February 27 is the birthday of 57 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, actors and historical figures, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Thomas Dan Friedkin is an American businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of The Friedkin Group, a privately held consortium of businesses and investments in the automotive, luxury hospitality, sports and entertainment industries.
Bruce Stanley Kovner is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist. He is chairman of CAM Capital, which he established in January 2012 to manage his investment, trading and business activities.
$3.8Bolder estimate, as of September 2024 · Forbes
Luca Garavoglia is an Italian billionaire businessman, and the chairman of the Campari Group. As of September 2024, his net worth is estimated at US$3.8 billion.
Share of the 57 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors28% (16 people)
Entrepreneurs26% (15 people)
Actors18% (10 people)
Creators16% (9 people)
Athletes14% (8 people)
Politicians14% (8 people)
Scientists14% (8 people)
Countries
22 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States22 (22 people)
United Kingdom8 (8 people)
France4 (4 people)
Brazil3 (3 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Ancient Rome1 (1 people)
Canada1 (1 people)
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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s.
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer and novelist. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters".
McFadden Publications, Inc.; no photographer credited; photo likely the work of Sonya Noskowiak, as Steinbeck is wearing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
James Alan Robinson is a British-American economist and political scientist. He is a university professor at the Harris School of Public Policy of the University of Chicago, where he led the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts.
Robert Howard Grubbs ForMemRS was an American chemist and the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He was a co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on olefin metathesis.
Chelsea Victoria Clinton is an American writer. She is the only child of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Sara Treleaven Blakely is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She founded Spanx, an intimate apparel company with pants and leggings, in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2024, Blakely created the footwear brand, Sneex.
John Bowden Connally Jr. was an American politician who served as the 39th governor of Texas from 1963 to 1969 and as the 61st United States secretary of the treasury from 1971 to 1972. He began his career as a Democrat and became a Republican in 1973.
Texas State Archives., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kakhaber "Kakha" Kaladze is a Georgian politician and former footballer who has served as the Mayor of Tbilisi since November 2017. A versatile player, he was capable of playing as both a centre-back and left-back, or even as a wide midfielder.
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an American former actress. She made her career breakthrough in the 1950s and earned esteem and respect playing complex women with a characteristic nuance and depth of character.
Joshua Winslow Groban is an American singer and actor. His first four solo albums have been certified multi-platinum, and he was charted in 2007 as the number-one best selling artist in the United States, with over 22.3 million records.
Christopher Simon from Pasadena CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Timothy Leonard Spall is an English actor. He gained recognition for his character actor roles on stage and screen. In 2000, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II.
Maximilian Bühn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Adam Baldwin is an American actor. He made his film debut in My Bodyguard (1980) and later appeared in films including Full Metal Jacket (1987), Predator 2 (1990), Independence Day (1996), The Patriot (2000), and Serenity (2005).
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Jonathan Paul Ive is a British-American designer. He is best known for his work at Apple Inc., where he was senior vice-president of industrial design and chief design officer.
Marcus Dawes https://www.marcusdawes.com marcus@marcusdawes.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ralph Nader is an American lawyer and political activist involved in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes. He has been a presidential candidate repeatedly.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wickenden/ Don LaVange, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joan Geraldine Bennett was an American stage, film, and television actress, one of three acting sisters from a show-business family. Beginning her career on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 films from the era of silent films, well into the sound era.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sergej Milinković-Savić, also known mononymously as Sergej, is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Saudi Pro League club Al Hilal and the Serbia national team.
Эдгар Брещанов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Roger Vernon Scruton was an English philosopher, writer, and social critic who specialised in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of conservative views.
Adrian Frederick Smith is an English guitarist and singer best known as a member of heavy metal band Iron Maiden, for whom he also writes songs and performs backing vocals.
Birgit Fostervold, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell.
Carlos Alberto Gomes Parreira is a Brazilian former football manager who holds the record for attending the most FIFA World Cup tournaments as manager with six appearances. He also managed five different national teams in six editions of the FIFA World Cup.
Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, better known as Paddy Ashdown, was a British politician and diplomat who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 to 1999.
Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. He was among the most influential early bebop musicians. Gordon's height was 6 feet 6 inches (198 cm), thus he was also known as "Long Tall Dexter" and "Sophisticated Giant".
Albert Kok at English Wikipedia Note User since renamed their en:Wikipedia account to User:Albert_Kok~enwiki, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes.
Didier Descouens, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement.
Hugo Erfurth, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Djalma Pereira Dias dos Santos, known simply as Djalma Santos was a Brazilian footballer who starred for the Brazil national team in four World Cups and winning the 1958 and 1962 editions. Santos is considered to be one of the greatest right-backs of all time.
Alan Harvey Guth is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is the Victor Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Betsy Devine aka Betsythedevine, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Irving Fisher was an American economist, statistician, inventor, eugenicist and progressive social campaigner. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the post-Keynesian school.
Bain News Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
George Herbert Mead was an American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago. He was one of the key figures in the development of pragmatism.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dominique François Jean Arago, known simply as François Arago, was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of the Carbonari revolutionaries, and politician.
Ary Scheffer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Luitzen Egbertus Jan "Bertus" Brouwer was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis.
Johannes Meiner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Colin Edwards II, nicknamed the "Texas Tornado", is an American former professional motorcycle racer who retired half-way through the 2014 season. He is a double World Superbike champion and competed in the MotoGP class from 2003 to 2014.
Original: Box Repsol / Derivative work: Danyele, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Demetrios Vikelas was a Greek businessman and writer; he was the co-founder and first president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), from 1894 to 1896.
Lennartz, Karl: The Olympic Games of 1896, Explanations for the Reprint of the Official Report, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 57 people born on February 27, 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 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 27. Read the full methodology.
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