Birthday twins
May 15 is the birthday of 51 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, historical figures and creators, and 4 of them are billionaires.
What the data says
Entrepreneur
1951 · United States
$15.6Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes
Nancy Walton Laurie is an American billionaire who is an heir to the Walmart fortune.
Reported estimate as of 2025: $15.6B. Wealth changes; this is not a live figure.
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every May birthday · battle May 15 against another date · all rankings
The May 15 wealth profile
Ranked by the low end of each reported estimate; bars use a log scale.
Entrepreneur · Aon plc
1937 · United States
$10Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes
Patrick George Ryan is an American billionaire insurance businessman. He is the founder and retired chairman and CEO of Aon. In 2010, he founded Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) as a holding company aimed at providing specialty services to insurance brokers, agents and carriers.
Flickr user andymiah, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · software
1960 · Czech Republic
$2.3Bolder estimate, as of 2024 · Forbes
Pavel Baudiš is a Czech software engineer, entrepreneur and the co-founder of Avast along with Eduard Kučera. He became the largest Gen Digital individual or non-institutional shareholder.
Milan Bureš, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1985 · Sweden
$1.9Bolder estimate, as of 2019 · Forbes
Tom Stefan Persson is a Swedish billionaire businessman, who works in the film industry. He is an heir of the fashion company Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), which was founded by his grandfather Erling Persson in 1947.
Who shares May 15
Share of the 51 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
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.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Athlete
1997 · France
Masour Ousmane Dembélé is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward and right winger for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the France national team.
Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Athlete
1987 · United Kingdom
Sir Andrew Barron Murray is a British professional tennis coach and former player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 41 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2016.
Brendan Dennis, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1859–1906 · France
Pierre Curie was a French physicist and chemist, and a pioneer in crystallography and magnetism. He shared one half of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, for their work on radioactivity.
Dujardin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Author
1915–2009 · United States
Paul Anthony Samuelson was an American economist who was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Top tier
Scientist
1951 · United States
Frank Anthony Wilczek is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and H. David Politzer "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".
Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1967 · India
Madhuri Dixit Nene is an Indian actress and television personality. She has appeared in over 70 Hindi films, attaining nationwide stardom that influenced Indian popular culture.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur · Fox News
1940–2017 · United States
Roger Eugene Ailes was an American television executive and media consultant. He was the chairman and CEO of Fox News, Fox Television Stations and 20th Television. Ailes was a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W.
Sgt. Christopher Tobey, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1905–1970 · United States
Abraham Zapruder was a Russian-born American clothing manufacturer based in Dallas, Texas, who filmed the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
Entrepreneur
1792–1868 · France
James Mayer de Rothschild was a French banker and the founder of the French branch of the prominent Rothschild family. He was born in the Free City of Frankfurt in the Holy Roman Empire, and elevated to Barony in 1822.
Southworth & Hawes, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1942 · Indonesia
Muhammad Jusuf Kalla, commonly referred to by his initials JK, is an Indonesian politician and businessman who served as the 10th and 12th Vice President of Indonesia from 2004 to 2019, the only Vice President to serve two non-consecutive terms in office.
Government of Indonesia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Sonangol Group · energy
1956 · Angola
Manuel Domingos Vicente is an Angolan politician who served as the second vice president of Angola between September 2012 and September 2017.
U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Skanska
1947–2023 · Sweden
Melker Schörling was a Swedish billionaire businessman. His investment company Melker Schörling AB (MSAB) had large interests in Securitas AB, Assa Abloy, Hexagon AB, Loomis and more.
Geospatial World, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
May 15 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Musician
1948 · United Kingdom
Brian Eno is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, visual artist, sound designer, author and political activist. He is best known for his pioneering contributions to ambient music and electronica, and for producing, recording, and writing works in rock and pop music.
How We Get To Next, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1909–1984 · United Kingdom
James Neville Mason was an English actor. He achieved considerable success in British cinema before becoming a star in Hollywood. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, three Golden Globes and two BAFTA Awards in his career.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1952 · United States
Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and playwright.
David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1856–1919 · United States
Lyman Frank Baum was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts.
George Steckel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1937–2022 · United States
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman to hold the position.
United States Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1981 · France
Patrice Latyr Evra is a French former professional footballer who played as a left-back. Evra served as captain for both Manchester United and the France national team.
