September 2 is the birthday of 48 notable people we've found so far, including athletes, authors, scientists and entrepreneurs, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Andrej Babiš is a Czech politician and businessman who has been the prime minister of the Czech Republic since December 2025, having previously served as prime minister from 2017 to 2021. Prior to that, he was the minister of finance and deputy prime minister from 2014 to 2017.
Share of the 48 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Athletes29% (14 people)
Authors25% (12 people)
Scientists23% (11 people)
Entrepreneurs19% (9 people)
Actors17% (8 people)
Politicians17% (8 people)
Musicians15% (7 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
France4 (4 people)
Germany4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Canada3 (3 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Spain2 (2 people)
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Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor and musician. The recipient of numerous accolades in a career on screen spanning four decades, he is known for his leading roles in action films, his amiable public image, and his philanthropic efforts.
Birgit Fostervold, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Keir Rodney Starmer is a British politician and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2024 to 2026. He served as Leader of the Labour Party from 2020 to 2026 and as Leader of the Opposition from 2020 to 2024.
Salma Valgarma Hayek Pinault is a Mexican and American actress and film producer. She began her career in Mexico with starring roles in the telenovela Teresa (1989–1991) as well as the romantic drama Midaq Alley (1995).
Thomas Mark Harmon is an American actor, writer, producer, television director and former football player. He is best known for playing the lead role of Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS.
Jerry Avenaim, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bradley Jean-Manuel Essolisam Addo Barcola is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Liverpool and the France national team. He is known for his speed, agility and dribbling.
Wilhelm Friedrich Ostwald was a Baltic German chemist and philosopher. Ostwald is credited with being one of the founders of the field of physical chemistry, with Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Walther Nernst and Svante Arrhenius.
Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Founder · Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
1778–1846 · France
Louis Bonaparte was a younger brother of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. He was a monarch in his own right from 1806 to 1810, ruling over the Kingdom of Holland. In that capacity, he was known as Louis I.
Charles Howard Hodges, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kim Keon Hee is a South Korean businesswoman who served as the first lady of South Korea from 2022 to 2025, as the wife of Yoon Suk Yeol, the 13th president of South Korea.
The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Andrew "Andy" Stephen Grove was a Hungarian-American businessman and engineer who served as the third CEO of Intel Corporation. He left Hungary during the 1956 revolution at the age of 20 and moved to the United States, where he finished his education.
World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Guy Laliberté is a Québécois billionaire businessman and poker player. Along with Gilles Ste-Croix, he is the co-founder of Cirque du Soleil, which was founded in 1984. The Canadian circus company's shows have since been seen by more than 90 million people worldwide.
Lennox Claudius Lewis is a boxing commentator and former professional boxer who competed in the heavyweight division from 1989 to 2003. He was a three-time world champion, a two-time lineal champion, and held the undisputed championship.
Sharon Christa McAuliffe was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire, who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where she was serving as a payload specialist.
Joseph Anthony Barton is an English professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. Barton made 269 appearances in the Premier League, including 130 for Manchester City; he was most recently the manager of League One side Bristol Rovers.
Liliʻuokalani was the only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ruling from January 29, 1891, until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893, in a coup that was led by the Committee of Safety, composed of seven foreign residents…
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva, commonly known as Alexandre Pato or simply Pato, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a striker and could also operate as a second striker or winger.
@cfcunofficial (Chelsea Debs) London, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
William Shankly was a Scottish football player and manager who is best known for his time as manager of Liverpool. Shankly brought success to Liverpool, gaining promotion to the First Division and winning three League Championships and the UEFA Cup.
Rodhullandemu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Henry George was an American political economist, social philosopher and journalist. His writing was popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hans-Hermann Hoppe is a German-American academic associated with Austrian School economics, anarcho-capitalism, right-wing libertarianism, paleolibertarianism, and opposition to democracy.
Moses Joseph Roth was an Austro-Hungarian journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life Job (1930) and his seminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft", a fragmented…
Andreas Möller is a German former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He also worked as the head of the youth department at Eintracht Frankfurt for three years, between 2019 and 2022.
Robert Habeck is a German writer and former politician who served as Vice Chancellor of Germany, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in the cabinet of Chancellor Olaf Scholz and as a Member of the German Bundestag for Flensburg – Schleswig from 2021 to 2025.
Giuliano Gemma was an Italian actor. He was best known internationally as a leading man in Spaghetti Westerns, with his breakout role as the titular character in Duccio Tessari's duology A Pistol for Ringo and The Return of Ringo.
Thomas Peter Schulz at https://www.flickr.com/photos/t_p_s/, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Stanislav Salamovich Cherchesov is a Russian professional football manager and former goalkeeper. He is the manager of Russian Premier League club Akhmat Grozny.
Frederick Soddy FRS was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand was a prominent Soviet and American mathematician, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, biologist, teacher and organizer of mathematical education.
Arthur Ashkin was an American scientist and Nobel laureate who worked at Bell Labs. Ashkin has been considered by many as the father of optical tweezers, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 at age 96, becoming the oldest Nobel laureate until 2019 when John B.
Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
B. Ravi Pillai is a Dubai-based Indian billionaire businessman. He is the founder and chairman of the RP Group. As of 2026, his net worth is estimated at US$4.2 billion.
Chandan Shenoy, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Yevgeny Pavlovich Leonov was a Soviet and Russian actor who played main parts in several of the most famous Soviet films, such as Gentlemen of Fortune, Mimino and Striped Trip.
Sol Goldman was an American real estate investor and philanthropist. Goldman was the founder of Solil Management, a real estate investment firm he founded in the 1950s with his business partner, Alex DiLorenzo.
Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson is a Swedish computer scientist and software engineer, known as a major contributor to UML, Objectory, Rational Unified Process (RUP), aspect-oriented software development, and Essence.
Alfonso Pierantonio from L'Aquila, Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 48 people born on September 2, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 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 February 2024. 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 2. Read the full methodology.
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