June 21 is the birthday of 55 notable people we've found so far, including actors, musicians, authors and entrepreneurs, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Pierre Morad Omidyar is a French-born Iranian-American billionaire. A technology entrepreneur, software engineer, and philanthropist, he is the founder of eBay, where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015.
Gérard C. Louis-Dreyfus, also known as William Louis-Dreyfus, was a French-American businessman. His net worth was estimated at $3.4 billion by Forbes in 2006.
Share of the 55 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors27% (15 people)
Musicians25% (14 people)
Authors22% (12 people)
Entrepreneurs20% (11 people)
Creators15% (8 people)
Politicians13% (7 people)
Scientists13% (7 people)
Countries
24 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States15 (15 people)
France5 (5 people)
Spain5 (5 people)
Canada4 (4 people)
Germany4 (4 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Sweden2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on June 21 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.
By 25
24Lana Del ReyNotable work: Lana Del Ray a.k.a. Lizzy Grant (2010)
~59Jean-Paul SartreReceived the Nobel Prize in Literature (1964)
56Maureen StapletonReceived the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (1982)
~56Shirin EbadiReceived the Nobel Peace Prize (2003)
86Lalo SchifrinReceived the Academy Honorary Award (2019)
The standouts
The most successful people born on June 21
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
actor
Chris Pratt
Top tier
Actor
1979 · United States
Christopher Michael Pratt is an American actor and producer. His films as a leading actor have grossed over $15.2 billion worldwide, making him the third highest-grossing film star of all time. Pratt was one of the world's highest-paid actors annually from 2015 to 2017.
Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. Her music is noted for its melancholic exploration of glamour and romance, with frequent references to pop culture and 1950s–1970s Americana.
Mike Monaghan from Seattle, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Edward Joseph Snowden is an American whistleblower who, as a National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence contractor, disclosed classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs.
Free Software Foundation, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani stateswoman who twice served as the prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country.
Juliette Lake Lewis is an American actress, singer, and musician. She is known for her portrayals of offbeat characters, often in films with dark plots, themes, and settings.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, political activist, and writer, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and was a proponent of Libertarian Marxism.
Joko Widodo, often known mononymously as Jokowi, is an Indonesian politician and businessman who served as the seventh president of Indonesia from 2014 to 2024.
Ministry of State Secretariat of the Republic of Indonesia (Kementerian Sekretariat Negara Republik Indonesia), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yingluck Shinawatra is a Thai businesswoman, politician and a member of the Pheu Thai Party who was the 28th prime minister of Thailand from 2011 to 2014. Yingluck was Thailand's first female prime minister and its youngest in over 60 years since the Siamese revolution of 1932.
Embassy of the Philippines Bangkok, Thailand, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Luis de la Fuente Castillo is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who played as a left-back. He is the manager of the Spain national team.
Robin Tunney is an American actress. She made her film debut in Encino Man (1992) and rose to prominence with leading roles in the cult films Empire Records (1995) and The Craft (1996). Her performance in Niagara, Niagara (1997) won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress.
Angela George, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Michel François Platini is a French football administrator and former player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time, Platini won the Ballon d'Or three times in a row, in 1983, 1984 and 1985, and came seventh in the FIFA Player of the Century vote.
Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was an American actress, model, and singer. She was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s and starred in more than 20 films.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Viktor Robertovich Tsoi was a Soviet singer-songwriter and actor who co-founded Kino, one of the most popular and influential bands in the history of Russian music.
Igor Moukhin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Rebecca Renee Black is an American singer, songwriter, YouTuber, and DJ. She gained extensive media coverage when the music video for her 2011 debut single "Friday" went viral on YouTube and various social media sites.
Ian Russell McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him at number 35 on its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945", and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 out of "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
Erica Durance is a Canadian actress known for her roles as Lois Lane in the superhero television series Smallville (2004–2011) and as Dr. Alex Reid in the medical drama series Saving Hope (2012–2017).
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Flaherty was an American actor, writer, and comedian. In television, Flaherty starred on the Canadian sketch comedy SCTV from 1976 to 1984 and as Harold Weir on Freaks and Geeks (1999). His film roles include the heckler in Happy Gilmore (1996).
Manu Chao is a French-Spanish musician. He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Arabic, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Greek and occasionally in other languages.
Paramanu Sarkar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lois Maureen Stapleton was an American actress. She received numerous accolades, becoming one of the few actors to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Tony Awards.
Frank Goodman Associates, publicity agency for Mobil Showcase (sponsor was Mobil Oil Company)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Douglas Peter Savant is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Matt Fielding in the Fox prime time soap opera Melrose Place (1992–97), Tom Scavo in ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives (2004–12), and as Sgt. O'Neal in Godzilla (1998).
Kristin Dos Santos, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr was an American Mainline Protestant theologian in the Reformed tradition, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Anette Ingegerd Olsson, known by the stage name Anette Olzon, is a Swedish singer, best known as the former lead vocalist of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish from 2007 to 2012.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rockinfree/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Françoise Sagan was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters.
Studio Harcourt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, sometimes called Bruxo do Cosme Velho, was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Baron Siméon Denis Poisson was a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics, complex analysis, partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, analytical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, elasticity, and fluid mechanics.
François-Séraphin Delpech / After Nicolas Eustache Maurin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Clara Helene Immerwahr was a German chemist. She was the first German woman to be awarded a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Breslau, and is credited with being a pacifist as well as a "heroine of the women's rights movement".
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kostas Katsouranis is a Greek former professional footballer. A versatile midfielder, who won the Super League Greek Footballer of the Year Award in 2005 and 2013, as well as the Cosme Damião Award for Footballer of the Year in 2008.
Steindy (talk) 00:01, 18 November 2010 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Salvator Rosa is best known today as an Italian Baroque painter, whose romanticised landscapes and history paintings, often set in dark and untamed nature, exerted considerable influence from the 17th century into the early 19th century.
Salvator Rosa, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jon Meade Huntsman Sr. was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder and executive chairman of Huntsman Corporation, a global manufacturer and marketer of specialty chemicals.
Douglas A. Lockard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
William Spencer Vickrey was a Canadian-American economist. He was a lifelong faculty member at Columbia University. A theorist who worked on public economics and mechanism design, Vickrey primarily discussed public policy problems.
Giovanni Spadolini was an Italian politician and statesman, who served as the 44th prime minister of Italy. He had been a leading figure in the Republican Party and the first head of a government to not be a member of Christian Democrats since 1945.
Comet Photo AG (Zürich), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 55 people born on June 21, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 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 2019. 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 21. Read the full methodology.
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