May 7 is the birthday of 49 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, creators and historical figures, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Mark Dietrich Mateschitz is an Austrian billionaire businessman, who owns 49% of Red Bull GmbH, the energy drink company co-founded by his father, Dietrich Mateschitz.
Vladimir Sergeyevich Lisin is a Russian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and majority shareholder of Novolipetsk (NLMK), one of the four largest steel companies in Russia.
Russian Presidential Press and Information Office, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 49 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors31% (15 people)
Entrepreneurs22% (11 people)
Athletes20% (10 people)
Creators20% (10 people)
Scientists20% (10 people)
Actors18% (9 people)
Musicians16% (8 people)
Countries
24 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States11 (11 people)
France5 (5 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Russian Empire3 (3 people)
Kingdom of the Netherlands2 (2 people)
Nigeria2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on May 7 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.
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23Anne BaxterReceived the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (1947)
James Stephen "Jimmy" Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, is an American YouTuber, media personality, businessman, philanthropist, and actor. He is the founder of Beast Industries, a conglomerate that holds various media channels, MrBeast Burger, Feastables, Lunchly, and more.
Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, painter, and one of the foremost figures of the Bengal Renaissance.
Generalstabens litografiska anstalt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Josip Broz, commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who led Yugoslavia as prime minister from 1943 to 1963 and as president from 1953 until his death in 1980.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
María Eva Duarte de Perón, better known as Eva "Evita" Perón, was an Argentine politician, activist, and actress who served as First Lady of Argentina from June 1946 until her death in July 1952, as the wife of Argentine President Juan Perón.
Pinélides Fusco, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally.
Nikolai Kuznetsov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Władysław Stanisław Reymont was a Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Chiara Ferragni is an Italian blogger and influencer. Since 2021, Ferragni has been the center of controversy as the protagonist of the Pandorogate fraud scandal in which she profited millions of euros while claiming to be raising funds for charity.
Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Josh Walton Kroenke is an American businessman. He is an heir to the Walmart family inheritance and to Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, his father's sports-media conglomerate.
Rudolphus Franciscus Marie "Ruud" Lubbers was a Dutch politician, diplomat and businessman who served as prime minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994, and as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 2001 to 2005.
Sir Anthony John Francis O'Reilly was an Irish businessman and international rugby union player. He was known for his try scoring in rugby, his involvement in the Independent News & Media Group, which he led from 1973 to 2009, and as CEO and chairman of the H.J. Heinz Company.
Unknown (Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. ), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jacqueline K. Barton, is an American chemist. She worked as a professor of chemistry at Hunter College (1980–82), and at Columbia University (1983–89) before joining the California Institute of Technology.
Youri Marion A. Tielemans is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester United and captains the Belgium national team.
Gary Cooper was an American actor known for his strong, silent screen persona and understated acting style. The American Film Institute (AFI) ranked Cooper at number 11 on its list of the 50 greatest screen legends.
Warner Bros., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Daniel Olmo Carvajal is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or left winger for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team.
Cody Mathès Gakpo is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a left winger or centre forward for Premier League club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team.
Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. His music features expressive counterpoint, freer dissonance, rhythmic vitality, and traditional forms.
C. Brasch, Berlin (biography), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Anne Baxter was an American actress, star of Hollywood films, Broadway productions, and television series. She won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and seven Photoplay Awards, and was nominated for an Emmy and two Laurel Awards.
Modern Screen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
José Álvaro Osorio Balvín, known professionally as J Balvin, is a Colombian singer. He is one of the best-selling Latin artists, with 35 million records sold worldwide. Balvin was born in Medellín.
Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterisation, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax.
Herbert Rose Barraud / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Daria Sergeyevna Kasatkina is a Russian-born Australian professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 8 in singles by the WTA, achieved in October 2022. Kasatkina has won eight WTA Tour singles titles and one title in doubles.
Наталия Вечера, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Piketty is a French economist who is a professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), associate chair at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics (LSE).
librairie mollat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Asghar Farhadi is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most prominent filmmakers of Iranian cinema as well as world cinema in the 21st century.
Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism.
Alexander Kucharsky, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from March 1894 to June 1895.
Elliott & Fry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Angela Olive Pearce, who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realist, and picaresque works.
Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was a British and American novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for her collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of film director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant.
Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jérémy Ménez is a French former professional footballer who played as a forward. Ménez has been described as an ambipedal, technically skilled, pacy playmaker.
Anne Jennifer Dudley is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician. She was the BBC Concert Orchestra's first Composer in Association in 2001.
Dariğa Nūrsūltanqyzy Nazarbaeva is a Kazakh businesswoman and politician who is the daughter of Nursultan Nazarbayev who was the President of Kazakhstan from 1990 to 2019. She was a member of the Mäjilis from 2004 to 2007, 2012 to 2015 and 2021 to 2022.
Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov, sometimes romanized Paul Alexandroff, was a Soviet mathematician. He wrote roughly three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology.
Sidney Altman was a Canadian-American molecular biologist, who was the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. In 1989, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas R.
Takayuki Morimoto is a Japanese former professional footballer who plays as a second striker. He holds the record for the youngest Japanese player to make his professional debut, and the youngest scorer in J1 League history.
Benjamin F. Glazer was a screenwriter, producer, Foley artist, and director of American films from the 1920s through the 1950s. He made the first translation of author / playwright Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom (1909) into English from its original Hungarian (Magyar) in 1921.
Unknown; publicity shot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alan C. Ashton is an American computer scientist. He is the co-founder of WordPerfect Corporation and a former professor at Brigham Young University (BYU).
This page lists 49 people born on May 7, 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 7. Read the full methodology.
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