October 15 is the birthday of 56 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, historical figures and athletes, and 5 of them are billionaires.
$51.2Breported estimate as of January 2026 · Forbes
Kenneth Cordele Griffin is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder, chief executive officer, co-chief investment officer, and 80% owner of Citadel LLC, a multinational hedge fund.
$44.6Breported estimate as of May 2025 · Bloomberg
John Franklyn Mars is an American businessman and heir. He is the chairman of Mars, Inc. As of May 2025, Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated his net worth at US$44.6 billion, ranking him the 33rd-richest person in the world.
Sunjay Kapur was an Indian-American multinational industrialist and billionaire. Kapur was the founder of the Sona Group and the chairman of Sona Comstar, an automotive component manufacturer.
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Share of the 56 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors32% (18 people)
Entrepreneurs21% (12 people)
Athletes18% (10 people)
Actors16% (9 people)
Creators16% (9 people)
Musicians14% (8 people)
Politicians14% (8 people)
Countries
25 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States15 (15 people)
France7 (7 people)
United Kingdom7 (7 people)
India3 (3 people)
Russian Empire3 (3 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Australia1 (1 people)
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Mira Nair is an Indian American filmmaker. She has received two prizes from the Cannes Film Festival and four from the Venice Film Festival, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe, and two César Awards.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel.
Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mesut Özil is a German former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Known for his ball control, technical skills, creativity, passing skills, and vision, he is widely regarded as one of the best midfielders of his generation.
William David Trimble, Baron Trimble was a Northern Irish statesman and politician who was the inaugural First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002 and leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from 1995 to 2005.
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca was an American author, engineer, and executive who developed the Ford Mustang, Continental Mark III, and Ford Pinto cars while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and then revived the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s.
João Tavares de Medeiros (government press official), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Haim Saban is an Israeli and American media proprietor, investor, musical composer and producer of records, film, and television. A businessman with interests in financial services, entertainment, and media, he has an estimated net worth of $3.3 billion.
U.S. Department of State from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Marion O'Brien Donovan was an American inventor and entrepreneur. Recognized as one of the era's most prominent female inventors, she secured a total of 20 patents for her creations. In 1946, she created a reusable, impermeable diaper cover.
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Buhari Syed Abdur Rahman was an Indian entrepreneur, philanthropist and educationist. He had a range of business interests in the UAE and India including maritime shipping, real estate, insurance etc. He founded numerous schools, colleges, hospitals and universities.
Paul-Michel Foucault, known as Michel Foucault, was a French philosopher, literary critic, and historian of ideas who analyzed the relationships between power, knowledge, and liberty, and how they are used as a form of social control through institutions.
Bailee Madison is an American actress. She started as a child actress and later expanded to mature roles and into the horror genre. Her accolades include three Young Artist Awards, with nominations for a Critics' Choice Movie Award and a Saturn Award.
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Mizero Ncuti Gatwa is a Rwandan-Scottish actor. He is best known for playing Eric Effiong in the Netflix series Sex Education (2019–2023) and the Fifteenth Doctor in the BBC series Doctor Who (2023–2025).
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Mario Francis Puzo was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì was a Nigerian musician and political activist. He is regarded as the principal innovator of Afrobeat, a Nigerian music genre that combines West African music with American funk and jazz.
His master’s voice record company., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Andrew Alexander Cole is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. His professional career lasted from 1988 to 2008, and is mostly remembered for his time with Manchester United, who paid a British record transfer fee to sign him from Newcastle United.
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Christopher John Davison, known professionally as Chris de Burgh, is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician born in Argentina. He started out as an art rock performer and progressed to writing more pop-oriented material.
Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).
The original uploader was Varie11 at Italian Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Kenneth Galbraith, also known as J. K. Galbraith or Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s.
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Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism.
Petr Zabolotskiy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Reynaud was a French politician and lawyer prominent in the interwar period, noted for his economic liberalism and vocal opposition to Nazi Germany.
AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul William Robinson is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Premier League and Football League for Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur, Blackburn Rovers and Burnley.
Clare Nolan from Coppull, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director and producer. During the 1930s, he was one of the two great practitioners of economical and effective film directing at Warner Brothers studios, the other being his colleague Michael Curtiz.
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Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Benedetto Castelli. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles. The torr is named after him.
Lorenzo Lippi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow was an English novelist and physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government.
1831–1904 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Isabella Lucy Bishop was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. Alongside fellow Englishwoman Fanny Jane Butler, she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in modern-day Kashmir.
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Milorad Pavić was a Serbian writer, university professor, translator, literary historian and academic. He published a number of poems, short stories and novels during his lifetime, the most famous of which was the Dictionary of the Khazars (1984).
This page lists 56 people born on October 15, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 5 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 October 15. Read the full methodology.
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