February 3 is the birthday of 56 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, historical figures and actors, and 5 of them are billionaires.
Charles Clarence Butt is an American heir and billionaire. He inherited his family's San Antonio–based H-E-B supermarket chain in 1971. The privately held company has more than 400 stores and $38.9 billion in sales, according to Forbes.
Hamilton Evans "Tony" James is an American billionaire investor. He is the former president, chief operating officer, and executive vice chairman of Blackstone, a New York–based global asset management firm.
$2.1Breported estimate as of February 2026 · Forbes
Andrey Andreev is a Russian-born British tech entrepreneur. He is known for founding the dating and social networking apps Bumble and Badoo, amongst others.
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Share of the 56 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors32% (18 people)
Entrepreneurs25% (14 people)
Actors18% (10 people)
Athletes16% (9 people)
Creators14% (8 people)
Politicians13% (7 people)
Musicians11% (6 people)
Countries
27 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States17 (17 people)
Germany4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Australia3 (3 people)
Sweden3 (3 people)
Finland2 (2 people)
Kingdom of the Netherlands2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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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.
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~14Peggy Ann GarnerReceived the Academy Juvenile Award (1946)
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, SDB, commonly known as Carlos Belo or Ximenes Belo is an East Timorese prelate of the Catholic Church. He became a bishop in 1988 and served as the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Díli from 1988 to 2002.
José Fernando Real, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Warwick Ashley Davis is an English actor and television presenter. Active within the industry since he was eleven, Davis is among the highest-grossing supporting actors of all time and has the highest average gross revenue of all supporting actors.
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nathan Lane is an American actor. Known for his versatile roles on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades including three Tony Awards, seven Drama Desk Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, three Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Actor Award.
Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez, known professionally as Daddy Yankee, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer and songwriter. Dubbed the "King of Reggaeton" and "Godfather of Reggaeton" he is often cited as an influence by other Hispanic urban performers.
James Laurence Balsillie is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He is the former chair and co-chief executive officer of the Canadian technology company Research In Motion (BlackBerry), which at its 2011 peak made US$19.9 billion in annual sales.
AtelMedia Technologies, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Julian Bentley is an American former politician and physician who served as the 53rd governor of Alabama from 2011 until 2017 upon his resignation following his arrest after a sex scandal involving a political aide.
Sutherland Boswell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Norman Percevel Rockwell was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture.
en:Underwood & Underwood, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, political activist and labourer. Despite her short life, her ideas concerning religion, spirituality and politics have remained widely influential in contemporary philosophy.
Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life.
Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, simply known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic era. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music.
Eduard Magnus, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Joachim Löw is a German football coach and former player. He was the manager of the Germany national team from 2006 until 2021. During his tenure as manager, he led Germany to victory at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia.
Waheeda Rehman is an Indian actress. Regarded as one of the greatest and most accomplished actresses of Hindi cinema, she has appeared in more than 90 feature films, in a career spanning over five decades. Her accolades include a National Film Award and three Filmfare Awards.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1830–1903 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, known as Lord Salisbury, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for a total of over thirteen years.
Elliott & Fry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Vlade Divac is a Serbian professional basketball executive and a former player who was most recently the vice president of basketball operations and general manager of the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Medija centar Beograd, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
James Albert Michener was an American writer. He wrote more than 40 books, most of which were long, fictional family sagas covering the lives of many generations, set in particular geographic locales and incorporating detailed history.
Robert Wilson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Blackwell was an English-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom.
Unknown artistUnknown artist, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sarah Kane was an English playwright. She was known for her plays that deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture—both physical and psychological—and death.
Henning Georg Mankell was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays for television.
Risto Heikki Ryti was a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland from 1940 to 1944. Ryti started his career as a politician in the field of economics and as a political background figure during the interwar period.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet and the brother of the pianist Grete Trakl. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists. He is perhaps best known for his poem "Grodek", which he wrote shortly before he died of a cocaine overdose at the age of 27.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Vira Viktorivna Halushka, known mononymously as Vira and previously by the stage name Vera Brezhneva, is a Ukrainian singer, television presenter, and actress.
Shu Qingchun, known by his pen name Lao She, was a Chinese writer of Manchu ethnicity, known for his vivid portrayal of urban life and his colorful use of the Beijing dialect, such as in the novel Rickshaw Boy and the play Teahouse.
http://read.nlc.cn/allSearch/searchDetail?searchType=48&showType=3&indexName=data_531&fid=RW0000WHA2079, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 56 people born on February 3, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 5 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 February 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 3. Read the full methodology.
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