June 28 is the birthday of 50 notable people we've found so far, including authors, scientists, entrepreneurs and actors, and 4 of them are billionaires.
George Rosenberg Roberts is an American billionaire financier. He is one of the three original partners of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., which he co-founded alongside Jerome Kohlberg and first cousin Henry Kravis in 1976.
Dagmar Dolby is an American philanthropist billionaire with an estimated net worth of $5.1 billion as of January 2025. The source of her wealth comes from Dolby Laboratories, founded by her late husband Ray Dolby.
Koo Bon-sik is a South Korean businessman and chairman of the conglomerate LT Group. Part of the Koo family that also controls LG and Heesung Group, he is among the richest people in South Korea.
Industries of the companies the 4 wealthy people born on June 28 founded or led.
aerospace50% (1 people)
automotive50% (1 people)
finance50% (1 people)
healthcare50% (1 people)
logistics50% (1 people)
software50% (1 people)
Who shares June 28
What kind of people are born on June 28?
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors30% (15 people)
Scientists26% (13 people)
Entrepreneurs22% (11 people)
Actors20% (10 people)
Creators20% (10 people)
Politicians16% (8 people)
Athletes14% (7 people)
Countries
26 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States13 (13 people)
France6 (6 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Czech Republic2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Kingdom of Italy2 (2 people)
United Kingdom2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on June 28 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.
Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, comedian, film director, songwriter and playwright. With a career spanning nine decades, he is known for a variety of successful farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of the few people to win the EGOT.
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Kathleen Doyle Bates is an American actress and director. Her work spans over five decades, and her accolades include an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and two BAFTA Awards.
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Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and statesman. Yunus pioneered the modern concept of microcredit and microfinance, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. He is the founder of Grameen Bank and the first Bangladeshi to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Michael James Lindell, also known as the My Pillow Guy and Mike Pillow, is an American businessman, political activist, and conspiracy theorist. He is the founder and former CEO of My Pillow, a pillow, bedding, and slipper manufacturing company.
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Brian L. Roberts is an American entrepreneur, business executive and billionaire. He is the chairman and CEO of Comcast, a multinational telecommunications and media company providing entertainment and communications products and services, founded by his father, Ralph J. Roberts.
Robert Stanley Dyrdek is an American actor, producer, reality TV personality, and former professional skateboarder. He is best known for his roles in the MTV reality and variety shows Rob & Big, Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory, and Ridiculousness.
Ryan Smith is an American billionaire businessman and chairman of Smith Entertainment Group. He is the executive chairman and co-founder of Qualtrics, an experience management company based in Provo, Utah.
Irakli Garibashvili is a Georgian politician and former business executive who served as prime minister of Georgia from 20 November 2013 until his resignation on 30 December 2015, and then again between 2021 until his resignation in 2024.
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Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno is an Indonesian businessman, investor and politician of the United Development Party who served as Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy from 2020 to 2024.
Government of Jakarta Special Region, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Noriyuki "Pat" Morita was an American actor and comedian. He began his career as a stand-up comedian, before becoming known to television audiences for his recurring role as diner owner Matsuo "Arnold" Takahashi on the sitcom series Happy Days from 1975 to 1983.
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Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao was an Indian independence activist, lawyer, and politician from the Indian National Congress who served as the prime minister of India from 1991 to 1996.
Christian Lambiotte - European Commission, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John Wesley was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a principal leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the ongoing independent Methodist movement.
George Romney, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer who worked primarily in musical theater. With 43 Broadway musicals and over 900 songs to his credit, Rodgers was one of the best-known American composers of the 20th century, and his work significantly influenced popular music.
Rodgers_and_Hammerstein_and_Berlin_and_Tamiris_NYWTS.jpg: Al Aumuller, World Telegram staff photographer derivative work, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Fabien Alain Barthez is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. At club level, he played football in both France and England with Toulouse, Marseille, Monaco, Manchester United and Nantes.
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Alice Maud Krige is a South African actress. Her big break came in 1981, when she starred as the Gilbert and Sullivan singer Sybil Gordon in the British historical film Chariots of Fire, and as Eva Galli / Alma Mobley in the American supernatural horror film Ghost Story.
Bruce Davison is an American actor who has appeared in more than 270 films, television and stage productions since his debut in 1968. His breakthrough role was as Willard Stiles in the 1971 cult horror film Willard.
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Markéta Vondroušová is a Czech professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 6 by the WTA. Vondroušová has won three WTA Tour-level singles titles, including the 2023 Wimbledon Championships.
Robert Guérin was a French journalist who was one of the founders of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and served as its first president.
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Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer most noted for his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art".
Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German–American theoretical physicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner. One half of the prize was awarded jointly to Goeppert Mayer and Jensen "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure."
Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Stewart Bell was a physicist from Northern Ireland and the originator of Bell's theorem, an important theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden-variable theories.
Edward Hallett Carr was a British English historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist, and an opponent of empiricism within historiography.
Florian Zeller is a French playwright, novelist, theatre director, and filmmaker. He has written over a dozen plays that have been staged worldwide, making him one of the most celebrated contemporary playwrights.
Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist who spent most of his scientific career in the United States. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.
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Hans Martin Blix is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978–1979) and later became the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Ngô Bảo Châu is a Vietnamese-French mathematician at the University of Hong Kong, best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms. He is the first Vietnamese national to have received the Fields Medal.
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Itamar Augusto Cautiero Franco was a Brazilian politician who served as the 33rd president of Brazil from 29 December 1992 to 1 January 1995. Previously, he was the 21st vice president of Brazil from 1990 until the resignation of President Fernando Collor de Mello.
Henri Léon Lebesgue was a French mathematician known for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of the 17th-century concept of integration—summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis.
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Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German physicist and philosopher. He was the longest-living member of the team which performed nuclear research in Nazi Germany during the Second World War, under Werner Heisenberg's leadership.
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William Cecil Campbell is an Irish and American microbiologist known for his work in discovering a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworms, for which he was jointly awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov is a Bulgarian historian and politician who was the president of Bulgaria from 2002 to 2012. He was elected after defeating incumbent Petar Stoyanov in the second round of the November 2001 presidential election. He took office on January 22, 2002.
Sabrina Ferilli is an Italian theatre and film actress. She has won five Nastro d'Argento, a Globo d'oro, six Ciak d'oro and received four David di Donatello nominations. In 2013, she was a protagonist of the Oscar-winning film The Great Beauty directed by Paolo Sorrentino.
Andriy Valeriyovych Pyatov is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently the goalkeeping coach of Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk.
Klaus von Klitzing is a German physicist, known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Angelo Secchi was an Italian Catholic priest and astronomer from the Italian region of Emilia. He was director of the observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University for 28 years.
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Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics.
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Airat Rafailovich Ichmouratov is a Russian-born Canadian composer, conductor and klezmer clarinetist of Volga Tatar descent. He is a founding member and clarinetist of award-winning Montreal-based klezmer group Kleztory and invited professor at Laval University in Quebec, Canada.
This page lists 50 people born on June 28, 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 June 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 28. Read the full methodology.
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