May 19 is the birthday of 43 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, politicians, authors and athletes, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Herbert Fisk Johnson III, known as Fisk, is an American billionaire businessman. He is the fifth generation of his family to lead S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc of Racine, Wisconsin, as chairman and CEO. As of February 2025, his net worth was estimated at US$4.5 billion.
Share of the 43 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs26% (11 people)
Politicians23% (10 people)
Athletes21% (9 people)
Authors21% (9 people)
Actors19% (8 people)
Scientists14% (6 people)
Musicians12% (5 people)
Countries
26 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States9 (9 people)
France3 (3 people)
Italy3 (3 people)
Spain3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
Australia1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on May 19 doing at your age?
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.
By 25
~23Sam SmithReceived the Grammy Award for Best New Artist (2015)
65Ashraf GhaniBecame President of Afghanistan (2014)
55Gitanas NausėdaBecame President of the Republic of Lithuania (2019)
62Jorge AlessandriBecame President of Chile (1958)
The standouts
The most successful people born on May 19
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
politician
Malcolm X
Top tier
Politician
1925–1965 · United States
Malcolm X was an African American revolutionary, civil rights activist, and Muslim minister who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965.
Marion S. Trikosko, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Pol Pot was a Cambodian politician, revolutionary, and dictator who ruled Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 until his overthrow in 1979 during the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish field marshal and statesperson who was the founder of the Republic of Turkey and served as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He led sweeping reforms, turning Turkey into a secular, industrialising nation.
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Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland as the wife of King George III from their marriage on 8 September 1761 until her death in 1818. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Thomas Gainsborough, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hồ Chí Minh, colloquially known as Uncle Ho among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary and statesman who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945.
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André René Roussimoff, known professionally as André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. Dubbed "the Eighth Wonder of the World", Roussimoff was known for his great size, which was a result of gigantism caused by excess human growth hormone.
David Fitzgerald, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Natalia Marisa Oreiro Iglesias is a Uruguayan actress, singer, songwriter, model, television presenter and fashion designer. She began her career in telenovelas but since 2008 she has switched to work primarily in films.
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Johns Hopkins was an American merchant, investor, and philanthropist best known for funding the establishment of Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital, which have since become leading institutions for scientific research and medical advancements.
Bendann Brothers (American, active 1850s - 1873), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman was an English design engineer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, and founder of the sports car company Lotus Cars.
Jorge Eduardo Alessandri Rodríguez was the 27th President of Chile from 1958 to 1964, and was the candidate of the Chilean right in the crucial presidential election of 1970, which he lost to Salvador Allende.
Grace Beverly Jones is a Jamaican singer, songwriter, model and actress. She began her modelling career in New York, signing with Wilhelmina Models. After moving to Paris, she worked for fashion houses such as Yves St.
Samuel Frederick Smith is an English singer and songwriter. In 2012, they rose to prominence when they featured on Disclosure's breakthrough single "Latch", which peaked at No. 11 on the UK singles chart.
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Andrea Pirlo is an Italian football manager and former player who is currently the head coach of UAE Pro League club Dubai United. Widely considered one of the greatest midfielders of all time, Pirlo was known for his vision, technique, creativity, passing, and free kick ability.
Clément Bucco-Lechat, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Diego Martín Forlán Corazo is a Uruguayan professional football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is the head coach for both the Uruguay national team and the Uruguay under-20 national team.
Kevin Maurice Garnett, commonly known by his initials KG, is an American former professional basketball player who played 21 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Keith Allison from Baltimore, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend is an English musician and songwriter. He is the co-founder, guitarist, keyboardist, second lead vocalist, and principal songwriter of the Who, one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s.
Georges St-Pierre, also known by his initials GSP, is a Canadian former professional mixed martial artist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters in mixed martial arts (MMA) history.
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Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai is an Afghan former politician and economist who served as the 8th and last president of Afghanistan from 2014 until his government was overthrown by the Taliban in 2021.
Peter William Mayhew was a British-American actor. He was best known for portraying Chewbacca in the Star Wars film series. He played the character in all of his live-action appearances from the 1977 original to 2015's The Force Awakens before his retirement from the role.
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher, and a founding figure of German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant.
Albrecht Fürchtegott Schultheiß, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gitanas Nausėda is a Lithuanian politician, economist, and banker who is serving as the ninth and incumbent president of Lithuania since 2019. Born in Klaipėda, Nausėda graduated from Vilnius University with an economics degree in 1987.
Thomas Vinterberg is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production.
Thomas_Vinterberg_Berlinale_2010.jpg: Siebbi derivative work: César, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dame Nellie Melba was an Australian operatic lyric coloratura soprano. She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian era and the early twentieth century, and was the first Australian to achieve international recognition as a classical musician.
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Lambertus van Marwijk is a Dutch football manager who is a member of the supervisory board for MVV Maastricht. As a player, he played for the Go Ahead Eagles, AZ, MVV and Fortuna Sittard amongst other clubs and also represented the Netherlands once.
Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono was a Maltese physician and commentator. He originated the term lateral thinking, and wrote many books on thinking, including Six Thinking Hats.
Jacques "Jacob" Jordaens was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and a designer of tapestries and prints. He was a prolific artist who created biblical, mythological, and allegorical compositions, genre scenes, landscapes, illustrations of Flemish sayings and portraits.
Jacob Jordaens, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Max Ferdinand Perutz was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of haemoglobin and myoglobin.
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Leonid Maksimovich Leonov was a Soviet novelist and playwright of socialist realism. His works have been compared with Dostoevsky's deep psychological torment.
Марк Марков-Гринберг, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1812–1895 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest, later Lady Charlotte Schreiber, was an English aristocrat who is best known as the first publisher in modern print format of the Mabinogion, the earliest prose literature of Britain.
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Samuel-Jacques Bernard, comte de Coubert after the death of his father in 1739, was the son of the financier Samuel Bernard, a rich noble in France and his first wife, née (Anne)-Magdeleine Clergeau; he was superintendent of finance for Queen Maria Leszczyńska from 1725, a…
This page lists 43 people born on May 19, 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 February 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 19. Read the full methodology.
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