July 26 is the birthday of 45 notable people we've found so far, including authors, actors, creators and entrepreneurs, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
$3.9Breported estimate as of November 2025 · Forbes
Masahiro Miki is a Japanese billionaire businessman, and the founder and largest shareholder of Tokyo-based shoemaker ABC-Mart. Miki is of Korean descent.
Share of the 45 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors38% (17 people)
Actors27% (12 people)
Creators24% (11 people)
Entrepreneurs22% (10 people)
Musicians18% (8 people)
Scientists18% (8 people)
Athletes13% (6 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States12 (12 people)
United Kingdom8 (8 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
France2 (2 people)
Ireland2 (2 people)
Australia1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on July 26 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.
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7Taylor MomsenNotable work: Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Jason Statham is an English actor. He is known for being typecast as tough, gritty, or violent characters in action thriller films, and has been credited for leading the resurgence of action films during the 2000s and 2010s.
MTV International, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Stanley Kubrick was an American filmmaker and photographer. A prominent figure of the New Hollywood era, Kubrick is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers.
Phillip A. Harrington, an American photographer and staffer for Look magazine between 1949–1971, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Asif Ali Zardari is a Pakistani politician who has served as the 14th president of Pakistan since 2024, having served as the 11th president from 2008 to 2013.
Press Service of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Advanced Info Service · telecommunications
1949 · Montenegro
Thaksin Shinawatra is a Thai former politician, businessman, and police officer who served as the 23rd prime minister of Thailand from 2001 until his overthrow in 2006. Since 2009, he has also been a citizen of Montenegro.
DoD photo by Helene C. Stikkel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
David Jonathan Heyman is an English film and television producer. He is the founder of Heyday Films and is best known as the producer of all eight installments of the Harry Potter film series, which are based on a series of popular fantasy novels of the same name by author J. K.
Sergey Vladilenovich Kiriyenko is a Russian politician who has served as First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia since 5 October 2016.
IAEA Imagebank, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Karel Janeček is a Czech mathematician, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He co-founded the financial company RSJ for algorithmic trading. He later became active in anti-corruption initiatives, philanthropy and electoral reform.
Kathrin Romany Beckinsale is an English actress. The only child of the actors Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe, she debuted in the series premiere of the 1975 daytime drama Couples.
Gerald Geronimo, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Walter Jackson was an American talent manager and patriarch of the Jackson family of entertainers. He was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2014.
JosephJackson2007.jpg: Reflexivity Capital Group[2] of picasa.google.com derivative work: Solid State Survivor (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. He was a prolific author of over twenty books, illustrator, correspondent, and academic, best known for his concept of archetypes.
Taylor Michel Momsen is an American singer, songwriter, musician, model, and former actress. Since 2009, Momsen has served as the lead vocalist of the American rock band The Pretty Reckless. Prior to her music career, she started off as a child actress.
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.
AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.
Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Roger Meddows Taylor is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He achieved international fame as the drummer and backing vocalist for the rock band Queen.
Jason Nelson Robards Jr. was an American actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he gained a reputation as an interpreter of the works of playwright Eugene O'Neill.
Village Voice photo by Ben Schiff, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Egan "Liz" Gillies is an American actress and singer. She began her acting career as a teenager and made her Broadway debut in the musical 13 (2008).
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Olivia Haigh Williams is an English actress who appears in British and American films and television. Williams studied drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School for two years followed by three years at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
John Winston Howard is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, holding office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore was an American stock trader. He is considered a pioneer of day trading and was the basis for the main character of Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, a best-selling book by Edwin Lefèvre.
Joel Mokyr is an American and Israeli economic historian and the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. He is also a senior adjunct professor at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University.
יואל מוקיר (המצולם), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph I was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 1705 until his death in 1711. He was the eldest son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor from his third wife, Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg.
Frans van Stampart, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gaël Dimitri Clichy is a French former professional footballer, who played as a left-back, and current manager. He is currently the head coach of Ligue 3 club Caen.
Stuart Grout from Manchester, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
James Ephraim Lovelock was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system.
George Grosz was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic.
AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, simply known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98.
Antonio Machado, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ferdinand Tönnies was a German sociologist, economist, and philosopher. He was a significant contributor to sociological theory and field studies, best known for distinguishing between two types of social groups, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft.
Ferdinand Urbahns, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lasha Bekauri is a Georgian judoka. He won the gold medal in the men's 90 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan and the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
This page lists 45 people born on July 26, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 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 November 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 July 26. Read the full methodology.
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