Famous birthdays
Famous people born on April 27
Short answer
Well-known people born on April 27 include Ulysses S. Grant (1822), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), William Alexander of the Netherlands (1967) and Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791). Our list below has 102 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives April 27 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1593 (Mumtaz Mahal) and the most recent is 2005 (Mathys Tel). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actress.
Who was born on April 27?
- Ulysses S. Grant 1822 President of the United States from 1869 to 1877
- Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 English writer and intellectual
- William Alexander of the Netherlands 1967 King of the Netherlands
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1791 American inventor and painter
- Fethullah Gülen 1941 Turkish preacher and imam
- Mumtaz Mahal 1593 Mughal empress
- Anouk Aimée 1932 French actress
- Coretta Scott King 1927 American author, activist, eta eskubide zibilen liderra; Martin Luther Kingen emaztea
- Cory Booker 1969 American politician
- Sally Hawkins 1976 English actress
- Andrew Fire 1959 American biologist
- Edvard Moser 1962 Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist
- Eric Schmidt 1955 Software engineer, businessman, former Google CEO
- João Bernardo Vieira 1939 President of Guinea-Bissau
- Dinara Safina 1986 Russian tennis player
- Chiang Ching-kuo 1910 6th and 7th President of Republic of China
- Casey Kasem 1932 American voice actor
- Thodoros Angelopoulos 1935 Greek film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Lars Bender 1989 German footballer
- Carlo Emanuele III of Sardinia 1701 King of Sardinia
- Valeri Polyakov 1942 Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
- Lizzo 1988 American singer and rapper
- Lara Gut-Behrami 1991 Swiss alpine skier
- Cristian Romero 1998 Argentine association football player
- Samantha Ruth Prabhu 1987 Indian actress
- Cristian Mungiu 1968 Romanian film director, screenwriter, and film producer
- Tongzhi Emperor 1856 Emperor of the Qing Dynasty
- Hannes Þór Halldórsson 1984 Icelandic filmmaker and former professional footballer
- Hiroji Imamura 1949 Japanese association football player
- Katsuyuki Kawachi 1955 Japanese association football player
- Frank Bainimarama 1954 Prime Minister of Fiji from 2007 to 2022
- Sven Bender 1989 German footballer
- Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies 1806 Queen consort of Spain
- Sandy Dennis 1937 American actress
- Wallace Carothers 1896 American organic chemist
- Jenna Coleman 1986 British actress
- Otto, King of Bavaria 1848 King of Bavaria
- Isaac Cuenca 1991 Spanish association football player
- Martin Kelly 1990 English association football player
- Adamantios Korais 1748 Greek humanist scholar
- Balendra Shah 1990 Nepalese rapper and politician; Prime Minister of Nepal since 2026
- Stanisław Dziwisz 1939 Polish archbishop, cardinal
- Nick Kyrgios 1995 Australian tennis player
- William Moseley 1987 English actor
- Jack Klugman 1922 American actor
- Anthony Elanga 2002 Swedish association football player
- Edward Whymper 1840 British mountaineer
- Robert Wiene 1873 German film director
- Robin Bengtsson 1990 Swedish singer
- Kevin McNally 1956 English actor
- Paddy McNair 1995 Northern Irish association football player
- Freundel Stuart 1951 Prime Minister of Barbados
- Philip Abelson 1913 US physicist, editor of the journal Science, and director of the Carnegie Institution…
- Ace Frehley 1951 American guitarist
- Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli 1910 Brazilian politician
- Viviane Reding 1951 Luxembourgish politician, EU Commissioner, Bertelsmann Stiftung Board member
- Patrick Stump 1984 American musician
- Jules Lemaître 1853 French critic and dramatist
- Prince Paul of Yugoslavia 1893 Regent of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- Matt Reeves 1966 American film writer, director and producer
- Ellen S. Baker 1953 American physician and astronaut
- Bakary Koné 1988 Burkinabé footballer
- Choi Min-sik 1962 South Korean actor
- Sybille Bammer 1980 Austrian tennis player
- Zidane Iqbal 2003 Iraqi association football player
- Yoshihiro Togashi 1966 Japanese manga artist
- Ari Vatanen 1952 Politician and rally driver, Member of the European Parliament, winner of the 1981…
- Sheena Easton 1959 Scottish singer
- Jordi Codina 1982 Spanish footballer
- George Gervin 1952 American basketball player
- Arielle Dombasle 1953 American-born French-Mexican actress and singer
- Archibald Leitch 1865 British architect
- Helmut Marko 1943 Formula One executive and former driver
- Mathys Tel 2005 French association football player
- Cecil Day-Lewis 1904 Irish-born British poet
- Georgi Shchennikov 1991 Russian footballer
- Álvaro Vázquez 1991 Spanish footballer
- Jim Justice 1951 American politician and entrepreneur
- Zohra Sehgal 1912 Indian actress and choreographer
- Guido Cantelli 1920 Italian conductor
- Elena Risteska 1986 Macedonian singer and songwriter
- Nina Ponomaryova 1929 Soviet discus thrower
- Walter Pandiani 1976 Uruguayan footballer
- Josef Hickersberger 1948 Austrian footballer and manager
- Luz Long 1913 German long jumper
- Jean Asselborn 1949 Luxembourgish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg (term: 2004-2023)
- Theodor Kittelsen 1857 Norwegian artist
- Horacio Zeballos 1985 Argentine tennis player
- Mariana Ximenes 1981 Brazilian actress
- Mostafa Ziko 1997 Egyptian association football player
- Jussi Halla-aho 1971 Finnish politician, Slavic linguist, and Speaker of the Parliament
- Maurice de Broglie 1875 French physicist
- Claude Farrère 1876 French writer and navy officer
- Kota Aoki 1987 Japanese association football player
- Shohei Ikeda 1981 Japanese association football player
- Maria del Mar Bonet 1947 Spanish singer-songwriter
- August Wilson 1945 American playwright
- Paolo Pulici 1950 Italian footballer
- Yutaka Tahara 1982 Japanese association football player
- Guillermo León Valencia 1909 President of Colombia
- Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel 1650 Queen consort of Denmark and Norway
- Russell T Davies 1963 Welsh screenwriter and television producer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on April 27 share the 27th of April as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.