Birthday twins
December 25 is the birthday of 44 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, musicians, authors and actors, and 3 of them are billionaires.
What the data says
Entrepreneur
1924–2019 · Philippines
$19Bolder estimate, as of January 2019 · Forbes
Henry Tan Sy Sr. was a Filipino businessman.
Reported estimate as of January 2019: $19B. Wealth changes; this is not a live figure.
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every December birthday · battle December 25 against another date · all rankings
The December 25 wealth profile
Ranked by the low end of each reported estimate; bars use a log scale.
Entrepreneur · T-Bank · finance
1967 · Cyprus
$8.2Bolder estimate, as of November 2021 · Bloomberg
Oleg Yuryevich Tinkov is a Russian-born Cypriot former billionaire, entrepreneur and businessman.
Tinkoff Bank, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Investor
1947–2009 · United States
$2.3Bolder estimate, as of September 2008 · Forbes
Bruce Jay Wasserstein was an American investment banker, businessman, and writer. He was prominent in the mergers and acquisitions industry, credited with working on 1,000 transactions with a total value of approximately $250 billion.
Lazard Ltd., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Who shares December 25
Share of the 44 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
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.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Entrepreneur
1961 · United States
Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell is a British convicted child sex trafficker and former socialite. In 2021, she was convicted of child sex trafficking, and in 2022 was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Federal Bureau of Prisons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Politician
1971 · Canada
Justin Pierre James Trudeau is a Canadian politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025. He led the Liberal Party from 2013 until his resignation in 2025 and was the member of Parliament (MP) for Papineau from 2008 until 2025.
Top tier
Actor
1899–1957 · United States
Humphrey DeForest Bogart, nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor. Often known for his leading roles as both gangsters and detectives in film noirs, his performances in classic Hollywood cinema made him an American cultural icon.
Published by The Minneapolis Tribune-photo from Warner Bros., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1949 · United States
Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek is an American actress and singer.
David Shankbone, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Politician
1918–1981 · Egypt
Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat was an Egyptian politician and military officer who was the third president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981.
Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Inventor
1906–1988 · Germany
Ernst August Friedrich Ruska was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.
J Brew, uploaded on the English-speaking Wikipedia by en:User:Hat'nCoat., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1949 · United Kingdom
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif is a Pakistani politician and businessman who thrice served as the prime minister of Pakistan, for three non-consecutive terms, first serving from 1990 to 1993, then from 1997 to 1999 and later from 2013 to 2017.
U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · DoubleTree by Hilton · hospitality
1887–1979 · United States
Conrad Nicholson Hilton was an American hotel magnate and politician who founded the Hilton Hotels chain. From 1912 to 1916, Hilton was a Republican representative in the first New Mexico Legislature, but became disillusioned with the "inside deals" of politics.
Randal Schwartz from Portland, OR, USA, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1946–2023 · United States
James William Buffett was an American singer-songwriter, author, and businessman. He was known for his tropical music sound blending country, rock, folk, calypso, and his persona, which often portrayed a lifestyle described as "island escapism."
Chief Mass Communication Specialist Michael W. Pendergrass, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1965 · India
Ramdev, also known with the prefix Baba, is an Indian yoga guru and businessman. He is primarily known for being a proponent of yoga and ayurveda in India.
Sachinr (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1872–1965 · United States
Helena Rubinstein was a Polish businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist. She founded Helena Rubinstein Incorporated cosmetics company, which ultimately made her one of the world's wealthiest women.
George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Chevrolet · automotive
1878–1941 · United States
Louis-Joseph Chevrolet was a Swiss-born American racing driver, mechanic, and entrepreneur who co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911.
Marvin Dement Boland, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
December 25 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Musician
1954 · United Kingdom
Ann Lennox is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist.
Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1971 · United Kingdom
Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong, known mononymously as Dido, is an English singer and songwriter. She attained international success with her debut album No Angel (1999); hit singles from the album include "Here with Me" and "Thank You".
Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1907–1994 · United States
Cabell Calloway III was an American jazz singer, songwriter, bandleader, and actor. He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the swing era.
Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1925–1998 · United States
Carlos Castaneda was a Peruvian-American writer, trained as an anthropologist. Starting in 1968, Castaneda published a series of books that describe alleged training in shamanism that he received under the tutelage of a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named Don Juan Matus.
