February 21 is the birthday of 54 notable people we've found so far, including authors, creators, actors and musicians, and 2 of them are billionaires.
David Lawrence Geffen is an American film producer, record executive, media proprietor, and philanthropist. In music, he co-founded Asylum Records with Elliot Roberts in 1971 before founding Geffen Records in 1980, DGC Records in 1990, and co-founding DreamWorks Records in 1996.
Share of the 54 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors33% (18 people)
Creators30% (16 people)
Actors28% (15 people)
Musicians19% (10 people)
Athletes15% (8 people)
Politicians15% (8 people)
Scientists15% (8 people)
Countries
20 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States24 (24 people)
France5 (5 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Brazil3 (3 people)
Spain2 (2 people)
Canada1 (1 people)
Dominican Republic1 (1 people)
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Elliot Page is a Canadian actor, producer, and activist. He is known for his leading roles across Canadian and American film and television, and for his outspoken work as an activist for LGBTQ rights and against discrimination.
Sophie Belinda Turner is an English actress. She made her acting debut as Sansa Stark in the television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2019.
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Allen Kelsey Grammer is an American actor and comedian. He gained fame for his role as the Harvard-educated Boston psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1984–1993) and its spin-off Frasier.
Jennifer Love Hewitt is an American actress, singer, producer and director. Hewitt began her career as a child, appearing in national television commercials before joining the cast of the Disney Channel series Kids Incorporated (1989–1991), which won her a Young Artist Award.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/greg2600/, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jordan Haworth Peele is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker known for his film and television work in the comedy and horror genres. He has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Daniel Georg Ek is a Swedish businessman and technologist. He is the founder and executive chairman of Spotify. As of August 2026, his net worth was estimated at $12.5 billion by Forbes.
Lukasz Kobus/European Commission, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Olympia Jean Snowe is an American businesswoman and politician who was a United States senator, representing Maine for three terms from 1995 to 2013. A lifelong member of the Republican Party, Snowe played an influential role in influencing the outcome of close votes in the U.S.
Office of Senator Olympia Snowe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sarah Margaret "Sally" Roffey Jewell is a British-American business executive and environmentalist who served as the 51st United States secretary of the interior in the Obama administration from 2013 to 2017.
Matt Christenson, Bureau of Land Management, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Emilio Fernando Azcárraga Jean is a Mexican business oligarch who is the chairman of mass media company Televisa, owner of the professional football team Club América, and main lobbyist of Mexico’s National Football team.
Paulo Roberto Rink is a former footballer who played as a forward. Most commonly known for his time at Bayer Leverkusen, the Brazilian-born player earned 13 caps representing Germany. He retired in 2007.
Mark Edward Kelly is an American politician and a retired astronaut and naval officer. He is the senior United States senator from Arizona, a seat he has held since 2020. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
John Shinkle, U.S. Senate Photographic Services, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary, politician, and dictator who led Zimbabwe from 1980 until 2017. He served as the country's first Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and as its second President from 1987 to 2017.
Government of Zimbabwe, taken by Joseph Nyadzayo as Presidential Photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
David Foster Wallace was an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays. He is best known for his second novel, Infinite Jest (1996).
Riyad Karim Mahrez is a professional footballer who plays as a right winger. Born in France, he represented the Algeria national team. He is regarded as one of the best African players of all time.
Jeanpierrekepseu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nina Simone was an American composer, concert pianist, singer, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Simone's bearing and stage presence earned her the title the High Priestess of Soul. Her music spanned styles including classical, folk, gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, and pop.
Ron Kroon for Anefo Restored by Bammesk, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Corbin Bleu Reivers is an American actor and singer. He began acting professionally in the late 1990s before rising to prominence in the late 2000s for his leading role as Chad Danforth in the High School Musical trilogy (2006–2008).
Nielsoncaetanosalmeron, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mélanie Laurent is a French actress, filmmaker, and singer. She has received two César Awards and a Lumière Award. Internationally, Laurent is known for her roles in Inglourious Basterds (2009), Now You See Me (2013), Operation Finale (2018) and 6 Underground (2019).
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica.
Charles Michael Palahniuk is an American novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He has published 19 novels, three nonfiction books, two graphic novels, and two adult coloring books, as well as several short stories.
Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Wystan Hugh Auden was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content.
Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1801–1890 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Henry Newman was an English Catholic theologian, academic, philosopher, historian, writer, and poet. He was an important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century.
Herbert Rose Barraud, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Bordley Rawls was an American philosopher, most active in moral, legal, and political philosophy. Rawls has been described as one of the most influential modern liberal political philosophers of the 20th century.
Published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Photograph taken by Alec Rawls, John's son. The portrait was, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
David Samuel Peckinpah was an American filmmaker and actor. He was known for his revisionist approach to the Western genre, employing a visually innovative and explicit depiction of action and violence.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Philip Anthony Jones is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. Although primarily a centre-back, he was also used as a right-back or defensive midfielder. He is currently a first-team coach at Sheffield United.
Matt Janzer from Missoula, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Anthony Daniels is a British actor and mime artist, best known for playing C-3PO in 11 Star Wars films, from Star Wars (1977) to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). He wore the costume and voiced his character in the films and several animated television series.
Miguel Discart & Kiri Karma, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is an Indian American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Davy Klaassen is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Eredivisie club Ajax, which he captains, and the Netherlands national team.
Carlo Bruil Fotografie, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Andrés Segovia Torres, 1st Marquis of Salobreña, was a Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist. Many professional classical guitarists were either students of Segovia or students of Segovia's students.
Erling Mandelmann, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tiziano Ferro is an Italian pop singer and songwriter. He broke through in 2001 with his international hit single "Xdono", and has since remained commercially successful in several countries.
Sahle-Work Zewde is an Ethiopian diplomat who served as president of Ethiopia from 2018 to 2024, the first woman to hold the office. She was elected as president unanimously by members of the Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 25 October 2018.
Clément Philibert Léo Delibes was a French Romantic composer, best known for his ballets and operas. His works include the ballets Coppélia (1870) and Sylvia (1876) and the opera Lakmé (1883), which includes the well-known "Flower Duet".
Fritz Luckhardt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry, and followed his father into the theatrical profession.
Studio Harcourt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 54 people born on February 21, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 July 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 21. Read the full methodology.
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