, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jean Edith Camilla Läckberg, also known as Camilla Läckberg Eriksson, is a Swedish crime writer and screenwriter. She is especially known for her series of novels set in Fjällbacka and featuring husband-and-wife duo of writer Erica Falck and police detective Patrik Hedström.
Christian Ursilva from København, Danmark, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ernests Gulbis is a Latvian former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 10 by the Association of Tennis Professionals in June 2014, making him the only Latvian men's tennis player to be ranked inside the top 10.
Carine06 from UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Friedrich Ratzel was a German geographer and ethnographer, notable for first using the term Lebensraum in the sense that the National Socialists later would.
Jacopo Peri was an Italian composer, singer, and instrumentalist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He wrote what is considered the first opera, the mostly lost Dafne, and also the earliest extant opera, Euridice (1600).
Bernardo Buontalenti (c. 1531 – 1608), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John William Mauchly was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.
U.S. Army Photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Luis Enríquez Bacalov was an Argentine film composer and musical director. He learned music from Enrique Barenboim, father of Daniel Barenboim - conductor of the Berlin and Chicago orchestras, and from Berta Sujovolsky.
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Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone was an eminent British economist. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College and King's College at the University of Cambridge.
Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Theodor Svedberg was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate for his research on colloids and proteins using the ultracentrifuge. Svedberg was active at Uppsala University from the mid-1900s to late 1940s.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 45 people born on August 30, 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 30. Read the full methodology.
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