Share of the 46 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors28% (13 people)
Athletes22% (10 people)
Scientists20% (9 people)
Creators17% (8 people)
Politicians17% (8 people)
Authors15% (7 people)
Entrepreneurs13% (6 people)
Countries
20 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States12 (12 people)
France5 (5 people)
Italy4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
Poland2 (2 people)
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Sir James Paul McCartney is an English musician and songwriter. He gained global fame with the Beatles, for whom he was the bassist and keyboardist, and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon.
Franco Modigliani was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, and MIT Sloan School of Management.
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis.
Laveran.jpg: Eugène Pirou (1841–1909) derivative work: Materialscientist (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dudley Robert Herschbach is an American chemist at Harvard University. He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes".
Lee Soo-man is a South Korean business executive and record producer who is best known for being the founder of SM Entertainment, a multinational entertainment company based in Seoul.
Pierre-Emerick Emiliano François Aubameyang is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for La Liga club Deportivo A Coruña. Born in France, he formerly played for the Gabon national team.
Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic, film historian, essayist, screenwriter, journalist, and author. He wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013.
Sound Opinions, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Richard Madden is a Scottish actor. He was cast in his first role at age 11 and made his screen acting debut in 2000. He later began performing on stage while a student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kaja Kallas is an Estonian politician and diplomat. She was the first female prime minister of Estonia, a role she held from 2021 until 2024, when she resigned in advance of her appointment as High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
Aurore Martignoni / European Union, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gabriel Teodoro Martinelli Silva is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward or left winger for Saudi Pro League club Al-Hilal and the Brazil national team.
Blake Tollison Shelton is an American country singer, songwriter, and television personality. In 2001, he made his debut with the single "Austin" from his self-titled debut album. "Austin" spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
Carol Kane is an American actress and comedian. She gained recognition for her role in Hester Street (1975), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
Jürgen Habermas was a German philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addressed communicative rationality and the public sphere.
photographer: Wolfram Huke at en.wikipedia , http://wolframhuke.de, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George Herbert Leigh-Mallory was an English mountaineer who participated in the first three British Mount Everest expeditions from the early to mid-1920s.
Sandy Wollaston, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki is a South African politician and economist who served as the second president of South Africa from 1999 until his resignation in 2008. He previously served as deputy president under Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1999.
Willa Joanna Chance Holland is an American actress and model. She is known for her roles as Kaitlin Cooper in the Fox teen drama The O.C., Aqua in Kingdom Hearts, and Thea Queen in the CW series Arrow and its spin-off, The Flash.
Heroes & Villains, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński was a Polish politician who served as the 4th president of Poland from 2005 to 2010, when he died in the Smolensk air disaster. Earlier, he served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 to 2005.
Barbara Dana Broccoli is an American-British film and stage producer, best known internationally for her work on the James Bond film series. With her half-brother Michael G.
www.GlynLowe.com from Hamburg, Germany, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński is a Polish politician. He co-founded the Law and Justice (PiS) party in 2001 with his twin brother, Lech Kaczyński, and has served as its leader since 2003.
President Of Ukraine from Україна, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni, known professionally as Raffaella Carrà and sometimes mononymously as Raffaella, was an Italian singer, dancer, actress, television presenter and model.
Jamel Debbouze is a French actor, comedian and filmmaker. Best known for his stand-up comedy sketches, he also worked with director Alain Chabat in several films and other notable French comedians such as Florence Foresti, Élie Semoun, Fred Testot and Gad Elmaleh.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, also known by his initials FHC, is a Brazilian sociologist, professor, and politician who served as the 34th president of Brazil from 1 January 1995 to 1 January 2003. He was the first Brazilian president to be reelected for a subsequent term.
Governo do Estado de São Paulo, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Han Duck-soo is a South Korean diplomat, economist, and politician who served as the acting president of South Korea in December 2024 and from March to May 2025 and as the prime minister of South Korea from 2007 to 2008 and from 2022 to 2025.
Lisa Joy Randall is an American theoretical physicist and Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. Her research includes the fundamental forces of nature and dimensions of space.
Festival della Scienza, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alen Halilović is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder. A product of Croatia's youth levels, he represented the senior team in 10 matches from 2013 to 2019, debuting as their youngest-ever player.
Carlo Bruil Fotografie, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Richard Gabriel Cyr Gasquet is a French former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 7 in men's singles by the ATP, attained in July 2007. Gasquet won 16 singles titles on the ATP Tour, and earned over 600 career match wins.
Samuel Cohen, known professionally as Sammy Cahn, was an American lyricist, songwriter, and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles area.
NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Raymond Radiguet was a French novelist and poet. His two novels are notable for their psychological complexity and classical aesthetics, as well as for their controversial subject matter. Radiguet died unexpectedly at the age of twenty after contracting typhoid fever.
Oleksii Yuriiovych Reznikov is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician who served as the Minister of Defence of Ukraine from 4 November 2021 until his dismissal on 5 September 2023.
Reda Raouchaia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 46 people born on June 18, 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 2024. 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 18. Read the full methodology.
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