Birthday twins
July 1 is the birthday of 63 notable people we've found so far, including actors, scientists, authors and politicians, and 2 of them are billionaires.
What the data says
Greek-born philanthrophist
1952 · Brazil
$26.5Breported estimate as of May 2026 · Forbes
Vicky Safra is a Greek-born billionaire and member of the Safra family.
Reported estimate as of May 2026: $26.5B. Wealth changes; this is not a live figure.
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every July birthday · battle July 1 against another date · all rankings
The July 1 wealth profile
Ranked by the low end of each reported estimate; bars use a log scale.
Politician
1954 · United Arab Emirates
$2.6Bolder estimate, as of 2022 · Forbes
Businessperson
World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Who shares July 1
Share of the 63 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
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.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Actor
1967 · Canada
Pamela Denise Anderson is a Canadian-American actress, model and media personality. She came to public prominence after being selected as the February 1990 Playboy Playmate of the Month following her appearance on the cover of the magazine's October 1989 issue.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1977 · United States
Liv Rundgren Tyler is an American actress. She began her career as a model before making her film debut in Silent Fall (1994).
Walterlan Papetti, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
2003 · Canada
Tate Rosner McRae is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and dancer. She first gained prominence as a contestant on the American reality television series So You Think You Can Dance in 2016.
Krainagrzybow, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1952 · Canada
Daniel Edward Aykroyd is a Canadian and American actor, comedian, screenwriter, musician and producer.
Rnunezart, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Author
1182–1226
Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty, he became a beggar and an itinerant preacher.
Parzi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1985 · France
Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne is a French actress. Prolific in both French cinema and Hollywood, she has received five César Award nominations, two Lumière Awards, a Palme d'Or and a BAFTA Award nomination.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1986 · Indonesia
Agnes Monica Muljoto, known professionally as Agnez Mo, is an Indonesian singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Jakarta, she started her career as a child singer in the 1990s.
Toglenn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Tinder
1989 · United States
Whitney Wolfe Herd is an American entrepreneur most notable as the founder, executive chair, and CEO of Bumble. She is a co-founder of Tinder and was previously its Vice President of Marketing.
TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Estée Lauder Companies · fashion
1908–2004 · United States
Estée Lauder was an American businesswoman. She co-founded her eponymous cosmetics company with her husband, Joseph Lauter. Lauder was the only woman on Time magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century.
New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Sauro, Bill, photographer., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1872–1936 · France
Louis Charles Joseph Blériot was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraft.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1930 · Bolivia
Gonzalo Daniel Sánchez de Lozada Sánchez Bustamante, known mononymously as Goni, is a Bolivian business magnate and politician who served as the 61st president of Bolivia from 1993 to 1997 and from 2002 to 2003.
Entrepreneur · Hero MotoCorp · automotive
1923–2015 · India
Brijmohan Lall Munjal was an Indian entrepreneur and the founder of Hero Group.
July 1 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Actor
1945 · United States
Deborah Ann Harry is an American singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie. Labelled the "Queen of New Wave" by American Songwriter, four of her songs with the band reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 between 1979 and 1981.
Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1916–2020 · United States
Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland was a British, American, and French actress. She appeared in 49 feature films throughout her career, with the major works of her cinematic career spanning from 1935 to 1988.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
2004 · Spain
Alejandro Garnacho Ferreyra is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Aston Villa, on loan from Chelsea. Born in Spain, he plays for the Argentina national team.
Ardfern, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1982 · United States
Hilarie Ros Burton, also known as Hilarie Burton Morgan, is an American actress. A former host of MTV's Total Request Live, she portrayed Peyton Sawyer on The WB/The CW drama One Tree Hill for six seasons (2003–2009).
Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1976 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Rutgerus Johannes Martinus van Nistelrooij, commonly known by his anglicised name of Ruud van Nistelrooy, is a Dutch professional football manager and former player. He is currently working as an assistant coach of the Netherlands national football team.
