December 12 is the birthday of 53 notable people we've found so far, including authors, creators, entrepreneurs and actors, and 4 of them are billionaires.
Michael Edward Platt is a British billionaire hedge fund manager. He is the co-founder and managing director of BlueCrest Capital Management, Europe's third-largest hedge-fund firm which he co-founded in 2000.
$3.6Breported estimate as of October 2025 · Forbes
Puthan Naduvakkatt Chenthamaraksha Menon, also known as P.N.C. Menon is an Omani billionaire businessman of Indian origin, born in Palakkad, Kerala. He is the founder and chairman of Sobha Ltd & Sobha LLC.
Girish.unnithan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Syed Mokhtar Shah bin Syed Nor Albukhary is a Malaysian business tycoon and philanthropist. Recognised as the 10th richest individual in Malaysia by Forbes in 2026, Syed Mokthar is estimated to have a net worth of US$3.5 billion.
Share of the 53 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors30% (16 people)
Creators23% (12 people)
Entrepreneurs23% (12 people)
Actors21% (11 people)
Musicians19% (10 people)
Scientists15% (8 people)
Athletes11% (6 people)
Countries
27 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
United Kingdom7 (7 people)
France3 (3 people)
India3 (3 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Russian Empire2 (2 people)
Brazil1 (1 people)
Life timeline
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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.
Michael Akpovie Olise is a professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the France national team.
Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, conductor, and actor. Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and "Ol' Blue Eyes", he is regarded as one of the most influential entertainers of the 20th century.
Photograph by Capitol Records, per a credit found in the 1959 edition of the International Celebrity Register at page 69, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jennifer Lynn Connelly is an American actress. She began her career as a child model before making her acting debut in the 1984 crime film Once Upon a Time in America.
Karon Liu at https://www.flickr.com/people/32153970@N07, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Shivaji Rao Gaikwad, known professionally as Rajinikanth, is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. In a career spanning over five decades, he has done 170 films that includes films in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Bangla, and Malayalam.
Dani Charles Silverscreen Media Inc. (https://silverscreen.in), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Warner Bros. Entertainment · entertainment
1881–1958 · United States
Harry Morris Warner was an American studio executive, one of the founders of Warner Bros., and a major contributor to the development of the film industry.
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Anthony Hsieh was an American Internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He retired as the CEO of the online shoe and clothing company Zappos in August 2020 after 21 years.
Delivering Happiness Book, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Norton Noyce, nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968.
Intel Free Press, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Bruce Ismay was an English businessman and shipowner who was the chairman and managing director of the White Star Line, and President of the International Mercantile Marine Company until his retirement in 1913.
unknown (see Simon Adams's Titanic book "credit" section), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lee Seung-hyun, better known by the stage names Seungri (승리) and V.I, is a South Korean former singer-songwriter and was a member of the South Korean boy band BigBang formed by YG Entertainment.
Robert William Barker was an American media personality, game show host, and animal rights advocate. He hosted CBS's The Price Is Right, the longest-running game show in North American television history, from 1972 to 2007.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Madeleine Sophie Wickham, known by her pen name Sophie Kinsella, was an English author. She is especially known for her best-selling Shopaholic series of novels.
Elena Torre from Viareggio, Italia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Edward Goldenberg Robinson was an American actor who was popular during Hollywood's Golden Age. After making his stage debut in 1913, he rose to stardom with his performance as the title character in Little Caesar (1931) and became well known for his portrayals of gangsters.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics.
John Jay was an American statesman, diplomat, signatory of the Treaty of Paris, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served from 1789 to 1795 as the first chief justice of the United States and from 1795 to 1801 as the second governor of New York.
Gilbert Stuart, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Victor Moses is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Kazakhstan Premier League club Kaisar. He has also been deployed as a wing-back at times during his career.
Дмитрий Пукалик, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Yasujirō Ozu was a Japanese filmmaker. He began his career during the era of silent films, and his last films were made in colour in the early 1960s. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s.
Shigeru Tamura, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Marcelo Nuno Duarte Rebelo de Sousa is a Portuguese politician and academic who served as the president of Portugal from 2016 to 2026. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, though he suspended his party membership for the duration of his presidency.
Tracy Ann Austin Holt is an American former professional tennis player. She was ranked the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 21 weeks.
Robbie Mendelson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John James Osborne was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and entrepreneur, who is regarded as one of the most influential figures in post-war theatre. Born in London, he briefly worked as a journalist before starting out in theatre as a stage manager and actor.
1731–1802 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Erasmus Robert Darwin was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, abolitionist, inventor, freemason, and poet.
Joseph Wright of Derby, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Daniel Munthe Agger is a Danish professional football coach and former player who is the assistant manager of the Danish national football team. As a player, he played as a centre-back for Brøndby and Liverpool and captained the Denmark national team.
Ilya Khokhlov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mulk Raj Anand was an Indian writer in the English language, recognised for his depiction of the lives of the poorer class in the traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R. K.
Amarjit Chandan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Vasily Semyonovich Grossman was a Soviet writer and journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, Grossman trained as a chemical engineer at Moscow State University, earning the nickname Vasya-khimik because of his diligence as a student.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Chinghiz Torekulovich Aitmatov was a Kyrgyz author who wrote mainly in Russian, but also in Kyrgyz. He is one of the best-known figures in Kyrgyz literature.
Госсоветник Татарстана, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Emin Aras oghlu Agalarov is an Azerbaijani singer and businessman. A president of Agalarov Development as well as the chairman of the Azerbaijan-Russia Business Council, he is involved in music and is known mononymously by his stage name Emin.
Voice of America (Aziz Karimov), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Emmanuel N'Djoké "Manu" Dibango was a Cameroonian musician and songwriter who played saxophone and vibraphone. He developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk, and traditional Cameroonian music. His father was a member of the Yabassi ethnic group, while his mother was a Duala.
Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin was a Russian historian, writer, poet and critic. He is best remembered for his fundamental History of the Russian State, a 12-volume national history.
Vasily Andreevich Tropinin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Karl Pavlovich Bryullov was a Russian painter and draughtsman during the Romantic period, remembered among the greatest visual artists in the history of Russian art.
Karl Bryullov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Eric Stark Maskin is an American economist and mathematician. He was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory".
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Anne Voase Coates was an English film editor with a more than 60-year-long career. She was perhaps best known as the editor of David Lean's epic film Lawrence of Arabia (1962), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
Alfred Werner was a Swiss chemist who was a student at ETH Zurich and a professor at the University of Zurich. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913 for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes.
Franz Schmelhaus, Zürich, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ahmad Shamlou, also known under his pen name A. Bamdad was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most influential poet of modern Iran. His initial poetry was influenced by and in the tradition of Nima Yooshij.
The original uploader was BehnamFarid at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 53 people born on December 12, 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 December 12. Read the full methodology.
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