September 26 is the birthday of 48 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, actors, politicians and athletes, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Alexey Alexandrovich Mordashov is a Russian businessman and oligarch. He is the main shareholder and chairman of Severstal, Russia's largest steel and mining company.
$8.1Breported estimate as of September 2026 · Forbes
Denise Coates is a British businesswoman. She is the founder, majority shareholder and joint chief executive of online gambling company, bet365. She is one of the highest paid executives in the UK and the highest paid female executive.
Share of the 48 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors23% (11 people)
Entrepreneurs23% (11 people)
Politicians23% (11 people)
Athletes21% (10 people)
Scientists21% (10 people)
Authors17% (8 people)
Musicians13% (6 people)
Countries
19 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States11 (11 people)
United Kingdom8 (8 people)
Germany5 (5 people)
Italy4 (4 people)
France3 (3 people)
Czech Republic2 (2 people)
India2 (2 people)
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Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 319 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times.
Dame Olivia Newton-John was a British and Australian singer, songwriter and actress. With over 100 million records sold, Newton-John is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, as well as the highest-selling female Australian recording artist of all time.
James Patrick Caviezel Jr. is an American actor. He played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ (2004) and Tim Ballard in Sound of Freedom (2023), and starred as John Reese on the CBS series Person of Interest (2011–2016). He also played Slov in G.I.
Talulah Jane Riley-Milburn is an English actress. She has appeared in films, including Pride & Prejudice (2005), St Trinian's (2007) and its sequel St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009), The Boat That Rocked (2009), and Inception (2010).
rodwey2004 at https://www.flickr.com/photos/31291200@N08/, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Manmohan Singh was an Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and statesman who served as the prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He was the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and Narendra Modi.
Petro Oleksiiovych Poroshenko is a Ukrainian politician, oligarch, and former bureaucrat who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2010, and as the Minister of Trade and Economic Development in 2012.
http://www.president.gov.ua/, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 16th congressional district from 2013 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, O'Rourke was the party's nominee for the U.S.
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Maurizio Gucci was an Italian businessman and the one-time head of the Gucci fashion house. He was the son of actor Rodolfo Gucci, and grandson of the company's founder Guccio Gucci. On 27 March 1995, he was shot and killed by a hitman hired by his ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani.
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Mehdi Karroubi is an Iranian Shia cleric and reformist politician leading the National Trust Party. Following 2009–2010 Iranian election protests, Karroubi was put under house arrest in February 2011.
Bambang Hary Iswanto Tanoesoedibjo, usually shortened to Hary Tanoesoedibjo or Hary Tanoe, is an Indonesian businessman and politician. He is the chairman of PT MNC Asia Holding Tbk, which he founded in 1989.
Sergey Alekseyevich Veremeenko is a Russian businessman and politician. According to Forbes magazine, his net worth is estimated at 1.4 billion US dollars.
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist and playwright. He was a leading figure of modernist poetry in the English language where he altered the art through his use of pessimistic language, writing style, and verse structure.
Thomas Stearns Eliot with his sister and his cousin by Lady Ottoline Morrell.jpg: Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938) deri, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher whose work was central to the development of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He has had significant impact within subsequent philosophy, social sciences and humanities, and theology.
Willy Pragher, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pope Paul VI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatican Council, which he closed in 1965, implementing its numerous reforms.
Fotografia Felici, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael Ballack is a German former professional footballer who is now a football agent. He was selected by Pelé as one of FIFA's 100 Greatest Living Players, and as the UEFA Club Midfielder of the Year in 2002.
Die Bildermacherei Cuxhaven, Kerstin Tietje, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kim Yo Jong is a North Korean politician and diplomat, and sister of WPK General Secretary Kim Jong Un. As of February 2026 she is the director of the General Affairs Department of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
Dev Anand was an Indian actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in Hindi cinema. He is considered as one of the greatest and most successful actors in the history of Indian cinema. Through a career that spanned over six decades, he worked in more than 100 films.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Idrissa Gana Gueye is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Saudi Pro League club Al-Diriyah and the Senegal national team.
Екатерина Лаут, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Andrea Rita Dworkin was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years.
MaryMotleyKalergisPhotography, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher John Kempczinski is an American business executive, and the president, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of McDonald's Corporation.
Bob Coscarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Edmund Gwenn was an English actor. On film, he is best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in the Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street (1947), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the corresponding Golden Globe Award, and a Photoplay Award.
Barkin, Herman & Associates-public relations for Schlitz, the show's sponsor., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Zenas Winsor McCay was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip Little Nemo and the animated film Gertie the Dinosaur (1914). For contractual reasons, he worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend.
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Sir Barnes Neville Wallis was an English engineer and inventor. He is best known for having invented the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World War II.
Unknown author., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Enzo Bearzot was an Italian professional football player and manager. A defender and midfielder in his playing career, he also coached the Italy national team to victory in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
Klaus "Auge" Augenthaler is a German former professional football player and manager. A defender, he won seven Bundesliga titles in his 15-year club career with Bayern Munich. He also represented the West Germany national team, winning the FIFA World Cup in 1990.
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Alfred Denis Cortot was a Swiss pianist, conductor, and teacher who lived and worked in France for many years. He was one of the most renowned classical musicians of the 20th century.
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Hans Reichenbach was a leading philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism. He founded the Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie in Berlin in 1928, also known as the "Berlin Circle".
Vienna museum foto., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Archibald Vivian Hill, better known to friends and colleagues as A. V. Hill, was a British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research.
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Taavi Rõivas is an Estonian former politician and businessman who served as Prime Minister of Estonia from 2014 to 2016. He led the Reform Party from 2014 to 2017 and was previously the Minister of Social Affairs from 2012 to 2014.
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Joseph Louis Proust was a French chemist. He was best known for his discovery of the law of definite proportions in 1797, stating that chemical compounds always combine in constant proportions.
The original uploader was Dr. Manuel at German Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 48 people born on September 26, 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 2026. 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 26. Read the full methodology.
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