October 18 is the birthday of 50 notable people we've found so far, including authors, actors, musicians and entrepreneurs, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Sir James Arthur Ratcliffe is a British billionaire, chemical engineer, and businessman. Ratcliffe is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the INEOS chemicals group, which he founded in 1998.
Chung Eui-sun, anglicized as Euisun Chung, is a South Korean billionaire business executive. He is the executive chairman and CEO of Hyundai Motor Group and the only son and "heir apparent" of Hyundai Motor Group honorary chairman Chung Mong-koo.
The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors30% (15 people)
Authors30% (15 people)
Musicians26% (13 people)
Entrepreneurs22% (11 people)
Politicians22% (11 people)
Creators20% (10 people)
Athletes14% (7 people)
Countries
22 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States16 (16 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
Italy3 (3 people)
Philippines3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
France2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on October 18 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.
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
actor
Zac Efron
Top tier
Actor
1987 · United States
Zachary David Alexander Efron is an American actor. Efron began acting professionally in the early 2000s and rose to prominence as a teen idol for his leading role as Troy Bolton in the High School Musical film series (2006–2008).
Eva Rinaldi from Sydney Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Milo Yiannopoulos is a British far-right conspiratorial political commentator, known for his opposition to Islam, feminism, and social justice. He is a former editor of Breitbart News, an American far-right news and opinion website.
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Martina Navratilova is a Czech-American former professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 1 in women's singles for 332 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 seven times, and was world No. 1 in women's doubles for a record 237 weeks.
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Henri-Louis Bergson was a French philosopher who was influential in the traditions of analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War, but also after 1966 when Gilles Deleuze published Le Bergsonisme.
Henri Manuel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Irwin Mark Jacobs is an American electrical engineer and businessman. He is a co-founder and former chairman of Qualcomm, and chair of the board of trustees of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. As of 2019, Jacobs had an estimated net worth of $1.2 billion.
Dananderson at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov is a Russian film and stage actor, singer, People's Artist of Russia, the laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation. He currently works at Tabakov Studio. He is a member of the Supreme Council of the party United Russia.
Press-office of the President of the Russian Federation, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company
1932–2018 · Philippines
George Siao Kian Ty was a Filipino banker and business magnate. He founded Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company, the second largest bank in both assets and capital in the Philippines.
TOTO LOZANO/PPD, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
David P. Fialkow is an American billionaire venture capitalist and a documentary filmmaker and producer. He is the co-founder of General Catalyst, a $40bn venture capital firm focused on early-stage and growth investments.
Eaglebrook School, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lindsey Caroline Vonn is an American alpine ski racer. She won four World Cup overall championships with titles in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012. Vonn won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first one for an American woman.
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was a Canadian politician, lawyer, jurist, academic, author, and journalist who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984.
United Press International, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Brittney Yvette Griner is an American professional basketball player for the Connecticut Sun of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for the Vinyl of Unrivaled.
Peter Richard Boyle was an American actor. He is known for his work as a character actor on film and television and received several awards including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Freida Selena Pinto is an Indian actress who has appeared mainly in American and British films. Born and raised in Mumbai, Maharashtra, she resolved at a young age to become an actress. As a student at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai she took part in amateur plays.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Klaus Kinski was a German actor. Equally renowned for his intense performance style and his notoriously eccentric and volatile personality off-screen, he appeared in over 130 film roles in a career that spanned 40 years, from 1948 to 1988.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George Campbell Scott was an American actor, with a celebrated career on both stage and screen. With a gruff demeanor and commanding presence, Scott became known for his portrayal of stern but complex authority figures.
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Tyler Garcia-Posey is an American actor and musician. He began his career as a child actor and received recognition for his role as Raul Garcia in Doc (2001–2004) and Ty Ventura in Maid in Manhattan (2002).
Om Prakash Puri was an Indian actor who appeared in mainstream commercial Hindi films as well as English, Punjabi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu, and Marathi films, as well as independent and art films and also starred in several international cinema.
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Wynton Learson Marsalis is an American trumpeter, composer, music instructor, and the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has been active in promoting classical and jazz music, often to young audiences.
Dante Bonfim Costa Santos, also known as Dante Bonfim or simply Dante, is a Brazilian football manager and former professional footballer who played as a Centre-back. Primarily a centre-back, he was previously also used as a defensive midfielder or left-back.
Huell Burnley Howser was an American television personality, actor, producer, writer, singer, and voice artist, best known for hosting, producing, and writing California's Gold and his human interest show Visiting.with Huell Howser, produced by KCET in Los Angeles for California PBS stations.
Lotte Lenya was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the German-speaking and classical music world, she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her first husband, Kurt Weill.
Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician. She came from a prominent political family for multiple generations.
Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro was a Nicaraguan politician who served as the president of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997. She was the country's first female president. Previously, she was a member of the Junta of National Reconstruction from 1979 to 1980.
White House Photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael Detlef Stich is a German former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 2 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved in 1993, and No. 9 in men's doubles, achieved in 1991.
Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos was a French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782).
H. Rousseau (graphic designer), E.Thomas (engraver), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Svetlana Serhiivna Loboda, mononymously known as Loboda, is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter. During her career, Loboda has achieved international success in Eastern European countries. Winner of the ZD Awards and Bravo International Professional Music Awards.
LTV Ziņu dienests, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena was a Salvadoran politician and journalist who served as the 41st president of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014. Funes won the 2009 presidential election as the candidate of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).
Vytautas Landsbergis is a Lithuanian politician, musicologist and former Member of the European Parliament. He was the first Speaker of Reconstituent Seimas of Lithuania after its independence declaration from the Soviet Union.
Foto-AG Gymnasium Melle, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Craig Cameron Mello is an American biologist and professor in the RNA Therapeutics Institute and Program for Molecular Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 50 people born on October 18, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 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 August 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 18. Read the full methodology.
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