March 5 is the birthday of 46 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, politicians, creators and historical figures, and 5 of them are billionaires.
Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault is a French businessman. He is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods company.
Sir David Roberts McMurtry was an Irish billionaire businessman, who was the co-founder and executive chairman of Renishaw plc, the UK's largest supplier of metrology equipment. As of December 2024, his net worth was estimated at US$1.3 billion.
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Konstantin Yuryevich Nikolaev is an international businessman and former co-owner N-Trans, Globaltrans, the largest private rail operator in Russia, CIS, and the Baltic states and Global Ports. He is under sanctions by Ukraine.
Morris Kahn was an Israeli billionaire businessman. He was the founder of Golden Pages Israel, Amdocs, the Aurec Group, Coral World and other companies. Through Coral World, he founded several marine parks around the world, including an underwater observatory in Eilat, Israel.
Share of the 46 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs28% (13 people)
Politicians20% (9 people)
Creators17% (8 people)
Actors15% (7 people)
Scientists15% (7 people)
Athletes13% (6 people)
Authors13% (6 people)
Countries
26 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States10 (10 people)
France5 (5 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
Sweden2 (2 people)
Austria1 (1 people)
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Eva de la Caridad Méndez, known professionally as Eva Mendes, is an American former actress. Her acting career began in the late 1990s with a series of roles in films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) and Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000).
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Madison Elle Beer is an American singer-songwriter and television personality. Beer first gained media attention after Justin Bieber posted a link to her cover of "At Last" in 2012, when she was 13 years old. In 2018, she released her debut extended play (EP), As She Pleases.
Daniel Kahneman was an Israeli-American psychologist best known for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences together with Vernon L. Smith.
Michel Henri Devoret is a French–American physicist. He is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Yale University. He serves as the Chief Scientist for Quantum Hardware at Google Quantum AI.
Christian Ursilva from København, Danmark, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
James Tobin was an American economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers and consulted with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Yale University.
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John Anthony Frusciante is an American musician who is the guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers across three stints. He has released over a dozen solo albums and 9 EPs, ranging in style from acoustic guitar to electronic music.
Hel Davies from United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Felipe González Márquez is a retired Spanish politician who was Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996 and leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party from 1974 to 1997. He is the longest-serving democratically elected prime minister of Spain.
Elizabeth Ruth Naomi Belville, also known as the Greenwich Time Lady, was a businesswoman from London. She, her mother Maria Elizabeth, and her father John Henry, sold people the time.
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Laurence Alan Tisch was an American billionaire businessman and investor. He was the CEO of CBS television network from 1986 to 1995. With his brother Bob Tisch, he was part owner of Loews Corporation.
Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian poet, revolutionary, writer, film director, actor and playwright. He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italian history, influential both as an artist and a political figure.
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Sir Reginald Carey Harrison was an English actor. Harrison began his career on the stage at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1924. He made his West End debut in 1936 appearing in the Terence Rattigan play French Without Tears, in what was his breakthrough role.
Frederico Rodrigues de Paula Santos, known as Fred, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Atlético Mineiro.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music".
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Pope Clement VIII, born Ippolito Aldobrandini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 30 January 1592 to his death in March 1605.
Giuseppe Cesari, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Patrick Paul Gelsinger is an American business executive and engineer. He was chief executive officer (CEO) of Intel from February 2021 to December 2024.
Laurent-Moïse Schwartz was a French mathematician who received the Fields Medal in 1950 for pioneering the theory of distributions or generalized functions, giving a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function.
Gerald Mervin Vanenburg is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who was most recently the assistant coach of the Indonesia national team and the head coach of the Indonesia under-23 national team.
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Jan van der Heyden was a Dutch Baroque-era painter, glass painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Van der Heyden was one of the first Dutch painters to specialize in townscapes and became one of the leading architectural painters of the Dutch Golden Age.
Karl-Erivan Haub was an American-born German billionaire businessman. He was managing director and part owner of Tengelmann Group. He disappeared while mountaineering on April 7, 2018, and was legally declared dead by a German court in May 2021.
Professor Yevhen Oksarovych Paton, also known as Evgeny Oskarovich Paton, was a Russian Empire and Soviet Union engineer who established in 1934 the E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute in Kyiv. Paton was a people's deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1946–1953).
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Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini was a Swazi business executive who served as the tenth prime minister of Eswatini, holding the office from October 2018 until his death on 13 December 2020.
This page lists 46 people born on March 5, 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 August 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 5. Read the full methodology.
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