Share of the 67 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors27% (18 people)
Actors24% (16 people)
Athletes21% (14 people)
Scientists18% (12 people)
Musicians15% (10 people)
Creators12% (8 people)
Entrepreneurs10% (7 people)
Countries
29 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States24 (24 people)
Italy5 (5 people)
Czech Republic3 (3 people)
France3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on February 28 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
19Markéta IrglováReceived the Academy Award for Best Original Song (2008)
~25Marcel PagnolBecame assistant professor (1920)
~20Luka DončićReceived the NBA Rookie of the Year Award (2019)
~28Daniel HandlerNotable work: A Series of Unfortunate Events (1998)
~28Hiroshi OchiaiJoined Japan men's national football team (1974)
~26Dino ZoffJoined Italy men's national association football team (1968)
31 to 40
~31Jeremy Allen WhiteReceived the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy (2022)
~34John TurturroReceived the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor (1991)
~33Bernadette PetersReceived the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (1981)
~38Paul KrugmanReceived the John Bates Clark Medal (1991)
41 to 50
44Mercedes RuehlReceived the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (1992)
~49Steven ChuReceived the Nobel Prize in Physics (1997)
~45Peter MedawarReceived the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1960)
~42Leon CooperReceived the Nobel Prize in Physics (1972)
After 50
56Vincente MinnelliReceived the Academy Award for Best Director (1959)
~53Linus PaulingReceived the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1954)
~59Fats DominoReceived the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1987)
~55Paul KrugmanReceived the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2008)
The standouts
The most successful people born on February 28
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
actor
Ali Larter
Top tier
Actor
1976 · United States
Alison Elizabeth Larter, is an American actress and former model. She portrayed fictional model Allegra Coleman in a 1996 Esquire magazine hoax and took on guest roles on several television shows in the 1990s.
Ali_Larter_at_WonderCon_2010_1.JPG: BrokenSphere derivative work: Tabercil (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jeremy Allen White is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Lip Gallagher in the comedy-drama series Shameless (2011–2021) and Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto in the psychological dramedy series The Bear (2022–2026).
Luka Dončić is a Slovenian professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a Rookie of the Year, six-time NBA All-Star, six-time All-NBA First Team member and a two-time NBA Scoring Champion.
John Michael Turturro is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his varied roles in independent films, as well as his frequent collaborations with the Coen brothers and Spike Lee. He has received a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for three Golden Globe Awards.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Linus Carl Pauling was an American chemist and peace activist. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics. Scientific American called him one of the 20 greatest scientists of all time.
Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jorge Mas Santos is an American billionaire businessman and the chairman and largest shareholder of MasTec, a Miami-based construction and engineering company, founded by his father Jorge Mas Canosa.
Angela Yeung Wing, better known by her stage name Angelababy, is a Chinese singer, model and actress. In 2013, she was chosen by Southern Metropolis Entertainment Weekly as one of the New Four Dan Actresses.
Lim Goh Tong was a prominent wealthy Malaysian Chinese businessman and entrepreneur. He was the founder of Genting Highlands and renowned for transforming the resort from an unexplored hilltop into one of the world's most successful casino resorts.
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones was an English musician and one of the founders of the Rolling Stones. Initially a slide guitarist, he went on to play electric guitar, sing backing vocals and play a wide variety of instruments on Rolling Stones recordings and in concerts.
Steve Denenberg, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He was best known for his exaggerated shrill voice, strong New York dialect, his squint, and his edgy, often controversial sense of humor.
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Lawrence Leonard, known as Robert Sean Leonard, is an American actor. He has received a Tony Award and a Obie Award over the course of a career on both stage and screen that started in the 1980s.
Frank Owen Gehry was a Canadian and American architect and designer known for his postmodern designs and use of unconventional forms and materials. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become attractions.
Bernadette Peters is an American actress and singer. Over a career spanning more than six decades, she has starred in musical theatre, television and film, performed in solo concerts and released recordings.
PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Vincente Minnelli was an American stage director and film director. From a career spanning over half a century, he is best known for his sophisticated innovation and artistry in musical films.
Earl Ostroff, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Markéta Irglová is a Czech and Icelandic singer-songwriter, musician, and actress. She starred in the 2007 film Once, which earned her a number of major awards, including the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Falling Slowly", with co-writer and co-star Glen Hansard.
Charles Edward Durning was an American actor who appeared in over 200 movies, television shows and plays. He received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and nine Primetime Emmy Awards.
Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was a columnist for The New York Times from 2000 to 2024.
Bioty Moise Kean is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Como, on loan from Serie A club Fiorentina, and the Italy national team.
Original: Kirill Venediktov / Derivative work: Danyele / FMSky, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova is a Russian fashion model and philanthropist. In 2012, Forbes determined that she was the third highest-paid model in the world and has been declared a supermodel by numerous outlets. Her supermodel status led to the nickname Supernova.
Antoine Caliste "Fats" Domino Jr. was an American singer-songwriter and pianist. One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Born in New Orleans to a French Creole family, Domino signed to Imperial Records in 1949.
Heinrich Klaffs, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mercedes J. Ruehl is an American screen, stage, and television actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award.
Daniel Handler is an American writer, musician, and television producer. He is best known for his children's book series A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions, published under the pen name Lemony Snicket.
Photographed by Mike Huang, http://www.mikehuang.com/blog, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Diego Ribas da Cunha, commonly known as just Diego or Diego Ribas, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. A full international for Brazil since 2003, Diego earned 34 caps and scored four international goals.
Steven Chu is an American physicist and former government official. He is a Nobel laureate and was the 12th U.S. secretary of energy. He is currently the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University.
Department of Energy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jelena Janković is a Serbian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 18 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2008.
Tatiana from Moscow, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Marcel Paul Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française.
Studio Harcourt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Ernest Renan was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, writing on Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic.
Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Saul Zaentz was an American film producer and record company executive. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture three times and, in 1996, was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Graf Alfred von Schlieffen was a German and Prussian officer and strategist, eventually reaching the rank of field marshal. He served as chief of the Imperial German General Staff from 1891 to 1906.
Photo studio E. Bieber, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Peter Brian Medawar was a Brazilian-born biologist and writer of Lebanese-British descent who, from a succession of research and teaching posts, and senior U.K. biomedical leadership positions, contributed seminal discoveries in immunology, including one honoured by a Nobel…
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1960/medawar.html, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 67 people born on February 28, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. 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 28. Read the full methodology.
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