September 3 is the birthday of 49 notable people we've found so far, including athletes, entrepreneurs, scientists and authors, and 2 of them are billionaires.
H Ty Warner is an American billionaire businessman. He is the CEO, sole owner, and co-founder of Ty Inc. which manufactures and distributes stuffed toys, notably Beanie Babies.
Joseph Daniel Mansueto is an American billionaire entrepreneur. Mansueto is the founder, majority owner, and executive chairman of Morningstar, Inc. Through his company Mansueto Ventures, he also owns the financial magazines Inc. and Fast Company.
Share of the 49 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Athletes22% (11 people)
Entrepreneurs20% (10 people)
Authors18% (9 people)
Scientists18% (9 people)
Politicians16% (8 people)
Actors12% (6 people)
Artists12% (6 people)
Countries
23 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States15 (15 people)
Austria3 (3 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Australia2 (2 people)
France2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
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Kamer Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian descent who has been at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics. He was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019.
Carl David Anderson was an American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Victor Hess for his discovery of the positron, which confirmed the existence of antimatter.
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist known for his contributions to immunology. He won a Nobel Prize in 1960 for predicting acquired immune tolerance. He also developed the theory of clonal selection.
Ryōji Noyori is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. Noyori shared a half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the prize went to K.
Chamath Palihapitiya is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian and American venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He founded and leads Social Capital, which he launched in 2011 after serving as a senior executive at Facebook from 2007 to 2011.
Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Matthew Boulton was an English businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and silversmith. He was a business partner of the Scottish engineer James Watt.
Carl Frederik von Breda, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Donald George Fisher was an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He co-founded the Gap Inc. clothing stores with his wife Doris F. Fisher.
Mary Parker Follett was an American social thinker, management consultant, social worker, political scientist, philosopher and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior, management, leadership, democracy, and conflict resolution.
unknown/uncredited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Shaun Roger White is an American former professional snowboarder and skateboarder. He is a five-time Olympian and a three-time Olympic gold medalist in half-pipe snowboarding.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from Washington D.C, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Gareth Southgate is an English former professional football manager and player, who played as a defender and midfielder. He managed the England national team from 2016 to 2024.
Alan Walbridge Ladd was an American actor and film producer. Ladd found success in film in the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in films noir and Westerns.
Jack Dylan Grazer is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the horror film It (2017) and its 2019 sequel, the DC Extended Universe superhero film Shazam! (2019) and its 2023 sequel, and for his voice role in the Pixar animated film Luca (2021).
Malcolm Timothy Gladwell is a British-Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published eight books.
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Dominic Thiem is an Austrian former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, achieved in March 2020. Thiem won 17 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including a major at the 2020 US Open.
Mario Draghi is an Italian politician, economist, academic, banker, statesman, and civil servant, who served as the prime minister of Italy from 13 February 2021 to 22 October 2022.
European Parliament, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kiran Desai is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In 2015, The Economic Times named her one of 20 most influential global Indian women.
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Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, commonly known as Ben Ali or Ezzine, was a Tunisian politician, military officer and dictator who served as the second president of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011. In that year, during the Tunisian revolution, he was overthrown and fled to Saudi Arabia.
Irene Papas or Pappas was a Greek actress and singer who starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years. She gained international recognition through such popular award-winning films as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Zorba the Greek (1964) and Z (1969).
Josef Shaftel Productions Inc., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, often referred to by his initials UKK, was a Finnish politician who served as the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland from 1956 to 1982. He also served as prime minister, and held various other cabinet positions.
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Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "a literary giant of the Latin American left" and "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters".
Mariela De Marchi Moyano from Vicenza, Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Wright, styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English painter who specialised in portrait painting and landscape art. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution".
Joseph Wright of Derby, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lavinia Fontana was an Italian Mannerist painter active in Bologna and Rome. She is best known for her successful portraiture, but also worked in the genres of mythology and religious painting. She was trained by her father, Prospero Fontana.
Attributed to Lavinia Fontana / Formerly attributed to Benvenuto Tisi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov was a Soviet journalist and writer. Internationally, he is one of the most popular Russian writers of the late 20th century.
1814–1897 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
James Joseph Sylvester was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
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Fredrik Carl Mülertz Størmer was a Norwegian mathematician and astrophysicist. In mathematics, he is known for his work in number theory, including the calculation of π and Størmer's theorem on consecutive smooth numbers.
Nasjonalbiblioteket, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 49 people born on September 3, 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 March 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 3. Read the full methodology.
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