June 15 is the birthday of 60 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, politicians, musicians and creators, and 6 of them are billionaires.
Lakshmi Niwas Mittal is an Indian billionaire businessman and steel magnate. He is the executive chairman of ArcelorMittal, the world's second largest steelmaking company, as well as chairman of stainless steel manufacturer Aperam. Mittal owns 38 per cent of ArcelorMittal.
Entrepreneur · Global Telecom Holding · telecommunications
1954 · Egypt
$5.1Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes
Naguib Onsi Sawiris is an Egyptian-American billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of Orascom Investment Holding and the former chairman and CEO of Orascom Telecom Holding.
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Richard Edward Rainwater was a billionaire American investor and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of $3 billion, he was ranked 211th on the Forbes 400 in 2015.
Tory Burch is an American fashion designer and businesswoman. She is the executive chairman and chief creative officer of her own brand, Tory Burch LLC. She was listed as the 88th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes in 2020.
Industries of the companies the 6 wealthy people born on June 15 founded or led.
mining50% (1 people)
telecommunications50% (1 people)
Who shares June 15
What kind of people are born on June 15?
Share of the 60 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs30% (18 people)
Politicians23% (14 people)
Musicians18% (11 people)
Actors17% (10 people)
Creators17% (10 people)
Authors15% (9 people)
Scientists13% (8 people)
Countries
31 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States16 (16 people)
France5 (5 people)
Norway4 (4 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Belgium2 (2 people)
Egypt2 (2 people)
Kingdom of Denmark2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on June 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.
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~25Mohamed SalahNamed African Footballer of the Year (2017)
Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Süper Lig club Trabzonspor and captains the Egypt national team.
Courteney Bass Cox is an American actress and producer. She rose to international prominence by playing Monica Geller in the NBC sitcom Friends (1994–2004) and Gale Weathers in the horror film franchise Scream (1996–present).
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Paul Rusesabagina is a Rwandan human rights activist and former hotelier. He worked as the manager of the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, during a period in which it housed 1,268 Hutu and Tutsi refugees fleeing the Interahamwe militia during the Rwandan genocide.
Jesse_Jackson,_Jr._and_Paul_Rusesabagina.jpg: . Original uploader was TonyTheTiger at en.wikipedia derivative work: Dary, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ezer Weizman was an Israeli major general and politician who served as the president of Israel, first elected in 1993 and re-elected in 1998. Before the presidency, Weizman was commander of the Israeli Air Force and Minister of Defense.
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Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle was a Belgian Walloon politician and Nazi collaborator. He rose to prominence in Belgium in the 1930s as the leader of the Rexist Party (Rex).
Álvaro Colom Caballeros was a Guatemalan engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 47th president of Guatemala from 2008 to 2012, as well as the General-Secretary of the political party, National Unity of Hope (UNE).
Eva Kotchever, known also as Eve Adams or Eve Addams in the United States, born as Chawa Złoczower, was a Polish-Jewish émigré librarian and writer, who is the author of Lesbian Love and from 1925 to 1926 ran a popular, openly lesbian literary salon in Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan, called Eve's Hangout.
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James Adam Belushi is an American actor and comedian. His television roles include Saturday Night Live (1983–1985), According to Jim (2001–2009), and Good Girls Revolt (2015–2016).
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was a Soviet politician who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from late 1982 until his death in 1984. He previously served as the Chairman of the KGB from 1967 until 1982.
Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He is considered one of the pioneers of the outlaw movement in country music.
James Albert Varney Jr. was an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his Emmy Award winning comedic role as Ernest P. Worrell, originating in a series of television commercial advertising campaigns, and later growing into a film and television franchise.
Aurora Aksnes, known mononymously as Aurora, is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and record producer. Known for blending electropop, folk, and art pop, she has been described as a pioneer of the Norwegian art pop scene and dubbed the "Fairy of Pop".
Birgit Fostervold, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Oliver Rolf Kahn is a German football executive and former professional player who played as a goalkeeper. He started his career in the Karlsruher SC Junior team in 1975. Twelve years later, in 1987, Kahn made his debut match in the professional squad.
Steffen Prößdorf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Iñaki Williams Arthuer is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Athletic Bilbao, which he captains, and the Ghana national team.
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide.
Michael Laudrup is a Danish professional football coach and former player. Known for his playmaking and technical abilities, he is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. He is the older brother of fellow retired footballer Brian Laudrup.
Jean-Philippe Léo Smet, better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited with having brought rock and roll to France.
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Nicolas Poussin was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small group of Italian and French collectors.
Nicolas Poussin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yussuf Yurary Poulsen is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bundesliga club Hamburger SV. He sometimes uses Yurary as his shirt name.
Christian Bier, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paolo Uccello, born Paolo di Dono, was an Italian Renaissance painter and mathematician from Florence who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art.
Florentine School, Unknown Master, Italian (active late 15th century) ; généralement attribuée à Paolo Uccello, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Rajakumaran Rajaratnam is a Sri Lankan-American former hedge fund manager and founder of the Galleon Group, a New York-based hedge fund management firm. He is also the author of his memoir, Uneven Justice: The Plot to Sink Galleon.
Jean Meslier (French: [melje]; also Mellier; 15 June 1664 - 17 June 1729 was a French Catholic priest who was discovered, upon his death, to have written a book-length philosophical essay promoting atheism and materialism.
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Gavriil Abramovich Ilizarov was a Soviet physician, known for inventing the Ilizarov apparatus for lengthening limb bones and for the method of surgery named after him, the Ilizarov surgery.
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Kobayashi Issa was a Japanese poet. He is known for his haiku poems and journals. He is better known as simply Issa (一茶), a pen name meaning Cup-of-tea. He is regarded as one of the four haiku masters in Japan, along with Bashō, Buson and Shiki — "the Great Four."
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Johannes Müller von Königsberg, better known as Regiomontanus, was a mathematician, astrologer and astronomer of the German Renaissance, active in Vienna, Buda and Nuremberg.
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Poul Oluf Nyrup Rasmussen is a retired Danish politician, who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 25 January 1993 to 27 November 2001 and President of the Party of European Socialists (PES) from 2004 to 2011.
John Bennett Fenn was an American analytical chemist who was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002, sharing half of the award with Koichi Tanaka for their work in mass spectrometry.
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Philanthropist and the son of Swedish packaging businessman Hans Rausing
1963 · Sweden
Sir Hans Kristian Rausing is a Swedish billionaire and the son of packaging industrialist Hans Rausing. His grandfather Ruben Rausing founded the food-packaging giant Tetra Pak. The family has an estimated $12 billion fortune.
Edgar "Egay" Ranes Erice is a Filipino politician and businessman who currently serves as the representative for Caloocan's second congressional district since 2025, previously holding the seat from 2001 to 2004 and from 2013 to 2022.
House of Representatives of the Philippines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 60 people born on June 15, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 6 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 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 June 15. Read the full methodology.
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