December 14 is the birthday of 39 notable people we've found so far, including politicians, actors, athletes and scientists, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Jaime Gilinski Bacal is a Panama-based Colombian banker, investor, and real estate developer. According to Forbes, he is the richest person in Colombia, with a net worth of US$15.1 billion as of 2026.
John Alfred Paulson is an American billionaire hedge fund manager. He leads Paulson & Co., a New York-based investment management firm he founded in 1994. He has been called "one of the most prominent names in high finance".
Jacobus Petrus "Koos" Bekker is a South African billionaire businessman, and the chairman of Prosus, and Naspers, a global consumer internet group and one of the largest technology investors and operators in the world.
Share of the 39 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Politicians31% (12 people)
Actors23% (9 people)
Athletes21% (8 people)
Authors18% (7 people)
Entrepreneurs18% (7 people)
Scientists18% (7 people)
Musicians13% (5 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States9 (9 people)
France4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
India2 (2 people)
Austria1 (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.
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16Patty DukeReceived the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (1963)
Vanessa Anne Hudgens is an American actress and singer. After making her feature film debut in Thirteen (2003), Hudgens rose to fame portraying Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical film series (2006–2008), which brought her mainstream recognition.
Presidential Communications Office, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael James Owen is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker for Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle United, Manchester United, and Stoke City, as well as the England national team.
Raphael Dias Belloli, known mononymously as Raphinha, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Barcelona, which he captains, and the Brazil national team.
Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov was a Soviet physicist and educator. For his fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics that led to the development of laser and maser, Basov shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Alexander Prokhorov and Charles Hard Townes.
Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Edward Lawrie Tatum was an American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism. The other half of that year's award went to Joshua Lederberg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lawrie_Tatum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours was a French-American writer, economist, publisher and government official. During the French Revolution, he, his two sons and their families migrated to the United States.
Rembrandt Peale, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Manuel González de Candamo e Iriarte served as the 33rd President of Peru from 1903 until his death in 1904. He also served as Interim President of Peru, officially as the President of the Government Junta, in 1895.
Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jorge David Brillembourg was a Venezuelan economist and businessman, president of Grupo Confinanzas, congressman deputy and main investor of Centro Financiero Confinanzas.
Brillembourg Family, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Soichiro Fukutake is a Japanese billionaire, and the former chairman of the Benesse Corporation, a publishing firm and juku company known for its patronage of the arts.
Anna Marie Duke, known professionally as Patty Duke, was an American actress. Over the course of her acting career, Duke was the recipient of an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Grace Lyons-management, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ranbir Raj Kapoor, popularly known as Raj Kapoor was an Indian actor and filmmaker who worked in Hindi cinema. He is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors and filmmakers in the history of Indian cinema.
Natascha McElhone is an English actress and producer, who has worked extensively in film and television in both the United Kingdom and the United States.
Eleanore Studer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dilma Vana Rousseff, known mononymously as Dilma, is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the only woman to have held the Brazilian presidency to date.
Vice-Presidência da República, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Shirley Hardie Jackson was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.
Eric Hartmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Monroe Jackson Rathbone V is an American actor, singer, and musician best known for his roles as Jasper Hale in The Twilight Saga and Sokka in the live-action The Last Airbender (2010).
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sophie Charlene Akland Monk is an Australian singer, actress, and television personality. She was a member of the pop girl group Bardot, winners of the first season of Popstars Australia in 2000.
Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi television. One of the highest-paid television actresses in India, She is a recipient of several accolades including three ITA Awards, nine Indian Telly Awards and seven Gold Awards.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Francisco "Chico" Fernandes da Conceição is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Serie A club Juventus and the Portugal national team.
Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg was a Slovene-Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of the Federal State of Austria from the 1934 assassination of his predecessor Engelbert Dollfuss until the 1938 Anschluss with Nazi Germany.
Déguy Alain Didier Zokora is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He represented the Ivory Coast national team for 14 years, beginning in 2000, and is currently the nation's most capped player.
Jan Hendrik Timman was a Dutch chess grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career, he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as "The Best of the West".
Winicjusz Drozdowski, Poland, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain was a German-American physicist, engineer, and the designer of the first aircraft to use a turbojet engine. Together with Frank Whittle and Anselm Franz, he has been described as the co-inventor of the turbojet engine.
Air Force Research Laboratory Propulsion Directorate, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Wang Anshi, courtesy name Jiefu (介甫), art name Banshan (半山), was a Chinese politician, poet, philosopher, and economist during the Song dynasty. He served as chancellor and attempted major and controversial socioeconomic reforms known as the New Policies.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 39 people born on December 14, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 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 14. Read the full methodology.
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