March 19 is the birthday of 51 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, authors, historical figures and politicians, and 5 of them are billionaires.
$42.9Breported estimate as of September 2026 · Forbes
Eduardo Luiz Saverin is a Brazilian entrepreneur, angel investor, and philanthropist known for co-founding Facebook, based in Singapore. He is the co-founder and co-CEO of the venture capital firm B Capital with Raj Ganguly.
Leonard Alan Lauder was an American billionaire, philanthropist and art collector. Together, he and his brother, Ronald Lauder, were the sole heirs to the Estée Lauder Companies cosmetics fortune, founded in 1946 by their parents, Estée and Joseph Lauder.
Chung Mong-koo is a South Korean business magnate. He is the honorary chairman and former CEO of Hyundai Motor Group, Korea's second largest chaebol that manages 54 subsidiaries including Hyundai Motor, Kia Motors, and Hyundai Steel.
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Share of the 51 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors29% (15 people)
Entrepreneurs29% (15 people)
Politicians27% (14 people)
Actors18% (9 people)
Scientists16% (8 people)
Athletes14% (7 people)
Musicians14% (7 people)
Countries
34 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States10 (10 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
France2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
South Korea2 (2 people)
Spain2 (2 people)
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Ali ibn Abi Talib was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 CE until his assassination in 661, as well as the first Shia Imam. He was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife, Irène Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity.
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Sir Walter Norman Haworth FRS was a British chemist best known for his groundbreaking work on ascorbic acid while working at the University of Birmingham. He received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C".
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Sakichi Toyoda was a Japanese inventor and industrialist who founded Toyoda Automatic Loom Works. The son of a farmer and sought-after carpenter, he started the Toyoda family companies. His son, Kiichiro Toyoda, would later establish Japan's largest automaker, Toyota.
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Lenín Voltaire Moreno Garcés is an Ecuadorian politician who was the 46th president of Ecuador from 2017 to 2021. He was also vice president from 2007 to 2013, under President Rafael Correa.
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Bernard James Freeman, known professionally as Bun B is an American rapper. He is best known as one half of the Southern rap duo UGK, which he formed in 1987 alongside Pimp C.
Minna Canth was a Finnish writer and social activist. Canth began to write while managing her family draper's shop and living as a widow raising seven children.
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Ursula Andress is a Swiss retired actress who has appeared in American, British, and Italian films. Her breakthrough role was as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962). She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the 1967 Bond parody Casino Royale.
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Hakim Ziyech is a professional footballer who plays as a right winger or an attacking midfielder for Brasileiro Série A club Botafogo. Born in the Netherlands, he represented the Morocco national team.
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Patrick Joseph McGoohan was an Irish-American actor, director, producer, and writer of film, television, and theatre. Born in New York City to Irish parents, he was raised in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
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David Livingstone was a Scottish doctor, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family.
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Jiang Qing, born Li Yunhe, also known as Li Jin, and briefly known by her stage name Lan Ping in the 1930s Shanghai, was a Chinese revolutionary, actress, and political figure.
Kolo Abib Touré is an Ivorian professional football manager and former player who was most recently the assistant manager of Premier League club Manchester City.
William Jennings Bryan was an American lawyer, orator, and politician. He was a dominant force in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1896, 1900, and 1908 elections.
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Alessandro Nesta is an Italian professional football coach and former player who played as a centre-back, currently the head coach of Serie B club Avellino.
Sir Richard Francis Burton was a British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and South America, as well as his extensive knowledge of languages and cultures, speaking up to 29 different languages.
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Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation.
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Hidayet "Hedo" Türkoğlu is a Turkish basketball executive and former professional player. A 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) forward, Türkoğlu played for six teams in his 15-season career in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Dom John IV, was King of Portugal from 1640 until his death in 1656. The grandson of Catherine, Duchess of Braganza, a claimant to the crown during the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580, he was proclaimed king in 1640 following the outbreak of the Portuguese Restoration War.
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Mario Monti is an Italian politician, economist and academic who served as the prime minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013, leading a technocratic government in the wake of the Italian debt crisis.
Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz was a German grand admiral and State Secretary of the German Imperial Naval Office, the administrative branch of the German Imperial Navy from 1897 until 1916.
Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator who is considered one of the most influential 20th-century art teachers in the United States.
Lenka Eden Kripac is an Australian singer-songwriter and actress. She is best known for her 2008 single "The Show", which has been used in several advertisements for Old Navy, as well as the Nickelodeon film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging and the 2011 film Moneyball.
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Miloš Teodosić is a Serbian sports director and former professional basketball player. He also represented the National Basketball Team of Serbia internationally. He primarily played the point guard and shooting guard positions.
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Yegor Timurovich Gaidar was a Soviet and Russian economist, politician, and author who was the acting Prime Minister of Russia in 1992 and simultaneously held several other cabinet roles.
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Kang Youwei was a Chinese political thinker and reformer in the late Qing dynasty. His increasing closeness to and influence over the young Guangxu Emperor sparked conflict between the emperor and his adoptive mother, the regent Empress Dowager Cixi.
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Hans Küng was a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author. He was a leading and often controversial figure in modern Catholic thought, known for his critique of papal infallibility and his advocacy of a re-examination of Catholic doctrine.
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Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev is a Russian singer, songwriter and actor, whose popularity peaked in the 1980s and 1990s. He was titled a People's Artist of Russia in 1996.
Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson, known as Björgólfur Thor, also known internationally as Thor Bjorgolfsson, and colloquially in Iceland as Bjöggi, is an Icelandic businessman and entrepreneur. He is also chairman and founder of Novator Partners.
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras, commonly known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African-born novelist, journalist and political commentator who in 1956 settled in Jamaica, where he lived for the rest of his life. His death at the age of 97 is considered to have been murder.
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Charles-François Lebrun, 1st duc de Plaisance was a French statesman who served as Third Consul of the French Republic and was later created Arch-Treasurer by Napoleon I.
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This page lists 51 people born on March 19, 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 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 19. Read the full methodology.
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