October 30 is the birthday of 47 notable people we've found so far, including scientists, authors, actors and entrepreneurs, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Igor Albertovich Kesaev is a Russian billionaire retail businessman. He is known as the owner and president of the Mercury Group, which owns Megapolis Group, the leading tobacco distributor in Russia. He is also an owner of weapon manufacturers and retail store chains.
Share of the 47 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Scientists32% (15 people)
Authors30% (14 people)
Actors23% (11 people)
Entrepreneurs21% (10 people)
Creators19% (9 people)
Politicians19% (9 people)
Artists9% (4 people)
Countries
22 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States19 (19 people)
France6 (6 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Spain2 (2 people)
Argentina1 (1 people)
Canada1 (1 people)
Finland1 (1 people)
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Diego Armando Maradona was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in history, he was one of the two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the Century award, alongside Pelé.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Founder · American Academy of Arts and Sciences · other industries
1735–1826 · United States
John Adams was a Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain.
Gilbert Stuart, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump is an American businesswoman. She is the second child of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, and his first wife, Ivana Trump. Ivanka was a presidential advisor during her father's first administration (2017–2021).
Andrea Hanks/Official White House Photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Francine Joy Drescher is an American actress, writer, comedian, producer, and former trade union leader. She played Fran Fine in the television sitcom The Nanny (1993–1999), which she created and produced with her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson.
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Francisco Ignacio Madero González was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer, politician, and statesman who served as the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed and assassinated in a coup d'état in February 1913.
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Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi was an Iraqi politician and founder of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) who served as the President of the Governing Council of Iraq and a Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq under Ibrahim al-Jaafari. He is believed to have been an Iranian agent.
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Robert Allan Monroe, also known as Bob Monroe, was an American radio broadcasting executive who became known for his books on his out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and for founding The Monroe Institute, which researches consciousness and produces the Gateway Program to teach people how to go out of body.
Arnaud Montebourg is a French politician, lawyer and entrepreneur who served as Minister of Industrial Renewal from May 2012 to April 2014, then as Minister of Economy, Industrial Renewal and Digital Affairs until August 2014.
Wesley Robert Edens is an American billionaire businessman and private equity investor. He is the co-founder of Fortress Investment Group and founder of New Fortress Energy. Edens is co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks franchise of the NBA based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Henry Franklin Winkler is an American actor, producer, director, and author. Widely known for playing Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984), Winkler has distinguished himself as a character actor for roles on stage and screen.
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nia Talita Long is an American actress. Best known for her work in black cinema, Long rose to prominence after starring in the film Boyz n the Hood (1991), and for her portrayal of Beullah "Lisa" Wilkes on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1991–1995).
MingleMediaTVNetwork, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Grace Slick is an American musician and painter whose musical career spanned four decades. She was a prominent figure in San Francisco's psychedelic music scene during the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and The Cantos.
Adam Joseph Copeland is a Canadian professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he performs under his real name and is one-half of the reigning AEW World Tag Team Champions with Christian Cage as Cage & Cope.
Wang Ji-hyun, known professionally as Jun Ji-hyun (전지현) and Gianna Jun, is a South Korean actress and model. She rose to fame with her role in the romantic comedy film My Sassy Girl (2001), which was popular in several Asian countries.
Republic of Korea, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Louis Marie Malle was a French filmmaker who worked in France and Hollywood. Described as "eclectic" and "difficult to pin down", his works often depict provocative or controversial subject matter.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Clémence Guichard, known professionally as Clémence Poésy, is a French actress and fashion model. After starting on the stage as a child, Poésy studied drama and has been active in both film and television since 1999, including some English-language productions.
Myles Kalus Anak Jihem, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ruth Gordon Jones was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and novelist, widely known for a career that spanned seven decades, beginning by performing on Broadway at age 19.
Photographer Eileen Darby., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
David Charles Hahn, sometimes called the "Radioactive Boy Scout" and the "Nuclear Boy Scout", was an American nuclear radiation enthusiast who attempted to build a homemade nuclear reactor at the age of seventeen.
Sir Christopher Wren was an English architect, astronomer, mathematician and physicist who is one of the most highly acclaimed architects in the history of England.
Godfrey Kneller, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction, his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events.
Henri Manuel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann, usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffman was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter.
Angelica Kauffmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester.
Robert Hicks / After Joshua Reynolds, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
William Paul Thurston was an American mathematician. He was a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology and was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982 for his contributions to the study of 3-manifolds.
Sandra Hall Magnus is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew to space three times, as mission specialist on STS-112, as ISS crewmember during Expedition 18 and as mission specialist on STS-135.
Bill Stafford, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Miguel Hernández Gilabert was a 20th-century Spanish-language poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 and the Generation of '36 movements.
UNED Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia from Madrid, Spain, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Frank Joseph Fertitta Jr. was an American entrepreneur. He was the founder of Station Casinos, a gaming company based in Summerlin South, Nevada. The company started out as a locals casino operator on July 1, 1976, opening the Bingo Palace, which was later renamed Palace Station.
Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch is a German physicist. He received one-fourth of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique", sharing the prize with John L. Hall and Roy J.
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Daniel Nathans was an American microbiologist. Along with American researcher Hamilton Smith and Swiss researcher Werner Arber, he shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application in restriction mapping.
Galileo Ferraris was an Italian university professor, physicist and electrical engineer, one of the pioneers of AC power system and inventor of the induction motor, although he never patented his work.
Photograph by Gibson from Chicago, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ragnar Arthur Granit was a Finnish and Swedish neurophysiologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye".
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This page lists 47 people born on October 30, 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 2022. 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 30. Read the full methodology.
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