March 28 is the birthday of 40 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, scientists, authors and actors, and 5 of them are billionaires.
Amancio Ortega Gaona OMC is a Spanish billionaire businessman. He is the founder and former chairman of Inditex fashion group, best known for its chains of Zara and Bershka clothing and accessories shops. He is considered a pioneer in fast fashion.
Theodor Paul Albrecht was a German entrepreneur. He established the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Karl Albrecht. In 2010, Theo was ranked by Forbes as the 31st richest person in the world, with a net worth of $16.7 billion.
Zhang Jindong is a Chinese entrepreneur. He is one of the founders and the current honorary chairman of the Suning.com, headquartered in Nanjing, Jiangsu.
Industries of the companies the 5 wealthy people born on March 28 founded or led.
retail100% (3 people)
fashion33% (1 people)
Who shares March 28
What kind of people are born on March 28?
Share of the 40 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs35% (14 people)
Scientists28% (11 people)
Authors25% (10 people)
Actors23% (9 people)
Creators18% (7 people)
Politicians15% (6 people)
Musicians10% (4 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States12 (12 people)
France4 (4 people)
Spain3 (3 people)
Belgium2 (2 people)
People's Republic of China2 (2 people)
Czechoslovakia1 (1 people)
Ethiopia1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on March 28 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.
Reba Nell McEntire, or simply Reba, is an American country singer and actress. Dubbed "The Queen of Country", she has sold more than 75 million records worldwide.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Founder · RatPac-Dune Entertainment · entertainment
1969 · United States
Brett Ratner is an American film director and producer. He directed the Rush Hour film series, The Family Man, Red Dragon, X-Men: The Last Stand, Tower Heist, Hercules, and Melania.
Vincent Anthony Vaughn is an American actor. He is known for starring as a leading man in numerous comedy films during the late 1990s and 2000s. He has won a Critics' Choice Award and earned nominations for a Actors Award and a Emmy Award.
The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation.
Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Aristide Pierre Henri Briand was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic. He is mainly remembered for his focus on international issues and reconciliation politics during the interwar period (1918–1939).
Henri Manuel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Victor Vargas is a Venezuelan banker and businessman, best known for being the former owner and president of the 4th largest private bank in Venezuela, Banco Occidental de Descuento.
BOD (Banco Occidental de Descuento), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Germán Efromovich is a Bolivian-born entrepreneur with multiple citizenship: Brazilian, Colombian, and Polish. He was born into a family of Polish Jews. His net worth is estimated to be $1 billion.
Isaac Larian is an Iranian-born American billionaire businessman, founder and the chief executive officer (CEO) of MGA Entertainment, the world's largest privately owned toy company.
Anne Wersching was an American actress. She was known for her television roles as Renee Walker in 24, Julia Brasher in Bosch, Emma Whitmore in Timeless, Dr.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jackson Wang is a Hong Kong rapper, singer, and songwriter. After a career as a competitive fencer, he joined the South Korean boy band Got7, which debuted under JYP Entertainment in 2014.
Benjamin Jacques Marcel Pavard is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Inter Milan and the France national team. Although usually deployed as a centre-back, he is also capable of operating as a right-back.
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Zbigniew "Zbig" Kazimierz Brzeziński was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981.
Daniel Clement Dennett III was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. His research centered on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
Dmitry Rozhkov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alexander Grothendieck, later Alexandre Grothendieck in French, was a German-born French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.
Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique is a Peruvian former politician who served as President of Peru, from 2001 to 2006. He gained international prominence after leading the opposition against president Alberto Fujimori, who held the presidency from 1990 to 2000.
San Francisco Foghorn, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mehmed Emin Pasha was an Ottoman physician of German Jewish origin, naturalist, and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile. The Ottoman Empire conferred the title "Pasha" on him in 1886, and thereafter he was referred to as "Emin Pasha".
E.Carletti. Upload, stitch and restoration by Jebulon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jerome Isaac Friedman is an American physicist. He is institute professor and professor of physics, emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Betsythedevine, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael Warren Young is an American biologist and geneticist. He has dedicated decades to research studying genetically controlled patterns of sleep and wakefulness within Drosophila melanogaster.
Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Isaak Konstantinovich (Kushelevich) Kikoin was a Soviet physicist and an author of physics textbooks in Russian language who played an important role in the Soviet nuclear weapons program.
Vsevolod Tarasevich, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Corneille Jean François Heymans was a Belgian physiologist. He studied at the Jesuit College of Saint Barbara and then at Ghent University, where he obtained a doctor's degree in 1920.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dinesh Nandwana in Kota, Rajasthan) was an Indian first-generation entrepreneur, currently the Executive Chairman of Vakrangee Limited, an Indian technology company. He is ranked 88th in Forbes India's richest Indian by year 2017 with a net worth of US$1.72 billion.
This page lists 40 people born on March 28, 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 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 28. Read the full methodology.
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