March 6 is the birthday of 46 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, athletes, authors and creators, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
William Herbert Hunt was an American oil billionaire and member of the wealthy Hunt family. He along with his brothers Nelson Bunker Hunt and Lamar Hunt tried but failed to corner the world market in silver.
Share of the 46 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs28% (13 people)
Athletes26% (12 people)
Authors22% (10 people)
Creators22% (10 people)
Scientists22% (10 people)
Actors20% (9 people)
Politicians17% (8 people)
Countries
22 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States15 (15 people)
Poland3 (3 people)
Russia3 (3 people)
Spain3 (3 people)
France2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Nigeria2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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~21Shaquille O'NealReceived the NBA Rookie of the Year Award (1993)
Founder · Castle Rock Entertainment · entertainment
1947–2025 · United States
Robert Reiner was an American filmmaker, actor, and political activist. He directed a series of acclaimed studio films in a career that spanned comedy, drama, romance, and documentary.
Montclair Film Festival, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal, commonly known as Shaq, is an American former professional basketball player who is a sports analyst on the television program Inside the NBA.
MarkScottAustinTX, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
David Jon Gilmour is an English musician, singer, and songwriter best known for being the lead guitarist of the English rock band Pink Floyd. He joined in 1967, shortly before the departure of founding member Syd Barrett.
Connie Britton is an American actress. Her accolades include nominations for five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. She gained prominence for her roles in the television series Spin City (1996–2000), The West Wing (2001), and 24 (2006).
Black Tie Dinner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alan Greenspan was an American economist who served as the 13th chair of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. He worked as a private adviser and provided consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC.
While provided by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, it is a Federal Reserve image., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Benjamin Bankman-Fried, commonly known as SBF, is an American entrepreneur convicted of fraud. Bankman-Fried founded the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and was celebrated as a "poster boy" for crypto, with FTX having a global reach with more than 130 international affiliates.
Chief Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo was a Nigerian politician and statesman who served as the first Premier of the Western region of Nigeria. He was known as one of the key figures towards Nigeria's independence movement from 1957 to 1960.
Sally Dyson and Alhaji L. A. K. Abibi., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ilan Shor is an Israeli and Moldovan pro-Russian fugitive oligarch and politician. He was the chairman of the banned Șor Party and has played various roles in its successors. He resides in Russia, a country whose citizenship he received in 2024.
Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Özlem Türeci is a German physician, scientist and entrepreneur. In 2008, she co-founded the biotechnology company BioNTech, which in 2020 developed the first messenger RNA-based vaccine approved for use against COVID-19.
Alexandre "Sandro" Rosell i Feliu is a Spanish businessman. He earned an MBA degree from ESADE. Rosell ran as senior adviser of Joan Laporta during the 2003 Barcelona elections and was the vice-president of sports until June 2005.
Sandro Rosell, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a Russian engineer, politician, and former Soviet cosmonaut. She was the first woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.
Moira Kelly is an American actress known for portraying Kate Moseley in the 1992 film The Cutting Edge as well as single mother Karen Roe on the teen drama One Tree Hill.
Timothy Matthew Howard is an American former professional soccer player who played as a goalkeeper. Nicknamed the "Secretary of Defense", Howard is regarded as one of the greatest American soccer players.
1806–1861 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Stephen Lawrence Schwartz is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written hit musicals including Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972), and Wicked (2003).
PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first human space program of the United States.
Agnieszka Roma Radwańska is a Polish former professional tennis player and current coach. She was ranked world No. 2 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), in July 2012.
Andrzej Witold Wajda was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the "Polish Film School".
Piotr DrabikDerivative work: TharonXX, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John of Austria was the illegitimate son of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and a military leader in the service of the Spanish Empire under his half-brother, King Philip II of Spain.
Alonso Sánchez Coello, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Harald Anton "Toni" Schumacher is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. At club level, he won a Bundesliga title and three DFB-Pokal titles with 1. FC Köln. At international level, he represented West Germany.
Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Shaukat Aziz is a Pakistani-born British former banker who served as the 15th prime minister of Pakistan from 28 August 2004 to 15 November 2007. When his term as Prime Minister was over, he immediately left Pakistan and settled in the United Kingdom.
World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer was a German physicist and optical lens manufacturer. He made optical glass, an achromatic telescope, and objective lenses. He developed diffraction gratings and also invented the spectroscope.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lorin Varencove Maazel was an American conductor, violinist and composer. He began conducting at the age of eight and by 1953 had decided to pursue a career in music.
Adam Osborne was a British author, software publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere. He introduced the Osborne 1, the first commercially successful portable computer.
Bill Crouch (-1998), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Carolyn C. Porco is an American planetary scientist who explores the outer Solar System, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s. She led the imaging science team on the Cassini mission in orbit around Saturn.
Elliot Severn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Francysk Skaryna was a Belarusian humanist, physician and translator. He is known to be one of the first book printers in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in all of Eastern Europe, laying the groundwork for the development of the Belarusian izvod of the Church Slavonic language.
Francišak Skaryna, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Pehr Kalm, also known as Peter Kalm, was a Swedish-Finnish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of the most important apostles of Carl Linnaeus.
Johan Georg Geitel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest was a French zoologist and author. He was the son of Nicolas Desmarest and the father of Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest.
Ambroise Tardieu, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1810–1888 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
George Robert Waterhouse was an English naturalist. He was a keeper at the department of geology and later curator of the Zoological Society of London's museum.
Thomas Herbert Maguire (1821 – 1895), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 46 people born on March 6, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 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 April 2024. 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 6. Read the full methodology.
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