February 18 is the birthday of 61 notable people we've found so far, including authors, historical figures, entrepreneurs and actors, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Bidzina Ivanishvili, also known as Boris Grigoryevich Ivanishvili, is a Georgian businessman, politician and oligarch. In 2012 he founded the Georgian Dream party and led it to the victory in the 2012 Georgian parliamentary election.
Warren Amerine Stephens is an American businessman who is the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom under President Donald Trump in his second administration.
Share of the 61 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors36% (22 people)
Entrepreneurs23% (14 people)
Actors20% (12 people)
Politicians18% (11 people)
Artists15% (9 people)
Athletes15% (9 people)
Creators15% (9 people)
Countries
26 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States19 (19 people)
United Kingdom6 (6 people)
France5 (5 people)
Italy4 (4 people)
Hungary2 (2 people)
Israel2 (2 people)
Kingdom of Bohemia2 (2 people)
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Chloe Anthony Wofford "Toni" Morrison was an American novelist and editor. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970.
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Matthew Raymond Dillon is an American actor. He made his feature film debut in Over the Edge (1979) and established himself as a teen idol by starring in the films My Bodyguard (1980), Little Darlings (1980), Liar's Moon (1982), The Flamingo Kid (1984) and three of the four S. E.
Matt Dillon (Guadalajara) 4.jpg: Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara derivative work: MyCanon (talk), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Roberto Baggio is an Italian former professional footballer who mainly played as a second striker, or as an attacking midfielder. He is also the former president of the technical sector of the Italian Football Federation.
Molly Kathleen Ringwald is an American actress, writer, and translator. She began her career as a child actress on the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life before being nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her starring role in the drama film Tempest (1982).
Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari was an Italian racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of Scuderia Ferrari in Grand Prix motor racing, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque.
Gary Alexander Neville is an English football pundit and former professional player. A right-back, he spent his entire career with Manchester United, serving as captain for five years.
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Cybill Lynne Shepherd is an American actress, singer, and former model. Her film debut and breakthrough role came as Jacy Farrow in Peter Bogdanovich's coming-of-age drama The Last Picture Show (1971).
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George Harris Kennedy Jr. was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 film and television productions. He played "Dragline" in Cool Hand Luke (1967), winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role and being nominated for the corresponding Golden Globe.
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Jung Ho-seok, known professionally as J-Hope, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, dancer, and record producer. He made his debut as a member of South Korean boy band BTS in 2013, under Big Hit Entertainment. J-Hope released his first solo mixtape, Hope World, in 2018.
Walter Jack Palance was an American actor. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, for his roles in Sudden Fear (1952) and Shane (1953), and winning almost 40 years later for City Slickers (1991).
20th Century Fox, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Park Shin-hye is a South Korean actress. She first gained recognition as a child actress in the television series Stairway to Heaven (2003) and Tree of Heaven (2006).
Sir Robert William Robson was an English football player and coach. His career included periods playing for and later managing the England national team and being a UEFA Cup-winning manager at Ipswich Town.
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Nathan Benjamin Aké is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or left-back for Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe and the Netherlands national team.
Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman was a Czech and American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor. He rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968.
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Claude Makélélé Sinda is a French football manager and former professional player who played as a defensive midfielder. He last managed Super League Greece club Asteras Tripolis.
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Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was an Italian chemist and physicist who was a pioneer of electricity and power, and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane.
https://www.anthroposophie.net/bibliothek/nawi/physik/volta/bib_volta.htm, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
André Robert Breton was a French writer and poet, known as a principal theorist and co-founder of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".
Henri Manuel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Andrei Gennadyevich Kirilenko, is a Russian basketball executive and former professional player. Nicknamed AK-47, he played 10 seasons for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA) between 2001 and 2011.
Christopher Johnson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher who contributed to the understanding of the physics of shock waves. The ratio of the speed of a flow or object to that of sound is named the Mach number in his honor.
Charles Scolik, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Igor Dodon is a Moldovan economist and politician who served as the 5th president of Moldova from 2016 to 2020. He currently serves as the leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova since 2024.
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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov is a Russian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
Министерство спорта Республики Татарстан, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Anders Leonard Zorn was a Swedish artist who attained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etching artist. His portrait subjects include King Oscar II of Sweden and three American Presidents: Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Nadine Labaki is a Lebanese actress, director, and activist. Labaki first came into the spotlight as an actress in the early 2000s. Her filmmaking career began in 2007 after the release of her debut film, Caramel, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Ali-Shir Nava'i, also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī was a Timurid poet, writer, statesman, linguist, Hanafi Maturidi mystic and painter who was the greatest representative of Chagatai literature.
1486 artist, Herat, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Francesco Redi was an Italian physician, naturalist, biologist, and poet. He is referred to as the "founder of experimental biology", and as the "father of modern parasitology".
Jacob Ferdinand Voet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Harry Brearley was an English metallurgist, credited with the discovery of "rustless steel". Based in Sheffield, he enabled affordable cutlery for the masses, and an expansion of the city's traditional cutlery trade.
This page lists 61 people born on February 18, 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 October 2020. 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 18. Read the full methodology.
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