October 27 is the birthday of 44 notable people we've found so far, including politicians, entrepreneurs, authors and actors, and 3 of them are billionaires.
$145Breported estimate as of February 2026 · Forbes
Samuel Robson Walton is an American billionaire heir to the fortune of Walmart, the world's largest retailer. He is the eldest son of Helen Walton and Sam Walton, and was chairman of Walmart from 1992 to 2015.
Alexander Anatolyevich Ponomarenko is a Russian–Cypriot billionaire businessman who made his fortune in banking, sea ports, commercial real estate and airport construction.
Roman Zinovyev, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Chung Mong-joon is a South Korean businessman and politician. He is the sixth son of Chung Ju-yung, founder of Hyundai, the second-largest South Korean chaebol before its breakup in 2003.
Kinocine PARKJAEHWAN, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 44 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs27% (12 people)
Politicians27% (12 people)
Authors23% (10 people)
Actors20% (9 people)
Athletes18% (8 people)
Musicians18% (8 people)
Creators16% (7 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States12 (12 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
France3 (3 people)
Croatia2 (2 people)
India2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Philippines2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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24Teresa WrightReceived the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (1943)
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Previously serving for six months as vice president under William McKinley, Roosevelt became president after McKinley's assassination in 1901.
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Marla Ann Maples is an American actress, television host, singer and model. She was the second wife of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States. They married two months after the birth of their daughter, Tiffany, in 1993.
Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and her works include The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published one month before her suicide.
Giovanni Giovannetti/Grazia Neri, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne is an English television personality, singer, actress, and fashion designer. She came to prominence while appearing on the reality show The Osbournes (2002–2005) with her family, which won a 2002 Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program.
Eva Rinaldi from Sydney Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood.
Nora Summers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Harry Robbins "Bob" Haldeman was an American political aide and businessman, best known for his service as White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon and his consequent involvement in the Watergate scandal.
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Isaac Merritt Singer was an American inventor, actor, and businessman. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of what became one of the first American multi-national businesses, the Singer Sewing Machine Company.
Edward Harrison May, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Owen D. Young was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929, as a member of the German Reparations International Commission.
Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bryan Glazer is an American businessman. Together with his brothers, Joel Glazer and Edward Glazer, he owns part of the First Allied Corporation, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers National Football League (NFL) franchise, and the English football club Manchester United.
The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dayotchanculle Oswald Upamecano is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the France national team.
Ivan Reitman was a Canadian film director and producer. He was known for his comedy films, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. Reitman was the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 1998.
Directors_Arthur_Hiller_and_Ivan_Reitman_attend_The_Canadian_Film_Centre_cocktail_reception_2011.jpg: Canadian Film Cent, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Stephan Kareem El Shaarawy is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Serie A club Genoa and the Italy national team. He is nicknamed Il Faraone, as his father is Egyptian.
Clément Bucco-Lechat, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist, guitarist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Muriel Teresa Wright was an American actress. She won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carol Beldon in Mrs. Miniver. She was nominated for the same award in 1941 for her debut work in The Little Foxes.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Roy Fox Lichtenstein was an American artist. A leading figure of the Pop Art movement, he is best known for his large-scale paintings inspired by comic books, advertisements, and mass-produced imagery.
Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kocheril Raman Narayanan was an Indian diplomat, academician, and statesman who served as the president of India from 1997 to 2002 and vice president of India from 1992 to 1997.
US EMBASSY NEW DELHI, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nawal El Saadawi was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote numerous books on women in Islam, focusing on issues affecting women in the Global South, including sexuality, patriarchy, social class, and colonialism.
Vanessa-Mae, also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, is a Singaporean-born British violinist and skier with Thai heritage from her father. Her album sales reached several million by 2006, making her the wealthiest entertainer aged under 30 in the United Kingdom at that time.
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Pope Pius II, born Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 August 1458 to his death in 1464.
Fabrizio Garrisi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Danijel Subašić is a Croatian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He currently works as the goalkeeping coach of the Croatia national team.
James Macpherson was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector, and politician. He is known for the Ossian cycle of epic poems, which he claimed to have discovered and translated from Gaelic.
George Romney, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Maria de Lurdes Mutola is a retired Mozambican female track and field athlete who specialised in the 800 metres running event. She is only the fourth female track and field athlete to compete at six Olympic Games.
Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agriculture.
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Tanel Padar is an Estonian singer and songwriter. He is best known internationally for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. Padar became famous by winning the Kaks takti ette, a biennial televised competition for young Estonian singers, in 1999.
Ave Maria Mõistlik, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
James Christopher Flowers is an American private equity investor and investment manager focused on the financial services industry. He is a managing director and CEO of J.C. Flowers & Co., and a member of the firm's Management Committee.
Aurelio "Dong" Dueñas Gonzales Jr. is a Filipino politician, civil engineer, and businessman who served as representative of the 3rd District of Pampanga from 2016 to 2025, a position he previously held from 2007 to 2013.
House of Representatives of the Philippines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher George Martin Perez de Venecia, sometimes referred to as Toff de Venecia, is a Filipino former child actor, writer, director, theater producer, and politician who served as a member of the Philippine House of Representatives for the 4th district of Pangasinan from 2016 to 2025.
House of Representatives of the Philippines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lalit Mohan Thapar, often referred to by his initials LMT, headed the LM Thapar Group of companies. He was born to Karam Chand Thapar, the founder of the Thapar Group of companies that owned companies such as Crompton Greaves, BILT and JCT Mills.
This page lists 44 people born on October 27, 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 May 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 27. Read the full methodology.
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