August 5 is the birthday of 50 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, authors, actors and historical figures, and 5 of them are billionaires.
Phạm Nhật Vượng is a Vietnamese property developer and Vietnam's first USD billionaire. He is the founder and chairman of Vingroup, the largest conglomerate in Vietnam, and the creator and former owner of Mivina, one of the most popular brands of instant noodles in Ukraine.
Tsai Wan-tsai was a Taiwanese banker. Born in modern-day Miaoli, his birth name was 蔡萬財. He is one of the brothers of Tsai Wan-lin, and an uncle of Tsai Hong-tu. Tsai Wan-tsai was a member of the Legislative Yuan, the national parliament of Taiwan.
Reid Garrett Hoffman is an American Internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster, and author. Hoffman is the co-founder and former executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking.
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Binny Bansal is an Indian billionaire Internet entrepreneur. As of February 2024, his net worth was estimated at US$1.4 billion. In 2007, he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart.
Industries of the companies the 5 wealthy people born on August 5 founded or led.
automotive50% (1 people)
retail50% (1 people)
Who shares August 5
What kind of people are born on August 5?
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs28% (14 people)
Authors22% (11 people)
Actors20% (10 people)
Athletes16% (8 people)
Politicians16% (8 people)
Scientists12% (6 people)
Creators8% (4 people)
Countries
24 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States12 (12 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
France4 (4 people)
India4 (4 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Norway2 (2 people)
Russian Empire2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on August 5 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.
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24Fath-Ali Shah QajarBecame shah (1797)
21KajolNotable work: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)
Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, as the commander of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot and university professor.
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James Francis Gunn Jr. is an American filmmaker. He began his career as a screenwriter in the mid-1990s, starting at Troma Entertainment with Tromeo and Juliet (1996).
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Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief was a Russian-American economist known for his research on input–output analysis and how changes in one economic sector may affect other sectors.
Kajol Devgan, known mononymously as Kajol, is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi films. The highest paid actress of her time, Kajol is known for her natural acting prowess and versatility. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including seven Filmfare Awards.
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Mark Strong is an English actor. Strong is known for his starring roles on stage as well as for his villainous roles in historical dramas and franchise films.
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Sachin Bansal is an Indian entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of Flipkart. During his over 11 year career at Flipkart, Bansal was CEO and chairman. In 2018, Bansal exited Flipkart following the Walmart deal.
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Kazunori Yamauchi, nicknamed "Kaz", is a Japanese game designer and racing driver. He is the CEO of Polyphony Digital and producer of the Gran Turismo video game series.
Bruce Fairchild Barton was an American author, advertising executive, and Republican politician. He represented Manhattan in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1937 to 1941. In 1940, he ran for election to the U.S. Senate, but was defeated by incumbent Senator James M. Mead.
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Patrick Aloysius Ewing Sr. is a Jamaican-American professional basketball coach and former player who currently serves as an assistant coach for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Pablo Martín Páez Gavira, known as Gavi, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team.
John Marcellus Huston was an American and Irish filmmaker and actor. In a career spanning five decades, he wrote the screenplays for many of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics.
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Marion Anne Perrine "Marine" Le Pen is a French lawyer and politician who served as the president of the far-right National Rally party from 2011 to 2021. She ran for the French presidency in the 2012, 2017, and 2022 presidential elections.
Janet McTeer is an English actress. She began her career training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before earning acclaim for playing diverse roles on stage and screen in both period pieces and modern dramas.
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Joseph Carey Merrick, sometimes erroneously referred to as John Merrick, was an English man known for his severe physical deformities.
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Loni Kaye Anderson was an American actress. She is best known for playing receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on the CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982), which earned her nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards.
Genelia Deshmukh, also credited professionally as Genelia, is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil films also appeared in Kannada and Malayalam films.
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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depicting human lives, destinies, and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
Daichi Kamada is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Premier League club Crystal Palace and the Japan national team.
Pierre-Emile Kordt Højbjerg is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Ligue 1 club Marseille and captains the Denmark national team.
Helene Fischer is a German schlager singer. Since her debut in 2005, she has won numerous awards, including 17 Echo awards, four "Die Krone der Volksmusik" awards, and three Bambi awards. She has sold at least 18 million records.
Michael Louis Vincent Walsh is an Irish music manager and television personality. He has managed Johnny Logan, Boyzone, Jedward and Westlife, four of Ireland's most successful pop acts in the 1990s and 2000s.
Raymond Neal Clemence was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, he is one of the few players to have made over 1,100 career appearances.
Niels Henrik Abel was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields. His most famous single result is the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals.
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Valdis Dombrovskis is a Latvian politician serving as European Commissioner for Economy and Productivity, and Commissioner for Implementation and Simplification.
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Conrad Potter Aiken was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published works include poetry, short stories, novels, literary criticism, a play, and an autobiography.
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Ivar Andreas Aasen was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet. He is best known for having assembled one of the two official written versions of the Norwegian language, Nynorsk, from various dialects.
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This page lists 50 people born on August 5, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 5 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 May 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 5. Read the full methodology.
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