December 30 is the birthday of 44 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, actors, musicians and politicians, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time and as one of the most famous athletes in modern history.
Share of the 44 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors23% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs23% (10 people)
Musicians20% (9 people)
Politicians20% (9 people)
Athletes18% (8 people)
Authors18% (8 people)
Creators16% (7 people)
Countries
17 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States15 (15 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Canada4 (4 people)
Czech Republic3 (3 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Brazil1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on December 30 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.
By 25
~20LeBron JamesReceived the NBA Rookie of the Year Award (2004)
~25Berti VogtsNamed German Footballer of the Year (1971)
Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer, songwriter, poet, and author. Her 1975 debut album, Horses, made her an influential member of the New York City–based punk rock movement earned her nicknames "Queen of Punk, and "Godmother of Punk".
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kim Tae-hyung, known professionally as V (뷔), is a South Korean singer. In 2013, he made his debut as a member of the South Korean boy band BTS, under Big Hit Entertainment.
Eliza Patricia Dushku is an American and Albanian former actress. Dushku starred as Faith in the supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998–2003) and its spin-off series Angel (2000–2003).
Asa Griggs Candler Sr. was an American business magnate and politician who in 1888 purchased the Coca-Cola recipe for $2300 from chemist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. Candler founded the Coca-Cola Company in 1892 and developed it as a major company.
Asa_Candler_2.jpg: Harris & Ewing, photographer derivative work: Kelly, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kersti Kaljulaid is an Estonian politician who served as the fifth president of Estonia between 2016 and 2021. Kaljulaid is Estonia's first female head of state since the country declared independence in 1918.
Anna Zaugarova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Karen S. Lynch is an American businesswoman and the former president and chief executive officer (CEO) of CVS Health. In 2015, she became the first female president of Aetna. She has held executive positions at Magellan Health Services and Cigna.
Diego Della Valle is a controversial Italian businessman who is the chairman of Tod's. He is the former owner of ACF Fiorentina which he sold after a criminal conviction for match fixing as part of the Calciopoli scandal.
Simone Ramella from Rome, Italy, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sabeer Bhatia is an Indian-American entrepreneur who co-founded the first free web-based email service, Hotmail.com in 1996. In 2021 he co-founded ShowReel with Javed Yunus. ShowReel initially hosted short videos for job seekers and founders.
Elena Jane Goulding is an English singer-songwriter and activist. She has achieved significant commercial success, earning multiple chart records in the United Kingdom and internationally.
PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY Official website, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hideki Tojo was a Japanese military officer and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1941 to 1944 during World War II. His leadership was marked by widespread state violence and mass killings perpetrated in the name of Japanese nationalism.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Oliver George Arthur Watkins is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Saudi Pro League club Al-Hilal and the England national team. Described as a complete forward, Watkins is known for his finishing ability and work ethic.
Tyrese Darnell Gibson is an American R&B singer and actor from Los Angeles, California. He signed with RCA Records in 1998, and released his debut single "Nobody Else" in August of that year.
Brian Raimondi at https://www.flickr.com/photos/braimondi/, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tracey Ullman is a British and American actress, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter, producer, director, and author. Critics have lauded her ability to shift seamlessly between characters and accents, with many dubbing her the "female Peter Sellers".
Alessandra Mussolini is an Italian politician, television personality, model and former actress and singer. Mussolini has been a member of both houses of the Italian Parliament as well as the European Parliament.
Ellas Otha Bates, known professionally as Bo Diddley, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll.
Published by Chess Records. Photographer unknown., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Benjamin Sinclair Johnson, is a Canadian former sprinter. During the 1987–88 season he held the title of the world's fastest man, breaking both the 100 m and the 60 m indoor World Records.
Lily Safra was a Brazilian-Monegasque billionaire and socialite who amassed considerable wealth through her four marriages. She had a significant art collection and owned the historic Villa Leopolda on the French Riviera. Her net worth was estimated at $1.3 billion.
Sir Carol Reed was an English film director and producer. Considered one of the foremost British filmmakers of the post-World War II era, he achieved prominence in the late 1940s for his film noir thrillers Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), and The Third Man (1949).
Jack de Nijs for Anefo / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ahmed III was sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of sultan Mehmed IV. His mother was Gülnuş Sultan, originally named Evmania Voria, who was an ethnic Greek. He was born at Hacıoğlu Pazarcık, in Dobruja.
Hans-Hubert "Berti" Vogts is a German former football manager and player. A defender, he played for Borussia Mönchengladbach his whole club career and won the FIFA World Cup with West Germany in 1974. Vogts later managed Germany, winning the UEFA European Championship in 1996.
Masaccio, born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was a Florentine artist who is regarded as the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance.
Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet. He has been called “the greatest German realist novelist” and “clearly the greatest German novelist before Thomas Mann.”
Carl Breitbach, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Hossein was a French film actor, director, and writer. He directed the 1982 adaptation of Les Misérables and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Stephen Butler Leacock was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. From 1915 to 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world.
The Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky was a Soviet and Russian human rights activist and writer. From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, he was a prominent figure in the Soviet dissident movement, well known at home and abroad.
Randy Wayne Schekman is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology.
Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kazuyuki Toda is a Japanese professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder or defender. He played for the Japan national team until 2002.
Milan Šrejber is a former tennis player from Czechoslovakia, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. There he reached the semi-finals of the men's doubles competition, partnering Miloslav Mečíř.
This page lists 44 people born on December 30, 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 April 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 30. Read the full methodology.
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