Web Summit, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1953 · United Kingdom
Michael Gordon Oldfield is a retired English musician, songwriter and producer best known for his debut album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commercial success.
Mike_Oldfield_by_Alexander_Schweigert.jpg: Alexander Schweigert derivative work: Lošmi (talk), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1048–1131 · Seljuk Empire
Omar Khayyam (1048–1131) was a Persian poet and polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and Persian literature. He was born in Nishapur, Iran and lived during the Seljuk era, around the time of the First Crusade.
The original uploader was Atilin at French Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1891–1940 · Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
Moisej Nappelbaum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1773–1859 · Holy Roman Empire
Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, known as Klemens von Metternich or Prince Metternich, was a German statesman and diplomat in the service of the Austrian Empire.
Thomas Lawrence, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1905–1994 · United States
Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story (1939) and Sabrina Fair (1953).
Photoplay Publishing Company; no photographer credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1970 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Franciscus de Boer is a Dutch former professional footballer and current manager.
Musician
1996 · United Kingdom
Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde, known professionally as Birdy, is an English singer and songwriter. She won the music competition Open Mic UK in 2008, at the age of 12.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1930 · United States
Jasper Johns is an American painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker. Considered a central figure in the development of American postwar art, he has been variously associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art movements.
White House videographer for The Obama White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1567–1643 · Republic of Venice
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player.
Bernardo Strozzi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1862–1931 · Cisleithania
Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist. He is considered one of the most significant representatives of Viennese Modernism.
Ferdinand Schmutzer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1938–2017 · France
Mireille Darc was a French actress, director, photographer, singer and model. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Weekend. Darc was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the National Order of Merit.
Ron Galella / Getty Images, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1926–2016 · United Kingdom
Sir Peter Levin Shaffer was an English playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. His best-known works are the plays Equus (1973) and Amadeus (1979), both of which earned him the Tony Award for Best Play.
AP Newsfeatures Photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1970 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Ronaldus de Boer is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a right or attacking midfielder or right winger. He played for the Netherlands national team as well as a host of professional clubs in Europe. He is the twin brother of Frank de Boer.
Паршин Дмитрий, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1860–1914 · United States
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson was First Lady of the United States from 1913 until her death in 1914, as the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson. Like her husband, she was a Southerner, as well as the daughter of a clergyman.
PRES FILE; published c1912 Oct. 1. (J173724-28 U.S. Copyright Office), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1689–1762 · Kingdom of Great Britain
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet. Born in 1689, Lady Mary spent her early life in England. In 1712, Lady Mary married Edward Wortley Montagu, who later served as the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte.
Charles Jervas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1848–1926 · Soviet Union
Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov was a Russian painter and draughtsman who specialised in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered a co-founder of Russian folklorist and romantic nationalistic painting, and a key figure in the Russian Revivalist movement.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1890–1980 · United States
Katherine Anne Porter was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in the United States that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim.
Hulton Archive, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1911–1991 · Switzerland
Max Rudolf Frisch was a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment. The use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war output.
Comet Photo AG (Zürich), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1873–1945 · Russian Empire
Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadsky was a Ukrainian aristocrat, military leader and statesman who served as the hetman of the Ukrainian State throughout 1918 following a coup d'état on 29 April, of the same year. He abdicated on 14 December 1918.
The original uploader was Irpen at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1901–1983 · Argentina
Luis Felipe Monti was an Italian Argentine footballer who played as a midfielder and an Olympian. Monti has the distinction of having played in two FIFA World Cup final matches with two different national teams.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1857–1911 · United States
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming was a Scottish astronomer. At the Harvard College Observatory, she contributed to the photographic classification of stellar spectra, helping to develop a common designation system for stars.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1944–2015 · Switzerland
Ulrich Beck was a German sociologist, and one of the most cited social scientists in the world during his lifetime.
International Students’ Committee, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1949 · United States
Frank Lee Culbertson Jr. is an American former naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, NASA astronaut, graduate of the US Naval Academy, and member of the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Mark Sowa, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1982 · Lebanon
Layal Mounir Abboud is a Lebanese pop singer, folk music entertainer, sound-lyric poet, concert dancer, fit model and Muslim humanitarian.
Chyah, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 51 people born on May 15, 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 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 May 15. Read the full methodology.