September 13 is the birthday of 56 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, athletes and actors, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Eric Paul Lefkofsky is an American billionaire businessman. He is the founder and CEO of Tempus AI, and the co-founder of Groupon, Echo Global Logistics (ECHO), InnerWorkings (INWK), and Mediaocean.
Share of the 56 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors25% (14 people)
Entrepreneurs23% (13 people)
Athletes20% (11 people)
Actors18% (10 people)
Musicians16% (9 people)
Politicians16% (9 people)
Scientists13% (7 people)
Countries
24 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States20 (20 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
France3 (3 people)
Australia2 (2 people)
Croatia2 (2 people)
Norway2 (2 people)
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Roald Dahl was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. He has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".
Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Müller is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for Major League Soccer club Vancouver Whitecaps. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation.
Tyler Perry is an American filmmaker and actor. His films vary in style from orthodox filmmaking techniques to filmed productions of live stage plays, many of which have been subsequently adapted into feature films.
PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Niall James Horan is an Irish singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist. He rose to prominence as a member of the boy band One Direction, formed in 2010 on the singing competition The X Factor.
Office of the President of the United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Óscar Arias Sánchez is a Costa Rican politician, activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was the president of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010.
Anutin Charnvirakul is a Thai politician and businessman who has served as the 32nd prime minister of Thailand since September 2025. He has also been the leader of the Bhumjaithai Party since 2012 and a member of the House of Representatives since 2019.
Daniel Torok / The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Theodore Roosevelt III, often known as Theodore Jr., was an American brigadier general and politician. He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt and First Lady Edith Roosevelt.
Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Frank Wilton Marshall is an American film producer and director. He often collaborated with his wife, film producer Kathleen Kennedy, with whom he founded the production company Amblin Entertainment, along with Steven Spielberg.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alain Ducasse is a French-born Monégasque chef. He operates a number of restaurants, including Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, which holds three stars in the Michelin Guide.
Bruno Cordioli for CIBVS, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ann Louise Wagner is an American politician and former diplomat serving as the U.S. representative for Missouri's 2nd congressional district since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, she was the United States ambassador to Luxembourg from 2005 to 2009.
United States Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Fabio Cannavaro is an Italian professional football coach and former player who is the head coach of the Uzbekistan national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest defenders of all time.
Original: Mech867 / Derivative work: Danyele, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lili Pauline Reinhart is an American actress. She gained recognition for playing Betty Cooper on the CW teen drama series Riverdale (2017–2023). She has also starred in the crime drama film Hustlers (2019) and the romantic drama film Chemical Hearts (2020).
Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart is an American singer-songwriter. All five of her albums have reached the top 20 on the Billboard 200, and as of 2021, she has sold over 15 million records worldwide.
Jordan Terrell Carter, known professionally as Playboi Carti, is an American rapper. Known for his eccentric vocal style and fashion, he is considered an influential figure in modern hip-hop and a pioneer of the rage microgenre.
Wojciech Pędzich, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
David Scott Mustaine is an American musician. He is the co-founder, frontman, primary songwriter and sole consistent member of the thrash metal band Megadeth and was the lead guitarist of Metallica from 1981 to 1983.
Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset is a British actress. She began her film career in 1965 and came to prominence in 1968 with roles in The Detective, Bullitt, and The Sweet Ride, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination as Most Promising Newcomer.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Shane Keith Warne was an Australian international cricketer whose career ran from 1992 to 2007. Warne played as a right-arm leg spin bowler and a lower-order right-handed batter for Victoria, Hampshire, the Melbourne Stars and Australia.
Tourism Victoria from Australia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pedro Antonio Porro Sauceda is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Spain national team.
Richard Dawson Kiel was an American actor. Standing 7 feet 1.5 inches (2.17 m) tall, he was notable for portraying Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979), and Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore (1996).
dejahthoris from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Stella Nina McCartney is an English fashion designer. She is the daughter of English musician Paul McCartney and American photographer and activist Linda McCartney. McCartney is most widely known for her self-titled fashion label, Stella McCartney, which began in 1997.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mahima Chaudhry is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi films. Chaudhry did a few modelling assignments and television commercials before venturing into films, with the 1997 romantic drama film Pardes, for which she received the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Claudette Colbert, also known as Lily Claudette Chauchoin, was a French-American stage and film actress. She began her career in earnest on Broadway during the late 1920s and progressed to films with the advent of talking pictures.
Whitey Schafer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kevin Carter was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. He was the recipient in 1994 of a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph depicting the 1993 famine in Sudan; he died by suicide less than four months afterwards, at the age of 33.
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Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg was an Austrian and American modernist composer, music theorist, and teacher associated with developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance, and twelve-tone composition.
Goran Ivanišević is a Croatian former professional tennis player and current coach. He was ranked world No. 2 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in July 1994.
Michael Duane Johnson is an American sprinter who became Olympic Champion four times, and World Champion eight times in the span of his career. His 400 m time of 43.18 seconds is the American record and is the second fastest time ever.
Tadao Ando is a Japanese architect. Self-taught, he is known for his unique integration of architecture and landscape. Architectural historian Francesco Dal Co described his work as an example of "critical regionalism". Ando was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1995.
Christopher Schriner from Köln, Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Maurice-Alexis Jarre was a French composer and conductor, mainly of film scores. He was particularly known for his collaborations with film director David Lean, composing the scores to all of his films from 1962 to 1984.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Zoila Emperatriz Chávarri Castillo, known as Yma Sumac, was a Peruvian-born vocalist, actress, model, musical composer and producer. She won a Guinness World Record for the Greatest Range of Musical Value in 1956.
Sherwood Anderson was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio.
Alfred Stieglitz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Béla Károlyi was a Romanian and American gymnastics coach of Hungarian descent. Early in his coaching career he developed the Romanian centralized training system for gymnastics.
Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, alias brokep, is a Swedish-born Finnish-Norwegian entrepreneur and politician. He is best known for being a co-founder and ex-spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent search engine.
Baron Kijūrō Shidehara, was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1945 to 1946. He was a leading proponent of pacifism in Japan before and after World War II.
Shidehara Peace Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kerry Matthew Stokes is an Australian businessman. He holds business interests in industries including electronic and print media, property, gas, oil, mining and construction equipment.
Julian Tuwim, known also under the pseudonym Oldlen as a lyricist, was a Polish poet, born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Partition. He was educated in Łódź and in Warsaw where he studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University.
Władysław Miernicki, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Leopold Ružička was a Croatian-Swiss scientist and joint winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes" "including the first chemical synthesis of male sex hormones."
Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 56 people born on September 13, 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 13. Read the full methodology.
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