What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every May birthday · battle May 28 against another date · all rankings
Who shares May 28
Share of the 49 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
Politician
1971 · United States
Marco Antonio Rubio is an American politician, attorney, and diplomat serving as the 72nd United States secretary of state since 2025. He is also the acting national security advisor.
U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Entrepreneur
1968 · United Kingdom
Kylie Ann Minogue is an Australian singer, songwriter, and actress. Frequently referred to as the "Princess of Pop", she has achieved recognition in both the music industry and the fashion world as a major style icon.
PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1985 · United Kingdom
Carey Hannah Mulligan is a British actress. Known for her performances on stage and screen, she has received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award.
Everwest, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1999–2019 · United States
Cameron Mica Boyce was an American actor. He began his career as a child actor, appearing in the 2008 films Mirrors and Eagle Eye, along with the comedy film Grown Ups (2010) and its 2013 sequel.
MTV International, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Entrepreneur
1944 · United States
Rudolph William Louis Giuliani is an American politician and disbarred lawyer who served as the 108th mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the U.S. Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983 and the U.S.
Palácio do Planalto, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Creator
1912–1990 · Australia
Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian novelist and playwright who explored themes of religious experience, personal identity and the conflict between visionary individuals and a materialistic, conformist society. Influenced by the modernism of James Joyce, D. H.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur · Kering
1962 · France
François-Henri Pinault is a French businessman and the son of billionaire François Pinault. François-Henri took the reins of his father's retail conglomerate Pinault-Printemps-Redoute in 2005, and turned it into the luxury group Kering in 2013.
Leafar, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1969–2016 · Canada
Robert Bruce Ford was a Canadian politician and businessman who served as the 64th mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014.
Bruce Reeve, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Uber · technology
1969 · United States
Dara Khosrowshahi is an Iranian and American business executive who is the chief executive officer of Uber. He was previously CEO of Expedia Group, a company that owns several travel fare aggregators.
The Presidential Office of Ukraine., CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1912–1989 · United States
John Howard Payne was an American film actor who is mainly remembered from film noir crime stories and 20th Century Fox musical films, and for his leading roles in Miracle on 34th Street and the NBC Western television series The Restless Gun.
Macfadden Publications-page 2., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1981 · United States
Aaron Jon Schock is a former American politician who was the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 18th congressional district from 2009 until 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Schock represented the 92nd District of the Illinois House of Representatives from 2005 to 2009.
United States Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1949 · United States
Steven Arnold King is an American politician and businessman who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa from 2003 to 2021.
U.S. Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
May 28 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Athlete
1994 · United Kingdom
John Stones is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or defensive midfielder for Serie A club Inter Milan and the England national team. He is known for his technical ability and physical presence on the pitch.
Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
2000 · United Kingdom
Philip Walter Foden is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the England national team.
Steffen Prößdorf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1945 · United States
John Cameron Fogerty is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Together with Doug Clifford, Stu Cook, and his brother Tom Fogerty, he founded the swamp rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), for which he was the lead singer, lead guitarist, and principal songwriter.
Rosiestep, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1888–1953 · United States
James Francis Thorpe was an American athlete who won Olympic gold medals and played professional football, baseball, and basketball. A citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, he was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics.
Harris & Ewing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1990 · United Kingdom
Kyle Andrew Walker is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back or centre-back for EFL Championship club Burnley.
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1938–2024 · United States
Jerry Alan West was an American basketball player and executive. He played professionally for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and is universally regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.
Malcolm W. Emmons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1883–1966 · India
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was an Indian politician, ideologue, author and an anticolonial nationalist. He developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva in his 1923 pamphlet entitled Essentials of Hindutva, published while he was incarcerated at Ratnagiri.
User:Jayantanth, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1931 · United States
Carroll Baker is a retired American actress. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1991 · France
Alexandre Armand Lacazette is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Saudi Pro League club Neom. He plays mainly as a striker, but has also been deployed as a second striker and wide forward.
Amir Hosseini, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1956 · Jordan
Khaled Mashal is a Palestinian politician who served as the second chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from 1996 until May 2017, when he was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh.
Trango, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1998 · South Korea
Kim Da-hyun, known mononymously as Dahyun, is a South Korean singer, rapper, and actress. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Twice, formed by JYP Entertainment in 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/@_TV10/videos, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1985 · United States
Colbie Marie Caillat is an American singer-songwriter. She rose to fame on the social networking website Myspace in 2005.
Justin Higuchi, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1818–1893 · United States
Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard was an American military officer known for being the Confederate general who started the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Today, he is commonly referred to as P. G. T.
Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1884–1948 · Austria–Hungary
Edvard Beneš was a Czech politician and statesman who served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938, and again from 1939 to 1948. During the first six years of his second stint, he led the Czechoslovak government-in-exile during World War II.
UnknownUnknown . Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 194, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1923–2006 · Hungary
György Sándor Ligeti was a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music.
Actor
1944 · France
Jean-Pierre Léaud, ComM is a French actor best known for being an important figure of the French New Wave and his portrayal of Antoine Doinel in a series of films by François Truffaut, beginning with The 400 Blows (1959).
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1779–1852 · Kingdom of Great Britain
Thomas Moore was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist. Widely regarded in his lifetime as Ireland's "national bard", his fame and reputation rested primarily on the popularity of his Irish Melodies.
anonymous, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1925–2006 · Turkey
Mustafa Bülent Ecevit was a Turkish statesman, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist. He served as the Prime Minister of Turkey four times between 1974 and 2002, specifically in 1974, 1977, 1978–79, and 1999–2002.
Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org) / swiss-image.ch, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
0187–0226 · Cao Wei
Cao Pi, courtesy name Zihuan, was the first emperor of the state of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period of China.
Yan Li-pen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1974 · Germany
Hans-Jörg Butt, often simply called Jörg Butt, is a German former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Frank Schwichtenberg, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1879–1958 · Austria–Hungary
Milutin Milanković was a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist, civil engineer, university professor, popularizer of science and academic.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1853–1919 · Sweden
Carl Olof Larsson was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes. He is principally known for his watercolors of idyllic family life.
Carl Larsson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1930–2022 · United States
Frank Donald Drake was an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist.
Raphael Perrino, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1900–1955 · North Korea
Pak Hon-yong, courtesy name Togyong (덕영), was a Korean independence activist, politician, philosopher, and Communist activist, and one of the main leaders of the Korean Communist movement during Japan's colonial rule (1910–1945).
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Chief executive
1968 · France
Frédéric Jean Henri Vasseur is a French motorsport executive, businessman and engineer. Since 2023, Vasseur has served as team principal of Ferrari in Formula One; he previously served as team principal of Renault, Sauber and Alfa Romeo.
Original: Race Service for Ferrari Spa / Derivative work: Danyele, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1992 · Japan
Gaku Shibasaki is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for and captains J1 League club Kashima Antlers.
Светлана Бекетова, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
American neurologist and biochemist
1942 · United States
Stanley Ben Prusiner is an American neurologist and biochemist. He is the founding director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (IND) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Christopher Michel, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1941–2022 · United States
Robert Theron Brockman was an American billionaire businessman and once CEO of Ohio-based Reynolds & Reynolds software company.
American businessman
1919–2003 · United States
Edward Lewis Gaylord was an American billionaire businessman, media mogul and philanthropist.
Author
1877–1932 · Soviet Union
Maximilian Alexandrovich Kirienko-Voloshin, commonly known as Max Voloshin, was a Russian poet. He was one of the significant representatives of the symbolist movement in Russian culture and literature.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 49 people born on May 28, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. 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 28. Read the full methodology.
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