Author
1923–2015 · United States
René Noël Théophile Girard was a French academic best known for developing mimetic theory, which posits that human desire is fundamentally imitative, leading to rivalry, violence and the scapegoat mechanism as foundations of religion and culture.
Vicq, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1985 · Ukraine
Yulia Anatoliivna Svyrydenko is a Ukrainian politician who served as the 19th prime minister of Ukraine from 2025 to 2026.
Stenbocki maja, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1821–1912 · United States
Clarissa Harlowe Barton was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1944 · Brazil
Jair Ventura Filho, better known as Jairzinho, is a Brazilian former professional footballer.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1976 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren OON is a Dutch DJ, musician and record producer. Since 2001, he has hosted A State of Trance (ASOT), a weekly radio show, which is broadcast to nearly 40 million listeners in 84 countries on over 100 FM radio stations.
Vitaliy from Kharkiv, Ukraine, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1911–2010 · United States
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker.
Oliver Mark, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1886–1962 · Hungary
Michael Curtiz was a Hungarian and American film director, recognized as one of the most prolific directors in history. He directed classic films from the silent era and numerous others during Hollywood's Golden Age, when the studio system was prevalent.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1945–2003 · United Kingdom
David Noel Redding was an English rock musician, best known as the bass player for the Jimi Hendrix Experience and guitarist/singer for Fat Mattress.
Politician
1916–2012 · Algeria
Ahmed Ben Bella was an Algerian politician, soldier and revolutionary who served as the head of government of Algeria from 27 September 1962 to 15 September 1963 and then the first president of Algeria from 15 September 1963 until his overthrow on 19 June 1965.
République Algérienne, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1943 · Germany
Hanna Schygulla is a German actress and chanson singer best known for her work with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She first worked with Fassbinder in 1965 and became an active participant in the New German Cinema.
Gorupdebesanez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1976 · Finland
Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen is a Finnish musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the primary songwriter, keyboardist, and founding member of the symphonic metal band Nightwish. He has stated that his songwriting is influenced by harmonic film music.
© Markus Felix (talk to me), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1890–1949 · United States
LeRoy Robert Ripley was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist, who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, television show, and radio show, which feature odd facts from around the world.
Press release says "From Ripley Office"., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Founder · 20th Century Studios · entertainment
1878–1961 · United States
Joseph Michael Schenck was a Russian-born American film studio executive. He was best known as one of the co-founders of film studio 20th Century Fox and one of the five founders of the Academy Awards.
Acme Newspictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1988 · Italy
Marco Mengoni is an Italian singer-songwriter who rose to fame in 2009 after winning the third season of the Italian talent show X Factor.
Edoardo Miccichè, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1709–1751 · France
Julien Offray de La Mettrie was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment. He is best known for his 1747 work L'homme machine.
Georg Friedrich Schmidt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1876–1959 · Germany
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. He was the doctoral advisor of Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1927–2024 · India
Ram Narayan, often referred to with the title Pandit, was an Indian musician who popularised the bowed instrument sarangi as a solo concert instrument in Hindustani classical music and became the first internationally successful sarangi player.
Mausam, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1904–1999 · Canada
Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, was a German-Canadian pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals".
Willy Pragher, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1763–1805 · France
Claude Chappe was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France.
Henri Rousseau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1949 · Indonesia
Sukanto Tanoto, born Tan Kang Hoo is an Indonesian businessman primarily involved in resources-based manufacturing. After starting as a supplier of equipment and materials for the state-owned oil firm Pertamina, Tanoto moved into the forest industry in 1973.
Entrepreneur
1778–1855 · Kingdom of Great Britain
Joseph Aspdin was an English bricklayer, businessman, inventor, and stonemason who obtained the patent for Portland cement on 21 October 1824.
Inventor
1810–1895 · United States
Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth was an American apiarist, clergyman, and teacher, who has been called the father of American beekeeping. He recognized the concept of bee-space, a minimum distance that bees avoid sealing up.
Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1918–2017 · United States
Henry Lea Hillman was an American billionaire businessman, investor, civic leader, and philanthropist. He was chairman of The Hillman Company, a family office and investment company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and owned by the Hillman family.
Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1932 · Japan
Michihiro Ozawa is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
Athlete
1973 · Japan
Tadatoshi Masuda is a former Japanese football player. He played once for Japan national team.
This page lists 44 people born on December 25, 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 November 2021. 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 25. Read the full methodology.
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