February 26 is the birthday of 56 notable people we've found so far, including actors, authors, politicians and athletes, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Ronald Steven Lauder is an American businessman. He is the sole heir to The Estée Lauder Companies, founded by his parents Estée Lauder and Joseph Lauder in 1946, following the death of his brother Leonard Lauder in 2025.
Daniel Sachs Goldman is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 10th congressional district since 2023. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Share of the 56 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors27% (15 people)
Authors23% (13 people)
Athletes21% (12 people)
Politicians21% (12 people)
Musicians20% (11 people)
Scientists18% (10 people)
Creators16% (9 people)
Countries
26 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States15 (15 people)
France6 (6 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Spain3 (3 people)
Turkey3 (3 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Norway2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on February 26 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
~24Levi StraussFounded Levi Strauss & Co. (1853)
~16Jamal MusialaJoined England national under-17 association football team (2019)
~21Ole Gunnar SolskjærJoined Norway national under-21 association football team (1994)
John R. Cash was an American singer-songwriter. Most of his music contains themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially songs from the later stages of his career.
CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a Turkish politician who has been the president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he co-founded in 2001.
PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY Official website, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Giulio Natta was an Italian chemical engineer and Nobel laureate. Natta's work at Politecnico di Milano led to the improvement of earlier work by Karl Ziegler and to the development of the Ziegler–Natta catalyst.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jamal Musiala is a German professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Germany national team. He is regarded as one of the best attacking midfielders in the world.
James Wan is a Malaysian-born Australian filmmaker. He has primarily worked in the horror genre as the co-creator of the Saw and Insidious franchises and the creator of The Conjuring Universe, the highest-grossing horror franchise at over $2.9 billion.
Levi Strauss was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm of Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi's) began in 1853 in San Francisco, California.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
William Frederick Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. One of the most famous figures of the American Old West, Cody began performing at the age of 23.
Moffett, Chicago, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir James Michael Goldsmith was a French-British financier and politician who was a member of the Goldsmith family. His controversial business and finance career led to ongoing clashes with British media, frequently involving litigation or the threat of litigation.
Linda Magdalena Cullberg Lampenius, previously known internationally by her stage name Linda Brava, is a Finnish classical concert violinist. Born in Finland into a Swedish-speaking Finnish family, she is a dual citizen of Finland and Sweden.
Ahn Cheol-soo is a South Korean politician, medical doctor, businessperson, and software entrepreneur. He is a member of the National Assembly as part of the conservative People Power Party.
Jinho Jung from Seoul, South Korea, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ole Gunnar Solskjær is a Norwegian professional football manager and former player, who was most recently manager of Beşiktaş. He spent the majority of his playing career with Manchester United and made 67 appearances for the Norway national team.
Tor Atle Kleven, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kazuyoshi "Kazu" Miura, nicknamed King Kazu, is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward for J3 League club Fukushima United, on loan from J2 League club Yokohama FC. He is the world's oldest professional player.
Original: norio nakayama / Derivative work: Akonnchiroll, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sean Baker is an American filmmaker. He is a director, writer, editor, and producer of independent narrative feature films which are most often about the lives of marginalized people, especially immigrants and sex workers.
Kepler Laveran de Lima Ferreira ComM, known as Pepe, is a former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is regarded as one of the greatest defenders of his generation.
Дмитрий Садовников, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Michel Houellebecq is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.
Fronteiras do Pensamento, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. She was a leading figure in the Bolshevik party and was married to Vladimir Lenin.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery was an American animator, film director and voice actor. He was known for directing and producing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation.
Jay Emanuel Publications, Inc., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ferdinand I was the monarch of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918, reigning as Prince of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1908 and Tsar of Bulgaria from 1908 until his abdication in 1918. Under his rule, Bulgaria began rapidly modernising its industry, military, infrastructure and culture.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Li Na is a Chinese former professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 2 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association, achieved in February 2014. Li won nine WTA Tour-level singles titles, including two majors at the 2011 French Open and 2014 Australian Open.
Tourism Victoria from Australia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Malcom Filipe Silva de Oliveira, or simply Malcom, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for UAE Pro League club Al Jazira. He is mostly deployed as a right winger.
Анна Мейер / ФК «Зенит», CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lee Chae-rin, better known by her stage name CL, is a South Korean rapper, singer, and songwriter. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she spent much of her early life in Japan and France.
Beren Saat is a Turkish actress and singer. Since the beginning of her career, she has received critical acclaim and numerous accolades for her acting.
Ahmet Davutoğlu is a Turkish academic, politician and former diplomat who served as the 26th Prime Minister of Turkey and Leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) from 2014 to 2016.
U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870.
Theodore Sturgeon was an American author of primarily fantasy, science fiction, and horror, as well as a critic. He wrote approximately 400 reviews and more than 120 short stories, 11 novels, and two scripts for Star Trek: The Original Series.
André Tanneberger, better known by his stage name ATB, is a German DJ and producer of trance music. According to the official world DJ rankings governed by DJ Magazine, ATB was ranked No. 11 in 2009 and 2010, and No. 15 in 2011.
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot was a French inventor who built the world's first full-size and working self-propelled mechanical land-vehicle, the "Fardier à vapeur" – effectively the world's first automobile.
Fosse, et le Petit Journal, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and works on psychical research and related topics.
Eugène Pirou, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 56 people born on February 26, 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 May 2025. 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 26. Read the full methodology.
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