February 14 is the birthday of 55 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, athletes and historical figures, and 4 of them are billionaires.
Michael Rubens Bloomberg is an American businessman and politician. He is the majority owner and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P., and was its CEO from 1981 to 2001, and again from 2014 to 2023. He served as the 109th mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013.
Stephen Allen Schwarzman is an American businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of the private equity firm Blackstone Inc., which he established in 1985 with Peter G. Peterson. Schwarzman was chairman of President Donald Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum.
Hans-Adam II is the Prince of Liechtenstein, reigning since 1989. As a member of the Liechtenstein princely family, he also holds the title of Duke of Troppau and Jägerndorf and Count of Rietberg.
Enrique Bañuelos de Castro is a Spanish businessman and entrepreneur. Bañuelos is one of twelve Spanish nationals to hold the position of being listed in Forbes World's Billionaires ranking. As of 2013 he was the 1342nd richest person in the world, with a net worth of $1 billion.
Industries of the companies the 4 wealthy people born on February 14 founded or led.
finance50% (1 people)
media50% (1 people)
Who shares February 14
What kind of people are born on February 14?
Share of the 55 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors27% (15 people)
Athletes24% (13 people)
Entrepreneurs24% (13 people)
Actors16% (9 people)
Creators15% (8 people)
Politicians15% (8 people)
Scientists15% (8 people)
Countries
19 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States21 (21 people)
Switzerland4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Austria3 (3 people)
France3 (3 people)
Spain3 (3 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on February 14 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.
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
author
Frederick Douglass
Top tier
Politician
1818–1895 · United States
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century".
Engraved by J.C. Buttre from a daguerreotype., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Simon John Pegg is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the UK as the co-creator of the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), directed by Edgar Wright.
Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ángel Fabián Di María is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a right winger or attacking midfielder for and captains Argentine Primera División club Rosario Central.
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Eugene Francis "Gene" Fama is an American economist and Nobel Laureate. He is best known for his empirical work on portfolio theory, asset pricing, and the efficient-market hypothesis.
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was a British meteorologist and physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Compton for his invention of the cloud chamber.
The American Institute of Physics credits the photo [1] to AB Lagrelius & Westphal, which is the Swedish company use, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Herbert Aaron Hauptman was an American mathematician and Nobel laureate. He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials.
Bernardo Francisco Moreno Mejía is an American politician and businessman serving since 2025 as the senior United States senator from Ohio. He is a member of the Republican Party.
United States Senate, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou is a British-Cypriot entrepreneur. Born into a wealthy ship-owning family, he is best known for founding the low-cost airline easyJet and the Stelmar shipping line with start-up funds provided by his father, Loucas.
St. Gallen Symposium, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Judd Alan Gregg is an American politician and attorney who served as the 76th governor of New Hampshire from 1989 to 1993 and a United States senator from New Hampshire from 1993 to 2011 where he was Chairman of the Health Committee and the Budget Committee.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Aaron Russo was an American entertainment businessman, film producer, director, and political activist. He was best known for producing movies including Trading Places, Wise Guys, and The Rose.
User:DickClarkMises, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Margaret Eloise Knight was an American inventor, notably of a machine to produce flat-bottomed paper bags. She has been called "the most famous 19th-century woman inventor".
Boston Sunday Post, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christian Dannemann Eriksen is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for 2. Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg and the Denmark national team.
Chris 0023 from Lyngby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mark Rutte is a Dutch politician who has served as the 14th secretary general of NATO since October 2024. He previously served as prime minister of the Netherlands from 2010 to 2024 and leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) from 2006 to 2023.
European Commission (Christophe Licoppe), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Carolina Giraldo Navarro, known professionally as Karol G, is a Colombian singer and songwriter. Considered one of the most influential reggaeton and urban pop artists, she has received awards including a Grammy, eight Latin Grammy Awards and five Billboard Music Awards.
Junta de Andalucía, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Edinson Roberto Cavani Gómez is a Uruguayan professional footballer who last played as a striker for Boca Juniors. Nicknamed "El Matador", he is regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation. He is known for his off the ball movement, work ethic, and finishing.
soccerdigital, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lucas François Bernard Hernandez is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or left-back for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the France national team.
Danai Jekesai Gurira is an American and Zimbabwean actress, playwright, screenwriter, producer, and activist. She is best known for her starring roles as Michonne in the AMC horror drama franchise The Walking Dead and Okoye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Carl Milton Bernstein is an American investigative journalist and author. While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward, and the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal.
Jack Benny was an American entertainer who evolved from a modest success as a violinist on the vaudeville circuit to one of the leading entertainers of the twentieth century with a highly popular comedic career in radio, television, and film.
Photographer not credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thelma Ritter was an American character actress known for her strong New York City accent, diminutive size, and plain look; she favored working-class roles and earned a Tony Award and six Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress, more than any other actress in the category.
Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Alan William Parker was an English filmmaker. His early career, beginning in his late teens, was spent as a copywriter and director of television advertisements.
Max Horkheimer was a German philosopher and sociologist best known for his role in developing critical theory as director of the Institute for Social Research, commonly associated with the Frankfurt School.
Jeremy J. Shapiro, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fritz Zwicky was a Swiss astronomer. He worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology in the United States of America, where he made many important contributions in theoretical and observational astronomy.
Comet Photo AG (Zürich), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker. Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions (1988), which was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe, was named by the BBC in 2018 as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world.
Rudolf H. Boettcher, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ricardo Zamora Martínez was a Spanish football player and manager. He played as a goalkeeper for, among others, RCD Espanyol, FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. As an international he played for Spain.
George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. was an American civil engineer. He is mostly known for creating the original Ferris Wheel for the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor, newspaper publisher, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He was the inventor of the QWERTY keyboard, and—along with Samuel W.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Aneel Bhusri is an American business executive. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of Workday, the company he co-founded in 2005. He is also a partner at Greylock Partners and was a member of Intel's board of directors between 2014 and 2019.
Maria Valentina Vezzali is an Italian politician and retired Olympic and World Champion foil fencer. As a fencer, Vezzali won six Olympic gold medals and was a 16-time World Champion in foil.
Marie-Lan Nguyen, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Willem Johan "Pim" Kolff was a pioneer of hemodialysis, artificial heart, as well as in the entire field of artificial organs. Willem was a member of the Kolff family, an old Dutch patrician family.
Chandrashekhar Govind Agashe was an Indian industrialist, lawyer, educator, and philanthropist, best remembered as the founder of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. He served as the managing agent of the company from its inception in 1934 till his death in 1956.
The Agashe Foundation, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky was a 19th-century Russian composer. He bridged the gap in Russian opera composition between Mikhail Glinka and the later generation of The Five and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Konstantin Makovsky, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 55 people born on February 14, 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 April 2024. 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 14. Read the full methodology.
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