February 16 is the birthday of 60 notable people we've found so far, including authors, historical figures, entrepreneurs and politicians, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Carl Celian Icahn is an American businessman and investor. He is the founder and controlling shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, a public company and diversified conglomerate holding company based in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.
Share of the 60 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors37% (22 people)
Entrepreneurs22% (13 people)
Politicians22% (13 people)
Actors18% (11 people)
Athletes18% (11 people)
Creators17% (10 people)
Scientists13% (8 people)
Countries
29 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States18 (18 people)
France3 (3 people)
Italy3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Czech Republic2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Kingdom of England2 (2 people)
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Elizabeth Chase Olsen is an American actress. Known for her roles in both blockbusters and independent dramas, her accolades include nominations for a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Thomas Jonathan Ossoff is an American politician who has served as the senior United States senator from Georgia since 2021. He is the youngest incumbent U.S. senator, and a member of the Democratic Party. Ossoff is also the youngest senior senator of the United States.
U.S. Senate Photographic Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kim Jong Il was a North Korean politician and dictator who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his own death in 2011. Posthumously, Kim Jong Il was declared an eternal leader of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
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Mahershala Ali is an American actor. He has received multiple accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $3.3 billion worldwide.
Gordon Correll, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tracy Lauren Marrow, known professionally as Ice-T, is an American rapper and actor. He is active in both hip-hop and heavy metal. Ice-T began his career as an underground rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album Rhyme Pays.
Sir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as a martyr and saint, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian and Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord Chancellor from October 1529 to May 1532.
Hans Holbein the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Roberta Lynn Williams is an American video game designer and writer. She has been named by several publications as one of the best or most influential creators in the video game industry.
François-Xavier Ortoli was a French politician who served as the fifth president of the European Commission from 1973 to 1977. He served as Minister of the Economy of France from 1968 to 1969.
Jean-Louis Debaize - European Commission, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Raymond Sackler was an American physician and businessman. He acquired Purdue Pharma together with his brothers Arthur M. Sackler and Mortimer Sackler. Purdue Pharma is the developer of OxyContin, the drug at the center of the opioid epidemic in the United States.
Niklas Zennström is a Swedish entrepreneur, technology investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of a European venture capital firm Atomico based in London.
Fred Mouawad is a Lebanese businessman from Zgharta, Lebanon and based in Bangkok, Thailand. He has founded and is the CEO of seven companies. In 2013, Wealth-X named Mouawad the eighth richest diamond owner in the world, with a net worth of $1.1 billion.
John Patrick McEnroe Jr. is an American former professional tennis player. Often ranked amongst the greatest tennis players of all time, McEnroe was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 170 weeks.
Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and politician. In partnership with his second wife, Cher, he formed the singing duo Sonny & Cher.
Joop van Bilsen / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Eccleston is an English actor. He is known for his work in various social realist television dramas, as well as for playing the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (2005).
Kim Soo-hyun is a South Korean actor. He is the recipient of five Baeksang Arts Awards, two Grand Bell Awards and one Blue Dragon Film Award. Kim made his television debut in 2007 with the family sitcom Kimchi Cheese Smile following a few theatrical performances.
Valentino Rossi is an Italian racing driver, former professional motorcycle road racer, and nine-time Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champion. Nicknamed "the Doctor", he is widely considered one of the greatest motorcycle racers of all time.
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Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights.
Amanda Ava Koci, known professionally as Ava Max, is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence in 2018 with the release of her breakthrough single "Sweet but Psycho".
Eckhart Tolle is a German “spiritual teacher” and self-help author. His books include The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1997), A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (2005) and the picture book Guardians of Being (2009).
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William Theodore Katt is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his starring role as Ralph Hinkley/Hanley on the ABC television series The Greatest American Hero (1981–1983).
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Iain Menzies Banks was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. His books have been adapted for theatre, radio, and television. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
Pasi Välkkynen, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1822–1911 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir Francis Galton was an English polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era; his ideas later became the basis of behavioural genetics.
Eveleen Myers (née Tennant), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Luís Filipe Montenegro Cardoso de Morais Esteves is a Portuguese politician and lawyer serving as the prime minister of Portugal since April 2024, currently leading the 25th Constitutional Government.
George Frost Kennan was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He lectured widely and wrote scholarly histories of the relations between the USSR and the United States.
Harris & Ewing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Edgar John Bergen was an American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, vaudevillian and radio performer. He was best known for his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd.
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Federico Bernardeschi is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a right winger or attacking midfielder for Serie A club Bologna. His nickname is "Brunelleschi", after the famous Florentine architect, for his technique and elegance on the pitch.
Kirill Venediktov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Henry Brooks Adams was an American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. presidents. As a young Harvard graduate, he served as secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln's minister (ambassador) to the United Kingdom.
William Notman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Henry Wilson was the 18th vice president of the United States, serving from 1873 until his death in 1875, and a senator from Massachusetts from 1855 to 1873. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading Republican, and a strong opponent of slavery.
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Valérie Trierweiler is a French journalist and author. She has hosted political talk shows and has contributed to Paris Match. She is best known for having been the partner of the president of France, François Hollande, until January 2014.
Octave Henri Marie Mirbeau was a French novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, journalist and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, whilst still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde with highly transgressive…
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Robert Joseph Flaherty was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922).
Arnold Genthé, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 60 people born on February 16, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 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 2019. 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 16. Read the full methodology.
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