September 12 is the birthday of 57 notable people we've found so far, including actors, entrepreneurs, musicians and scientists, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Sir Michael Jonathan Moritz is a Welsh billionaire venture capitalist, philanthropist, author, and former journalist. Moritz works for Sequoia Capital, wrote the first history of Apple Inc., The Little Kingdom, and authored Going for Broke: Lee Iacocca's Battle to Save Chrysler.
John Edward Anderson was an American billionaire businessman who was the president and owner of Topa Equities, Ltd. Anderson oversaw more than 40 wholly owned subsidiaries in agriculture, automotive dealerships, insurance, real estate, oil, and wholesale beverage distribution.
Share of the 57 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors28% (16 people)
Entrepreneurs26% (15 people)
Musicians23% (13 people)
Athletes19% (11 people)
Scientists19% (11 people)
Authors18% (10 people)
Creators16% (9 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States22 (22 people)
Japan7 (7 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Canada3 (3 people)
France3 (3 people)
Philippines2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on September 12 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
25Jennifer HudsonReceived the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (2007)
~72Richard ThalerReceived the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2017)
~77Joachim FrankReceived the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2017)
The standouts
The most successful people born on September 12
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
actor
Sydney Sweeney
Top tier
Actor
1997 · United States
Sydney Bernice Sweeney is an American actress. She gained early recognition for her roles in Everything Sucks!, The Handmaid's Tale, and Sharp Objects in 2018.
Emmanuelle Grey Rossum Esmail is an American actress and singer. Her accolades include a Critics' Choice Award and a Saturn Award, in addition to nominations for a Golden Globe Award and an Independent Spirit Award.
Hans Florian Zimmer is a German film composer and music producer. He has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and five Grammy Awards, as well as nominations for seven Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Irène Joliot-Curie was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity. The couple also discovered positron emission in their process.
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Yao Ming is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), and then spent his entire nine-year National Basketball Association (NBA) career with the Houston Rockets.
U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete who made history at the 1936 Olympic Games by winning four gold medals, setting individual Olympic records in each event, plus another as a member of the 400-meter relay.
Acme News Photos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Tauheed Epps, known professionally as 2 Chainz, is an American rapper, songwriter, and actor. Born and raised in College Park, Georgia, he gained recognition as one-half of the Southern hip-hop duo Playaz Circle, alongside hometown rapper Earl "Dolla Boy" Conyers.
Eiji Toyoda was a Japanese engineer and industrialist. He was largely responsible for bringing Toyota Motor Corporation to profitability and worldwide prominence during his tenure as president and later, as chairman.
Anousheh Ansari is an Iranian-American engineer, space tourist, and entrepreneur. Ansari is the CEO of XPRIZE Foundation. Ansari and her family sponsored XPRIZE’s first venture in 1994: the $10 million Ansari XPRIZE.
Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of world No. 3 in singles and No. 108 in doubles from the WTA.
Власність Міністерства молоді та спорту України, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Peter Pantoliano is an American actor who has played more than 150 roles across film, television, and theater. He won an Emmy for his portrayal of the sadistic gangster Ralph Cifaretto in HBO's The Sopranos.
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Alfie Evan Allen is an English actor. He portrayed Theon Greyjoy on all eight seasons of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2019.
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Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert was an English actor. After graduating from RADA and beginning his career on the British stage as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in film.
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Kim Nam-joon, known professionally as RM, is a South Korean rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He is the leader of South Korean boy band BTS, under Big Hit Music.
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, was a British statesman, Liberal politician and barrister who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 until his resignation in 1916.
Bain News Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
George Glenn Jones was an American country musician, singer, and songwriter. He achieved international fame for a long list of hit records, and is well known for his distinctive voice and phrasing.
Secisek at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing was a Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor. One of the most influential cultural icons in the Sinophone world, Cheung was known for his debonair demeanour, flamboyant screen characters, and avant-garde, androgynous stage presence.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American New York University professor, essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty.
Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character.
Courtesy of Lem's secretary, Wojciech Zemek. Resize and digital processing by Masur., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas André A. Meunier is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Sunderland and the Belgium national team.
Paul Francis Tompkins is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He has worked in television on such programs as BoJack Horseman, Mr. Show with Bob and David, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Best Week Ever, later renamed Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins.
Henry Louis Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements.
Amílcar Lopes Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, diplomat, and half-brother of Luís Cabral. He was widely remembered as one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders.
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Richard H. Thaler is an American economist and the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 2015, Thaler was president of the American Economic Association.
Alessandro Mahmoud, known professionally as Mahmood, is an Italian singer and songwriter. He rose to prominence after competing on the sixth season of the Italian version of The X Factor.
Edin Dervišhalidović, known professionally as Dino Merlin, is a Bosnian singer-songwriter and record producer. Nicknamed "The Wizard", he is widely regarded as one of the most prominent and commercially successful artists to have emerged from the former Yugoslavia.
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Walter Jeremiah Sanders III is an American businessman and engineer, who was a co-founder of the semiconductor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and its CEO from 1969 to 2002.
Ansgar, also known as Anskar, Saint Ansgar, Saint Anschar or Oscar, was Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen in the northern part of the Kingdom of the East Franks.
Richard Jordan Gatling was an American inventor. He is best known for having invented the Gatling gun, which is considered to be the first successful machine gun.
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Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi was an Italian composer and virtuoso keyboard player. Born in the Duchy of Ferrara, he was one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods.
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Jan Egeland is a Norwegian diplomat, political scientist, humanitarian leader, and former Labour Party politician who has been Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council since 2013.
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Harvey James Alter is an American medical researcher, virologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate, who is best known for his work that led to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
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This page lists 57 people born on September 12, 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 September 12. Read the full methodology.
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