Birthday twins
May 3 is the birthday of 53 notable people we've found so far, including politicians, authors, entrepreneurs and actors, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
What the data says
Entrepreneur
1965 · Russia
$9.8Bolder estimate, as of 2019 · Forbes
Mikhail Dmitrievich Prokhorov is a Russian-Israeli oligarch and politician. He formerly owned the Brooklyn Nets.
Reported estimate as of 2019: $9.8B. 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 3 against another date · all rankings
Who shares May 3
Share of the 53 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
Actor
2001 · United States
Rachel Anne Zegler is an American actress and singer.
PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1982 · United States
Rebecca Maria Hall is an English actress and filmmaker. She made her first onscreen appearance at the age of 10 in the 1992 television adaptation of The Camomile Lawn, directed by her father, Peter Hall. Her professional stage debut came in her father's 2002 production of Mrs.
UKinUSA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Politician
1933–2006 · United States
James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, and record producer. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music, he is referred to by various nicknames, among them "Mr.
Heinrich Klaffs, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Author
1933–2021 · United States
Steven Weinberg was an American theoretical physicist.
Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1892–1975 · United Kingdom
Sir George Paget Thomson was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with Clinton Davisson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals." His father, J. J.
Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
American geneticist and chronobiologist
1945 · United States
Jeffrey Connor Hall is an American geneticist and chronobiologist. Hall is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Brandeis University and currently resides in Cambridge, Maine.
Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur · Toyota · automotive
1956 · Japan
Akio Toyoda is a Japanese business executive who is the chairman of Toyota. He was previously the company's president and chief executive officer (CEO).
Moto@Club4AG, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1960 · United States
Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer scientist, futurist, and composer. Considered a founder of the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and wired gloves.
vanz, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1940–2019 · United States
David Hamilton Koch was an American businessman, philanthropist, limited government advocate and chemical engineer. In 1970, he joined the family business: Koch Industries, the second-largest privately held company in the United States.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1849–1944 · German Reich
Bertha Benz was a German automotive pioneer. She was the business partner, investor and wife of automobile inventor Carl Benz.
Bühler, Mannheim, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Coty · fashion
1874–1934 · France
François Coty was a French perfumer, businessman, newspaper publisher, politician and patron of the arts. He was the founder of the Coty perfume company, today a multinational. He is considered the founding father of the modern perfume industry.
André Taponier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1952 · France
Martin Pierre Marie Bouygues is the chairman and chief executive officer of the French company Bouygues, which employs around 130,000 people globally. It was founded by his father Francis Bouygues in 1952.
Isabelle Franciosa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
May 3 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Politician
1898–1978 · Israel
Golda Meir was the prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and, to date, only female head of government.
Talmoryair (talk) after Marion S. Trikosko, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1975 · United States
Christina Rene Hendricks is an American actress and former model. She is best known for her role as Joan Holloway on the critically acclaimed AMC period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015).
Dominick D, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1919–2014 · United States
Peter Seeger was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and social activist.
Fred Palumbo, World Telegram staff photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
2003 · Germany
Florian Richard Wirtz is a German professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or left midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool and the Germany national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best attacking midfielders in the world.
Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1934 · United States
Francesco Stephen Castelluccio, better known by his stage name Frankie Valli, is an American singer and occasional actor, best known as the lead vocalist of the Four Seasons. He is known for his unusually powerful countertenor voice.
SolarScott, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1968 · United States
Amy Beth Dziewiontkowski, known professionally as Amy Ryan, is an American actress. She began her professional stage career in 1987 and made her Broadway debut in 1993 as a replacement in the original production of Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1921–1989 · United States
Walker Smith Jr., better known as Sugar Ray Robinson, was an American professional boxer who competed from 1940 to 1965. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.
ACME, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1996 · Nigeria
Alexander Chuka Iwobi is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Fulham and the Nigeria national team.