Ardfern, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1646–1716 · Electorate of Saxony
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist, and diplomat who is credited, alongside Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics, such as binary arithmetic and statistics.
Christoph Bernhard Francke, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1934–2008 · United States
Sydney Irwin Pollack was an American film director, producer, and actor.
Arthur from Westchester County north of NYC, USA, at Arthur@NYCArthur.com, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1989 · United Kingdom
Tegan Lauren-Hannah Murray is a retired English actress. She played Cassie in Skins and Gilly in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2012–2019), for which she has been nominated along with her castmates for three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1976 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Patrick Stephan Kluivert is a Dutch football coach and former player. As a player, he played as a striker for Ajax, Barcelona and the Netherlands national team.
Web Summit, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1939–2013 · United States
Karen Blanche Black was an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She rose to prominence for her work in studio and independent films in the 1970s, frequently portraying eccentric and offbeat characters, and established herself as a figure of New Hollywood.
Vanessa Lua at https://www.flickr.com/photos/vanessalua/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1804–1876 · France
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist.
Auguste Charpentier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1899–1962 · United States
Charles Laughton was an English actor and director. Over his career he received an Academy Award and a Grammy Award as well as nominations for two BAFTAs and a Golden Globe. He earned a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
Clarence Sinclair Bull, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1975 · United States
Sufjan Stevens is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released ten solo studio albums and multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Stevens has received Grammy and Academy Award nominations.
https://www.flickr.com/people/51458030@N08 digboston, Nina Corcoran, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1931 · United States
Leslie Claire Margaret Caron is a French and American former actress and dancer. She is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards.
Nanni Loy (director) / Armando Nannuzzi (cinematographer), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1818–1865 · Hungary
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian medical doctor and scientist of German descent who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures, known as the "saviour of mothers".
József Borsos / Albert Doctor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1961 · United States
Frederick Carlton Lewis is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold.
Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1902–1981 · United States
William Wyler was a German-born American film director and producer. Known for his work in numerous genres over five decades, he received numerous accolades, including the most nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director (12).
Film studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1991 · Spain
Lucas Vázquez Iglesias is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right-back or winger for Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen.
Fuguito, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1935–2020 · United Kingdom
David Charles Prowse was an English actor, bodybuilder, strongman and weightlifter. He portrayed Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy and a manservant in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.
Xanathon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1925–2011 · United States
Farley Earle Granger Jr. was an American actor.
Jack Albin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1942 · Canada
Geneviève Bujold is a Canadian actress. For her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the period drama film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Bujold received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
movie studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1961 · United States
Victoria Jane Nuland is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2021 to 2024.
U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1918–2005 · South Africa
Ahmed Husein Deedat was an Indian-South African Islamic author, intellectual, and orator on comparative religion.
Scientist
1941 · Canada
Myron Samuel Scholes is a Canadian–American financial economist. Scholes is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, and co-originator of the Black–Scholes options pricing model.
The original uploader was Nobellaureatesphotographer at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1873–1968 · France
Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché was a French pioneer film director. She was the first filmmaker to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, she was probably the only female filmmaker in the world.
Apeda Studio New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1742–1799 · Holy Roman Empire
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. He was the first person in Germany to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics.
After Johann Ludwig Strecker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1952 · Benin
Thomas Boni Yayi is a Beninese banker and politician who was the president of Benin from 2006 to 2016. He took office after winning the March 2006 presidential election and was re-elected to a second term in March 2011.
Actor
1934–2009 · France
Claude Berri was a French film director, producer, screenwriter, distributor and actor.
Author
1926–2013 · United States
Robert William Fogel was an American economic historian and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. As of his death, he was the Charles R.
Michael Fogel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1929–2014 · United States
Gerald Maurice Edelman was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules.
Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 63 people born on July 1, 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 May 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 July 1. Read the full methodology.
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