Famous birthdays
Famous people born on April 28
Short answer
Well-known people born on April 28 include Saddam Hussein (1937), James Monroe (1758), Penélope Cruz (1974) and Jessica Alba (1981). Our list below has 79 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives April 28 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1612 (Odoardo Farnese) and the most recent is 1996 (Tony Revolori). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on April 28?
- Saddam Hussein 1937 Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
- James Monroe 1758 President of the United States from 1817 to 1825
- Penélope Cruz 1974 Spanish actress
- Jessica Alba 1981 American actress and businesswoman
- Kurt Gödel 1906 Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics
- Harper Lee 1926 American novelist
- Terry Pratchett 1948 English fantasy author
- António de Oliveira Salazar 1889 Prime Minister of Portugal
- Oskar Schindler 1908 German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer
- Kenneth Kaunda 1924 First president of Zambia
- Jay Leno 1950 American television host and comedian
- Juan Mata 1988 Spanish association football player
- Karl Barry Sharpless 1941 American chemist and Nobel Laureate
- Diego Simeone 1970 Argentine association football player and manager
- Jan Hendrik Oort 1900 Dutch astronomer
- Lionel Barrymore 1878 American actor, director and screenwriter
- Ann-Margret 1941 Actress
- Tobias Asser 1838 Dutch lawyer and legal scholar
- Melanie Martinez 1995 American singer-songwriter
- Roberto Bolaño 1953 Chilean author
- Tariq Aziz 1936 Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein
- James Baker 1930 American lawyer and statesman
- Ferruccio Lamborghini 1916 Italian industrialist, founder of Automobili Lamborghini
- Émile Bernard 1868 French painter
- Eugene Merle Shoemaker 1928 American geologist and astronomer
- Yves Klein 1928 20th century French visual artist
- Mary McDonnell 1952 American actress
- Miloš Degenek 1994 Australian association football player
- Pauleta 1973 Portuguese footballer
- Bradley Wiggins 1980 British former professional road and track racing cyclist
- Mostafa Madbouly 1966 Prime minister of Egypt since 2018
- Hertha Ayrton 1854 English electrical engineer
- Takashi Mizuno 1931 Japanese association football player
- Koji Kondo 1972 Japanese association football player
- Walter Zenga 1960 Italian association football player and manager
- Zoran Tošić 1987 Serbian association football player
- Ian Murdock 1973 American computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur
- Roniéliton Pereira Santos 1977 Brazilian association football player
- Ian Rankin 1960 Scottish writer
- Jorge Garcia 1973 American actor and comedian
- Elena Kagan 1960 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2010
- Maurice Thorez 1900 French politician
- Bruno Kirby 1949 American actor
- Dmitri Torbinski 1984 Russian footballer
- Carolyn Jones 1930 American actress
- Bridget Moynahan 1971 American actress and model
- Edwin Ifeanyi 1972 Cameroonian association football player
- Mina Tanaka 1994 Japanese association football player
- Karolina Gočeva 1980 Macedonian singer
- Tony Revolori 1996 American actor
- Ye Jianying 1897 Former Head of State of the People's Republic of China
- Camila Vallejo 1988 Chilean politician
- Kim Gordon 1953 American musician and artist, most known as co-founding member of Sonic Youth
- Francis Baily 1774 British astronomer
- Sharman Joshi 1979 Indian actor
- Harry Shum Jr. 1982 American actor and dancer
- Paul Guilfoyle 1949 American actor (born in 1949)
- Jacques Dutronc 1943 French actor and musician
- Chris Kaman 1982 German American basketball player
- Robin Schulz 1987 German house music producer
- Simin Daneshvar 1921 Iranian writer
- Jenna Ushkowitz 1986 Korean-American actress and singer
- Emil Salomonsson 1989 Swedish association football player
- Kari Wuhrer 1967 American actress (b. 1967)
- Bart Bok 1906 Dutch-American astronomer
- Anna Oxa 1961 Italian singer
- Saeb Erekat 1955 Palestinian diplomat
- Peter Guthrie Tait 1831 Scottish mathematical physicist
- Donatas Banionis 1924 Soviet and Lithuanian actor
- Oskar Backlund 1846 Swedish astronomer
- Ethel Catherwood 1908 Canadian track and field athlete
- Léopold Eyharts 1957 French astronaut
- Jonathan Biabiany 1988 French footballer
- Howard Donald 1968 British singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, DJ and producer
- Maria Vorontsova 1985 Daughter and eldest child of Vladimir Putin
- Odoardo Farnese 1612 Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1622 to 1646
- Rima Hassan 1992 French–Palestinian politician and legal scholar, French MEP
- Susanne Klatten 1962 German businesswoman
- Christabelle Borg 1992 Maltese singer and songwriter
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on April 28 share the 28th of April as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.