December 3 is the birthday of 51 notable people we've found so far, including historical figures, scientists, authors and creators, and 4 of them are billionaires.
$13.4Breported estimate as of September 2025 · Bloomberg
Alexander Gerko is a Russian-born British billionaire financial trader and founder of XTX Markets based in the United Kingdom. Gerko has a Ph.D. in mathematics and wrote several research papers, including one that tested market timing for trading.
Chey Tae-won is a South Korean billionaire businessman and the chairman of SK Group, the country's second largest conglomerate, that includes 186 subsidiaries such as SK Telecom, SK Hynix, and SK Innovation.
Republic of Korea, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sean Parker is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the file-sharing computer service Napster, and was the first president of the social networking website Facebook.
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Share of the 51 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors24% (12 people)
Scientists24% (12 people)
Creators22% (11 people)
Actors20% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs20% (10 people)
Musicians20% (10 people)
Athletes18% (9 people)
Countries
27 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States12 (12 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Sweden3 (3 people)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland3 (3 people)
Belgium2 (2 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
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John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne was an English singer, songwriter, and media personality. Dubbed the "Prince of Darkness", he is widely credited as a pioneer of heavy metal music.
F darkbladeus, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Amanda Michelle Seyfried is an American actress. Her accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for an Academy Award.
Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Daryl Hannah is an American actress, director, and environmental activist. She has acted in comedic and dramatic roles in more than a hundred film and television productions since the 1970s.
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Julie Anne Smith, known professionally as Julianne Moore, is an American actress. Prolific in independent films and blockbusters since the early 1990s, she is particularly known for her portrayals of emotionally troubled and vulnerable women.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jenna Lee Dewan is an American actress and dancer. She started her career as a backup dancer for Janet Jackson, and later worked with artists including Christina Aguilera, Pink, and Missy Elliott. She is known for her role as Nora Clark in the 2006 film Step Up.
Roberto Pisani Marinho was a Brazilian businessman and tycoon who was the founder and owner of media conglomerate Grupo Globo from 1925 to 2003, and during this period expanded the company from newspapers to radio and television.
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Kai-Fu Lee is a Taiwanese computer scientist, investor, and author. He was the founding director of Microsoft Research China, later Microsoft Research Asia, serving from 1998 to 2000, and served as president of Google China 2005 to 2009.
Jonathan Harold Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, is a British hereditary peer and media proprietor who serves as chairman of Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), the media conglomerate that publishes the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, i, and Metro, among other assets.
David Villa Sánchez is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation, Villa is the all-time top goalscorer of the Spain national team.
Jean-Luc Godard was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Demy.
Howard Andrew Williams was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold certified and three platinum certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards.
NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Holly Marie Combs Ryan is an American former actress. She gained recognition for playing Kimberly Brock in the CBS series Picket Fences (1992–1996) and had her first leading film role in the slasher Dr. Giggles (1992).
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Andrew Ayers Stanton is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known as the director and co-writer of the Pixar animated films Finding Nemo (2003), WALL-E (2008), Finding Dory (2016), and Toy Story 5 (2026).
Sarah K Joyce, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rajendra Prasad was an Indian politician, lawyer, journalist and scholar who served as the first president of India from 1950 to 1962 for two terms. He joined the Indian National Congress during the Indian independence movement and became a major leader from the region of Bihar.
Archives New Zealand from New Zealand, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George Brinton McClellan was an American military officer, politician, and engineer who served as the 24th governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881, as Commanding General of the United States Army from November 1861 to March 1862, and the unsuccessful Democratic Party candidate in the 1864 presidential election.
Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christian Lali Kake Karembeu is a former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. Born in New Caledonia, he played for the France national team. He is currently the sporting director for Olympiacos.
Alfonso X was King of Castile, León and Galicia from 1 June 1252 until his death in 1284. During the election of 1257, a dissident faction chose him to be king of Germany on 1 April.
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Anton Webern was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist whose modernist music was among the most radical of its milieu in its lyrical, poetic concision and use of then novel atonal and twelve-tone techniques.
1830–1896 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British Victorian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subject matter in an academic style.
Frederic Leighton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hayato Ikeda was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964. He is best known for his Income Doubling Plan, which promised to double the size of Japan's economy in 10 years, and for presiding over the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Robert LeRoy Knudsen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented and implemented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define syntaxes of formal languages.
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France Prešeren was a Slovene poet whose works are widely considered some of the most important in Slovene literature. His poems have been translated into many languages.
Franz von Kurz zum Thurn und Goldenstein, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway, during the time of the Dano–Norwegian dual monarchy. He was influenced by Humanism, the Enlightenment and the Baroque.
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1753–1827 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Samuel Crompton was an English inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry. Building on the work of James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright, he invented the spinning mule, a machine that revolutionised the industry worldwide.
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Hryhorii Skovoroda, also Gregory Skovoroda or Grigory Skovoroda, was a philosopher of Ukrainian Cossack origin who lived and worked in the Russian Empire. He was a poet, a teacher and a composer of liturgical music.
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Sir Rowland Hill, KCB, FRS was an English teacher, inventor and social reformer. He campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of Uniform Penny Post and his solution of pre-payment, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap transfer of letters.
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Cornelia Maria "Corry" Brokken was a Dutch singer, television presenter and jurist. In 1957, she won the second edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Net als toen", representing the Netherlands.
unknown photographer; Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief: Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Fotopersbureau (A, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pedro Virgilio Rocha Franchetti was a Uruguayan footballer who played 52 games for the Uruguay national team between 1961 and 1974. Nicknamed "el Verdugo", he was a highly skillful midfielder and a prolific goalscorer, regarded by Pelé as "one of the 5 best players in the world".
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Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn was a Swedish physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy."
This page lists 51 people born on December 3, 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 July 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 3. Read the full methodology.
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