August 6 is the birthday of 43 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, authors, actors and scientists, and 2 of them are billionaires.
John Collison is an Irish entrepreneur. He is the president of Stripe, which he co-founded in 2010 with his brother Patrick. Collison was the youngest self-made billionaire in 2016.
Lee Chae-yoon is a South Korean businessman. The founder and chairman of semiconductor testing equipment company Leeno Industrial, he is among the richest people in South Korea.
Share of the 43 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs35% (15 people)
Authors28% (12 people)
Actors23% (10 people)
Scientists21% (9 people)
Athletes16% (7 people)
Creators16% (7 people)
Musicians16% (7 people)
Countries
19 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
France7 (7 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
United Kingdom2 (2 people)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland2 (2 people)
Afghanistan1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on August 6 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.
60Michelle YeohReceived the Academy Award for Best Actress (2023)
~64Alexander FlemingReceived the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1945)
~56Lucille BallReceived the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (1967)
~75Robert MitchumReceived the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1992)
The standouts
The most successful people born on August 6
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
artist
Andy Warhol
Top tier
Creator
1928–1987 · United States
Andy Warhol was an American artist and filmmaker. Widely regarded as the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century, Warhol's practice spanned various media, including painting, filmmaking, photography, publishing, and performance art.
Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Vera Ann Farmiga is an American actress and singer. She began her professional acting career on stage in the original Broadway production of Taking Sides (1996).
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lucille Désirée Ball was an American comedian, actress, producer, and studio executive. She was recognized by Time in 2020 as one of the most influential women of the 20th century for her work in all four of these areas.
CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Manoj Nelliyattu "M. Night" Shyamalan is an American filmmaker. His films often employ supernatural plots and twist endings. The cumulative gross of his films exceeds $3.3 billion globally.
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".
Official photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nathaniel Dourif Friedman is an American technology executive and investor, currently head of product at Meta Superintelligence Labs. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of GitHub and former chairman of the GNOME Foundation.
Daniel Friedrich List was a German entrepreneur, diplomat, economist and political theorist who developed the nationalist theory of political economy in both Europe and the United States.
Josef Kriehuber, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Robin van Persie is a Dutch football coach and former professional footballer. He last served as the head coach of Eredivisie club Feyenoord. He is regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation and was known for his technique, ball control, and vision.
Елена Рыбакова, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American actor and singer. He is known for his antihero roles and film noir appearances. He received nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1984 and the Golden Globe Cecil B.
J. Fred Henry Publications, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Steven Paul Smith, known as Elliott Smith, was an American musician and singer-songwriter. Raised primarily in Texas, he lived much of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he gained popularity in the 1990s.
1809–1892 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu".
Julia Margaret Cameron / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Melissa Suzanne George is an Australian-American actress. She began her career playing Angel Parrish on the Australian soap opera Home and Away between 1993–1996.
Porter Hovey at http://www.porterhovey.com/, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Edmond Jacob Safra was a Lebanese-Syrian Brazilian billionaire banker and philanthropist. He continued his family tradition of banking in Brazil and Switzerland, and was married to Lily Watkins from 1976 until his death.
Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai was an Afghan military officer and politician who served as the fifth president of Afghanistan from 1987 until his resignation in April 1992, shortly after the Afghan mujahideen's takeover of Kabul.
Alexandr Graschenkov / Александр Гращенков, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Johann Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and for educating the young Leonhard Euler.
Johann Rudolf Huber, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Roman Weidenfeller is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga clubs 1. FC Kaiserslautern and Borussia Dortmund, as well as the Germany national team.
Tim Reckmann from Hamm, Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He is most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism, and for institutionalizing his sister.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, P.S.S., more commonly known as François Fénelon, was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. Today, he is remembered mostly as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, first published in 1699.
Joseph Vivien, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nicolas Malebranche was a French Oratorian Catholic priest and rationalist philosopher. In his works, he sought to synthesise the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, in order to demonstrate the active role of God in every aspect of the world.
Paul Jourdy / After Jean-Baptiste Santerre, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Wilber Pan, also known as Will Pan, is a Taiwanese-American singer, songwriter, rapper, actor, and entrepreneur. He started his career as a host of Channel V programs.
Eternityworld, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ouyang Xiu, courtesy name Yongshu, also known by his art names Zuiweng (醉翁) and Liu Yi Jushi (六一居士), was a Chinese historian, calligrapher, epigrapher, essayist, poet, and politician of the Song dynasty.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues was a French writer and moralist. He died at age 31, in broken health, having published the year prior—anonymously—a collection of essays and aphorisms with the encouragement of Voltaire, his friend.
Martin Schlaff is an Austrian billionaire investor, businessman, networker, and philanthropist. Since 2006, he is a major shareholder of RHI Magnesita. His net worth is estimated over €8 billion.
Iliya Pavlov Naydenov was a Bulgarian mobster, oligarch, banker, financier and philanthropist. He was the leader and founder of Multigroup organization and G-13.
This page lists 43 people born on August 6, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 6. Read the full methodology.
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