Famous birthdays
Famous people born on April 26
Short answer
Well-known people born on April 26 include Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Jet Li (1963) and Melania Trump (1970). Our list below has 86 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives April 26 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1648 (Peter II of Portugal) and the most recent is 2006 (Kamila Valieva). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on April 26?
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 Austrian philosopher and logician
- Eugène Delacroix 1798 French painter
- Jet Li 1963 Chinese-Singaporean martial artist and actor
- Melania Trump 1970 First Lady of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)
- I. M. Pei 1917 Chinese-American architect
- Vicente Aleixandre 1898 Spanish poet
- Arno Allan Penzias 1933 German-born American physicist
- Owen Willans Richardson 1879 British physicist
- John James Audubon 1785 French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter
- Channing Tatum 1980 American actor, dancer and model
- Charles Francis Richter 1900 American seismologist
- Ludwig Uhland 1787 German poet and politician
- Tom Welling 1977 American actor, director, and model
- Jordana Brewster 1980 American actress
- Michael Smith 1932 Canadian Nobel laureate in chemistry
- Carol Burnett 1933 American actress, comedian and singer
- Giancarlo Esposito 1958 American actor
- Stana Katic 1978 Canadian actress
- Samantha Cristoforetti 1977 Italian European Space Agency astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer…
- Kevin James 1965 American comedian and actor
- Daniil Kvyat 1994 Russian racing car driver
- Giorgio Moroder 1940 Italian record producer and composer
- Peter II of Portugal 1648 King of Portugal
- Kane 1967 American professional wrestler, actor, and politician
- John Isner 1985 American tennis player
- Bernard Malamud 1914 American author
- Joan Chen 1961 Chinese-American actress and director
- Fanny Blankers-Koen 1918 Dutch track and field athlete
- Thomas Reid 1710 Scottish philosopher
- Jean Vigo 1905 French film director
- Peter Zumthor 1943 Swiss architect
- Joey Jordison 1975 American musician
- Ivana Miličević 1974 Bosnian actress
- Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily 1782 Queen consort of the French from 1830 to 1848
- Frederick Law Olmsted 1822 American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administrator
- Jonathan dos Santos 1990 Mexican association football player
- Thiago Almada 2001 Argentine footballer
- Ernst Udet 1896 German flying ace
- Theodor Billroth 1829 German surgeon
- Meša Selimović 1910 Yugoslavian writer
- Dominik Duka 1943 Archbishop of Prague from 2010 to 2022
- A. E. van Vogt 1912 Canadian-American science fiction writer
- Claudine Auger 1941 French actress
- Douglas Sirk 1897 German film director
- Mark T. Esper 1964 27th United States Secretary of Defense
- Jason Earles 1977 American actor
- Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont 1711 French author
- Ma Rainey 1886 American blues singer
- Kamila Valieva 2006 Russian figure skater
- Lee Woon-jae 1973 South Korean footballer
- Morris West 1916 Australian writer
- Manuel Blum 1938 Venezuelan computer scientist
- Henry Morgenthau 1856 American diplomat
- Francis Lai 1932 Academy Award-winning French composer
- Eddie Eagan 1897 American boxer and bobsledder
- Luke Bracey 1989 Australian actor
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste 1967 British actress
- Ruan Lingyu 1910 Chinese silent film actress
- Carlos Bianchi 1949 Former Argentine footballer and manager
- Nino Benvenuti 1938 Italian boxer
- Jan-Krzysztof Duda 1998 Polish chess grandmaster
- Artem Fedetskiy 1985 Ukrainian footballer
- Jørgen Ingmann 1925 Danish musician
- Yuma Suzuki 1996 Japanese association football player
- Michele Ferrero 1925 Italian entrepreneur
- Boris Nadezhdin 1963 Russian politician
- Jorge Andújar Moreno 1987 Spanish footballer
- Raphaël Wicky 1977 Swiss footballer
- Amber Midthunder 1997 American actress
- Duane Eddy 1938 American guitarist
- Héctor Enrique 1962 Argentine footballer
- Odysseas Vlachodimos 1994 Association football player
- Stephanie Graf 1973 Austrian middle distance runner
- Pablo Schreiber 1978 Canadian and American actor
- Arno Holz 1863 German naturalist poet and dramatist
- Amir Reza Abedzadeh 1993 Iranian footballer
- Zaki Axmad 1959 Prime Minister of Ichkeria
- Kiko 1972 Spanish footballer
- Anthony Cumia 1961 American talk radio broadcaster
- Caro Emerald 1981 Dutch female singer
- Jean-Pierre Beltoise 1937 French motorcycle racer and racing driver
- Gert Engels 1957 German football manager
- Raúl Leoni 1905 President of Venezuela
- Raiven 1996 Slovene musician
- Óscar García Junyent 1973 Spanish footballer and manager
- Oleksandr Zavarov 1961 Ukrainian footballer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on April 26 share the 26th of April as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.