May 4 is the birthday of 39 notable people we've found so far, including historical figures, authors, entrepreneurs and artists, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Georg von Opel is a German-born Swiss billionaire. He is the great-grandson of Adam Opel, who founded the German car manufacturer Opel AG, and is an heir to the family fortune. As of 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth at $3.4 billion.
Tope Awotona is a Nigerian–American tech entrepreneur known for founding the software company, Calendly. As of 2025, Forbes estimates his net worth at $1.4 Billion making him one of the richest Black Billionaires.
Share of the 39 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors28% (11 people)
Entrepreneurs23% (9 people)
Artists21% (8 people)
Actors15% (6 people)
Athletes15% (6 people)
Musicians13% (5 people)
Politicians13% (5 people)
Countries
25 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States6 (6 people)
France3 (3 people)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland3 (3 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
United Kingdom2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on May 4 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
24Audrey HepburnReceived the Academy Award for Best Actress (1954)
~60Audrey HepburnReceived the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1989)
The standouts
The most successful people born on May 4
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
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Audrey Hepburn
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Actor
1929–1993 · United Kingdom
Audrey Kathleen Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema.
Francesc "Cesc" Fàbregas Soler is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who played as a central midfielder. He is the head coach of Serie A club Como.
Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 until his resignation in 2011, following the Egyptian revolution.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kimora Lee is an American fashion designer, television personality and former fashion model. Discovered as a teenager, she was signed to Chanel and went on to walk the runway for major fashion houses such as Fendi and Valentino and appeared on the covers of Vogue and Elle.
The Heart Truth, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Richard Dale Jenkins is an American actor. He began his career in theater at the Trinity Repertory Company and made his film debut in 1974. He has worked steadily in film and television since the 1980s, mostly in supporting roles.
anna Hanks from Austin, Texas, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Amos Oz was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Michiel Hendryckx, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Émile Gallé was a French artist and designer who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major innovators in the French Art Nouveau movement.
Fritz Adam Hermann von Opel, known as Fritz Adam Hermann Opel until his father was ennobled in 1917, was the only son of Wilhelm von Opel and a grandson of Adam Opel, founder of the Opel company.
Katarina Martinson is a Swedish billionaire businesswoman. She owns 14% of L E Lundbergforetagen, the family holding company, which owns property, pulp and paper companies, and was founded by her grandfather Lars Erik Lundberg.
Ruth Negga is an Irish actress known for her roles on stage and screen. She has received various accolades including nominations for an Academy Award, a Tony Award, two Emmy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rocco Antonio Tano, known professionally as Rocco Siffredi, is an Italian pornographic actor, director, and producer. Siffredi has starred in more than 1,300 pornographic films since 1986.
Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky was a Russian politician, lawyer and revolutionary who led the Russian Provisional Government and the short-lived Russian Republic for three months from late July to early November 1917 (N.S.).
Wide World Photos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael Ryan Pritchard, better known by his stage name Mike Dirnt, is an American rock musician who is the co-founder, bassist, backing vocalist, and occasional lead vocalist of Green Day.
Lancelot.gosse, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Wang Zhaoming, widely known by his pen name Wang Jingwei, was a Chinese politician and poet who became leader of the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China (RNG), a collaborationist regime with the Empire of Japan during World War II.
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Fernando Luiz Roza, known as Fernandinho, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He is regarded as one of the best defensive midfielders of his generation and one of the best Brazilians to play in the Premier League.
1825–1895 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialised in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Lock & Whitfield, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Richard Anthony Monsour, known professionally as Dick Dale, was an American rock guitarist. He was a pioneer of surf music, drawing on Middle Eastern music scales and experimenting with reverb.
Mike Burns from Somerville, MA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jakob Böhme was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian. He was considered an original thinker by many of his contemporaries within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as Aurora, caused a great scandal.
Frederic Edwin Church was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets.
Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Thomas Lawrence was an English painter who served as the fourth president of the Royal Academy. A child prodigy, he was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper at the Bear Hotel in the Market Square.
Thomas Lawrence, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1827–1864 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Hanning Speke was an English explorer and army officer who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa. He is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and, with Richard Burton, was the first European to reach Lake Victoria.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1845–1879 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Kingdon Clifford was a British mathematician and philosopher. Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra. This is a special case of what later became known as the Clifford algebra, which was named in his honour.
Jean-Charles, chevalier de Borda was a French mathematician, physicist, and Navy officer. He invented the Borda count system for elections, which served as basis to other voting systems.
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Masashi Oguro is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a forward. He made 22 appearances scoring 5 goals for Japan national team between 2005 and 2008.
Federico "Ricky" Soteco Sandoval II is a Filipino politician and was a former representative of Malabon–Navotas from 1998 to 2007 and the lone district of Malabon from 2016 to 2019.
Heinrich Boie was a German zoologist. He was the brother of Friedrich Boie. In the field of herpetology they described 49 new species of reptiles and several new species of amphibians.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 39 people born on May 4, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 2026. 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 4. Read the full methodology.
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