January 28 is the birthday of 56 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, athletes and actors, and 4 of them are billionaires.
$123Breported estimate as of September 2026 · Bloomberg
Carlos Slim Helú is a Mexican business oligarch, investor and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world by Forbes business magazine.
Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American billionaire, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and the founder of Khosla Ventures. As of July 11, 2026, he entered into a binding agreement to purchase the Seattle Seahawks.
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Samih Onsi Sawiris is an Egyptian-Montenegrin businessman and investor. He is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Oranscom Development Holding AG. As of July 2026, his net worth was estimated at US$1.4 billion by Forbes.
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Shin Dong-joo, Japanese name Shigemitsu Hiroyuki (重光宏之), is a South Korean businessman based in Japan. The eldest son of Lotte Corporation founder Shin Kyuk-ho, he has served in various executive roles in Lotte and its related companies. He is chairman of Kōjunsha.
Industries of the companies the 4 wealthy people born on January 28 founded or led.
technology50% (1 people)
telecommunications50% (1 people)
Who shares January 28
What kind of people are born on January 28?
Share of the 56 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors29% (16 people)
Entrepreneurs23% (13 people)
Athletes21% (12 people)
Actors20% (11 people)
Musicians20% (11 people)
Creators18% (10 people)
Politicians14% (8 people)
Countries
28 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States15 (15 people)
Spain4 (4 people)
France3 (3 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
Russian Empire2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on January 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.
William Jack Poulter is an English actor. Known for his work in film and television, his accolades include a British Academy Film Award as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Tomas Robert Lindahl is a Swedish-British scientist specialising in cancer research. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul L. Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe is a South African billionaire businessman and football administrator who has served as president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) since 2021. His net worth is estimated at $3.7 billion as of June 2026 according to Forbes.
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Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish-Canadian stonemason and politician who served as the second prime minister of Canada from 1873 to 1878. He led the Liberal Party from 1873 to 1880 and was the first Liberal prime minister.
William James Topley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Chike Ezekpeazu Osebuka best known by his stage name Chike, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and actor, He participated in the Nigerian reality competition Project Fame West Africa and finishing in second place on the Season 1 of The Voice Nigeria.
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Lajos Simicska is a former Hungarian business magnate, a former politician of Fidesz, and he was the head of APEH, Hungary's internal revenue service between 1998–1999, during the first government of Viktor Orbán. He was the ninth richest person in Hungary in 2016.
Matthew Taylor Mellon II was an American businessman and fashion industry entrepreneur who was also a chairman of the New York Republican State Committee's finance committee. He was a member of the Mellon family.
Rosalía Mera Goyenechea was a Spanish businesswoman and fashion designer. At the time of her death, she was the richest woman in Spain and the world's richest self-made woman according to Forbes. She was ranked #66 among the world's most powerful women by Forbes in 2013.
Jermaine Lamarr Cole is an American rapper and record producer. Born on a military base in Germany and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Cole initially gained attention as a rapper following the release of his debut mixtape, The Come Up, in early 2007.
Ismael Saibari Ben El Basra is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. Born in Spain, he represents the Morocco national team.
James Lee Duncan Carragher is an English football analyst and former player who played as a defender. A one-club man, he was Liverpool's vice-captain for ten years and has made the second-most appearances for the club, the most in the Premier League era.
Ludovic Péron, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sarah Ann McLachlan is a Canadian singer-songwriter, ranked in the top echelon of Canadian musicians. As of 2025, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album is Surfacing (1997), for which she won two Grammy Awards and four Juno Awards.
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Shruti Haasan is an Indian actress, music director and musician who predominantly works in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Filmfare Awards South and seven SIIMA Awards.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
William Leonard Roberts II, known professionally as Rick Ross, is an American rapper and music executive. Noted for his booming vocal presence and vivid lyrical imagery, Ross' music is built upon a rags to riches narrative.
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Andre Tyler Iguodala is an American former professional basketball player who played for 19 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A swingman, he was an NBA All-Star in 2012 and was named to the NBA All-Defensive Team twice.
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Robert Franklin Stroud, popularly known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz", was an American murderer and federal prisoner who became an ornithologist and author while imprisoned at Leavenworth. He was one of the most notorious criminals in American history.
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Juan Luis Londoño Arias, known professionally as Maluma, is a Colombian rapper, singer, songwriter and actor. Born and raised in Medellín, he developed an interest in music at a young age, recording songs since age sixteen.
Teca Lamboglia from São Paulo, Brasil, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, known mononymously as Colette or as Colette Willy, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist.
Henri Manuel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1841–1904 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir Henry Morton Stanley was a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author, and politician famous for his exploration of Central Africa and search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
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José Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of his role in the liberation of his country from Spain.
John M. Kennedy T. (restoration work based on public domain old sources), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Arthur Rubinstein OMRI was a Polish and American pianist. Widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of his day, he received international acclaim for his interpretations of classical music compositions, particularly Chopin.
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Pope Clement IX, born Giulio Rospigliosi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 20 June 1667 to his death in December 1669.
Carlo Maratta, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ismail Kadare was an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. He was a leading international literary figure and intellectual, focusing on poetry until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army, which made him famous internationally.
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1784–1860 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British statesman, diplomat and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite politician and specialist in foreign affairs.
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Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov was a Russian philosopher, theologian, poet, pamphleteer, and literary critic, who played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry at the end of the 19th century and in the spiritual renaissance of the early 20th century.
Claes Oldenburg was a Swedish-born American sculptor best known for his public art installations, typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects.
Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere and became the first person to enter the stratosphere.
This page lists 56 people born on January 28, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 4 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 September 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 January 28. Read the full methodology.
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