September 9 is the birthday of 50 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, actors and historical figures, and 5 of them are billionaires.
Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov is a Russian-Uzbek businessman. As of 2026, Usmanov is the 222th richest person in the world according to Forbes, with a net worth of $14.1 billion, largely due to his stake in USM Holdings, in which Usmanov holds less than 50%.
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Shari Arison is an American-born Israeli businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the owner of Arison Investments, which consists of several companies, and of The Ted Arison Family Foundation, which comprises several philanthropic organizations that operate as its subsidiaries.
Vardi Kahana, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael James Wallace Ashley is a British entrepreneur who is the founder and former chief executive of Frasers Group plc. He owned Newcastle United Football Club between 2007 and 2021.
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors30% (15 people)
Entrepreneurs28% (14 people)
Actors22% (11 people)
Creators18% (9 people)
Musicians18% (9 people)
Scientists16% (8 people)
Athletes12% (6 people)
Countries
25 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States17 (17 people)
Canada3 (3 people)
Italy3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Israel2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Russian Empire2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on September 9 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
Founder · Happy Madison Productions · entertainment
1966 · United States
Adam Richard Sandler is an American actor and comedian. Primarily a comedic leading actor in films, his accolades include an Independent Spirit Award, alongside nominations for an Actor Award, three Golden Globes, three Grammy Awards, and seven Primetime Emmy Awards.
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.
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Hugh John Mungo Grant is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as a charming and vulnerable romantic leading man, and has since transitioned into a character actor.
Akshay Hari Om Bhatia, known professionally as Akshay Kumar, is an Indian actor and film producer working in Hindi cinema. Referred to in the media as "Khiladi Kumar", he is the recipient of several accolades, including two National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Harland David Sanders, commonly known as Colonel Sanders, was an American entrepreneur and founder of fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). He later acted as the company's brand ambassador and symbol.
Norman Rockwell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Andrew Coons is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Delaware, a seat he has held since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Coons served as the county executive of New Castle County from 2005 to 2010.
U.S. Embassy in the Philippines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Patrick Collison is an Irish entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He is the chief executive officer of Stripe, which he co-founded with his younger brother, John, in 2010. A billionaire since 2016, his net worth as of August 2026 is estimated at $17.5 billion.
Gautam Hari Singhania is an Indian billionaire industrialist. He is the chairman and managing director of the Raymond Group, the world's largest producer of suiting fabric.
Stephen A. Jarislowsky, is a Canadian business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of Jarislowsky Fraser Limited, a Canadian investment management firm with over Can$40 billion in assets under management.
Stanko Subotić is a Serbian businessman and the founder and owner of the Luxembourg-based holding company EMI Group which owns Moj Kiosk Group and the French holding company Louis Max.
Michael Steven Bublé is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Regarded as a pop icon, he is often credited for helping to renew public interest and appreciation for traditional pop standards and the Great American Songbook.
Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Zoe Swicord Kazan is an American actress and writer. She has acted in films such as The Savages (2007), Revolutionary Road (2008), and It's Complicated (2009).
Darina Nikolaeva Yotova, professionally known as Dara, is a Bulgarian singer and songwriter. She first rose to prominence in 2015 after reaching the final in the Bulgarian edition of The X Factor.
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Otis Ray Redding Jr. was an American singer and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul music and rhythm and blues.
Volt Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu, commonly known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsized influence in civil and religious affairs.
Philippe de Champaigne, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Clifford Parker Robertson III was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned over six decades. Robertson portrayed a young John F. Kennedy in the 1963 film PT 109, and won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film Charly.
Goran Višnjić is a Croatian actor. He is best known for his roles as Dr. Luka Kovač in ER and Garcia Flynn in Timeless, both NBC television series. For ER, he and the cast were nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created, together with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system, C programming language, and B programming language.
Denise Panyik-Dale, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Chaim Topol, mononymously known as Topol, was an Israeli actor and singer. He is best known for his portrayal of Tevye, the lead character in the stage musical Fiddler on the Roof.
Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, known as al-Biruni was a Khwarazmian Iranic scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously "Father of Comparative Religion", "Father of modern geodesy", Founder of Indology and the first anthropologist.
Alexandre Dimitri Song Billong is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a central or defensive midfielder. He also played as a central defender.
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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was an American physician, medical researcher, and convicted child Sex offender, who was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on the transmissibility of kuru, implying the existence of an infectious agent, which he named an 'unconventional virus'.
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Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a British-German-French philosopher. His writings on political philosophy and natural science influenced Adolf Hitler, among many others, attributing all world accomplishments to the Germanic race.
Ana Lila Downs Sánchez is a Mexican singer-songwriter, actress, and anthropologist. She performs her own compositions and the works of others in multiple genres, as well as tapping into Mexican traditional and popular music.
Secretaría de Cultura Ciudad de México from México, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Roberto Donadoni is an Italian professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He was most recently the head coach of Serie C Group B club Spezia.
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Danilo Luís Hélio Pereira, sometimes known as simply Danilo, is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or defensive midfielder for and captains Saudi Pro League club Al-Ittihad.
Andrea Petkovic is a German former professional tennis player. Born in Tuzla, SFR Yugoslavia, to Serbian father Zoran and Bosniak mother Amira, she moved to Germany at six months old and turned professional in 2006 at the age of 18.
Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher who studied animal electricity. In 1780, using a frog, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark.
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Arthur Freed was an American lyricist and a Hollywood film producer. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture twice, in 1951 for An American in Paris and in 1958 for Gigi. Both films were musicals, and both were directed by Vincente Minnelli.
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Kurt Zadek Lewin or Kurt Tsadek Lewin was a German-American psychologist, known as one of the modern pioneers of social, organizational, and applied psychology in the United States.
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Cesare Pavese was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist. He is often referred to as one of the most influential Italian writers of his time.
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James Hilton was a British-American novelist and screenwriter. He is best remembered for his novels Lost Horizon; Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Random Harvest; and co-writing screenplays for the films Camille (1936) and Mrs. Miniver (1942), the latter earning him an Academy Award.
Francesco Gabbani is an Italian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He won the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival 2016 with the song "Amen". The next year he won the main section of the Sanremo Music Festival 2017 with the song "Occidentali's Karma".
Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevsky was a Ukrainian writer, poet, playwright, and social activist, regarded as the pioneer of modern Ukrainian literature. His main work is the poem Eneida, a travesty of Virgil's Aeneid.
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Hans Georg Dehmelt was a German and American physicist, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the prize.
Nicholas Joseph Orville Liverpool was a politician and jurist from Dominica who served as the sixth President of Dominica from 2 October 2003 to 17 September 2012.
Lawrence Jackson - extracted by Fredy.00 at en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 50 people born on September 9, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 5 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 9. Read the full methodology.
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