$1.1Bolder estimate, as of September 2022 · Forbes
Vijay Shekhar Sharma is an Indian technology entrepreneur known as the founder and chief executive officer of One97 Communications and its consumer brand Paytm.
Chief Folorunso Alakija is a Nigerian businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the group managing director of the Rose of Sharon Group and executive vice chairman of Famfa Oil Limited.
Share of the 71 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors28% (20 people)
Actors27% (19 people)
Politicians21% (15 people)
Athletes20% (14 people)
Entrepreneurs17% (12 people)
Musicians15% (11 people)
Scientists14% (10 people)
Countries
33 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States24 (24 people)
Japan7 (7 people)
France3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
India2 (2 people)
Nigeria2 (2 people)
Sweden2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on July 15 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
~21Arianna HuffingtonBecame president (1971)
~23Damian LillardReceived the NBA Rookie of the Year Award (2013)
~25Irène JacobReceived the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress (1991)
~19Mario KempesJoined Argentina men's national football team (1973)
26 to 30
~27Forest WhitakerReceived the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor (1988)
30Damian LillardNotable work: Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
~27Mario KempesJoined Club Atlético River Plate (1981)
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
actor
Diane Kruger
Top tier
Actor
1976 · Germany
Diane Kruger is a German actress. She is a former model-turned-actress who, early in her film career, gained worldwide recognition and received the Trophée Chopard from the Cannes Film Festival.
Linda Maria Ronstadt is an American retired singer and musician who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, folk, pop, country, and soul.
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is an Emirati politician and royal. He is the current ruler of Dubai and serves as the vice president and prime minister of the UAE.
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Jesse Ventura is an American politician, Vietnam veteran, actor, and retired professional wrestler. After achieving fame in the World Wrestling Federation, he served as the 38th governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003.
Forest Steven Whitaker III is an American actor, filmmaker, and activist. His accolades include an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and the Honorary Palme d'Or.
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Joseph Guillermo Jones II, better known by his stage name Jim Jones, is an American rapper and record executive. He was a member of the now-defunct hip-hop group the Diplomats, which he formed alongside fellow Harlem native Cam'ron in 1997.
Hartwig Löger is an Austrian politician and former business executive who served as minister of finance from 2017 to 2019. From 2011 to 2017 he was chief executive officer of UNIQA Austria.
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Clement Clarke Moore was an American writer, scholar and real estate developer. He is best known as author of the Christmas poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", which first named each of Santa Claus's reindeer.
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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, known mononymously as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art.
Hassanal Bolkiah Muiz'zaddin Wad'daulah has reigned as the sultan of Brunei since 1967, and has also served as the prime minister of Brunei since its independence from British rule in 1984. He is among the world's few remaining absolute monarchs.
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Brigitte Nielsen is a Danish actress, model, and singer. She began her career modelling for Greg Gorman and Helmut Newton. She subsequently acted in the 1985 films Red Sonja and Rocky IV, later returning to the Rocky series in Creed II (2018).
Ian Kevin Curtis was an English singer, songwriter and musician. He was the lead vocalist, songwriter, and occasional guitarist of the band Joy Division, with whom he released the albums Unknown Pleasures (1979) and Closer (1980).
Damian Lamonte Ollie Lillard Sr. is an American rapper and professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Travis Fimmel is an Australian actor. He played Ragnar Lothbrok in the History Channel television series Vikings (2013–2017), Marcus in HBO science fiction series' Raised by Wolves, Desmond Hart in Dune: Prophecy, and the leading role of James Cormack in Black Snow (2024).
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Gabriel Jesús Iglesias, nicknamed Fluffy, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He has produced a number of stand-up specials for television outlets such as Comedy Central and Netflix, including I'm Not Fat. I'm Fluffy, and Hot and Fluffy.
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Mario Alberto Kempes is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker or attacking midfielder. A prolific goalscorer, he finished as La Liga's top goalscorer twice with Valencia where he amassed 116 goals in 184 league games.
Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he applied in some of his texts, and which he developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology.
Lana Parrilla is an American actress. She was a regular cast member in the fifth season of the ABC sitcom Spin City (2000–2001) and in the fourth season of 24 (2005), and starred in Boomtown (2002–2003), Windfall (2006), Swingtown (2008), and as Dr.
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Danilo Luiz da Silva, known as Danilo, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or right-back for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Flamengo.
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Adam Whitney Savage is an American special effects creator and educational video presenter. He is best known as the former co-host, with Jamie Hyneman, of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters and Unchained Reaction.
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Terrance Quinn, known professionally as Terry O'Quinn, is an American actor. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for his performance as John Locke on the TV series Lost (2004–2010).
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland in 1918, partially due to her role in the White Feather Campaign.
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Hovig "John" Dolmayan is an Armenian-American musician, best known as the drummer of System of a Down. He is also the former drummer for Scars on Broadway. Dolmayan was ranked number 33 on Loudwire's list of Top 200 Hard Rock + Metal Drummers of All Time.
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Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.
James Rash is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He played Dean Craig Pelton on the NBC sitcom Community (2009–2015), for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2012.
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Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto was an Italian polymath, whose areas of interest included sociology, civil engineering, economics, political science, and philosophy.
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Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate in 1967, discovered the pulsar. This discovery was recognized by the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, though she was not among its recipients.
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John Joseph Hopfield is an American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University, most widely known for his study of associative neural networks in 1982. He is known for the development of the Hopfield network.
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Inigo Jones was an English architect who was the first significant architect in England in the early modern era and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of Proportion (architecture) and symmetry in his buildings.
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This page lists 71 people born on July 15, 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 September 2022. 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 15. Read the full methodology.
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