December 18 is the birthday of 47 notable people we've found so far, including actors, entrepreneurs, creators and authors, and 4 of them are billionaires.
Ann Walton Kroenke is an American billionaire. Heiress to the Walmart fortune, Ann and her sister, Nancy Walton Laurie, inherited stock from their father, Bud Walton, who was the brother and an early business partner of Walmart founder Sam Walton.
Daniel Seth Loeb is an American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is the founder and chief executive of Third Point, a New York-based hedge fund focused on event-driven, value-oriented investing with $4 billion in assets under management, as of December 2023.
$1.5Breported estimate as of October 2025 · Forbes
Timothy Marvin Dunn is an American businessman who is the chief executive officer of CrownQuest Operating, an oil and gas business he co-founded in 1996.
Share of the 47 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors32% (15 people)
Entrepreneurs28% (13 people)
Creators23% (11 people)
Authors21% (10 people)
Musicians19% (9 people)
Scientists17% (8 people)
Inventors13% (6 people)
Countries
18 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States19 (19 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Spain4 (4 people)
Australia2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Czech Republic1 (1 people)
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Raymond Allen Liotta was an American actor. He first gained attention for his role in the film Something Wild (1986), which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sia Kate Isobelle Furler is an Australian singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Adelaide, she started her career as a singer in the acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990s. When Crisp disbanded in 1997, she released her debut studio album, OnlySee, in Australia.
(Kirk Stauffer), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Keith Richards is an English musician, songwriter, singer and record producer who is an original member, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter of the Rolling Stones.
Willy Brandt was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and concurrently served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974.
Vijay Vittal Mallya is an Indian businessman and a former politician. He is the subject of an extradition effort by the Indian Government to bring him back from the UK to face charges of financial crimes in India.
Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org)/Photo by Dana Smillie, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Allen Klein was an American businessman whose aggressive negotiation tactics affected industry standards for compensating recording artists. He founded ABKCO Music & Records Incorporated.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Harold Eliot Varmus is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist. He is currently the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a senior associate at the New York Genome Center.
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frank_promise.html. From en:Image:HEVarmus.jpg., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Nasser David Khalili KCSS is a Persian-Born British scholar, collector, and philanthropist based in London. Born in Iran and educated at Queens College, City University of New York and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, he is a naturalised British citizen.
Khalili Foundation (photographer under contract to), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Yeoh Tiong Lay was a Malaysian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He founded YTL Corporation, Malaysia's largest conglomerate, with interests in construction, utilities, hotels, property development and technology.
Borneo Child Aid Society, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Steve Austin, also known by his ring name Stone Cold Steve Austin, is an American media personality, actor, and retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, as an ambassador.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bridgit Claire Mendler is an American entrepreneur who was formerly a singer, songwriter, and actress. She first became known as a child actress and continued acting into adulthood, which overlapped with a musical career in the 2010s.
Ashley Benson is an American actress and singer. Her accolades include four Teen Choice Awards, a Young Hollywood Award, as well as three People's Choice Award nominations.
German Comic Con, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Ruth Grable was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model, and singer. Her 42 films during the 1930s and 1940s grossed more than $100 million, and for 10 consecutive years (1942–1951) she placed among the Quigley Poll's top 10 box office stars. The U.S.
Movie studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s.
Barbora Krejčíková is a Czech professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 2 in singles and world No. 1 in doubles by the WTA. Krejčíková has won nine singles, 20 doubles, and three mixed doubles titles at the WTA Tour level.
Sir Joseph John Thomson was a British physicist. He received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases."
Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael John Moorcock is an English writer, originally of science fiction and fantasy, who has published many well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction. He has worked as an editor and is also a successful musician.
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland was an English–German army officer, admiral, scientist, and colonial governor. He first rose to prominence as a Royalist cavalry commander during the English Civil War.
Aránzazu Isabel María "Arantxa" Sánchez Vicario is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 12 weeks, as well as the world No. 1 in women's doubles for 111 weeks.
Tourism Victoria from Australia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1870–1916 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Hector Hugh Munro, popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and culture.
Photo from The War Illustrated 31 July 1915.Caption reads: Cpl. HECTOR MUNRO ("Saki"), author of "The Chronicles of Clov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro, better known as Alejandro Sanz, is a Spanish musician, singer and composer. He has won 24 Latin Grammy Awards and 4 Grammy Awards. He has received the Latin Grammy for Album of the Year three times.
Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
James Sie is an American actor and author. He is best known as a voice double for Jackie Chan, having voiced an animated Chan and several other characters in Jackie Chan Adventures.
James Grover Thurber was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University (OSU), leaving in 1918 without graduating.
Fred Palumbo, World Telegram staff photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Julius "Jules" Dassin was an American film and theatre director, producer, writer and actor. A subject of the Hollywood blacklist, he subsequently moved to France, and later Greece, where he continued his career.
Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nikola Pašić was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and diplomat. During his political career, which spanned almost five decades, he served five times as prime minister of Serbia and three times as prime minister of Yugoslavia, leading 22 governments in total.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kornelis Antonie "Kees" Schouhamer Immink is a Dutch engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur who pioneered and advanced the era of digital audio, video, and data recording, including popular digital media such as the compact disc (CD), DVD and Blu-ray disc.
Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão was a Portuguese Catholic priest and naturalist born in colonial Brazil, who was a pioneer of lighter-than-air aerostat design, being among the first scholars at that time to understand the operational principles of the hot air balloon and to build a functional prototype of such a device.
Benedito Calixto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Rostislav Evgenievich Alexeyev was a Russian Soviet Director & Chief of Design known for his pioneering work on hydrofoil ships and ground-effect vehicles.
Christopher Polhammar better known as Christopher Polhem, which he took after his ennoblement in 1716, was a Swedish scientist, inventor, and industrialist. He made significant contributions to the economic and industrial development of Sweden, particularly mining.
Johan Henrik Scheffel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Andrey Vasilievich Filatov is a Russian businessman. Filatov is chairman of the Board of Directors of Tuloma investment company, and a co-owner of the Globaltrans company. In 2021, Forbes estimated his wealth at $850 million.
This page lists 47 people born on December 18, 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 October 2025. 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 18. Read the full methodology.
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