October 29 is the birthday of 55 notable people we've found so far, including politicians, scientists, historical figures and authors, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Ma Huateng, also known as Pony Ma, is a Chinese businessman. He is the co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Tencent, a Shenzhen-based conglomerate in technology, gaming, entertainment, and financial services.
Willard Gordon Galen Weston was a British-Canadian billionaire businessman and Chairman Emeritus of George Weston Limited, a Canadian food processing and distribution company.
Canadian Film Centre, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 55 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Politicians33% (18 people)
Scientists22% (12 people)
Authors20% (11 people)
Creators18% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs18% (10 people)
Actors15% (8 people)
Athletes15% (8 people)
Countries
25 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States10 (10 people)
France6 (6 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Germany4 (4 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
Kingdom of the Netherlands3 (3 people)
Sweden3 (3 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on October 29 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.
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~22Winona RyderReceived the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture (1993)
Winona Laura Horowitz, known professionally as Winona Ryder, is an American actress. Having come to attention playing "quirky" characters in the late 1980s, she achieved success with her more dramatic performances in the 1990s.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.
Robert Norman Ross was an American painter and art instructor who created and hosted The Joy of Painting, an instructional television program that aired from 1983 to 1994 on PBS in the United States and CBC in Canada.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss is an American actor. He emerged from the New Hollywood wave of American cinema, finding fame with a succession of leading man parts in the 1970s.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ellen Eugenia Johnson Sirleaf is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa.
U.S. Institute of Peace, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Isao Takahata was a Japanese director, screenwriter and producer. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he earned international critical acclaim for his work as a director of Japanese animated feature films.
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
Entrepreneur
1934–2017 · Germany
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg was the head of the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and husband of Princess Benedikte of Denmark.
Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Stephan Ernst Schmidheiny is a Swiss billionaire, businessman, industrialist and responsible for the deaths of 258 people. He is primarily known for his work at Eternit as well as his legal cases involving convictions of manslaughter.
Comet Photo AG (Zürich), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Abu Bakr, born Abd Allah ibn Abi Quhafa, was a senior companion, the closest friend, and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who served as the first Rashidun caliph, ruling from 632 until his death in 634.
Gabrielle Monique Union-Wade is an American actress, model and author. Her career began in the 1990s, when she made dozens of appearances on television sitcoms before landing supporting roles in 1999 teen films She's All That and 10 Things I Hate About You.
Adam Chitayat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Daniel Louis Castellaneta is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for voicing Homer Simpson on the animated series The Simpsons, as well as other characters on the show such as Grampa Simpson, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, Sideshow Mel, Mr.
Fox Broadcasting Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Peter Allen Greenbaum, known professionally as Peter Green, was an English blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist who was the founder and original leader of the band Fleetwood Mac.
Edwin van der Sar is a Dutch football executive and former player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, he was most recently the chief executive of Eredivisie club Ajax.
James Dover Grant, primarily known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British author who writes thriller novels and is best known for his Jack Reacher novel series. The books follow the adventures of a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher, who wanders the United States.
Mark Coggins at Flickr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Emmanuel Pires is a French former professional footballer. He is widely regarded as one of Arsenal's greatest ever players and considered by some to be one of the best wingers in the history of the sport.
Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson, known professionally as Tove Lo, is a Swedish singer-songwriter. She is known for her raw, grunge-influenced take on pop music.
Daniel Åhs Karlsson, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Abdullah Gül is a Turkish politician who served as the president of Turkey from 2007 to 2014. He previously served for four months as Prime Minister from 2002 to 2003, and concurrently served as both Deputy Prime Minister and as Foreign Minister between 2003 and 2007.
Salih Turan (VOA), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Niki de Saint Phalle was a French American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books. Widely noted as one of the few female monumental sculptors, Saint Phalle was also known for her social commitment and work.
Erling Mandelmann, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Elvira Sakhipzadovna Nabiullina is a Russian economist and current governor of the Central Bank of Russia. She was President Vladimir Putin's economic adviser from May 2012 to June 2013 after serving as the minister of economic development from September 2007 to May 2012.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer was an English philosopher who became professionally established through his exposition of major theses of logical positivism in Language, Truth, and Logic (1936).
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dom Ferdinand II, also known as Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and as "the King-artist", was King of Portugal from 16 September 1837 to 15 November 1853 as the husband and co-ruler of Queen Maria II.
Unidentified photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Othniel Charles Marsh was an American professor of paleontology. A prolific fossil collector, Marsh was one of the preeminent paleontologists of the nineteenth century.
w:en:Mathew Brady (1822-1896) or w:en:Levin Corbin Handy (1855–1932), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Eric Khaled Saade is a Swedish singer-songwriter. He spent two years with the boy band What's Up!, leaving the band in February 2009 to pursue a solo career. Saade represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song "Popular", finishing in third place.
Baruj Benacerraf Lasry was a Venezuelan and American immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface protein molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self."
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Louis Jean Joseph Charles Blanc was a French socialist politician, journalist and historian. He called for the creation of cooperatives in order to guarantee employment for the urban poor.
Étienne Carjat, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ľudovít Štúr, also known as Ľudovít Velislav Štúr, was a Slovak revolutionary, philosopher, politician and writer. He was a leader of the Slovak national revival in the 19th century and the codifier of standard Slovak.
Jozef Božetech Klemens, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II.
AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 55 people born on October 29, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 29. Read the full methodology.
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