September 15 is the birthday of 53 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, creators and actors, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Jean-Claude Decaux was a French businessman and founder of advertising company JCDecaux. The company is now run by his sons, Jean-François Decaux and Jean-Charles Decaux.
$1.4Bolder estimate, as of September 2018 · Forbes
Farkhad Teimurovich Akhmedov is an Azerbaijani-Russian businessman and a former politician in Russia, departing his role in 2009. He is a former representative in the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
Cemilhasanov1, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 53 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors28% (15 people)
Creators26% (14 people)
Entrepreneurs26% (14 people)
Actors19% (10 people)
Athletes17% (9 people)
Scientists17% (9 people)
Politicians15% (8 people)
Countries
30 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States9 (9 people)
France6 (6 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
Spain3 (3 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
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Edward Thomas Hardy is an English actor and artist. Known for his intense screen presence and versatility, he has established a career across independent films, blockbusters, and primetime television, often portraying complex and psychologically-driven characters.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan, Lady Mallowan, usually known by her first married name, Agatha Christie, was an English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot, Tommy and Tuppence, and Miss Marple.
Joop van Bilsen for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Lee Jones is an American actor, film director, and former football player. He has received various accolades including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and the tenth chief justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930. He is the only person to have held both offices.
Pach Brothers, restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti was an Italian-French automobile designer and manufacturer. He received French citizenship in 1946 and is remembered as the founder and proprietor of the automobile manufacturing company Automobiles E.
Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lisa Jane Vanderpump is an English restaurateur, businesswoman and television personality. She initially gained fame as a main cast member on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which she starred in from 2010 until 2019.
Jolin Tsai I-lin, also romanized as Jolin Cai, is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Recognized as the "Queen of C-Pop", Tsai is one of the most influential figures in the Chinese-speaking world's pop culture.
Viktor Alekseyevich Zubkov is a Russian civil servant, politician and businessman who served as the 36th Prime Minister of Russia from September 2007 to May 2008. He was Vladimir Putin's First Deputy Prime Minister during the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev.
Max Factor Sr., born Maksymilian Faktorowicz, was a Polish-American businessman, beautician, entrepreneur and inventor.
Unattributed; appeared in Modern Mechanix magazine without credit, appears to be either by a staff photographer or a pub, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland is a member of the Swedish royal family by marriage to Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, making him the presumptive consort of Sweden.
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)/Michael Godfrey, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer, whose works include fiction, nonfiction, and lectures. She is widely recognised as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature.
fronteirasweb, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune.
John Wesley Jarvis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Cooper Jr., known professionally as Jackie Cooper, was an American actor and director. He began his career as a child actor and was a featured member of the Our Gang ensemble 1929–1931.
Vina Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress best known for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong. Through an acting career that spanned nearly six decades, Wray attained international recognition as an actress in horror films.
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Wen Jiabao is a retired Chinese politician and geologist who served as the premier of China from 2003 to 2013 and the third-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012.
World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jean Renoir was a French filmmaker, actor, producer and author. His La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made.
Studio Harcourt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski is a Polish filmmaker. He garnered early praise for a string of documentaries in the 1990s and for his award-winning feature films of the 2000s, Last Resort (2000) and My Summer of Love (2004).
Red Carpet Report on Mingle Media TV, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay was a Bengali novelist and short story writer of the early 20th century. He generally wrote about the lives of Bengali family and society in cities and villages.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Johannes Jacobus Neeskens was a Dutch football manager and player. A midfielder, he was an important member of the Netherlands national team that finished as runners-up in the 1974 and 1978 FIFA World Cups and is considered one of the greatest midfielders of all time.
Dejan Savićević is a Montenegrin former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Since 2001, he has been the president of the Montenegrin Football Association (FSCG), currently in his fifth term at the post.
François de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac was an accomplished French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs, the only two works of his dense literary œuvre published.
Théodore Chassériau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Charles de Foucauld, born as Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld de Pontbriand, in religion Charles of Jesus, was a French monk, Catholic priest and hermit who lived among the Tuareg people in the Sahara in Algeria. He was also an explorer, geographer, ethnographer.
Flórián György Albert was a Hungarian professional football player, manager and sports official, who was named European Footballer of the Year in 1967. Nicknamed "The Emperor", he played as a forward, and has been described as one of the most elegant footballers of all time.
Jean-Pierre Serre is a French mathematician who has made contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954 and the inaugural Abel Prize in 2003.
María del Carmen García Maura is a Spanish actress. In a career that has spanned seven decades, she has starred in films such as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, ¡Ay Carmela!, Common Wealth, and Volver.
PP Comunidad de Madrid, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Adolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, and translator. He was a friend and frequent collaborator of his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges. He is the author of the Fantastique novel The Invention of Morel.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Laurence Goodman is an Irish businessman, chiefly involved in the beef processing industry. He is the 6th generation of a livestock and meat exporting family and founded what is now ABP Food Group in 1954.
Marko Pantelić is a Serbian football agent and former professional footballer who played as a striker. He represented Serbia at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Mirosław Hermaszewski was a Polish cosmonaut, fighter plane pilot, and Polish Air Force officer. He became the first and, at the time of his death in December 2022, only Polish national to ever go to space when he flew aboard the Soviet Soyuz 30 spacecraft in 1978.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 53 people born on September 15, 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 September 2018. 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 15. Read the full methodology.
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