February 8 is the birthday of 59 notable people we've found so far, including historical figures, authors, actors and entrepreneurs, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Christy Ruth Walton is an American billionaire heiress and philanthropist. She is the widow of John T. Walton, who was one of the sons of the Walmart founder Sam Walton.
Desh Bandhu Gupta was an Indian billionaire, philanthropist, entrepreneur and the founder of Lupin Limited, a multinational pharmaceutical company. At the time of his death, his net worth was estimated at US$3.6 billion.
Share of the 59 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors27% (16 people)
Actors20% (12 people)
Athletes19% (11 people)
Entrepreneurs19% (11 people)
Scientists19% (11 people)
Politicians15% (9 people)
Creators12% (7 people)
Countries
26 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States19 (19 people)
France8 (8 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
India2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Philippines2 (2 people)
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Mary Nell Steenburgen is an American actress, comedian, singer, and songwriter. After studying at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse in the 1970s, she made her professional acting debut in the Western comedy film Goin' South (1978).
Angela George at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sharongraphics/, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
James Byron Dean was an American actor. He became one of the most influential figures in Hollywood in the 1950s, and his impact on cinema and popular culture was profound, although his career lasted only five years.
In-house publicity still, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Towner Williams is an American composer and conductor. Over his seven-decade career, he has composed many of the best known scores in film history. His style blends romanticism and impressionism with complex orchestration.
Lindseysharpe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nicholas King Nolte is an American actor. Known for his leading man roles in both dramas and romances, he has received a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Mauricio Macri is an Argentine businessman and politician who served as President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. He has been the leader of the Republican Proposal (PRO) party since its founding in 2005.
Barthélemy-Prosper Enfantin was a French social reformer, one of the founders of Saint-Simonianism. He was also a proponent of a Suez Canal. Sometimes called Père Enfantin, he was an economist and political theorist.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Luděk Sekyra is a Czech entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the owner of the Sekyra Group, which has operated on the Czech real estate market since 1996 and focuses on the residential and commercial sectors.
Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Seth Benjamin Green is an American actor and producer. His film debut was The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), and he went on to have supporting roles in comedy films in the 1980s, including Radio Days, Can't Buy Me Love and Big Business (1988).
John Uhler Lemmon III was an American actor. Considered proficient in both dramatic and comic roles, he was known for his anxious, middle-class everyman screen persona in comedy-drama films.
Gary Wayne Coleman was an American actor, known as a high-profile child star of the late 1970s and 1980s. Born in Zion, Illinois, Coleman grew up with his adoptive parents.
Daniel McConnell at https://www.flickr.com/photos/trojandan/, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
William Tecumseh Sherman was an American businessman, author, and United States Army general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Donald Wight II is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he performs under his real name and is a color commentator for Collision.
Sgt. Jessica M. Kuhn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Joshua Walter Kimmich is a German professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or right-back for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and captains the Germany national team.
Julia Jean "Lana" Turner was an American actress. Over a career spanning nearly five decades, she achieved fame as both a pin-up model and a film actress, as well as for her highly publicized personal life.
Hristo Stoichkov Stoichkov is a Bulgarian former professional footballer and current football commentator for TUDN. A prolific forward, he is widely regarded as the greatest Bulgarian footballer of all time.
Biser Todorov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hakan Çalhanoğlu is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serie A club Inter Milan. Born in Germany, he plays for and captains the Turkey national team.
Steindy (talk) 10:15, 11 April 2016 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Emanuel Swedenborg was a Swedish polymath; a scientist, engineer, astronomer, anatomist, Christian theologian, philosopher, and mystic. He became best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758).
Attributed to Per Krafft the Elder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Abdulaziz was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 25 June 1861 to 30 May 1876, when he was overthrown in a government coup. He was a son of Sultan Mahmud II and succeeded his brother Abdulmejid I in 1861.
Abdullah frères, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
David Michael Farrell, also known by his stage name Phoenix, is an American musician, best known as the bassist of the rock band Linkin Park. He was also a member of Tasty Snax, a ska punk band.
Warner Records, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Martin Buber was an Austrian-Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I–Thou relationship and the I–It relationship.
The David B. Keidan Collection of Digital Images from the Central Zionist Archives (via Harvard University Library), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, was a British banker, politician, zoologist, and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
King Wallis Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His 67-year career spanned the silent and sound eras, with works distinguished by a sympathetic depiction of contemporary social issues.
Cathrine Curtis Corporation / First National Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter, a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dame Edith Mary Evans was an English actress. She was best known for her work on the West End stage, but also appeared in films at the beginning and towards the end of her career. Between 1964 and 1968, she was nominated for three Academy Awards.
Paula Modersohn-Becker was a German Expressionist painter and draftswoman of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is noted for the many self-portraits, including nudes.
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Rolando Maximiliano "Bruno" Martins Indi is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Eredivisie club Sparta Rotterdam. Born in Portugal, he played for the Netherlands national team.
Francisco Javier "Javi" García Fernández is a Spanish former professional footballer. A defensive midfielder by nature, he could also play as a central defender.
Вячеслав Евдокимов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, better known as (il) Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous naturalism of his early manner contrasts with the classical equilibrium of his later works.
This page lists 59 people born on February 8, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 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 8. Read the full methodology.
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