June 12 is the birthday of 45 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, authors, athletes and historical figures, and 4 of them are billionaires.
$16.7Breported estimate as of August 2026 · Forbes
Joshua Kushner is an American businessman and venture capitalist. He is a founder and managing partner of the venture capital firm Thrive Capital, co-founder and vice-chairman of Oscar Health, and the youngest son of Charles Kushner. He is the younger brother of Jared Kushner.
David Kenneth Roy Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet, is a Canadian and British hereditary peer and media magnate. Upon the death of his father in 2006, Thomson became the chairman of Thomson Corporation and also inherited his father's British title, Baron Thomson of Fleet.
David Rockefeller was an American economist and investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He was the oldest living member of the Rockefeller family from 2004 until his death in 2017.
Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Shalom Meckenzie is an Israeli billionaire entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder of Amp, 10bet, and SBTech, a betting software company, which merged with DraftKings and made Meckenzie the largest shareholder and a board member of DraftKings.
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Share of the 45 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs24% (11 people)
Athletes22% (10 people)
Authors22% (10 people)
Scientists16% (7 people)
Artists13% (6 people)
Politicians11% (5 people)
Creators9% (4 people)
Countries
20 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States15 (15 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Canada3 (3 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Spain2 (2 people)
Switzerland2 (2 people)
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George Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st president of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 43rd vice president under Ronald Reagan. His son, George W. Bush, served as the 43rd president.
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David John Franco is an American actor and filmmaker. He began his career with small roles in films such as Superbad (2007) and Charlie St. Cloud (2010).
Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian psychologist, author, and media commentator. He received widespread attention in the late 2010s for his views on cultural and political issues. Often described as conservative, Peterson self-identifies as a classical liberal and traditionalist.
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Fritz Albert Lipmann was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953.
Bert Sakmann is a German cell physiologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Erwin Neher in 1991 for their work on "the function of single ion channels in cells," and the invention of the patch clamp.
Yuriy Kolodin at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, was a British statesman, diplomat and military officer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1955 to 1957.
Walter Stoneman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Edward Spencer Abraham is an American attorney, author, and politician who served as the 10th United States Secretary of Energy from 2001 to 2005, under President George W. Bush.
Department of Energy., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dame Angela Jean Ahrendts is an American-British businesswoman who was previously the senior vice president of retail at Apple Inc. She was the CEO of Burberry from 2006 to 2014. She left Burberry to join Apple in 2014.
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Robert McGregor Innes Ireland was a British racing driver and journalist, who competed in Formula One from 1959 to 1966. Ireland won the 1961 United States Grand Prix with Lotus.
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John Augustus Roebling was a German-born American civil engineer. He designed and built wire rope suspension bridges, in particular the Brooklyn Bridge, which has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
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Alber Elbaz was an Israeli fashion designer. He was the creative director of Lanvin in Paris from 2001 until 2015, after having done stints at a number of other fashion houses, including Geoffrey Beene, Guy Laroche, and Yves Saint Laurent.
Philippe Coutinho Correia is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder. He is currently a free agent after playing for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Vasco da Gama.
Oleg Bkhambri (Voltmetro), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1802–1876 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rare for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself.
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Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and for the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude self-portraits.
unattributed, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea was an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", "500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba", and "Windows" are considered jazz standards.
Diego Alberto Milito is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker. He was nicknamed El Principe because of his physical resemblance with former Uruguayan footballer Enzo Francescoli, who had the same nickname.
Steindy (talk) 13:14, 28 November 2009 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dmitry Alekseyevich Glukhovsky is a Russian and Israeli author, best known for the science fiction novel Metro 2033 and its sequels. As a journalist, Glukhovsky has worked for Euronews, RT in its early years, and others.
Michael Förtsch // Zufallsfaktor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Patrick Anthony Jennings is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is widely recognised as one of the greatest goalkeepers in the history of the sport and was nominated for the Ballon d'Or in 1973, 1975 and 1985.
Djuna Barnes was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.
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Temitope Balogun Joshua was a Nigerian charismatic pastor and televangelist. He was the leader and founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), a Christian megachurch that runs the Emmanuel TV television station from Lagos, Nigeria.
Johanna Spyri was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories. She wrote the popular book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zürich, as a child she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.
Ganz, Johannes, Fotograf, Schweiz, 1821-1886, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1819–1875 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Charles Kingsley was an English clergyman, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet.
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Irwin Allen was an American film and television producer and director, known for his work in science fiction, then later as the "Master of Disaster" for his work in the disaster film genre.
Pope Leo XI, born Alessandro di Ottaviano de' Medici, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1 April 1605 to his death, on 27 April 1605. His pontificate is one of the briefest in history, lasting under a month.
John Sidney Linnell is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and a co-founder of alternative rock band They Might Be Giants with John Flansburgh, which was formed in 1982.
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Eren Derdiyok is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is a former Swiss international. Derdiyok has played for ten different clubs in Europe, as well as a one year stint in Uzbekistan's capital with Pakhtakor FC.
Steindy (talk) 15:02, 25 November 2015 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge was an English physicist and electrical engineer whose investigations into electromagnetic radiation (EMR) contributed to the development of radio. He identified EMR independent of Heinrich Hertz's proof.
Günter Behnisch was a German architect, born in Lockwitz, near Dresden. During the Second World War he became one of Germany's youngest submarine commanders. Subsequently, Behnisch became one of the most prominent architects representing deconstructivism.
This page lists 45 people born on June 12, 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 August 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 June 12. Read the full methodology.
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