October 25 is the birthday of 44 notable people we've found so far, including actors, authors, musicians and historical figures, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Anthoni Salim, born Liem Hong Sien, is an Indonesian businessman and investor. He is the head of the conglomerate Salim Group and the chairman of First Pacific, a Hong Kong–based investment management firm.
$340Molder estimate, as of September 2023 · Forbes
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality. Known for her influence on pop music and her camp style, she has been dubbed the "Queen of Camp" by Vogue and Rolling Stone.
Share of the 44 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors27% (12 people)
Authors25% (11 people)
Musicians20% (9 people)
Creators16% (7 people)
Entrepreneurs16% (7 people)
Scientists16% (7 people)
Athletes14% (6 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States12 (12 people)
France4 (4 people)
Germany4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Hungary2 (2 people)
Kingdom of Denmark2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
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Esther Caroline Duflo, FBA is a French-American economist, and the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Douglas Warren Diamond is an American economist. He is the Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he has taught since 1979.
Office of President Joe Biden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dominik Szoboszlai is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays and serves as vice-captain for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Hungary national team.
Mia Wasikowska is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut on the Australian television drama All Saints in 2004, followed by her feature film debut in Suburban Mayhem (2006).
Nancy Jean Cartwright is an American actress. She has served as the long-time voice of Bart Simpson on The Simpsons, which won her a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance and an Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in the Field of Animation.
North Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Matthias Jabs is a German musician, best known as the lead/rhythm guitarist of the hard rock band Scorpions. He has played on all but the first five Scorpions studio albums, starting with Lovedrive (1979). He owns a music store, MJ Guitars, in Munich.
Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ren Zhengfei is a Chinese entrepreneur and engineer who is the founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies, which is located in Shenzhen, China, and is the world's largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and second largest manufacturer of smartphones and Huawei Chinese Electric Cars.
Georges Boulougouris, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Julia Evelyn Morley is an English businesswoman, charity worker and former model. She is the chairwoman and CEO of the Miss World Organization, which organizes the Miss World and Mister World pageants.
Jose Rosengurtt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Beate Uhse-Rotermund was a German pilot, entrepreneur and sex shop pioneer. She was one of a number of female stunt pilots in Germany in the 1930s. During World War II she ferried planes for the German Luftwaffe and after World War II she started a sex shop.
Kevin Michael Richardson is an American actor. Known for his distinctively deep voice, he has mostly voiced villainous characters in animation and video games.
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Soni Mahesh Bhatt, born and known professionally as Soni Razdan, is a British actress and film director who works in Hindi-language films. She is the wife of director Mahesh Bhatt and mother of actress Alia Bhatt.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth, published in 2000, was an immediate best-seller and won a number of awards.
Johann Baptist Strauss II, also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger, the Son, or simply just Johann Strauss, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas, as well as a violinist.
Fritz Luckhardt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Johann Caspar Schmidt, known by the pen name Max Stirner, was a German philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness.
Friedrich Engels, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Évariste Galois was a French mathematician and political activist. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem that had been open for 350 years.
Alfred Galois, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher McQuarrie is an American filmmaker. He received the BAFTA Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the neo-noir mystery film The Usual Suspects (1995).
Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay was a British historian, poet and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Oleg Anatolyevich Salenko is a Russian former footballer who played as a forward. He scored a record five goals in a group-stage match in the 1994 World Cup, helping him earn the Golden Boot as joint-top tournament goalscorer.
Oleg Dubyna (doa.in.ua), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Darron Thomas Daniel Gibson is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played for the Republic of Ireland national team.
Tomasz Przechlewski, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Karl Paul Polanyi was an Austro-Hungarian economic historian, economic sociologist, and politician, best known for his book The Great Transformation, which questions the conceptual validity of self-regulating markets.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988).
Annie Suzanne Girardot was a French actress. She often played strong-willed, independent, hard-working, and often lonely women, imbuing her characters with an earthiness and reality that endeared her to women undergoing similar daily struggles.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss and French political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion.
Lina Vallier (fl. 1836 - 1852), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher James Buck is an American film director, animator, and screenwriter known for co-directing Tarzan (1999), Surf's Up (2007), Frozen, Frozen II (2019), and Wish (2023).
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Birgit Prinz is a German former footballer, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion and three-time FIFA World Player of the Year. In addition to the German national team, Prinz played for 1.
Abel Gance was a French film director, producer, writer, and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and Napoléon (1927).
Nicole Seibert, known professionally as Nicole, is a German singer, songwriter, musician and producer. In 1982, she became the first German representative to win the Eurovision Song Contest.
Frank Schwichtenberg, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya was a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966. She was the wife of cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and mother to their two daughters, Olga and Elena Rostropovich.
Alexey Yushenkov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Henry Norris Russell ForMemRS HFRSE FRAS was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (1910). In 1923, working with Frederick Saunders, he developed Russell–Saunders coupling, which is also known as LS coupling.
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Peter Naur was a Danish computer science pioneer and 2005 Turing Award winner. He is best remembered as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax for most programming languages.
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This page lists 44 people born on October 25, 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 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 October 25. Read the full methodology.
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