February 13 is the birthday of 57 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, politicians, actors and athletes, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Vladimir Tenev is an American entrepreneur who is most notably the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Robinhood, a US-based financial technology services company.
Heidi Horten was an Austrian billionaire and art collector. She was the widow of businessman Helmut Horten, whose wealth was famously rooted in Nazi profiteering. In May 2020 Forbes estimated her net worth at US$3.0 billion.
Theodore Joseph Forstmann was one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm, and chairman and CEO of IMG, a global sports and media company. A billionaire, Forstmann was a Republican and a philanthropist.
Share of the 57 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs25% (14 people)
Politicians23% (13 people)
Actors21% (12 people)
Athletes21% (12 people)
Authors19% (11 people)
Scientists18% (10 people)
Artists9% (5 people)
Countries
29 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States13 (13 people)
France4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
Greece2 (2 people)
Ireland2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on February 13 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
~23Joan Font i FabregóBecame director general (1974)
~23Joseph BanksReceived the Fellow of the Royal Society (1766)
~50Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune DirichletNamed Pour le Mérite (1855)
After 50
64John HealeyBecame Secretary of State for Defence (2024)
56Georgios PapandreouBecame Prime Minister of Greece (1944)
65Paul DeschanelBecame President of the French Republic (1920)
71Rupiah BandaBecame President of Zambia (2008)
The standouts
The most successful people born on February 13
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
actor
Robbie Williams
Top tier
Actor
1974 · United Kingdom
Robert Peter Williams is an English singer and songwriter. He found fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995, launching a solo career in 1996. His debut studio album, Life thru a Lens, was released in 1997, and included his best-selling single "Angels".
Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and human rights activist. He is known for being a co-founder and the lead vocalist of Genesis for their first eight years and for his subsequent solo career.
MerleEllaPatsy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
William Bradford Shockley was an American physicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain.
Chuck Painter / Stanford News Service, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Memphis Depay, commonly known simply as Memphis, is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for Corinthians in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A and the Netherlands national team. He is the all-time top scorer for the national team with 55 goals.
Derivative work: Joe Sins, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Abdul Hamid Muhammad Abdul Rahman al-Dbeibeh is a Libyan politician and businessman who is the prime minister of Libya under the internationally recognised Government of National Unity (GNU) in Tripoli.
Meng Wanzhou, also known as Cathy Meng and Sabrina Meng, also informally known in China as the "Princess of Huawei", is a Chinese business executive. She is the deputy chair of the board and chief financial officer (CFO) of Huawei, which was founded by her father Ren Zhengfei.
Mark Jonathan Pincus is an American Internet entrepreneur known as the founder of Zynga, a mobile social gaming company. Pincus also founded the startups Freeloader, Inc., Tribe Networks, and Support.com. Pincus was the CEO of Zynga until July 2013, then again from 2015 to 2016.
Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev (Beriashvili), was a Soviet Georgian major general, founder and chief designer of the Beriev Design Bureau in Taganrog, which concentrated on amphibious aircraft.
Autor nieznany, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Marilyn Pauline "Kim" Malloy is a retired American actress. Her contributions to cinema have been honored with two Golden Globe Awards, an Honorary Golden Bear, a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Robert Malloy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Oliver Reed was an English actor, known for his upper-middle class, masculine image and his heavy-drinking, "hellraiser" lifestyle. His screen career spanned over 40 years, between 1955 and 1999.
Gerald Norman Springer was a British-American broadcaster, television host, and politician. He was best known for hosting the controversial tabloid talk show The Jerry Springer Show from 1991 to 2018.
John Healey is a British politician who has served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Andy Burnham since 20 July 2026. He previously served as Secretary of State for Defence under Keir Starmer from 2024 to 2026.
U.S. Secretary of Defense, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Pierluigi Collina is an Italian former football referee. He was named "The World's Best Referee" by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics six consecutive times from 1998 to 2003.
Ilya Khokhlov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kelly Ann Hu (Kai Li Hu) (Chinese: 胡凯丽; pinyin: Hú Kǎilì) (born February 13, 1968) is an American actress. She starred as Dr. Rae Chang on the American television soap opera Sunset Beach and as Michelle Chan on the American television police drama series Nash Bridges.
Rafael Márquez Álvarez is a Mexican football coach and former player who played as a defender. He is the head coach of the Mexico national team. Nicknamed El Káiser, he is regarded as the greatest defender in Mexico's history and one of the best Mexican players of all time.
Presidencia de la República Mexicana, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sarojini Naidu was an Indian political activist and poet who served as the first Governor of United Provinces, after India's independence. She played an important role in the Indian independence movement against the British Raj.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand, was a French secularized clergyman, statesman, and leading diplomat. After studying theology, he became Agent-General of the Clergy in 1780.
François Gérard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Vítor Machado Ferreira, known as Vitinha, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the Portugal national team.
Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras, known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Grant DeVolson Wood was an American artist and representative of Regionalism, best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. He is particularly well known for American Gothic (1930), which has become an iconic example of early 20th-century American art.
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was a German mathematician. In number theory, he proved special cases of Fermat's Last Theorem and created analytic number theory.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Georgios Papandreou was a Greek politician, the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty. He served three terms as the prime minister of Greece. He was also deputy prime minister from 1950 to 1952, in the governments of Nikolaos Plastiras and Sofoklis Venizelos.
AnonymousUnknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Niamh Kavanagh is an Irish singer who sang the winning entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1993.
Flickr_-_aktivioslo_-_Niamh_Kavanagh_-_Irland_(2).jpg: Aktiv I Oslo.no from Oslo, Norway derivative work: César (talk), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Eugène Louis Deschanel was a French politician who served as President of France from 18 February to 21 September 1920. Seven months into his presidency, he was ousted due to mental illness and was succeeded by his prime minister, Alexandre Millerand.
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Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin was a Russian opera singer. Possessing a deep and expressive bass voice, he enjoyed an important international career at major opera houses and is often credited with establishing the tradition of naturalistic acting in his chosen art form.
Unknown (Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg, France), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Shibusawa Eiichi, 1st Viscount Shibusawa was a Japanese business magnate widely known today as the "Father of Japanese capitalism", having introduced Western capitalism to Japan after the Meiji Restoration.
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 57 people born on February 13, 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 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 February 13. Read the full methodology.
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