March 8 is the birthday of 48 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, authors, historical figures and scientists, and 6 of them are billionaires.
$21.9Bolder estimate, as of February 2024 · Bloomberg
Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko is a Soviet-born billionaire entrepreneur, financier, and industrialist. He is the founder and ex-beneficiary of fertilizer producer EuroChem Group and coal producer SUEK. He served as non-executive director in both companies until 9 March 2022.
Kim Beom-soo, also known as Brian Kim, is a South Korean billionaire businessman who is the founder and chairman of Kakao, a South Korean internet company. He is among the richest people in South Korea.
Florentino Pérez Rodríguez is a Spanish businessman and politician. He is the president of the football club Real Madrid, as well as chairman and CEO of ACS Group, a civil engineering company.
Niranjan Hiranandani is an Indian billionaire businessman, the co-founder and managing director of Hiranandani Group, engaged in real estate business. He is ranked by Forbes among the 100 richest Indians, with a net worth of US$1.6 billion as of June 2021.
Yelena Nikolayevna Baturina is an international billionaire businesswoman and a philanthropist of Russian origin. She is based in Austria. She was married to Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow, until his death in 2019.
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Share of the 48 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs25% (12 people)
Authors21% (10 people)
Scientists19% (9 people)
Actors17% (8 people)
Artists17% (8 people)
Athletes17% (8 people)
Creators15% (7 people)
Countries
24 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
Brazil3 (3 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Czech Republic2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Soviet Union2 (2 people)
Spain2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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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.
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~24Lynn RedgraveReceived the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (1967)
Otto Hahn was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the field of radiochemistry. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and discoverer of nuclear fission, the science behind nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Edward Calvin Kendall was an American biochemist. In 1950, Kendall was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine along with Swiss chemist Tadeusz Reichstein and Mayo Clinic physician Philip S. Hench, for their work with the hormones of the adrenal glands.
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Abraham Stoker was an Irish writer, barrister, literary critic, and theatre manager. He was the author of the Gothic horror novel Dracula (1897) and the creator of the fictional character Count Dracula.
unidentified photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Katherine von Drachenberg, known professionally as Kat Von D, is a Mexican-born American tattoo artist, television personality, entrepreneur and recording artist.
User:Thivierr, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael Stern Hart was an American author credited with the invention of the e-book, and who founded Project Gutenberg (PG), the first project to make e-books freely available via the Internet.
Dimitris Melissanidis is a Greek business shipping and oil tycoon, and one of the country's leading businessmen. Melissanidis is in the top ten rich list of Greek entrepreneurs ranking in 6th place.
Warren Marie Jean-Pierre Zaïre-Emery is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the France national team.
Bayezid I, also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389 to 1402. He adopted the title of Sultan-i Rûm, Rûm being the Arabic name for the Eastern Roman Empire. In 1394, Bayezid unsuccessfully besieged Constantinople.
Claire Trevor was an American actress. She appeared in 65 feature films from 1933 to 1982, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo (1948), and received nominations for her roles in The High and the Mighty (1954) and Dead End (1937).
New York Sunday News, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Petra Kvitová is a Czech former professional tennis player. Known for her powerful left-handed groundstrokes and variety, Kvitová won 31 WTA Tour-level career singles titles, including two major titles at Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014.
Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German composer and musician of the Baroque and Classical eras. He was the fifth child and second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.
After Johann Philipp Bach, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Teófilo Juan Cubillas Arizaga is a Peruvian former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He is considered Peru's greatest ever player and one of the best in the history of South America.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Neil Postman was an American author, educator, media theorist, and cultural critic who eschewed digital technology, including personal computers and mobile devices, and was critical of the use of personal computers in schools.
Asier Illarramendi "Illarra" Andonegi is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Hong Kong Premier League club Kitchee.
Count Gyula Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka was a Hungarian statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Hungary (1867–1871) and subsequently as Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (1871–1879).
Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich, also known as YaB, was a leading Soviet physicist of Belarusian origin, who is known for his prolific contributions in physical cosmology, physics of thermonuclear reactions, combustion, and hydrodynamical phenomena.
Rights NRAO/AUI/NSF Photographer Woodruff T. Sullivan III Photo Credit NRAO/AUI Archives, Sullivan Collection, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Andrei Aleksandrovich Mironov was a Soviet stage and film actor who played lead roles in some of the most popular Soviet films, such as The Diamond Arm, Beware of the Car and Twelve Chairs. Mironov was also a popular singer.
Marjorie Dias de Oliveira, known professionally as Marjorie Estiano, is a Brazilian actress and singer-songwriter. She became nationally known for her role in TV Globo's teen soap opera Malhação.
Alex Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Howard Hathaway Aiken was an American physicist and a pioneer in computing. He was the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I, the United States' first programmable computer.
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/PictDisplay/Aiken.html, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Anthony Alfred Caro was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' and industrial objects. He began as a member of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moore early in his career.
Josep Pla i Casadevall was a Spanish journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan and Spanish.
Amadeu Mariné Vadalaco, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Wäinö Valdemar Aaltonen was a Finnish artist and sculptor. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "one of the leading Finnish sculptors".
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jean Louis Cabanis was a German ornithologist. He worked at the bird collections of the Natural History Museum in Berlin becoming its first curator of birds in 1850. He founded the Journal für Ornithologie in 1853.
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This page lists 48 people born on March 8, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 6 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 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 8. Read the full methodology.
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