July 25 is the birthday of 37 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, scientists, authors and actors, and 5 of them are billionaires.
Yusuf Khwaja Hamied is an Indian scientist, billionaire businessman and the chairman of Cipla, a generic pharmaceuticals company founded by his father Khwaja Abdul Hamied in 1935. He is also an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.
Balkrishna is a Sanskrit scholar, Ayurveda researcher, author, co-founder & managing director of the Patanjali Ayurved, Patanjali Foods and Patanjali Yogpeeth. He was reported by Forbes to have a net worth of US$2.3 billion as of May 2021.
Share of the 37 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs24% (9 people)
Scientists24% (9 people)
Authors19% (7 people)
Actors16% (6 people)
Athletes16% (6 people)
Politicians16% (6 people)
Creators11% (4 people)
Countries
16 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
Philippines2 (2 people)
India1 (1 people)
Lithuania1 (1 people)
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Matthew Steven LeBlanc is an American actor. He gained global recognition with his portrayal of Joey Tribbiani in the NBC sitcom Friends (1994–2004), and in its spin-off series Joey (2004–2006).
Richard Goldschmidt, www.piqtured.com, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, known mononymously as Iman, is a Somali-American model and actress. A muse of the designers Gianni Versace, Thierry Mugler, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, and Yves Saint Laurent, she is also noted for her philanthropic work.
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John Bannister Goodenough was an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. From 1986 he was a professor of Materials Science, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Texas at Austin.
US Embassy Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Frances Hamilton Arnold is an American chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite.
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Adnan Khashoggi was a Saudi businessman and arms dealer known for his business dealings, extensive geopolitical influence, and opulent lifestyle, which earned him the moniker "The Great Gatsby of the Middle East".
Yury Valentinovich Kovalchuk is a Russian billionaire businessman and financier who is "reputed to be Vladimir Putin's personal banker". The Panama Papers leak revealed that Kovalchuk had transferred at least $1 billion to an offshore entity.
Johan Henrik Andresen is a Norwegian industrialist and investor. Since 1998, Andresen has been the owner of Ferd, one of the largest privately held companies in Norway.
Brad Barron Renfro was an American actor. He made his film debut at age 11 with a starring role in The Client (1994). Renfro went on to appear in 21 feature films, winning several awards.
Broward County Sheriff's Office, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Givanildo Vieira de Sousa, mononymously known as Hulk, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Fluminense.
Вячеслав Евдокимов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Walter Andrew Brennan was an American actor and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938) and The Westerner (1940), making him the only person to win three awards in the supporting actor category.
ABC Television (ABC Photo); Bath & Wiener-photographer., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is an American journalist and historian. She has written about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She became a Polish citizen in 2013.
Mateusz Skwarczek (cropped by Oeleau), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tera Patrick is an American former pornographic film actress who was the Penthouse Pet of the Month for February 2000 and is an inductee of the NightMoves, AVN and XRCO Hall of Fame.
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. He also later served as foreign secretary in the Lloyd George ministry, from 1916 to 1919.
Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Edward James Corbett was an Anglo-Indian hunter and author. He gained fame through hunting and killing several man-eating tigers and leopards in Northern India, as detailed in his bestselling 1944 memoir Man-Eaters of Kumaon.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
José Paulo Bezerra Maciel Júnior, known as Paulinho, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He was known for his physicality, stamina, late attacking runs into the penalty area and ability to contribute both defensively and offensively.
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists.
Thomas Eakins, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Eric Hoffer was an American philosopher and social critic. A moderate with an atypical working-class background, Hoffer wrote ten books over his career and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983.
White House of the President of the United States; uploaded to YouTube by TheLBJLibrary, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Vasily Makarovich Shukshin was a Soviet and Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altai region who specialized in rural themes.
Andrea del Sarto was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. He was known as an outstanding fresco decorator, painter of altarpieces, portraitist, draughtsman, and colorist.
Andrea del Sarto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Frederick Warren Hellman was an American billionaire investment banker and private equity investor, the co-founder of private equity firm Hellman & Friedman. Hellman also co-founded Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates, today known as Matrix Partners.
Ron Baker https://www.flickr.com/photos/kingsnake, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hu Jia is a Chinese civil rights activist and critic of the Chinese Communist Party. His work has focused on the Chinese democracy movement, Chinese environmentalist movement, and HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China.
Voice of America, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Johann Jakob von Tschudi was a Swiss naturalist, explorer, and diplomat. He is known for his travels in South America, his scientific contributions to zoology and anthropology, and his diplomatic service for Switzerland.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yoichi Doi is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for Japan national team. He is the current goalkeeper coach of J2 League club Yokohama FC.
yoppy from Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Linabelle Ruth Ramos Villarica is a Filipino politician who currently serves as the member of the House of Representatives from the 4th District of Bulacan since 2022 and previously from 2010 to 2019. She previously served as mayor of Meycauayan from 2019 to 2022.
Meycauayan City Government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 37 people born on July 25, 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 April 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 25. Read the full methodology.
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