$21.6Bolder estimate, as of December 2024 · Forbes
Stefan Quandt is a German billionaire heir, engineer and industrialist. As of December 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$21.6 billion, ranked at number 89 on Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Ion Țiriac (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈon t͡siriˈak]; born 9 May 1939), also known as the "Brașov Bulldozer", is a Romanian billionaire businessman, former professional tennis and ice hockey player and president of the Romanian Tennis Federation.
Share of the 44 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors34% (15 people)
Creators25% (11 people)
Actors23% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs23% (10 people)
Politicians23% (10 people)
Scientists23% (10 people)
Musicians20% (9 people)
Countries
19 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States16 (16 people)
Germany4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Russia3 (3 people)
Australia1 (1 people)
British Raj1 (1 people)
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24Adam OpelFounded Opel (1862)
~25Baldur von SchirachBecame Reichsjugendführer (1932)
William Martin Joel is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Nicknamed the Piano Man, after his 1973 signature song of the same name, he has had a successful career as a solo artist since the 1970s.
John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the American Civil War. An evangelical Christian of strong religious convictions, Brown was profoundly influenced by the Puritan faith of his upbringing.
Augustus Washington, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Candice Patricia Bergen is an American actress. She won five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards as the title character on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown. She is also known for her role as Shirley Schmidt on the ABC drama Boston Legal (2005–2008).
PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
James Lawrence Brooks is an American filmmaker. He is the founder of Gracie Films and co-created the sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi, as well as co-developed The Simpsons.
Tim from Keene, NH, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Henry John Kaiser was an American industrialist who became known for his shipbuilding and construction projects, then later for his involvement in fostering modern American health care.
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Brian Matthew Krzanich is an American engineer who was CEO of Intel from May 2013 to June 2018. Krzanich joined Intel as an engineer in 1982 and served as chief operating officer (COO) before being promoted to CEO in May 2013.
AP Photo/Intel Corporation,Bob Riha, Jr., CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Karl Gustaf Patrik de Laval was a Swedish engineer and inventor who made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and centrifugal separation machinery for dairy.
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Igor Rotenberg is a Russian billionaire businessman. In October 2018, Igor Rotenberg's wealth was estimated to be $1.1 billion. As for December 2023, he sold all of his assets in Russian companies.
Albert Finney was an English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining fame for film acting during the early 1960s, debuting with The Entertainer (1960), directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in theatre.
Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Joseph Corbett Jr. is an American actor and singer. On television, he is best known for his roles as Chris Stevens on Northern Exposure (1990–1995), Aidan Shaw on Sex and the City (2000–2003) and sequel series And Just Like That.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lisa Ann Corpora, known professionally as Lisa Ann, is a retired American pornographic film actress and radio personality. She has also worked as a director and talent agent. She parodied former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin in six adult films and a music video.
Glenda May Jackson was an English actress and politician. Over the course of her distinguished career she received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting."
Studio Publicity, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet was a British novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays.
Herbert Rose Barraud, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Baldur Benedikt von Schirach was a German politician who was the leader (Reichsjugendführer) of the Hitler Youth from 1931 to 1940. From 1940 to 1945, he was the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Vienna.
Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Myron Leon Wallace was an American broadcast journalist, and television personality. Known for his investigative journalism, he interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers during his seven-decade career.
John Mathew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Faiq Jefri Bolkiah is a member of the Brunei royal family and professional footballer who plays as a winger. Born in the United States, he has played as the captain of the Brunei national team.
John David Ashcroft is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and former politician who served as the 79th United States attorney general under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005.
United States Department of Justice, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nataša Pirc Musar is a Slovenian lawyer, author, and politician who has served as the President of Slovenia since December 2022. She is the first woman to hold the office in the country's history.
Borut Živulovič, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher and essayist. He worked during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship.
SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gopal Krishna Gokhale was an Indian political leader and a social reformer during the Indian independence movement, and political mentor of Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. His writings include Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979).
Festival della Scienza, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Marek Jankulovski is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a defender. His most notable achievements include winning the UEFA Champions League with AC Milan and being voted the 2007 Czech Footballer of the Year.
Tadeáš Bednarz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse was a French mathematician, commonly presented as the inventor of descriptive geometry, technical drawing, and the father of differential geometry.
François-Séraphin Delpech, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Fyodor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk is a Russian film director, actor, producer and TV host. He is also the founder of Art Pictures Studio, a production company.
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Giovanni Paisiello was an Italian composer of the Classical era, and was the most popular opera composer of the late 1700s. His operatic style influenced Mozart and Rossini.
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Genki Haraguchi is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Belgian Challenger Pro League club Beerschot and the Japan national team.
Yukiya Amano was a Japanese diplomat, who served as the Director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from 1 December 2009 until his death on 18 July 2019. Previously, Amano served as an international civil servant for the United Nations and its subdivisions.
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Ọlawale Ọlọfọrọ, better known as Brymo, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, sonic artist, actor and author. Born and raised in Okokomaiko, he started recording music in 1999 while in secondary school. Brymo's debut album, Brymstone (2007), was supported by the single "Shawty".
Manuel Alejandro Grullón Viñas is a businessman from the Dominican Republic. In April 2014, he was appointed the Chairman of Grupo Popular, a company whose subsidiaries include Banco Popular Dominicano, the largest private bank in the Dominican Republic.
This page lists 44 people born on May 9, 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 July 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 9. Read the full methodology.
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