October 5 is the birthday of 52 notable people we've found so far, including creators, actors, entrepreneurs and authors, and 3 of them are billionaires.
$28.8Bolder estimate, as of September 2021 · Bloomberg
He Xiangjian is the co-founder of Midea, one of China's largest appliance makers. In September 2021, his net worth was estimated to be $28.8 billion by Bloomberg Billionaires Index, positioning him at the 51st place in the index.
Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Giménez is a Venezuelan billionaire businessman, and CEO of Empresas Polar, Venezuela's largest privately held company, with $7 billion in annual sales. The company was founded by his grandfather and is currently owned by his family.
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Share of the 52 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Creators25% (13 people)
Actors23% (12 people)
Entrepreneurs21% (11 people)
Authors19% (10 people)
Scientists17% (9 people)
Athletes15% (8 people)
Musicians15% (8 people)
Countries
25 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States11 (11 people)
United Kingdom7 (7 people)
France4 (4 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
Australia2 (2 people)
Belgium2 (2 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
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20Kate WinsletReceived the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (1996)
Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st president of the United States, serving from 1881 to 1885. A Republican from New York, he served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield in 1881, assuming the presidency after Garfield's assassination.
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Travis Michael Kelce is an American professional football tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Chiefs in the third round of the 2013 NFL draft and later won Super Bowls LIV, LVII, and LVIII with the team.
Adam Schultz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Guy Edward Pearce is an Australian actor. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award, and nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards and eight AACTA Awards.
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Jesse Adam Eisenberg is an American actor, playwright, and filmmaker. Recognized for playing smart but socially awkward characters in both comedies and dramas, his accolades include a BAFTA Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, and three Golden Globes.
Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten was a German economist, who won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is also well known for his work in bounded rationality and can be considered one of the founding fathers of experimental economics.
Raymond Albert Kroc was an American businessman who was instrumental in turning McDonald's into the most successful global fast food corporation by revenue.
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Fidji Simo is a French-American businesswoman and the CEO of AGI Deployment at OpenAI. Prior to OpenAI, she spent a decade at Facebook where she was one of the top executives as the head of Facebook, and was CEO of Instacart from 2021 to 2025.
Anthony Quintano from Westminster, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Guo Wengui, also known as Ho Wan Kwok, Miles Guo, and Miles Kwok, is an exiled Chinese businessman. In 2014, Guo ranked 74th on the Hurun China Rich List with estimated assets of US$2.6 billion.
Richard Francis Gordon Jr. was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and a football executive. He was one of 24 Apollo astronauts to reach the Moon, as command module pilot of the Apollo 12 mission, which orbited the Moon 45 times.
Jakob Nielsen is a Danish web usability consultant, human–computer interaction researcher, and co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group. He was named the “guru of Web page usability” in 1998 by The New York Times and the “king of usability” by Internet Magazine.
Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, known professionally as Bernie Mac, was an American stand-up comedian, actor and film producer. His most noted film roles were as Frank Catton in the Ocean's film series from 2001 through 2007 and as the title character of Mr. 3000.
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Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof is an Irish singer-songwriter, political activist, television producer and entrepreneur. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead singer of the Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, who achieved popularity as part of the punk rock movement.
International Monetary Fund Photograph/Stephen Jaffe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Brian Johnson is an English singer and songwriter. He is the third lead singer of the Australian rock band AC/DC, taking over the role in 1980 after the death of Bon Scott.
Donald Henry Pleasence was an English actor. He was known for his "bald head and intense, staring eyes," and played more than 250 stage, film, and television roles across a nearly 60-year career.
Clive Barker is a British writer, filmmaker, and visual artist. He came to prominence in the 1980s with a series of short stories collectively named the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror author.
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Glynis Margaret Payne Johns was a British actress and singer. In a career exceeding seven decades on stage and screen, Johns appeared in more than 60 films and 30 plays.
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Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici was an Italian banker and politician who became the de facto ruler of Florence during the Italian Renaissance, and was the first to establish the Medici family as its effective leaders for generations.
Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment.
Pierre-Michel Alix, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American physicist, inventor, and engineer credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926.
Exequiel Alejandro Palacios is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Premier League club Ipswich Town and the Argentina national team.
Thomas George Hooper is a British-Australian filmmaker. Known for his work in film and television he has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and Primetime Emmy Award as well as a nomination for Golden Globe Award.
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Antônio de Oliveira Filho, better known as Careca, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward. A prolific striker, he was noted for his finishing ability, movement and pace.
Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani is a French mathematician and politician working primarily on partial differential equations, Riemannian geometry and mathematical physics.
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Marie Laforêt was a French singer and actress, particularly well known for her work during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, she moved to Geneva, and acquired Swiss citizenship.
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Bernard Bolzano was a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest of Italian extraction, also known for his liberal views.
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Nicola Rizzoli is an Italian former football referee who refereed in the Italian Serie A from 2002 to 2017 and was a FIFA-listed referee from 2007 to 2017.
John Clement Seale ACS ASC is an Australian retired cinematographer, known for his work in blockbusters and drama films both in Australia and Hollywood, including collaborations with directors Peter Weir and George Miller.
Georges-Augustin Bidault was a French politician. During World War II, he was active in the French Resistance. After the war, he served as foreign minister and premier on several occasions.
Maurice Quentin de La Tour was a French painter who specialised in portrait painting using pastels in the Rococo style. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Louis XV, and Madame de Pompadour.
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Francesco Lazzaro Guardi was an Italian painter, nobleman, and a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting.
Pietro Longhi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Beate Heister is a German billionaire heiress. She is one of the two children of Karl Albrecht, who founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Theo which split into Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd.
This page lists 52 people born on October 5, 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 September 2021. 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 5. Read the full methodology.
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