March 1 is the birthday of 55 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, actors, creators and authors, and 5 of them are billionaires.
Daniel Truett Cathy is an American businessman. He is the chairman of fast-food chain Chick-fil-A, which was founded and expanded by his father, S. Truett Cathy. He has a net worth of $10.6 billion as of October 2024.
$11Breported estimate as of September 2025 · Forbes
Charles William Ergen is an American billionaire businessman, and the co-founder and chairman of Dish Network and EchoStar. He was CEO of Dish Network until May 2011, when he was succeeded by Joseph Clayton.
$1.5Bolder estimate, as of September 2024 · Forbes
Ahmet Çalık is a Turkish billionaire businessman who is the chairman of Çalık Holding. As of September 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$1.5 billion.
Randal J. Kirk is an American billionaire businessman and investor in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Kirk was the chairman and chief executive officer of Intrexon, a biotechnology company, until 2020.
Share of the 55 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors24% (13 people)
Entrepreneurs24% (13 people)
Creators22% (12 people)
Authors18% (10 people)
Musicians16% (9 people)
Athletes15% (8 people)
Scientists13% (7 people)
Countries
27 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States16 (16 people)
France5 (5 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Israel2 (2 people)
Mexico2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
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Lupita Amondi Nyong'o is an actress who has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, an Actor Award and a Daytime Emmy Award, as well as nominations for two British Academy Film Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award.
Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli statesman and general who was the prime minister of Israel, having served from 1974 to 1977 and again from 1992 until his assassination in 1995.
Congolese gynecologist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1955 · Belgium
Denis Mukwege is a Congolese humanitarian, gynecologist and Pentecostal pastor. He founded and works in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he specializes in the treatment of women who have been raped.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Zachary Edward Snyder is an American filmmaker. After starting his career primarily directing music videos, he made his feature film debut in 2004 with Dawn of the Dead, a remake of the 1978 horror film of the same name.
Elen Nivrae at https://www.flickr.com/photos/nivrae/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mayce Edward Christopher Webber III, nicknamed "C-Webb", is an American former professional basketball player. Webber played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), with the largest portion of his career spent with the Sacramento Kings.
Daniella Monet Gardner is an American actress, entrepreneur and television personality. She is best known for her role as Trina Vega in the Nickelodeon television series Victorious (2010–2013) and its spin-off Hollywood Arts (2026).
Gilbert Frank Amelio is an American technology executive. Amelio worked at Bell Labs, Fairchild Semiconductor, and the semiconductor division of Rockwell International, and was also the CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple Computer.
Anayo Modestus Onyekwere, known professionally as Kanayo O. Kanayo, is a Nigerian actor and lawyer. In 2006, he won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in Family Battle.
Ana Lúcia Hickmann is a Brazilian television presenter, businesswoman and former model who has worked for Victoria's Secret, Nivea, L'Oreal, Wella, Clairol and Bloomingdales.
Marcos Oliveira/Agência Senado, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kesha Rose Sebert, stylized as Ke$ha until 2014, is an American singer, rapper, and songwriter. She has attained two number-one albums on the US Billboard 200 to date, with Animal (2010) and Rainbow (2017), and the top-ten records Warrior (2012) and High Road (2020).
James David Graham Niven was an English actor, soldier, raconteur, memoirist and novelist. Niven was known as a handsome and debonair leading man in classic Hollywood films.
Harry Belafonte was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.
Joachim Trier is a Norwegian filmmaker. His films have been described as "melancholy meditations concerned with existential questions of love, ambition, memory, and identity."
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Roger Harry Daltrey is an English singer, songwriter and actor. He is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band the Who, known for his powerful voice and charismatic stage presence. His stage persona earned him a position as one of the "gods of rock and roll".
Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller was an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombonist, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the US Army Air Forces.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alan Willis Thicke was a Canadian-American actor, songwriter, and game/talk show host. He was the father of singer Robin Thicke. Thicke was best known for playing Dr. Jason Seaver on the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains on ABC. In 2013, he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.
Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Édouard Osoque Mendy is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for and captains Saudi Pro League club Al-Ahli. Born in France, he plays for the Senegal national team.
Carlos Alberto Vela Garrido is a Mexican former professional footballer. A versatile offensive player, Vela could be deployed as a forward, winger, and attacking midfielder.
Светлана Бекетова, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg was the wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Their assassination in Sarajevo sparked a series of events that led, four weeks later, to World War I.
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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, art name Chōkōdō Shujin (澄江堂主人), was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "father of the Japanese short story", and Japan's premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him.
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Nicholas John Griffin is a British far-right politician who was chairman of the British National Party (BNP) from 1999 to 2014, and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England from 2009 to 2014.
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Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.
United States Information Agency staff photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright and teacher, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expressionist movement.
Hugo Erfurth, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Georg Simmel was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic. A founding figure of sociology, his neo-Kantian approach helped establish sociological antipositivism, asking "What is society?" in analogy to Kant's "What is nature?".
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Dalia Grybauskaitė is a Lithuanian politician who served as the eighth president of Lithuania from 2009 to 2019. She is the first and so far only woman to hold the position and in 2014 she became the first President of Lithuania to be reelected for a second consecutive term.
Christian Lambiotte, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The 6th Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso was recognized as the 6th Dalai Lama after a delay of many years, permitting the Potala Palace to be completed. He was an unconventional Dalai Lama that preferred a Nyingma school yogi's life to that of an ordained monk.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/4886, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lamberto Dini is an Italian politician and economist. He was the Director General of Bank of Italy from 1979 to 1994, Minister of Treasury from 1994 to 1996, the 51st prime minister of Italy from 1995 to 1996, and Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2001.
Valentina Monetta is a Sammarinese singer. She is best known for representing San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2017. In the 2014 contest, Monetta became the first entrant to qualify for the final for San Marino.
Fyodor Sologub, born Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, also known as Theodor Sologub, was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, translator, playwright and essayist.
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Yitzchak Mirilashvili is an Israeli investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of VK (Vkontakte.ru), Russia's largest social network. Mirilashvili lives in Israel, where he oversees his businesses as well as various charitable foundations and causes.
Ronen Goldman, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 55 people born on March 1, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 5 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 September 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 March 1. Read the full methodology.
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