March 12 is the birthday of 60 notable people we've found so far, including historical figures, entrepreneurs, authors and actors, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Stephen Frank Mandel Jr. is an American hedge fund manager, investor, and philanthropist. He founded Lone Pine Capital in 1997, after working as the managing director at Tiger Management. According to Forbes, Mandel has an estimated net worth of US$3.9 billion as of August 2022.
Share of the 60 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors20% (12 people)
Entrepreneurs20% (12 people)
Actors18% (11 people)
Creators17% (10 people)
Politicians15% (9 people)
Athletes13% (8 people)
Musicians13% (8 people)
Countries
27 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States16 (16 people)
Japan6 (6 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland4 (4 people)
France3 (3 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
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Willard Mitt Romney is an American businessman and retired politician who served as a United States senator from Utah from 2019 to 2025 and as the 70th governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007.
United States Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christina Victoria Grimmie was an American singer, songwriter, and internet personality. In 2009, she began posting covers of popular songs on YouTube. After releasing her debut EP, Find Me (2011), her YouTube channel reached one million subscribers.
Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ivar Giaever and Brian Josephson for his work on tunneling in semiconductors, which led to his invention of the tunnel diode that exploits this phenomenon.
Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli, nicknamed L'Avvocato, was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GDP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce, and 16.5% of its industrial investment in research.
Gorupdebesanez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Walter Marty Schirra Jr. was an American naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which was the United States' first effort to put humans into space.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1838–1907 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir William Henry Perkin was an English chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first commercial synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from aniline.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Suleyman Abusaidovich Kerimov is a Russian billionaire, oligarch, philanthropist and politician of Lezgin descent. Kerimov maintains close ties to Vladimir Putin's administration in Russia, and formerly enjoyed a close relationship with Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman of Chechnya.
1832–1897 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott was an English land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave the English language the term boycott. He had served in the British Army 39th Foot, which brought him to Ireland.
1836–1865 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Isabella Mary Beeton, known as Mrs Beeton, was an English journalist, editor and writer. Her name is particularly associated with her first book, the 1861 work Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management.
Maull & Polyblank, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Tom Palumbo from New York, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Franklin Wendell Welker is an American actor. He began his career in the 1960s, and held around 850 film, television, and video game credits as of 2020, making him one of the most prolific voice actors in history.
StartHereMarketing, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Van Haver, better known by his stage name Stromae, is a Belgian singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his blend of hip-hop and electronic music styles.
Georges Biard → Derivative work: Steffen Schmitz (Carschten), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
General Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso, sometimes written d'Annunzio as he used to sign himself, was an Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, and Royal Italian Army officer during World War I.
Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dean Bradley Henderson is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Crystal Palace, whom he captains, and the England national team.
Wilhelm Frick was a German politician of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) and convicted war criminal. He served as Minister of the Interior in Adolf Hitler's cabinet from 1933 to 1943 and as the last governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alwin Lopez Jarreau was an American singer. His 1981 album Breakin' Away spent two years on the Billboard 200 and is considered one of the finest examples of the Los Angeles pop and R&B sound. The album won Jarreau the 1982 Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George Berkeley, known as Bishop Berkeley, was an Anglo-Irish philosopher, writer, and clergyman who is regarded as the founder of immaterialism, a philosophical theory he developed which later came to be known as subjective idealism.
John Smibert, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Vaslav or Vatslav Nijinsky was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish ancestry. He is regarded as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century.
Edward Franklin Albee III was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994).
John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff was a German physicist and mathematician who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. He coined the term black body in 1860.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Takashi Shimura was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1934 and 1981. He appeared in 21 of Akira Kurosawa's 30 films, including as a lead actor in Drunken Angel (1948), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954).
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños was a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as the President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970.
Harry Max Harrison was an American science fiction author, known mostly for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966). The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture Soylent Green (1973).
Kostas Mitroglou is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is nicknamed "Mitrogoal" and "Pistolero" by fans due to his goalscoring abilities.
Simon Newcomb was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath. He served as Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy and at Johns Hopkins University.
Harris & Ewing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, known in Ukraine as Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky, was a Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology.
María Gabriela Chávez Colmenares. She is the daughter of former President Hugo Chávez, and acted as his First Lady after his separation from Marisabel Rodríguez in 2003.
Wilson Dias/ABr by Belb derivate work Veronidae, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jenny Erpenbeck is a German writer and opera director. She won the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The End of Days and the 2024 International Booker Prize for Kairos.
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson is an Icelandic politician who was the prime minister of Iceland from May 2013 until April 2016. He was also chairman of the Progressive Party from 2009 to October 2016.
Christian Bjørnskov, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 60 people born on March 12, 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 August 2022. 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 12. Read the full methodology.
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