Share of the 56 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors32% (18 people)
Authors21% (12 people)
Creators21% (12 people)
Politicians21% (12 people)
Entrepreneurs16% (9 people)
Scientists14% (8 people)
Athletes13% (7 people)
Countries
26 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States17 (17 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Brazil3 (3 people)
Philippines3 (3 people)
Australia2 (2 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
France2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on March 20 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.
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
actor
Chester Bennington
Top tier
Actor
1976–2017 · United States
Chester Charles Bennington was an American singer and songwriter who was the lead vocalist of the rock band Linkin Park. He was also the lead vocalist of Grey Daze, Dead by Sunrise, and Stone Temple Pilots at various points in his career.
Stefan Brending (2eight), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Carl Reiner was an American actor, author, comedian, director, and screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades. His awards and honors include 12 Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Louise Palanker from Los Angeles/Santa Barbara, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fred McFeely Rogers, known professionally as Mister Rogers, was an American television personality, Presbyterian minister, and author. He was the creator, showrunner, and host of the preschool television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which ran from 1968 to 2001.
Walt Seng; Distributed by PBS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Holly Hunter is an American actress. Born in Conyers, Georgia, her first acting role was as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play, before appearing in Rockdale County High School stagings of Oklahoma!, Man of La Mancha, and Fiddler on the Roof.
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Johnson & Johnson · pharmaceuticals
1960 · United States
Alex Gorsky is an American businessman. He is the former chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson. Gorsky stepped down as CEO of Johnson & Johnson in January 2022 and was succeeded by Joaquin Duato.
World Economic Forum, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fernando José Torres Sanz is a Spanish football manager and former player who played as a striker. He is the current manager of Atlético Madrid B. Due to his consistent goalscoring as a young player, Torres came to be nicknamed El Niño, which stuck with him throughout his career.
cristina cifuentes, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
David Wheeler, better known as David Thewlis, is an English actor and filmmaker. He has won one Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and received nominations for two BAFTA Awards, one Golden Globe Award, one Primetime Emmy Award, and one Screen Actors Guild Award.
David_Thewlis_at_San_Sebastian_Filmfestival_2008.jpg: Andreas Tai derivative work: RanZag (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright. He is considered one of the world's pre-eminent writers of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama". He pioneered theatrical realism but also wrote lyrical epic works.
Gustav Borgen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1948 until his retirement in 1974.
Sloane Stephens is an American professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association. Stephens has won eight WTA Tour-level singles titles, including the 2017 US Open.
Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave was an English actor and filmmaker. Beginning his career in theatre, he first appeared in the West End in 1937. He made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes in 1938.
Dame Vera Margaret Lewis, known professionally as Vera Lynn, was an English singer and entertainer whose musical recordings and performances were popular during World War II.
Xavier Dolan-Tadros is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Theresa Lynn Russell is an American actress whose career spans over four decades. Her filmography includes over 50 feature films, ranging from mainstream to independent and experimental films.
Savitri Devi Jindal is an Indian businesswoman and politician. She is the chairperson emeritus of the O.P. Jindal Group. She is also the president of Maharaja Agrasen Medical College, Agroha. As of October 2025, the Jindal family's net worth is estimated at US$40 billion.
Faustino Marcos Alberto Rojo is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a defender for Argentine Primera División club Racing Club. Mainly a centre-back, he can also play as a left-back.
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer. He was widely known for his methods to improve industrial efficiency. He was one of the first management consultants.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Miroslav Lajčák is a Slovak politician and diplomat who held the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic from 2009 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2020, serving across three different governments led by Robert Fico and one government led by Peter Pellegrini.
Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (popularly known as the Lion of Africa, was a general in the Imperial German Army and the commander of its forces in the German East Africa campaign.
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism.
Franz Carl Hiemer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa was a Ukrainian military, political and civic leader who served as hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate in 1687–1709. His long and stable rule was marked by economical and political recovery from the Ruin.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter was a Soviet and Russian classical pianist. Widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, he has been praised for the "depth of his interpretations, his virtuoso technique, and his vast repertoire".
Щербинин Юрий, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tomasz Mirosław Kuszczak is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He was most recently the goalkeeping coach of the Poland national team.
Anna Sewell was an English novelist who is known for her only book, Black Beauty, a novel about a horse. She was born into a Quaker family in Norfolk and moved to London as a baby. Her mother, Mary Wright Sewell, was the author of popular children's books.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Catherine Margaret Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland is a British Labour politician who served as the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and First Vice President of the European Commission in the Barroso Commission from 2009 to 2014.
Anne Bradstreet was among the most prominent of early English poets of North America and the first writer in England's North American colonies to be published.
Edmund H. Garrett, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gregg Binkley is an American actor. He is known for playing Kenny James on My Name is Earl (2005–2009), Barney on Raising Hope (2010–2014), Harold in Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation (1992), and Dan, the Del Taco spokesperson.
Sándor Csányi is a Hungarian billionaire businessman and banker. He is the chairman of OTP Group. Under his leadership, OTP expanded into a major European exchange-listed banking group operating in 11 countries.
This page lists 56 people born on March 20, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. 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 20. Read the full methodology.
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