September 25 is the birthday of 72 notable people we've found so far, including actors, authors, creators and entrepreneurs, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Marc Russell Benioff is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman and CEO of the software company Salesforce, as well as being the owner of Time magazine since 2018.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Skorobogatko is a Ukrainian-Russian billionaire businessman and former deputy member in the State Duma, having represented the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (2003-2007) and United Russia (2007-2016).
Patrick Guerrand-Hermès was a French-Moroccan sports businessman and billionaire. He is noted for his involvement with Morocco and redevelopment there, most notably the redevelopment of the Aïn Kassimou in Marrakesh in the 1980s, a villa built for Leo Tolstoy's daughter, Olga.
Carolyn Rafaelian is an American-Armenian entrepreneur and businesswoman. She is the founder of the accessories and jewelry company Alex and Ani, and the owner of the Belcourt of Newport and Bar and Board Bistro in Newport, Rhode Island.
Share of the 72 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors32% (23 people)
Authors32% (23 people)
Creators29% (21 people)
Entrepreneurs24% (17 people)
Musicians15% (11 people)
Athletes14% (10 people)
Politicians14% (10 people)
Countries
29 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States22 (22 people)
Russia5 (5 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
France4 (4 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
Italy3 (3 people)
Nigeria3 (3 people)
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Willard Carroll Smith II is an American actor, rapper, and film producer. Known for his work in both the screen and music industries, his accolades include an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and four Grammy Awards.
Michael Kirk Douglas is an American actor and film producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Honorary Palme d'Or and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
Catherine Zeta-Jones is a Welsh actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award. In 2010, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her film and humanitarian work.
Rosalia Vila Tobella, known mononymously as Rosalía, is a Spanish singer-songwriter and actress. She has been described as an "atypical pop star" due to her genre-bending musical style.
Junta de Andalucía, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, activist, director, and author. He amassed many stage and screen credits in his 34-year career, including playing the title character in the Superman film series (1978–1987).
Mark Richard Hamill is an American actor. He rose to frame as Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars original Star Wars trilogy (1977–1983), leading to further lead parts in films like Corvette Summer (1978) and Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One (1980).
James Franklin Hyneman is an American special effects expert who was co-host of the television series MythBusters alongside Adam Savage, where he became known for his distinctive beret, rimless glasses and walrus moustache.
Ronald William George Barker was an English actor, comedian and writer. He was known for roles in British comedy television series such as The Frost Report, The Two Ronnies, Porridge, and Open All Hours.
Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne, was a British Conservative politician and barrister who served as a European Commissioner from 1989 to 1999.
Christian Lambiotte, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ziyavudin Gadzhievich Magomedov is a former Russian oligarch whose rapid rise in wealth between 2008 and 2010, followed by his sudden arrest in 2018, has been widely linked to the rise and fall of the so-called "Medvedev clan".
ABAC Indonesia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
William Daniel Hillis is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, who pioneered parallel computers and their use in artificial intelligence.
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Isabella May Ramsey is an English actor. They are known for their breakthrough roles as young noblewoman Lyanna Mormont in the fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2016–2019) and as Ellie in the post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us (2023–present).
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael Søren Madsen was an American actor. He was widely known for starring in Quentin Tarantino's films such as Reservoir Dogs (1992), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), and The Hateful Eight (2015).
Annabelle Frances Wallis is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Jane Seymour in the period drama series The Tudors (2009–2010) and Grace Burgess in the period drama series Peaky Blinders (2013–2019).
Eva Rinaldi from Sydney Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life.
Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ranbir Raj Kapoor is an Indian actor who works in Hindi-language films. He has received several accolades, including seven Filmfare Awards, and is known for his work across a range of film genres.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Heather Deen Locklear is an American actress known for her role as Amanda Woodward on Melrose Place (1993–1999), for which she received four consecutive Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress – Television Series Drama.
David Friedman, known professionally as David Benioff, is an American novelist, screenwriter, and producer. Along with his collaborator D. B. Weiss, he is best known for co-creating Game of Thrones (2011–2019), the HBO adaptation of George R. R.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scotty Maurice Pippen Sr., commonly known as Scottie Pippen, is an American former professional basketball player who played 17 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Barbara Jill Walters was an American broadcast journalist and television personality. Known for her interviewing ability and popularity with viewers, she appeared as a host of numerous television programs, including Today, the ABC Evening News, 20/20, and The View.
John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Chauncey Ray Billups is an American professional basketball coach and former player who most recently served as the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.
Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American philosopher, educator, author, and social critic; she was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College in Kentucky. Professor hooks wrote about race, feminism, and social class.
Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand.
The Qianlong Emperor, also known by his temple name Emperor Gaozong of Qing, personal name Hongli, was the fifth emperor of the Qing dynasty and the fourth Qing emperor to rule over China proper.
Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kim Tae-pyung, better known by his stage name Hyun Bin (현빈), is a South Korean actor. Hyun gained recognition for the romantic comedy My Lovely Sam Soon (2005).
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and author. His films are distinguished by melodrama, irreverent humour, bold colour, glossy décor, quotations from popular culture, and complex narratives.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tate Buckley Donovan is an American actor, comedian and television director. He is known for portraying Tom Shayes in Damages, and Jimmy Cooper in The O.C., as well as providing the voice of the title character in the 1997 Disney animated film Hercules and related projects.
Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist and broadcaster. Regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, he was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Robert Bresson was a French filmmaker. Known for his ascetic approach, Bresson made a notable contribution to the art of cinema; his non-professional actors, ellipses, and sparse use of scoring have led his works to be regarded as preeminent examples of minimalist film.
Abul A'la al-Maududi was an Islamic scholar and the author of Tafhim-ul-Quran, who was active in British India and later, following the partition, in Pakistan.
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Josef "Pepi" Bican was an Austrian and Czech professional footballer who played as a striker. He is regarded by some to be the greatest goalscorer in the history of the sport.
Unknown authorUnknown author, re-photo by David Sedlecký, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Adelmo Fornaciari, known professionally as Zucchero Fornaciari or simply Zucchero, is an Italian singer, musician and songwriter. His stage name is the Italian word for "sugar", as his primary school teacher used to call him.
Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio "Sandro" Pertini was an Italian journalist, socialist politician, partisan and statesman who served as the president of Italy from 1978 to 1985.
This page lists 72 people born on September 25, 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 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 25. Read the full methodology.
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