October 28 is the birthday of 50 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, actors, creators and authors, and 4 of them are billionaires.
William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
Pawan Kant Munjal is an Indian billionaire businessman, and the chairman, managing director and CEO of Hero MotoCorp, the world’s largest manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters. India Today magazine ranked him #49th in its India's 50 Most Powerful People of 2017 list.
Bernard Charles Ecclestone is a British business magnate, motorsport executive and former racing driver. Widely known in journalism as the "F1 Supremo", Ecclestone founded the Formula One Group in 1987, controlling the commercial rights to Formula One until 2017.
Governo do Estado de São Paulo, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Industries of the companies the 4 wealthy people born on October 28 founded or led.
automotive50% (1 people)
energy50% (1 people)
entertainment50% (1 people)
finance50% (1 people)
software50% (1 people)
Who shares October 28
What kind of people are born on October 28?
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors28% (14 people)
Entrepreneurs28% (14 people)
Creators16% (8 people)
Athletes14% (7 people)
Authors14% (7 people)
Musicians12% (6 people)
Politicians12% (6 people)
Countries
25 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
United Kingdom9 (9 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Nigeria2 (2 people)
Sweden2 (2 people)
Argentina1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on October 28 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.
Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress. Known for her leading roles across several genres, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globes.
U.S. Department of State from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an Iranian politician who served as the sixth president of Iran from 2005 to 2013. Ideologically a principlist and nationalist, he was a member of the Expediency Discernment Council.
Richard Laurence Millington Synge was an English biochemist, and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alfonso John Romero is an American and Irish video game developer. He co-founded id Software and designed their early games, including Wolfenstein 3D (1992), Doom (1993), Doom II (1994), Hexen (1995) and Quake (1996).
Jawed Karim is a German and American software engineer and internet entrepreneur of Bangladeshi descent. He is one of the co-founders of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site.
Picture taken by Robin BrownOriginal uploaded by Jawed (Transfered by Quibik), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Marvin John Heemeyer was an American welder and automobile repair shop owner who, in an act of revenge, demolished numerous buildings with a modified bulldozer in Granby, Colorado, in June 2004.
Tessy Antony de Nassau, formerly Princess Tessy of Luxembourg, is a Luxembourgish businesswoman and non-profit executive. She is a former member of the Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg as the ex-wife of Prince Louis of Luxembourg, the third son of Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
Brittani Barger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lauren Michael Holly is an American and Canadian actress. She has played the roles of Deputy Sheriff Maxine Stewart in the television series Picket Fences, NCIS Director Jenny Shepard in the series NCIS, and Dr. Betty Rogers on Motive.
Manuel Francisco dos Santos, nicknamed Mané Garrincha, best known as simply Garrincha, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a right winger. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, and by many, one of the greatest dribblers ever.
El Gráfico, n° 2233, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jonas Edward Salk was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York and New York University School of Medicine.
SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alan Smith is an English former professional footballer. Smith first came to prominence as both a striker and a right winger, but later became a holding midfielder.
Jane Alexander is an American-Canadian actress and author. She is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and nominations for four Academy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.
Diane Rooney at https://www.flickr.com/photos/dianesf/, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Prince Yoshinobu Tokugawa was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the 15th and last shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was part of a movement which aimed to reform the aging shogunate, but was ultimately unsuccessful.
Frederick Sutton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Eros Walter Luciano Ramazzotti is an Italian pop and rock singer, songwriter and record producer. He is popular in Italy and most European countries, and throughout the Spanish-speaking world, as he has released most of his albums in both Italian and Spanish.
Nuță Lucian from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Edith Claire Head was an American film costume designer. She received a record 35 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design and won a record eight times, making her both the most honored and most nominated woman in the Academy's history.
Rothschild Photo Los Angeles., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Fisher was an English Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Rochester from 1504 to 1535 and as chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He is honoured as a martyr and saint by the Catholic Church.
After Hans Holbein the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Michel Gérard Joseph Colucci, better known under his stage name Coluche, was a French stand-up comedian, film actor, activist and philanthropist. He adopted Coluche as a stage name at age 26, as he began his entertainment career.
European Community, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Arturo Frondizi Ércoli was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, teacher, statesman, and politician. He was elected president of Argentina and governed from May 1, 1958, to March 29, 1962, when he was overthrown in a military coup.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ramón María del Valle-Inclán y de la Peña was a Spanish dramatist, novelist, and member of the Spanish Generation of 98. His work has been described by literary critics as radical in its subversion of traditional Spanish theatre in the early 20th century.
Pau Audouard Deglaire, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky was a Russian composer of Ukrainian Cossack origin. He was also a harpsichordist and conductor who served at the court of Catherine the Great.
Mikhail Ivanovich Belsky, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
William IX was the Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou between 1086 and his death. He was also one of the leaders of the Crusade of 1101.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Valter Mainetti is an Italian entrepreneur, publisher and business manager, president of Tiberiade Holding owned by a branch of the Mainetti family, president of Società Italiana per le Condotte d'Acqua 1880, President of Musa Comunicazione and Foglio Edizioni, and president of the Fondazione Sorgente Group.
This page lists 50 people born on October 28, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 4 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 July 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 28. Read the full methodology.
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