May 16 is the birthday of 55 notable people we've found so far, including actors, creators, musicians and entrepreneurs, and 4 of them are billionaires.
$2.4Breported estimate as of September 2025 · Forbes
Igor Vladimirovich Rybakov is a Russian businessman and co-founder of Technonicol, a manufacturer of construction materials. In September 2025, Rybakov held 1,513th position on the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list, with an estimated net worth of $2.4 billion.
Massimo Moratti is an Italian billionaire petroleum businessman, the former owner of Inter Milan and chairman of the Saras Group, founded in 1962 by his father, industrialist Angelo Moratti.
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Ayman Rafic Hariri is a Lebanese billionaire businessman, the second-youngest son of tycoon Rafic Hariri. He is the CEO and co-founder of the social network Vero, and the former deputy CEO of Saudi Oger.
Share of the 55 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors31% (17 people)
Creators22% (12 people)
Musicians20% (11 people)
Authors18% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs18% (10 people)
Scientists16% (9 people)
Athletes15% (8 people)
Countries
24 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States23 (23 people)
France5 (5 people)
Italy4 (4 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Argentina1 (1 people)
Brazil1 (1 people)
Bulgaria1 (1 people)
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Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer. An influential figure in popular culture, she is known for her innovative works that incorporate socially conscious and sexually provocative themes, as well as her elaborate stage shows.
Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an Irish actor. He achieved worldwide fame playing James Bond in four James Bond films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002).
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Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. Known for his work on screen and stage, he often portrayed characters who embodied an everyman image.
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Thomas Brodie-Sangster is a British actor. As a child actor, he gained recognition for his roles in the commercially successful films Love Actually (2003) and Nanny McPhee (2005).
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Lionel Sebastián Scaloni is an Argentine professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of the Argentina national team. He is also an Italian citizen. Under his leadership, Argentina won the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Éric Roger Pierre Lombard is a French businessman and politician who served as Minister of Economics and Finance in the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou from 2024 to 2025. From 2017 to 2024, he served as CEO of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations.
Peter Michael Nicholas was an American businessman and philanthropist. He co-founded medical device firm Boston Scientific with partner John Abele in 1979.
Anas Sefrioui is a Moroccan real estate businessman, who is worth US$1.7 billion as of March 2025. He is the General President and 56.6% owner of the corporate enterprise known as Addoha Douja Promotion.
Lee Ji-eun, also known by her stage name IU (아이유), is a South Korean singer-songwriter and actress. She signed with LOEN Entertainment in 2007 as a trainee and debuted as a singer at the age of fifteen with the EP Lost and Found (2008).
David Paul Boreanaz is an American actor, television producer, and director known for playing the roles of vampire-turned-private investigator Angel on The WB/UPN supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its spin-off Angel (1999–2004); FBI…
Mary Debra Winger is an American actress. She starred in the films An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), and Shadowlands (1993), each of which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Grigor Dimitrov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the ATP, making him the highest-ranked Bulgarian in history.
Władziu Valentino Liberace was an American pianist, singer, and actor. He was born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin and enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements.
Krist Anthony Novoselic is an American musician, politician, and activist. Novoselic co-founded and played bass on every album for the rock band Nirvana.
Robert Fripp is an English musician, composer, record producer, and author, best known as the guitarist, founder and only constant member of the progressive rock band King Crimson.
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Ryan Jiro Gravenberch is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team.
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Joseph Martin Morgan is an English actor. His accolades including one People's Choice Awards, TV Guide Awards alongside eight nominations for Teen Choice Awards.
Viola Lynn Collins is an American actress. She has made television appearances in True Blood (2008), Manhunt: Unabomber (2017) and The Walking Dead (2021–2022), and is recognized for her roles in films such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and John Carter (2012).
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Laura Pausini is an Italian pop singer. She rose to fame in 1993, winning the newcomer artists' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival with the song "La solitudine", which became an Italian standard and an international hit.
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William Henry Seward was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869 and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States senator.
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Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini is an Argentine former professional tennis player. A former world No. 3 in both singles and doubles, Sabatini was one of the leading players from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, amassing 41 titles across both disciplines.
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Margaret Brooke Sullavan was an American stage and film actress. She began her career onstage in 1929 with the University Players on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In 1933, she caught the attention of film director John M.
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Nancy Nabil Ajram is a Lebanese singer and television personality, dubbed by Spotify as the "Queen of Arab Pop". With the support of her father, she began performing as a child and appeared on several television shows in her early years.
Tamara Łempicka, known outside Poland as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes.
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Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse".
Levi Parsons Morton was the 22nd vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He also served as United States ambassador to France, as a United States representative from New York, and as the 31st governor of New York.
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Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo, was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for two literary works, the 1955 novel Pedro Páramo, and the collection of short stories El Llano en llamas.
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Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, gallicised and known in Western sources as Élie Metchnikoff, was a zoologist from the Russian Empire of Moldavian noble ancestry best known for his research in immunology and thanatology.
Nílton dos Santos was a Brazilian footballer who played primarily as a left-back. At international level, he was a member of the Brazil teams that won the 1958 and 1962 FIFA World Cups.
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Ivan Edward Sutherland is an American computer scientist, widely regarded as a pioneer of computer graphics. His early work in computer graphics, as well as his teaching with David C. Evans in that subject at the University of Utah in the 1970s, was pioneering in the field.
Maria Gaetana Agnesi was a Milanese mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian. She was the first woman to write a mathematics handbook, the first woman appointed as a mathematics professor at a university and the second woman appointed as a professor overall.
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This page lists 55 people born on May 16, 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 September 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 16. Read the full methodology.
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