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Famous people born on April 18
Short answer
Well-known people born on April 18 include David Ricardo (1772), Michael D. Higgins (1941), Samuel P. Huntington (1927) and James Woods (1947). Our list below has 97 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives April 18 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1590 (Ahmed I) and the most recent is 2002 (Xiye Bastida). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, actor.
Who was born on April 18?
- David Ricardo 1772 British economist and politician
- Michael D. Higgins 1941 President of Ireland (2011–2018; 2018–2025)
- Samuel P. Huntington 1927 American political scientist
- James Woods 1947 American actor
- Ahmed I 1590 14th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Wojciech Szczęsny 1990 Polish association football player
- Conan O'Brien 1963 American television show host and comedian
- Élisabeth Borne 1961 Prime Minister of France from 2022 to 2024
- Divock Origi 1995 Belgian association football player
- Haile Gebrselassie 1973 Ethiopian long-distance runner and businessman
- Saad Harirị 1970 Saudi Lebanese and france politician
- David Tennant 1971 Scottish actor
- America Ferrera 1984 American actress and producer
- Tadeusz Mazowiecki 1927 Polish politician and prime minister
- Kourtney Kardashian 1979 American media personality, model and businesswoman
- Vanessa Kirby 1988 British actress
- Łukasz Fabiański 1985 Polish association football player
- Bolesław Bierut 1892 Polish politician and leader of Poland
- Eric Roberts 1956 American actor
- Maria Bello 1967 American actress
- Melissa Joan Hart 1976 American actress
- Denzel Dumfries 1996 Dutch association football player
- Shōichi Nishimura 1912 Japanese association football player
- George H. Hitchings 1905 Nobel Prize-winning American physician
- Bengt Holmström 1949 Finnish economist and Nobel laureate
- Jochen Rindt 1942 German racing driver
- Ryota Tsuzuki 1978 Japanese association football player
- Jerzy Stuhr 1947 Polish film and theater actor and screenwriter
- Clarence Darrow 1857 American lawyer and politician
- Miklós Rózsa 1907 Hungarian-American composer
- Joseph L. Goldstein 1940 American biochemist
- Jeff Dunham 1962 American ventriloquist and comedian
- Matthew Upson 1979 English association football player
- Lars Ahlfors 1907 Finnish mathematician
- Tadao Onishi 1943 Japanese association football player
- Niall Ferguson 1964 British historian
- Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić 1874 Croatian writer
- Chloe Bennet 1992 American actress and singer
- Britt Robertson 1990 American actress
- Eli Roth 1972 American filmmaker and actor
- Leopold Stokowski 1882 British-born American conductor
- Rick Moranis 1953 Canadian actor, comedian and musician
- Anthony Davidson 1979 Racing driver, 2014 World Endurance Drivers' Championship winner
- Bojan Bogdanović 1989 Croatian basketball player
- Donny van de Beek 1997 Dutch association football player
- Frederica of Hanover 1917 Queen consort of Greece as the wife of King Paul; daughter of Ernest Augustus, Duke of…
- Michael Gregoritsch 1994 Austrian association football player
- Milan Jovanović 1981 Serbian association football player
- Robert Christgau 1942 American music journalist
- Franz von Suppè 1819 Austrian composer and conductor
- Edgar Wright 1974 British film director, screenwriter and producer
- Giuseppe Pella 1902 Italian politician
- Santiago Giménez 2001 Mexican footballer
- Na Hye-sok 1896 Writer and painter from Korea
- Virginia Gardner 1995 American actress
- Charles Fefferman 1949 American mathematician
- Audrey Tang 1981 Taiwanese activist, politician and free software programmer
- Moisés Arias 1994 American actor
- Hayley Mills 1946 British actress
- Henry Becque 1837 French dramatist
- Sayako Kuroda 1969 Japanese Shinto priestess, former ornithologist, and former imperial princess
- Jessica Jung 1989 South Korean-American singer
- Alia Shawkat 1989 American actress
- Andrew Y. Ng 1976 American artificial intelligence researcher
- Eric McCormack 1963 Canadian-American actor, producer, and writer
- Xiye Bastida 2002 Mexican-Chilean climate activist and member of the indigenous Mexican Otomi-Toltec nation
- Barbara Hale 1922 American actress
- Kayleigh McEnany 1988 American political commentator and writer
- Gabriel Axel 1918 Danish film director
- François Clerc 1983 French footballer
- Mike Mangini 1963 American drummer
- Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo 1819 Cuban revolutionary hero, plantation, poet, musician; 1st (wartime) President of Cuba
- Anna van der Breggen 1990 Dutch cyclist (*1990)
- Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark 1905 Greco-Danish Royal and German Noble
- Poonam Dhillon 1962 Indian actress
- Monteiro Lobato 1882 Brazilian writer
- Robert Hanssen 1944 FBI agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services
- Neo Rauch 1960 German painter, photojournalist, and university teacher
- Giacomo Carissimi 1605 Italian composer
- Rabiu Afolabi 1980 Nigerian footballer
- Daniil Dubov 1996 Russian chess grandmaster
- David Hewlett 1968 British-born Canadian actor
- Zazie 1964 French singer
- Dzsenifer Marozsán 1992 German footballer
- Antero de Quental 1842 Portuguese poet
- Stefan Schwarz 1969 Swedish association football player
- George Henry Lewes 1817 British philosopher
- Trine Hattestad 1966 Norwegian javelin thrower
- Oumar Niasse 1990 Senegalese footballer
- Maurice Edu 1986 American soccer player
- Kenny Ortega 1950 American television and film director, producer, choreographer
- Antônio Fagundes 1949 Brazilian actor
- Ben Brereton 1999 English association football player
- Danny Guthrie 1987 English association football player
- Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia 1890 Russian grand duchess; granddaughter of Alexander II, daughter of Grand Duke Paul…
- Jane Leeves 1961 British actress
- Tomohiro Katanosaka 1971 Japanese association football player and manager
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on April 18 share the 18th of April as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.