February 25 is the birthday of 53 notable people we've found so far, including authors, historical figures, entrepreneurs and actors, and 4 of them are billionaires.
Jerry Michael Reinsdorf is an American sports executive and businessman who is the owner of the NBA's Chicago Bulls and MLB's Chicago White Sox. He started his professional life as a tax attorney with the Internal Revenue Service.
Chung Yong‑ji is a South Korean businessman. The founder and CEO of the biotechnology company Caregen, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$1.1 billion in February 2023.
Share of the 53 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors32% (17 people)
Entrepreneurs25% (13 people)
Actors23% (12 people)
Athletes21% (11 people)
Creators21% (11 people)
Politicians17% (9 people)
Musicians11% (6 people)
Countries
29 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States10 (10 people)
France4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Italy3 (3 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
India2 (2 people)
South Korea2 (2 people)
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Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei or mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer and polymath. He was born in Pisa, then part of the Duchy of Florence.
Justus Sustermans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gianluigi Donnarumma is an Italian professional footballer, who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Manchester City and captains the Italy national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the world.
Original: MichaelEmilio / Derivative work: Danyele, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian New Age guru, philosopher, occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant and speaker with the dead.
Otto Rietmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
José María Aznar López is a Spanish politician who was the prime minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He led the People's Party (PP), the dominant centre-right political party in Spain.
Venkatesh Prabhu Kasthuri Raja, known professionally as Dhanush, is an Indian actor, filmmaker, lyricist and playback singer who works primarily in Tamil films, as well as few Hindi and Telugu films.
Dani Charles Silverscreen Media Inc. (https://silverscreen.in), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jameela Alia Jamil is a British actress, comedian, activist, and presenter. She began her career on Channel 4, where she hosted a pop culture series in the T4 programming block from 2009 until 2012.
Shahid Pankaj Kapoor is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films. Initially recognised for portraying romantic roles, he has since taken on parts in action films and thrillers. One of the highest-paid Indian actors and has featured in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2012.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Arda Güler is a Turkish professional footballer who primarily plays as an attacking midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Turkey national team. He is regarded as one of the best young players in the world.
LawEnthusiast, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ismaïla Sarr is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Premier League club Crystal Palace and the Senegal national team.
Park Ji-sung is a South Korean former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in the South Korean capital of Seoul, Park is regarded as one of the greatest and most successful Asian players in football history, having won 19 trophies in his career.
Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a leading French Impressionist artist. In his depiction of feminine beauty, Renoir has been described as "the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."
UnknownUnknown Musée d'Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Eugenie "Genie" Bouchard is a Canadian former professional tennis and current pickleball player. At the 2014 Wimbledon Championships, she became the first player representing Canada to reach the final of a major singles tournament, finishing runner-up to Petra Kvitová.
Isabelle Fuhrman is an American actress. She is known for her breakthrough role as Esther in the horror film Orphan (2009) and its prequel Orphan: First Kill (2022).
Ariela Ortiz-Barrantes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joakim Simon Noah is a former professional basketball player. Born in New York, Noah was a member of the France national team and played college basketball for the Florida Gators, winning back-to-back NCAA championships in 2006 and 2007.
Keith Allison from Owings Mills, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John Foster Dulles was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959. A member of the Republican Party, he was briefly a U.S. senator from New York in 1949.
Unknown, dedicated to Bettmann Archive, presumably U.S. Senate or photographic company working with Senate, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe was a German actor who appeared in over 100, mostly German-produced films. He was best known in English-speaking countries for his work as the title character in the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964).
Barbara Niggl Radloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Neil Patrick Jordan is an Irish filmmaker and writer. His short story collection, Night in Tunisia, won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. After a stint working at RTÉ, he made his directorial debut with the 1982 film Angel.
Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (1201–1274), also known as Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī or simply as (al-)Tusi, was a Persian polymath, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian.
scan of stamp 30 May 2006, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Karl Friedrich May was a German author known for travel writing. His works, often in first-person narrative sabout travels and adventures, were mostly set in the American Old West or the Orient and Middle East, but also in Latin America, China and within Germany.
Eduardo Alves da Silva, known as simply Eduardo or Dudu, is a former professional footballer who played as a striker for multiple clubs and the Croatia national team.
Руденко Денис, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Benedetto Croce, was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian, and politician who wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, historiography, and aesthetics. A political liberal in most regards, he formulated a distinction between liberalism and "liberism".
Mario Nunes Vais, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Amin Maalouf is a Lebanese French author who has lived in France since 1976. His native language is Arabic, and he writes in French. His works have been translated into over 40 languages.
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian former professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top-ten female singles player on 17 August 2009 and the first Italian to be ranked world No. 1 in doubles, on 28 February 2011.
Lesya Ukrainka was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active political, civil, and female rights activist.
Johann Krzanowski, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ana Mena Rojas is a Spanish singer-songwriter and actress. Mena began her career as an actress in the 2009 TV series Marisol, la película, followed in 2010 by Disney's musical reality show My Camp Rock 2, ending up as the winner.
Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty.
Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Younès Belhanda is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Qatar Stars League club Al-Sailiya. Born in France, he played for the Morocco national team.
Antalyaspor A.Ş., CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Philipp Melanchthon was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, an intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and influential designer of educational systems.
Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Giambattista Basile was an Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector. His collections include the oldest recorded forms of many well-known European fairy tales. He is chiefly remembered for writing the collection of Neapolitan fairy tales known as Il Pentamerone.
Nicolaus Perrey (French, 17th century) (engraving) Pecini, Jacobus (c.1617-1669) (after)(creator), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yuji Nakazawa is a Japanese former professional footballer who most notably played as a centre back for J1 League sides Tokyo Verdy and Yokohama F. Marinos. He was the formerly the captain of the Japan national team.
This page lists 53 people born on February 25, 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 August 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 25. Read the full methodology.
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