March 18 is the birthday of 49 notable people we've found so far, including authors, historical figures, actors and politicians, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Hans Daniel Melchers was a Dutch businessman. Melchers founded Melchemie Holland BV, and was major (15%) shareholder in HAL Investments BV. With a total capital of €460 million, Melchers reached a 36th spot in the 2005 edition of the Quote 500-list of the most wealthy Dutch.
Tan Sri Datuk Tiong Hiew King PSM PGBK was a Malaysian businessman who was the founder and chairman of the Rimbunan Hijau Group, a timber company founded in 1975. Its overseas timber operations in Papua New Guinea is the largest in that country.
Share of the 49 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors33% (16 people)
Authors33% (16 people)
Creators24% (12 people)
Politicians24% (12 people)
Entrepreneurs20% (10 people)
Musicians18% (9 people)
Athletes6% (3 people)
Countries
23 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States15 (15 people)
France7 (7 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Philippines2 (2 people)
Russian Empire2 (2 people)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland2 (2 people)
Australia1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on March 18 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
25Irene CaraReceived the Academy Award for Best Original Song (1984)
~25Brad DourifNotable work: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
~75Randal CremerReceived the Nobel Peace Prize (1903)
53Neville ChamberlainBecame Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (1923)
The standouts
The most successful people born on March 18
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
actor
Lily Collins
Top tier
Actor
1989 · United States
Lily Jane Collins is an English and American actress. Born in Guildford and raised in Los Angeles, she began performing on screen at the age of two in the BBC sitcom Growing Pains.
Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first Democrat elected president after the American Civil War and the first U.S. president to serve nonconsecutive terms.
Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Arthur Neville Chamberlain was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940.
Lafayette Ltd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Frederik Willem de Klerk was a South African politician who served as the final state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to 1996.
Walter Rutishauser, Photographer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a German inventor and mechanical engineer. He is best known for inventing the diesel engine, which burns diesel fuel. Both are named for him.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Leandro Antonio Legarda Leviste is a Filipino businessman and politician, currently serving as the representative of Batangas's 1st congressional district since 2025. He is the son of former Batangas Governor Antonio Leviste and Senator Loren Legarda.
House of Representatives of the Philippines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American singer, actress, model, producer and dancer. She gained recognition as the first black woman to win the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984.
Christopher Peterson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Adam Noah Levine is an American singer, musician and television personality who is the lead singer, rhythm guitarist and sole continuous member of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
Shashi Kapoor was an Indian actor and producer known primarily for his work in Hindi films. He is considered as one of the greatest actors in the history of Hindi cinema, and is a recipient of several accolades, including four National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John Caldwell Calhoun was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832.
Rembrandt Peale, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Irene Cara Escalera was an American singer and actress who rose to prominence for her role as Coco Hernandez in the 1980 musical film Fame, and for recording the film's title song "Fame", which reached No. 1 in several countries.
Aaron Rapoport. Published and Distributed by Elektra Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Peter Graves was an American actor who portrayed Jim Phelps in the television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973 and in its revival from 1988 to 1990. His elder brother was actor James Arness.
Laura Pergolizzi, known professionally as LP, is an American singer, musician and songwriter from Brooklyn, New York. LP has released seven albums and three EPs.
José Diogo Dalot Teixeira is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a full-back or a wing-back for Premier League club Manchester United and the Portugal national team.
Ciara Quinn Bravo is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress, starring in the Nickelodeon series Big Time Rush and the Fox series Red Band Society. She also appeared in the Nickelodeon television films Jinxed and Swindle.
Margaret Gardiner, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari, was an Italian diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy under the government of his father-in-law, Benito Mussolini, from 1936 until 1943.
Atelier Binder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Friedrich Robert Donat was an English actor. Making his breakthrough film role in Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), today he is best remembered for his roles in The Count of Monte Cristo (1934), Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), and Goodbye, Mr.
Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Geoffrey Louis Owens is an American actor known for his role as Elvin Tibideaux on The Cosby Show (1985–1992). He is the son of the United States Congressman Major Owens.
Willy David Frédéric Sagnol is a French professional football manager and former player who played as a defender. He is currently the manager of the Georgia national team.
Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, usually cited as G. E. M. Anscombe or Elizabeth Anscombe, was a British analytic philosopher. She wrote on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and ethics.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was a Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialist who emphasized the existential spiritual significance of human freedom and the human person.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa was an Italian nobleman and composer. Though both the Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, he is better known for writing madrigals and pieces of sacred music that use a chromatic language not heard again until the late 19th century.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Salomé Nino Zourabichvili is a French-born Georgian politician and former diplomat who served as the fifth president of Georgia, becoming the first woman to be elected as president in the country's history.
საქართველოს პრეზიდენტის ადმინისტრაცია - Administration of the President of Georgia, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov was a Russian author of children's books and satirical fables. He wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems.
Presidential Press and Information Office, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Christian Goldbach was a Prussian mathematician connected with some important research mainly in number theory; he also studied law and took an interest in and a role in the Russian court.
René Clément was a French film director and screenwriter, active from the 1930s through the 1970s. He was considered one of his country's leading filmmakers of the post-World War II era, and continued to work steadily through the New Wave era.
Studio Harcourt., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette, better known as Madame de La Fayette, was a French writer; she authored La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.
This page lists 49 people born on March 18, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 March 18. Read the full methodology.
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