March 15 is the birthday of 47 notable people we've found so far, including historical figures, entrepreneurs, scientists and authors, and 4 of them are billionaires.
Uday Suresh Kotak is an Indian banker and founder of Kotak Mahindra Bank, where he is a non-executive director. He resigned from his CEO position in September 2023. His son, Jay Kotak, is the co-head of the bank's digital banking app, 811.
Karel Komárek is a Czech businessman worth $9.4 billion as of March 2024. He is one of the wealthiest Czech citizens and the founder of the investment company KKCG.
Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green is a British businessman who was the chairman of the retail company Arcadia Group. He owned the high street clothing retailers Topshop, Topman, and Miss Selfridge from 2002 to 2020.
Steven Charles Witkoff is an American real estate investor and former attorney who is the founder of the Witkoff Group. Since 2025, Witkoff has served as the United States special envoy to the Middle East and special envoy for peace missions.
The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 47 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs26% (12 people)
Scientists26% (12 people)
Authors23% (11 people)
Actors19% (9 people)
Politicians15% (7 people)
Musicians11% (5 people)
Artists9% (4 people)
Countries
25 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States12 (12 people)
Russia4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
Czech Republic2 (2 people)
Kingdom of Prussia2 (2 people)
Republic of Florence2 (2 people)
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Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. He rose to fame as a U.S. Army general and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. His political philosophy, which dominated his presidency, became the basis for the rise of Jacksonian democracy.
Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Eva Jacqueline Longoria Bastón is an American actress, producer, director, and businesswoman. After several guest roles on television, she gained popularity for her portrayal of Isabella Braña on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless (2001–2003).
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was mostly active in Rome from his 30s onwards.
Attributed to Daniele da Volterra, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Labile Pogba is a French professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder. He is currently a free agent. Regarded as one of the best midfielders of his generation, he is known for his passing, vision, physicality, shooting, and dribbling.
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Alia Bhatt is a British actress of Indian descent who predominantly works in Hindi films. Known for her portrayals of women in challenging circumstances, she has received several accolades, including a National Film Award and seven Filmfare Awards.
Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jakob Fugger of the Lily, also known as Jakob Fugger the Rich or Jakob II, was a major German merchant, mining entrepreneur, and banker. He was a descendant of the Fugger merchant family located in the Free Imperial City of Augsburg.
Albrecht Dürer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thurman John Rodgers is an American billionaire scientist and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Cypress Semiconductor and holds patents ranging from semiconductors to energy to winemaking.
Johann Josef Loschmidt, better known as Josef Loschmidt, was an Austrian scientist who performed ground-breaking work in chemistry, physics, and crystal forms.
The original uploader was Obersachse at Russian Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ntsokoane Samuel Matekane is a Mosotho businessman and politician who is the current Prime Minister of Lesotho since 2022. Prior to running, he was considered to be the richest person in the country.
Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020.
Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jai Courtney is an Australian actor. Courtney started his career as a teenager with small roles in film and television, and studied acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kellan Christopher Lutz is an American actor and model. He made his film debut in Stick It (2006), and is best known for playing Emmett Cullen in The Twilight Saga film series (2008–2012).
Joseph Hahn, known professionally as Mr. Hahn, is an American musician, DJ, director, and visual artist best known as the DJ and creative director of the rock band Linkin Park, doing the scratching, turntables, sampling, and programming for all eight of Linkin Park's albums.
Warner Records, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Shunzhi Emperor, personal name Fulin, was the second emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the first Qing emperor to rule over China proper. Upon the death of his father Hong Taiji, a committee of Manchu princes chose the 5-year-old Fulin as successor.
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Alan LaVern Bean was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, NASA astronaut and painter. He was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3, and was the fourth person to walk on the Moon.
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Svetlana Vladimirovna Medvedeva is a Russian economist who was the First Lady of Russia from 2008 to 2012, as the wife of the then president and former prime minister Dmitry Medvedev.
Пресс-служба Президента России, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies.
Originally uploaded by Filiocht on the English Wikipedia, uploaded to Commons for use on the English Wikisource., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kristian Konstantinov Kostov is a Bulgarian-Kazakh singer. He was a finalist in season one of The Voice Kids Russia and a runner-up in the fourth season of X Factor Bulgaria.
Mykola Swarnyk, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, Okri has been compared to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez.
Zarah Leander was a Swedish singer and actress whose greatest success was in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1943, when she was contracted to work for the state-owned Universum Film AG (UFA).
SF-fotografen Louis Huch (1896–1961), som tog stillbildsfoton till filmen., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Moungi Gabriel Bawendi is an American chemist. He is currently the Lester Wolfe Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bawendi is known for his advances in the chemical production of high-quality quantum dots.
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Francesco Guicciardini was an Italian historian and statesman. A friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli, he is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance.
Cristofano dell'Altissimo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov was a Russian applied physicist who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics.
Juan Luis Vives y March was a Spanish (Valencian) scholar and Renaissance humanist who spent most of his adult life in the southern Habsburg Netherlands.
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Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse was a German writer and translator. A member of two important literary societies, the Tunnel über der Spree in Berlin and Die Krokodile in Munich, he wrote novels, poetry, 177 short stories, and about sixty dramas.
Adolph von Menzel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a French astronomer and geodesist who named 14 out of the 88 constellations. From 1750 to 1754, he studied the sky at the Cape of Good Hope in present-day South Africa.
Melle Le Jeuneux, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Edward Donnall "Don" Thomas was an American physician, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and director emeritus of the clinical research division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Euller Elias de Carvalho is a Brazilian retired football player at the position of striker. Throughout his career, he was nicknamed "The Son of the Wind" for his exceptional pace.
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Herman Andersson was a Swedish farmer and politician. He represented the Farmer's League in the lower house of the Swedish bicameral parliament from 1901 until his death in 1938.
This page lists 47 people born on March 15, 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 April 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 March 15. Read the full methodology.
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