December 26 is the birthday of 45 notable people we've found so far, including authors, politicians, athletes and entrepreneurs, and 2 of them are billionaires.
José Roberto Marinho is a Brazilian billionaire businessman and one of three sons of the late communications tycoon Roberto Marinho (1904–2003). He is the president of Roberto Marinho Foundation and vice-president of Grupo Globo.
Share of the 45 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors27% (12 people)
Athletes22% (10 people)
Politicians22% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs20% (9 people)
Scientists18% (8 people)
Actors13% (6 people)
Musicians11% (5 people)
Countries
25 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States7 (7 people)
France5 (5 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland2 (2 people)
Austria–Hungary1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on December 26 doing at your age?
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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~25Charles BabbageReceived the Fellow of the Royal Society (1816)
Jared Joseph Leto is an American actor and musician. Known for his method acting in a variety of roles, he has received various accolades over a career spanning three decades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Harvey Phillip Spector was an American record producer and songwriter known primarily for his orchestral pop productions and recording technique, dubbed "the Wall of Sound", and decades later for his trials and imprisonment for murder.
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
José Manuel Ramos-Horta is an East Timorese politician who has been the seventh president of Timor-Leste since 2022, having previously been the fourth president from 2007 to 2012.
Ministro da Defesa Dr. Filomeno da Paixão de Jesus, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Martin Cooper is an American engineer. He is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management, with eleven patents in the field.
Raja Pervez Ashraf is a Pakistani politician, businessman and agriculturist who served as the 17th prime minister of Pakistan from June 2012 to March 2013 and as the Speaker of the National Assembly from April 2022 to March 2024.
Voice of America, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hiroshi Kikuchi, also known as Kan Kikuchi, was a Japanese author and publisher. He established the publishing company Bungeishunjū, the monthly magazine of the same name, the Japan Writer's Association and both the Akutagawa and Naoki Prize for popular literature.
Bungeishunjū, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Zbyněk Frolík is a Czech entrepreneur and founder of the medical-equipment manufacturer LINET. He established the company in 1990 and helped develop it into an international producer of hospital and nursing-care beds.
Zdeněk Svatoš, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lars Ulrich is a Danish musician who is the drummer and a founding member of American heavy metal band Metallica. Along with James Hetfield, Ulrich has songwriting credits on almost all of the band's songs, and the two of them are the only remaining original members of the band.
Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Aaron James Ramsey is a Welsh professional football manager and former player who is head coach of EFL League One club Oxford United. He mainly played as a box-to-box midfielder, but had also been deployed on the left and right wings.
1791–1871 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Charles Babbage was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hugo Hadrien Dominique Lloris is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC. In addition, he is also one of a select number of players who have amassed over 1,000 career appearances.
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jo Jung-suk is a South Korean actor. He began his career in theatre, starring in Spring Awakening, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Grease and stage adaptation of The Harmonium in My Memory, among many other musicals and plays.
Byron P. Howard is an American animator, character designer, story artist, film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is one of the directors of the Walt Disney Animation Studios films Bolt (2008), Tangled (2010), Zootopia (2016), Encanto (2021), and Zootopia 2 (2025).
John Horton Conway was an English mathematician. He was active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory.
"Thane Plambeck", CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1780–1872 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Mary Somerville was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel were elected as the first female Honorary Members of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Thomas Phillips, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Marcelo Andrés Ríos Mayorga is a Chilean former professional tennis player. In 1998, he was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), becoming the first such Latin American.
Osvaldo Rodríguez, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751.
John Giles Eccardt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Maurice Utrillo was a French painter of the School of Paris who specialized in cityscapes. From the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre to have been born there.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alejo Carpentier y Valmont was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Oldřich Nejedlý was a Czech footballer. He spent his entire professional career at Sparta Prague as an inside-forward. Nejedlý was the top goalscorer of the 1934 FIFA World Cup at international level.
Simon Beaufoy is a British screenwriter. Born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, he was educated at Malsis School in Glusburn, Ermysted's Grammar School and Sedbergh School, he read English at St Peter's College, Oxford and graduated from Arts University Bournemouth.
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald was an Estonian writer who is considered to be the father of the national literature for the country. He is the author of Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède or La Cépède was a French naturalist and an active freemason. He is known for his contribution to the Comte de Buffon's great work, the Histoire Naturelle.
Joseph Ducreux, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Major-General Jioji "George" Konousi Konrote, is a Fijian politician and retired Major-General of the Fiji Military who served as the President of Fiji from 2015 to 2021.
Australian Embassy in Fiji, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Emil Johann Wiechert was a German physicist and geophysicist who made many contributions to both fields, including presenting the first verifiable model of a layered structure of the Earth and being among the first to discover the electron.
Picture from the website of the Instituto Física of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (original), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 45 people born on December 26, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 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 26. Read the full methodology.
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