September 10 is the birthday of 55 notable people we've found so far, including authors, creators, entrepreneurs and athletes, and 4 of them are billionaires.
Ma Yun, also known as Jack Ma, is a Chinese businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of the Jack Ma Foundation, and co-founder of Alibaba Group and Yunfeng Capital. He is one of the richest men in China with a net worth of approx US$27.5 billion.
Edward Perry "Ed" Bass is an American businessman, financier, philanthropist and environmentalist who lives in Fort Worth, Texas. He financed the Biosphere 2 project, an artificial closed ecological system, which was built between 1987 and 1991.
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Yuri Shefler is a Russian-born businessman. He is the owner of SPI Group, an international consortium that sells alcohol in 160 countries, most notably the Stolichnaya vodka brand. As of July 2025, his net worth was estimated at US$1.1 billion.
Industries of the companies the 4 wealthy people born on September 10 founded or led.
finance100% (1 people)
logistics100% (1 people)
retail100% (1 people)
Who shares September 10
What kind of people are born on September 10?
Share of the 55 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors29% (16 people)
Creators27% (15 people)
Entrepreneurs24% (13 people)
Athletes20% (11 people)
Actors16% (9 people)
Musicians15% (8 people)
Scientists15% (8 people)
Countries
23 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States20 (20 people)
France4 (4 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Brazil3 (3 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Soviet Union2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on September 10 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.
By 25
~24José FelicianoReceived the Grammy Award for Best New Artist (1969)
~75Arnold PalmerReceived the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2004)
~78José FelicianoReceived the National Medal of Arts (2023)
~53Robert WiseReceived the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1967)
The standouts
The most successful people born on September 10
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
inventor
Christopher Columbus
Top tier
Inventor
1451–1506 · Republic of Genoa
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish transatlantic voyages in the name of the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Guy Stuart Ritchie is an English film director, producer and screenwriter known primarily for British comedy gangster films and large-scale action-adventure films.
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Jack Peter Grealish is an English professional footballer who plays as a left winger or attacking midfielder for Premier League club Everton, on loan from Manchester City.
Arthur Holly Compton was an American physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with C. T. R. Wilson for his discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
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Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as CZ, is a Canadian businessman who is known for co-founding the cryptocurrency company Binance. He has also served as CTO of OKCoin and CEO of Binance.
Anurag Kashyap is an Indian filmmaker and actor known for his works in Hindi cinema. He is the recipient of four Filmfare Awards. The Government of France made him a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2013.
Elsa Luisa Giovanna Maria Schiaparelli was an Italian fashion designer from an aristocratic background. She created Maison Schiaparelli in Paris in 1927, which she managed from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Vasyl Ivanovych Khmelnytsky is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine on two occasions, first from 1998 to 2002 and then from 2006 to 2014. He is also the founder of holding company UFuture.
Christopher Joseph Columbus is an American filmmaker. Born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, Columbus studied film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking.
Amy Irving is an American actress and singer, who has worked in film, stage, and television. Her accolades include an Obie Award, and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award.
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Arnold Daniel Palmer was an American professional golfer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most charismatic players in the sport's history.
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Joseph Anthony Pereira, professionally known as Joe Perry, is an American musician best known as a founding member, guitarist, backing and occasional lead vocalist of the rock band Aerosmith and has appeared on every studio album except Rock in a Hard Place.
José Montserrate Feliciano García is a Puerto Rican musician. He recorded many international hits, including his rendition of the Doors' "Light My Fire" and his self-penned Christmas song "Feliz Navidad".
Mary Jane Oliver was an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild.
Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French writer, essayist, librarian and theorist whose work crossed the boundaries of literature, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, political economy, religious studies and art history.
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Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten is a Brazilian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals for 43 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2000.
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Eamon Joseph O'Brien, known professionally as Edmond O'Brien, was an American actor of stage, screen, and television, and film director.
The original uploader was Steve Eifert at English Wikipedia. Later versions were uploaded by Iain at en.wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist, historian, and author. He has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books, most notably Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), which received multiple awards, including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
Robert Earl Wise was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965).
Henry Purcell was an English composer and organist of the middle Baroque era. He was extremely prolific, having composed more than 100 songs, a tragic opera Dido and Aeneas, and wrote incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream called The Fairy Queen.
Laurent Koscielny is a French former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He is currently the sporting director of Ligue 1 club Lorient.
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Hilda Doolittle was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co-founded the avant-garde Imagist group of poets with American expatriate poet and critic Ezra Pound.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Taken from a postcard that is inscribed "To Marianne Moore, , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ismail II was the third shah of Safavid Iran from 1576 to 1577. He was the second son of Tahmasp I with his principal consort, Sultanum Begum of the Mawsillu clan of the Aq Qoyunlu confederation.
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Jérémy Toulalan is a French former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, but was also utilized as a central defender. He is best known for his humble demeanor, simple distribution, good technique and effective tackling.
Alexander or Aleksandr Petrovich Dovzhenko, also known as Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin.
Timur Askaruly Kulibayev is a Kazakh businessman. He is the son-in-law of former Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev. He is known as Kazakhstan's "Oil Prince" due to his connections to Kazakh political elites and Kazakh state-owned energy companies.
Bo Goldman was an American screenwriter and playwright. He received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Writers Guild of America Awards, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998. He also received two BAFTA Award nominations.
Vladimir Klavdiyevich Arsenyev, was a Russian explorer of the Far East who recounted his travels in a series of books—Po Ussuriyskomu krayu and Dersu Uzala —telling of his military journeys to the Ussuri basin with Dersu Uzala, a native hunter, from 1902 to 1907.
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Christoffel Hendrik Wiese is a South African billionaire businessman who was the longtime chairman of Shoprite and Pepkor. He was also the chairman and largest shareholder of Steinhoff International until its collapse in December 2017.
This page lists 55 people born on September 10, 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 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 September 10. Read the full methodology.
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