Антон Зайцев, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1977–2017 · United States
Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research focused on hyperbolic geometry, dynamical systems, complex analysis, and topology.
Actor
1906–1987 · United States
Mary Astor was an American actress. Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941).
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1985 · Argentina
Ezequiel Iván "Pocho" Lavezzi is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Steindy (talk) 22:34, 25 July 2009 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1941 · Georgia
Nona Gaprindashvili is a Georgian chess Grandmaster. Noted for her aggressive style of play, she was the women's world chess champion from 1962 to 1978, and in 1978 was the first woman ever to be awarded the FIDE title of Grandmaster.
GFHund, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1748–1836 · France
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, usually known as the Abbé Sieyès, was a French Catholic priest, abbé, and political writer who was a leading political theorist of the French Revolution (1789–1799).
Jacques-Louis David, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1985 · Russia
Danila Valeryevich Kozlovsky is a Russian actor and director. His most famous roles in films include Vampire Academy and Soulless, as well as the TV series Vikings. During his career, he achieved international popularity in Eastern European countries.
Svklimkin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1940 · United States
William Ingraham Koch is an American billionaire businessman, sailor, and collector. His boat was the winner of the America's Cup in 1992. Forbes estimated Koch's net worth at $1.8 billion in 2019, from oil and other investments.
Port of San Diego from San Diego, CA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1849–1929 · Germany
Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin, Prince of Bülow was a German politician who served as the imperial chancellor of the German Empire and minister-president of Prussia from 1900 to 1909.
Gebrüder Hirsch, Karlsruhe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1979 · Nigeria
Genevieve Nnaji is a Nigerian actress, producer, and director. She won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in 2005, making her the first actor to win the award.
irokotv, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1930 · Belgium
Luce Irigaray is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examines the uses and misuses of language in relation to women. She is considered one of the founders of French difference feminism.
Actor
1913–1973 · United States
William Motter Inge was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations.
Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1942–2016 · Czech Republic
Věra Čáslavská was a Czechoslovak artistic gymnast and Czech sports official. She won a total of 22 international titles between 1959 and 1968 including seven Olympic gold medals, four world titles and eleven European championships.
Entrepreneur
1946 · United Kingdom
Sir Mohammed Fathi Ahmed Ibrahim is a Sudanese-British billionaire businessman. He worked for several telecommunications companies, before founding Celtel, which, when sold, had over 24 million mobile phone subscribers in 14 African countries.
World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1934–2013 · Greece
Georges Moustaki was an Egyptian-French singer-songwriter of Greek-Jewish origin.
Michiel Hendryckx, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1949–2021 · Argentina
Leopoldo Jacinto Luque was an Argentine professional footballer who played as a striker. Regarded as one of the best forwards of the Argentina national team, he also won the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1961 · Turkey
Leyla Zana is a Kurdish politician in Turkey. She was imprisoned for ten years for her political activism, which was deemed by the Turkish courts to be against the unity of the country.
jan kurdistani, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1931–1997 · Italy
Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading proponents of the postmodern movement.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1870–1960 · France
Alexandre (Alexander) Nikolayevich Benois was a Russian artist, art critic, historian, preservationist and founding member of Mir iskusstva, an art movement and magazine.
Léon Bakst, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1761–1819 · Russian Empire
August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue was a German playwright, who had also worked as a Russian diplomat.
Friedrich Deurer (1778-1869), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1860–1940 · Kingdom of Italy
Vito Volterra was an Italian mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations, being one of the founders of functional analysis.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Executive · Cadbury · food and beverage
1953 · United States
Irene Blecker Rosenfeld is an American businesswoman who was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Mondelēz International. Rosenfeld's career began at Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, a New York City advertising agency.
World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1860–1936 · United Kingdom
John Scott Haldane was a Scottish physician physiologist and philosopher famous for his often-dangerous self-experimentation that led to many important discoveries about the human body and the nature of gases.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 53 people born on May 3, 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 2019. 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 3. Read the full methodology.
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