October 26 is the birthday of 45 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, politicians, historical figures and actors, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
$68.4Breported estimate as of January 2026 · Bloomberg
Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco is a Mexican business magnate. He is the CEO of Grupo México, Mexico's largest mining corporation, and the third largest copper producer in the world. As of June 2025, his net worth was estimated at US$31.3 billion.
Share of the 45 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs27% (12 people)
Politicians27% (12 people)
Actors22% (10 people)
Authors22% (10 people)
Creators20% (9 people)
Musicians16% (7 people)
Athletes11% (5 people)
Countries
27 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States11 (11 people)
Russian Empire3 (3 people)
Sweden3 (3 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
India2 (2 people)
Turkey2 (2 people)
United Kingdom2 (2 people)
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Seth Woodbury MacFarlane is an American actor, animator, filmmaker, comedian and singer. He is the creator and star of the television series Family Guy and The Orville, and co-creator of the television series American Dad! and The Cleveland Show.
Phillip Jack Brooks, better known by his ring name CM Punk, is an American professional wrestler and actor. As of November 2023, he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand and is the current Undisputed WWE Champion in his third reign.
Ivan Simon Cary Elwes is an English actor. He starred as Westley in The Princess Bride (1987), and also had lead roles in films such as Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) and the Saw series.
Lars Peter Hansen is an American economist. He is the David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Statistics, and the Booth School of Business, at the University of Chicago and a 2013 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
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Margarita Wilson Hanks is an American actress, singer, and producer. Her film appearances include Volunteers (1985), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Now and Then (1995), That Thing You Do!
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Jacquelyn Ellen "Jaclyn" Smith is an American actress. She is most notable for her role as Kelly Garrett in the television series Charlie's Angels (1976–1981), and was the only original female lead to remain with the series for its complete run.
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Benjamin Guggenheim was an American businessman who was a member of the Guggenheim family. He was among the most prominent American passengers aboard the British ocean liner RMS Titanic and perished along with 1,495 others when the ship sank on her maiden voyage.
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Hamdi Ulukaya is a Turkish billionaire businessperson, activist and philanthropist of Kurdish ethnicity based in the United States. He is the founder, owner, chair, and CEO of the strained yogurt brand Chobani.
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Harald Ingemann Nielsen was a Danish footballer who played as a forward. He played professionally for Italian club Bologna F.C. where he was the league top scorer (capocannoniere) in Bologna's 1964 Serie A championship winning season.
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Òscar Ribas Reig was an Andorran politician, lawyer, and businessman who became the first prime minister of Andorra in 1982. He twice served as head of government, first from 8 January 1982 to 21 May 1984 and again from 12 January 1990 to 7 December 1994.
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Robert William Hoskins was an English actor and film director. Known for his intense but sensitive portrayals of "tough guy" characters, he began his career on stage before making his screen breakthrough playing Arthur Parker in the 1978 BBC Television serial Pennies from Heaven.
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François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was President of France from 1981 to 1995. He was the first left-wing politician to assume the presidency under the Fifth Republic, successfully remaining in office longer than any other republican head of state in French history.
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Raveena Tandon is an Indian actress primarily known for her work in Hindi films. One of the leading actresses of the 1990s, Tandon is known for her versatility and is the recipient of several awards, including a National Film Award, two Filmfare Awards and a Filmfare OTT Award.
Asin Thottumkal is an Indian former actress who appeared predominantly in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu films. Asin is a recipient of several accolades including a Filmfare Award, two Filmfare Awards South and four SIIMA Awards.
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John Leslie Coogan was an American actor and comedian who began his film career as a child actor in silent films. Coogan's title role in Charlie Chaplin's film The Kid (1921) made him one of the first child stars in the history of Hollywood.
Juan Evo Morales Ayma is a Bolivian politician, trade union organizer, and former cocalero activist who served as the 65th President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019.
Oliver Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author and con man who is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich (1937), which is among the best-selling self-help books of all time. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life.
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Mahalia Jackson was an American gospel singer, widely considered one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century. With a career spanning 40 years, Jackson was integral to the development and spread of gospel blues in black churches throughout the U.S.
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Graf Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall. The chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years, he is regarded as the creator of a new, more modern method of directing armies in the field and one of the finest military minds of his generation.
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Hilma af Klint was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered to be among the first major abstract works in Western art history. A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky, Malevich, and Mondrian.
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Zlatko Dalić is a Croatian professional football manager and former player, who currently serves as the manager of the United Arab Emirates national football team. He was the manager of the Croatia national football team between 2017 and 2026.
Donald Siegel was an American film and television director, producer, and editor. He was described by The New York Times as "a director of tough, cynical and forthright action-adventure films whose taut plots centered on individualistic loners".
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style.
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Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin was a Russian painter, war artist, and traveller. The graphic nature of his realist scenes led to many of them never being printed or exhibited to the public.
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Adriano Correia Claro, known simply as Adriano, is a Brazilian former professional footballer. One of few players in professional football who are genuinely ambidextrous, he was capable of playing as a full-back or midfielder on both sides of the pitch.
Dimitrie or Demetrius Cantemir, also known by other spellings, was a Moldavian prince, statesman, and man of letters. He twice served as voivode of Moldavia.
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Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, better known by the pen name Andrei Bely or Biely, was a Russian and Soviet novelist, Symbolist poet, theorist and literary critic. He was a committed anthroposophist and follower of Rudolf Steiner.
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Karin Maria Boye was a Swedish poet and novelist. In Sweden, she is acclaimed as a poet, but internationally, she is best known for the dystopian science fiction novel Kallocain (1940).
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Baldassare Galuppi was a Venetian composer, born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Republic. He belonged to a generation of composers, including Johann Adolph Hasse, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, and C. P. E.
Telman Mardanovich Ismailov is an Azerbaijani-born Russian businessman and entrepreneur of Mountain Jewish origin. Since Azerbaijan does not allow dual citizenship, he holds Russian-Turkish citizenship.
Jose Ma. Clemente "Joey" Sarte Salceda is a Filipino politician and economist who currently serves as Secretary of the Presidential Legislative Liaison Office under the cabinet of President Bongbong Marcos.
Janusz Marian Palikot is a Polish politician, activist and businessman. Palikot studied philosophy and became wealthy as a businessman who dealt with crates and distilled beverages.
Andrey Anatolievich Muravyov is a Russian businessperson. He made his wealth as the CEO of a Russian cement company and through stakes in the Russian online payment company QIWI.
This page lists 45 people born on October 26, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 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 26. Read the full methodology.
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