August 7 is the birthday of 43 notable people we've found so far, including actors, politicians, athletes and entrepreneurs, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Massimiliana Landini Aleotti is an Italian billionaire businesswoman. She is the co-owner and inheritor of the pharmaceutical company Menarini based in Florence, Tuscany, and one of the world's ten richest women.
Share of the 43 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors23% (10 people)
Politicians23% (10 people)
Athletes21% (9 people)
Entrepreneurs19% (8 people)
Authors16% (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 States16 (16 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
Sweden3 (3 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Kingdom of the Netherlands2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
United Kingdom2 (2 people)
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Charlize Theron is a South African and American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, her accolades include an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for three BAFTAs and two Emmy Awards.
Michael Corbett Shannon is an American actor. Known for his forceful and intense style of acting, he has twice received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Revolutionary Road (2008) and Nocturnal Animals (2016).
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Jimmy Donal Wales is an American and British internet entrepreneur and former financial trader. He is best known for co-founding Wikipedia, a nonprofit free encyclopedia, and Fandom, a for-profit wiki hosting service.
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Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated with New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy.
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Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in the Arab–Israeli conflict. He is the first black Nobel laureate and the first person of African descent to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
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James Patrick Allison is an American immunologist and Nobel laureate who holds the position of professor and chair of immunology and executive director of immunotherapy platform at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Giorgetto Giugiaro is an Italian automotive designer. He has worked on supercars and popular everyday vehicles. He was named Car Designer of the Century in 1999 and inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2002.
Paul Bruce Dickinson is an English musician who is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Dickinson has performed in the band across two stints, from 1981 to 1993 and from 1999 to the present day.
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Viktor Volodymyrovych Medvedchuk, also known as Viktor Vladimirovich Medvedchuk, is a former Ukrainian lawyer, business oligarch, and politician who has lived in exile in Russia since September 2022 after being handed over to Russia in a prisoner exchange.
Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod, better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed by firing squad in France.
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Harold Perrineau is an American actor. His breakout role was in the independent film Smoke (1995), for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male.
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Joseph Henry Tobin Jr., known professionally as Tobin Bell, is an American actor. Appearing in over 100 titles during a five-decade career, he is most recognized for his role as John Kramer / Jigsaw in the Saw franchise.
Sydney Michelle McLaughlin-Levrone is an American hurdler and sprinter who holds the world record for the 400 meters hurdles and the American record for the flat 400 meters.
Shambel Abebe Bikila was an Ethiopian marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion. He was the first Ethiopian Olympic gold medalist, winning his first gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while running barefoot.
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Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, musician, writer, and political activist. In the late 1960s, he helped develop Tropicália, a Brazilian musical movement that combined Brazilian popular music with rock and roll and avant-garde influences.
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Victoria of Baden was Queen of Sweden from 8 December 1907 until her death in 1930 as the wife of King Gustaf V. She was politically active in a conservative fashion during the development of democracy and known to be pro-German during the First World War.
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Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Manṣūr, better known by his regnal name al-Mahdi, was the third Abbasid Caliph who reigned from 775 to his death in 785. He succeeded his father, al-Mansur.
Emil Nolde was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and was one of the first oil painting and watercolor painters of the early 20th century to explore color. He is known for his brushwork and expressive choice of colors.
Minya Diez-Dührkoop (* 21. Juni 1873; † 17. November 1929), deutsche Fotografin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was an American labor leader and feminist. In the early years of her activist career, she was an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World.
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François-André Danican Philidor, born François-André Danican and often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess master. He contributed to the early development of the opéra comique.
Augustin de Saint-Aubin, Charles-Nicolas Cochin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Cromwell Mather is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist. He shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with George Smoot for the "for their discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".
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Carl Ritter was a German geographer. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, he is considered one of the founders of modern geography, as they established it as an independent scientific discipline.
Rudolph Hoffmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yun Hyon-seok was a South Korean LGBT poet, writer, and activist. He wrote under the pen names Yuk Wu-dang and Seolheon, and was also known by his nickname Midong or Donghwa.
Nenad Đorđević is a Serbian professional football coach and former player who played as a defender. He is the assistant coach of Al Wasl in the UAE Pro League. At international level, Đorđević represented Serbia and Montenegro at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
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Charles Gald Sibley was an American ornithologist and molecular biologist. He had an immense influence on the scientific classification of birds, and the work that Sibley initiated has substantially altered our understanding of the evolutionary history of modern birds.
This page lists 43 people born on August 7, 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 March 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 7. Read the full methodology.
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