March 29 is the birthday of 58 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, actors, scientists and creators, and 4 of them are billionaires.
David Ross Cheriton is a Canadian computer scientist, businessman, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. He is a computer science professor at Stanford University, where he founded and leads the Distributed Systems Group.
Stephen Andrew Feinberg is an American billionaire businessman and government official who has served as the 36th United States deputy secretary of defense since 2025. He is the co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of Cerberus Capital Management.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
$1Bolder estimate, as of February 2025 · Bloomberg
Ariel Zev Emanuel is an American businessman who is the executive chairman of WME Group, an entertainment and media agency, as well as CEO and executive chairman of TKO Group Holdings, which owns the UFC and WWE.
Industries of the companies the 4 wealthy people born on March 29 founded or led.
entertainment100% (1 people)
media100% (1 people)
Who shares March 29
What kind of people are born on March 29?
Share of the 58 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs29% (17 people)
Actors21% (12 people)
Scientists21% (12 people)
Athletes19% (11 people)
Authors19% (11 people)
Creators19% (11 people)
Politicians17% (10 people)
Countries
29 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States18 (18 people)
France4 (4 people)
Italy3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Greece2 (2 people)
Kingdom of Italy2 (2 people)
South Korea2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on March 29 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.
Brendan Gleeson is an Irish actor. He has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, two British Independent Film Awards and three IFTA Awards, along with nominations for an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards and five Golden Globe Awards.
Mario Antonio Pena Zapatería from Irun, Spain, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
N'Golo Kanté is a French professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe and the France national team. Regarded as one of the greatest defensive midfielders of all time, he is known for his stamina and work-rate on the pitch.
Robert James Shiller is an American economist, academic, and author. As of 2022, he served as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center for Finance.
Robert_Shiller_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_2012.jpg: World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland derivative, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is an American astrophysicist. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics with Russell Alan Hulse "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation".
2008JosephTaylorWithMarietta.jpg: Betsythedevine Betsy Devine derivative work: Materialscientist (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Moore Walton was an American business magnate, philanthropist, and military veteran best known for co-founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club, which he started in Rogers, Arkansas, and Midwest City, Oklahoma, in 1962 and 1983 respectively.
Janice Waltzer from Owasso, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu is a Nigerian politician serving as the 16th and current president of Nigeria since 2023. He previously served as the governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007 and senator for Lagos West in the Third Republic.
Amy Louise Sedaris is an American actress, comedian, and writer. She played Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central comedy series Strangers with Candy (1999–2000) and the prequel film Strangers with Candy (2005), which she also wrote.
Eric Idle is an English actor, comedian, songwriter, musician, screenwriter and playwright. He was a member of the British comedy group Monty Python and the parody rock band the Rutles.
Eduardo Unda-Sanzana, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Terence Hill is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with his long-time film partner and friend Bud Spencer.
Spencerhilldb, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, mainly known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek composer, arranger, performer and record producer. He released material of wide musical genres such as electronic music, progressive rock, ambient, and classical orchestral music.
Choi Jin-ri, known professionally as Sulli, was a South Korean singer and actress. She first made her debut as a child actress, appearing as a supporting cast member on the SBS historical drama Ballad of Seodong (2005).
우연히현영 (wooyeon724), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jon "Jo" Nesbø is a Norwegian novelist and musician. His books had sold over 50 million copies worldwide by 2021, making him the most successful Norwegian author to date. He first came to prominence as a musician with country-pop band Di Derre.
Jennifer Maria Capriati is an American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 17 weeks.
Dimitri Payet is a French former professional footballer who primarily played as an attacking midfielder. A set-piece specialist known for his accurate, bending free kicks, he was described as a player who was "blessed with terrific technique and dribbling skills".
Fabio Borini is an Italian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder, left winger or forward most recently for EFL League Two club Salford City.
Marc Overmars is a Dutch former professional footballer and former director of football at Belgian Pro League side Royal Antwerp. He was previously director of football at Ajax. During his football career, he played as a winger and was renowned for his speed and technical skills.
Bae Joo-hyun, better known by her stage name Irene (아이린), is a South Korean singer, actress and rapper. She is best known as the member and leader of the South Korean girl group Red Velvet, and its sub-unit Red Velvet – Irene & Seulgi.
SeulRene 'IS' LOVE❤️, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings.
Weaver, Lawrence, 1876-1930, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Anna Eileen Heckart was an American stage and screen actress whose career spanned nearly 60 years. Heckart won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Emmy Awards, as well as was nominated for three Tony Awards.
Studio Publicity, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Michel Hazanavicius is a French film director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. He is best known for his 2011 film, The Artist, that won the Best Picture and the Best Director at the 84th Academy Awards.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Warner Leroy Baxter was an American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Baxter is known for his role as the Cisco Kid in the 1928 film In Old Arizona, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 2nd Academy Awards.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lennart Georg Meri was an Estonian writer, film director, and statesman. He was the country's foreign minister from 1990 to 1992 and President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001.
Tullio Levi-Civita, was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on absolute differential calculus and its applications to the theory of relativity, but who also made significant contributions in other areas.
Materialscientist, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Elihu Thomson was an English-American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dezső Kosztolányi was a Hungarian writer, journalist, translator, and also a speaker of Esperanto. He wrote in all literary genres, from poetry to essays to theatre plays. Building his own style, he used French symbolism, impressionism, expressionism and psychological realism.
Aladár Székely, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 58 people born on March 29, 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 March 2025. 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 29. Read the full methodology.
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