March 7 is the birthday of 53 notable people we've found so far, including historical figures, scientists, authors and actors, and 2 of them are billionaires.
$15.5Bolder estimate, as of November 2022 · Bloomberg
Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud is a Saudi Arabian billionaire businessman, investor, and a House of Saud royal. In 2008, he was listed on Time magazine's Time 100, an annual list of the hundred most influential people in the world.
John Carl Malone is an American billionaire businessman, landowner, and philanthropist. He was chief executive officer (CEO) of Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), a cable and media giant, from 1973 to 1996.
Share of the 53 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Scientists26% (14 people)
Authors25% (13 people)
Actors23% (12 people)
Creators19% (10 people)
Athletes15% (8 people)
Entrepreneurs13% (7 people)
Artists11% (6 people)
Countries
19 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States20 (20 people)
France9 (9 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Austria1 (1 people)
Czechoslovakia1 (1 people)
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Sanae Takaichi is a Japanese politician who has been Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since October 2025. She is the first woman to hold either of these positions in Japanese history.
Immediate source: MOFA/Japanese Embassy to South Africa, probable source: Cabinet Public Affairs Office, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rachel Hannah Weisz is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide · Einsatzgruppen
1904–1942 · Nazi Germany
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was a high-ranking SS and police official in Nazi Germany as well as one of the principal architects of the Holocaust. He held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei.
John Peter Sarsgaard is an American actor. He studied at the Actors Studio, before rising to prominence playing atypical and sometimes villainous roles in film and television.
Michael Dammann Eisner is an American businessman and media proprietor who served as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Walt Disney Company from September 1984 to September 2005.
Jean-Dominique Senard is a French industrialist in the automobile industry. On 11 May 2012, he succeeded Michel Rollier as chief executive officer of the Michelin tire company after joining the company as chief financial officer in 2005.
Ludwig Mond FRS was a German-born British chemist and industrialist. He discovered an important, previously unknown, class of compounds called metal carbonyls.
Solomon Joseph Solomon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Laura Prepon is an American actress and television director. She rose to fame with her role as Donna Pinciotti in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show (1998–2006). She is also known for portraying Alex Vause in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019).
Miguel Discart & Kiri Karma, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bret Easton Ellis is an American author and screenwriter. Ellis was one of the Literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique as a writer is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style.
Ronald Federico Araújo da Silva is an Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Liverpool, on loan from La Liga club Barcelona, and the Uruguay national team.
Anupam Kher is an Indian actor, director and producer who works primarily in Hindi cinema. In a career spanning over four decades, he has acted in more than 540 films.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term.
Unknown authorUnknown author The image holder, the Bibliothèque nationale de France has not identified a photographer. (, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian, was a Dutch painter and art theoretician, who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mathieu Pierre Flamini is a French entrepreneur and former professional footballer. A midfielder, he played for French side Marseille, English sides Arsenal and Crystal Palace, Italian side Milan and Spanish side Getafe.
Ronnie Macdonald from Chelmsford and Largs, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hatem Ben Arfa is a French former professional footballer who played as a winger and attacking midfielder. Known for his flair and dribbling ability, Ben Arfa is regarded as a fan favourite with a cult following and one of the greatest dribblers of all time.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Amanda S. C. Gorman is an American poet, activist, and model. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from Washington D.C, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Dennis Harris CBE is a British novelist and former journalist. Although he began his career in journalism and non-fiction, he is best known for his works of historical fiction.
C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Erika Mitchell, known by her pen name E. L. James, is a British author. She wrote the best-selling Fifty Shades series of erotic romance novels, which spawned a multimedia franchise including a film trilogy of the same name.
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was a Czechoslovak statesman, political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1935. He is regarded as the founding father of Czechoslovakia.
Státní grafická škola v Praze / Karel Novák (1875–1950), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor and one of the pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process.
Léonard François Berger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
David Baltimore was an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He was a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he served as president from 1997 to 2006.
1792–1871 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet was an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and experimental photographer who invented the blueprint and did botanical work.
Julia Margaret Cameron, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kimifusa Abe, known by his pen name Kōbō Abe, was a Japanese writer, playwright and director. His 1962 novel The Woman in the Dunes was made into an award-winning film by Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1964.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Georges Perec was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Holocaust.
Daniel Goleman is an American psychologist, author, and science journalist. For twelve years, he wrote for The New York Times, reporting on the brain and behavioral sciences.
World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni was an Italian philosopher, poet, playwright, and novelist. He is best known for the novel The Betrothed, generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature.
Francesco Hayez, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Luther Burbank was an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank primarily worked with fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables.
Shaw Photography, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Eleni Foureira is an Albanian-born Greek singer. She began her music career in 2007 as a member of the Greek girl group Mystique, pursuing a solo career after the group disbanded in 2009. She has released six studio albums since.
Dewayne Barkley, EuroVisionary, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Chief Pete Edochie MON is a Nigerian actor. He rose to prominence in the 1980s with his portrayal of Okonkwo in a Nigerian Television Authority adaptation of Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart.
Jacques Chaban-Delmas was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1969 to 1972. He was the Mayor of Bordeaux from 1947 to 1995 and a deputy for the Gironde département between 1946 and 1997.
Julius Wagner-Jauregg was an Austrian physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927, and is the first psychiatrist to have done so.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 53 people born on March 7, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 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 7. Read the full methodology.
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