February 20 is the birthday of 56 notable people we've found so far, including authors, actors, entrepreneurs and creators, and 5 of them are billionaires.
Todd Bartlett Graves is an American businessman and co-founder of Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers, a fast food restaurant specializing in fried chicken finger meals.
Alexander Grigoryevich Abramov is a Russian businessperson, who until March 2022 was the chairman of the board of directors of Evraz, one of Russia's largest steel producers.
Roger Searle Penske, often referred to by his nickname "the Captain", is an American auto racing team owner, businessman, and former professional racecar driver. He is the owner of Team Penske, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, IndyCar, and other auto racing-related businesses.
Governor Eric Holcomb, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Herbert Vollrath Kohler Jr. was an American billionaire businessman, a member of the Kohler family of Wisconsin, and the executive chairman of the Kohler Company, a manufacturing and hospitality company in Kohler, Wisconsin, best known for its plumbing products, golf courses…
Eric S Yuan is a Chinese-American billionaire businessman, engineer, and the chief executive officer and founder of Zoom Communications, of which he owns 22%.
Share of the 56 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors36% (20 people)
Actors29% (16 people)
Entrepreneurs27% (15 people)
Creators20% (11 people)
Scientists16% (9 people)
Artists14% (8 people)
Athletes14% (8 people)
Countries
23 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States25 (25 people)
France4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Australia1 (1 people)
Austria–Hungary1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on February 20 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
~25Hubert de GivenchyFounded Givenchy (1952)
~24Kurt CobainNotable work: Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991)
Kurt Donald Cobain was an American musician and songwriter. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the grunge band Nirvana.
P.B. Rage from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ivana Marie Trump was a Czech and American businesswoman, socialite, and model. She lived in Canada in the 1970s, before relocating to the United States and marrying Donald Trump in 1977.
By Christopherpeterson at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3071583, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Miles Teller is an American actor. He made his feature film debut with the independent drama Rabbit Hole (2010), and gained wider recognition for his roles in the coming-of-age film The Spectacular Now (2013) and the Divergent film trilogy (2014–2016).
Mingle Media TV, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Cynthia Ann Crawford is an American model, actress and television personality. One of the most popular supermodels of the 1980s and 1990s, she achieved a ubiquitous presence on magazine covers, runways, and fashion campaigns.
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Roy Marcus Cohn was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and conservative political activist. He first gained fame as a prosecutor of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in their trials (1952–1953) and as Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954.
The original uploader was RedSpruce at English Wikipedia. (Original text: New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff phot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jason Ferus Blum is an American producer. He is the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions, best known for horror franchises including Paranormal Activity (2007–2021), Insidious (2010–present), The Purge (2013–2021), and Halloween (2018–2022).
Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan is a Saudi Arabian businessman who is governor of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Entrepreneur · Digital Equipment Corporation · technology
1926–2011 · United States
Kenneth Harry Olsen was an American engineer who co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957 with colleague Harlan Anderson and his brother Stan Olsen.
Rochester Institute of Technology, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Johann Heinrich Alfred Escher vom Glas, colloquially Alfred Escher, was a Swiss business magnate, banker, railway pioneer and politician who most notably served on the National Council from 1848 to 1882 for the Liberal Party.
Charles Wade Barkley is an American former professional basketball player who is a television analyst on TNT Sports and CBS Sports. Nicknamed "Sir Charles", "the Chuckster", and "the Round Mound of Rebound", Barkley played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Wright-Patt AFB, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Trevor Noah is a South African comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He was the host of The Daily Show, an American late-night talk show and satirical news program on Comedy Central, from 2015 to 2022.
Web Summit Qatar, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Bernard Altman was an American filmmaker. He is considered an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, known for directing subversive and satirical films with overlapping dialogue and ensemble casts.
Associate Press Newsfeatures (see first upload of this image), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sally Rooney is an Irish author. She is the author of the novels Conversations with Friends (2017), Normal People (2018), Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021), and Intermezzo (2024).
Yulia Olegovna Volkova, better known by the alternative spelling of Julia, is a Russian singer best known for being a member of the Russian girl group t.A.T.u., along with Lena Katina.
Nafisa Rizvi Khan, better known as Jiah Khan, was an American actress and singer who worked in Indian films. She appeared in three Hindi films from 2007 to 2010.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
James Peter Greaves was an English professional footballer who played as a forward and is regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time and one of England's best ever players.
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian mathematician and theoretical physicist. His greatest achievements were the development of statistical mechanics and the statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jari Olavi Litmanen is a Finnish former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or a second striker. He was the first-choice captain of the Finland national team between 1996 and 2008 in an international career that ran from 1989 to 2010.
Siniša Mihajlović was a Serbian football manager and player. Though starting out as a midfielder, he spent the majority of his illustrious playing career in defence.
Roberto Vicario, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dame Frances Margaret Anderson, known professionally as Judith Anderson, was an Australian actress who had a successful career in stage, film, and television.
Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
George Fitzgerald Smoot III was an American astrophysicist and cosmologist. He shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with John C. Mather "for their discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".
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Louis Isadore Kahn was an Estonian-born American architect based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935.
Karl Hans Albrecht was a German entrepreneur who founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Theo. He was the richest person in Germany for many years. In February 2014, he was ranked the 21st-richest person in the world by Hurun Report.
Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle was a French author. He is best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963), that were both made into award-winning films.
Gabriel Cordero Huertas ( aka Dr.Worst), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fayez Mustafa al-Sarraj is a Libyan politician who served as the Chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya and head of government of the Government of National Accord, which was formed on 17 December 2015 under the Libyan Political Agreement, from 2016 to 2021.
Brigitte N. Brantley, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bernhardt "Ben" Klassen was an American white supremacist politician and writer who founded the Creativity new religious movement when he published the book Nature's Eternal Religion in 1973.
John Willard Milnor is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, algebraic K-theory and low-dimensional holomorphic dynamical systems.
Louis Émile Clément Georges Bernanos was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. A Catholic with monarchist leanings, he was critical of elitist thought and was opposed to what he identified as defeatism.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 56 people born on February 20, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 5 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 May 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 February 20. Read the full methodology.
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