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Famous people born on April 7
Short answer
Well-known people born on April 7 include Jackie Chan (1954), William Wordsworth (1770), Gabriela Mistral (1889) and Russell Crowe (1964). Our list below has 105 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives April 7 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1613 (Gerrit Dou) and the most recent is 1999 (Jakub Moder). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on April 7?
- Jackie Chan 1954 Hong Kong actor and martial artist
- William Wordsworth 1770 English Romantic poet
- Gabriela Mistral 1889 Chilean poet, diplomat and educator
- Russell Crowe 1964 New Zealand actor
- Gerhard Schröder 1944 Chancellor of West Germany
- Francis Ford Coppola 1939 American filmmaker
- Ravi Shankar 1920 Indian sitar player
- Billie Holiday 1915 American jazz singer
- Franck Ribéry 1983 French footballer
- Charles Fourier 1772 French utopian socialist and philosopher
- Makoto Kobayashi 1944 Japanese theoretical physicist
- Bronisław Malinowski 1884 Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA
- James Garner 1928 American film and television actor
- Valentina Matviyenko 1949 Russian politician
- Akira Nishino 1955 Japanese association football player and manager
- William R. King 1786 Vice president of the United States from March to April 1853
- Martín Cáceres 1987 Uruguayan footballer
- Anne-Marie 1991 British singer
- Humza Yousaf 1985 6th First Minister of Scotland
- Jens Peter Jacobsen 1847 Danish novelist, poet, scientist
- Rafael del Riego 1784 Spanish general and politician
- Robert Metcalfe 1946 American electrical engineer
- Jerry Brown 1938 Governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019
- Allen Dulles 1893 First civilian and longest-serving Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)
- Gerard Moreno 1992 Spanish association football player
- Alan J. Pakula 1928 American film director, writer and producer
- Le Duan 1907 General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
- Bodo Illgner 1967 German footballer
- William Carvalho 1992 Portuguese association football player
- MacKenzie Scott 1970 American philanthropist and novelist
- Tomoki Iwata 1997 Japanese association football player
- Christian Fuchs 1986 Austrian association football player and manager
- Flora Tristan 1803 French writer and suffragist
- Yulia Samoylova 1989 Russian singer
- Luka Milivojević 1991 Serbian association football player
- Candace Cameron Bure 1976 American actress, producer, author, and talk show panelist, as well as star on "Full…
- Thomas Hill Green 1836 British philosopher
- Guillaume Depardieu 1971 French actor
- Teddy Riner 1989 French judoka
- Michel Adanson 1727 French naturalist
- Victoria Ocampo 1890 Argentine writer and translator
- David Frost 1939 British television host, journalist, comedian and writer
- Gerrit Dou 1613 Dutch painter
- Bernard Lama 1963 French footballer
- Florian Schneider 1947 German musician
- Pietro Anastasi 1948 Italian association football player
- Roberto Gagliardini 1994 Italian footballer
- Akiko Sudō 1984 Japanese association football player
- Daniel Ellsberg 1931 American whistleblower
- Marco Delvecchio 1973 Italian association football player
- Donald Barthelme 1931 American writer, editor, and professor
- Vilma Espin Guillois 1930 Cuban politician
- Ole Kirk Christiansen 1891 Danish businessman
- Gino Severini 1883 Italian painter
- Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany 1853 Member of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Sorana Cîrstea 1990 Romanian tennis player
- Walter Winchell 1897 American gossip journalist
- Freddie Hubbard 1938 American jazz trumpeter
- Franco Di Santo 1989 Argentinian association football player
- Jean-Louis Borloo 1951 French politician
- Colette Besson 1946 French sprinter
- Jeetendra 1942 Indian film actor
- Yoshimar Yotún 1990 Peruvian association football player
- William Ellery Channing 1780 American Unitarian clergyman
- Donald Winnicott 1896 British pediatric psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- Andries Noppert 1994 Dutch association football player
- Annemarie Schimmel 1922 German scholar of Islam
- Kevin Alejandro 1976 American actor and film director
- Albert O. Hirschman 1915 German-American economist; member of the French Resistance
- Gustav Landauer 1870 German anarchist, editor
- Takaya Kurokawa 1981 Japanese association football player
- Jakub Moder 1999 Polish association football player
- Stan Winston 1946 American special effects artist
- Ed Speleers 1988 British actor
- Hossein Nasr 1933 Iranian philosopher, theologian and Islamic scholar
- Edoardo Mangiarotti 1919 Italian fencer
- Rubén Galván 1952 Argentine association football player
- Duckens Nazon 1994 Haitian footballer
- Brigi Rafini 1953 Prime Minister of Niger
- Ian Richardson 1934 Scottish actor
- ʻAkilisi Pohiva 1941 15th Prime Minister of Tonga
- Janis Ian 1951 American singer-songwriter
- Johannes Mario Simmel 1924 Austrian writer
- Gorden Kaye 1941 British actor
- Michael Estrada 1996 Ecuadorian association football player
- Yasushi Endō 1988 Japanese association football player
- Oliver Burke 1997 Scottish association football player
- Karin Dreijer 1975 Swedish musician
- Henry Kuttner 1915 American author
- David Otunga 1980 American professional wrestler
- Timothy Peake 1972 British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut
- Marmaduke Pickthall 1875 British Islamic scholar, an English translator of the Qur'an into English
- Holger Pedersen 1867 Danish linguist
- Gualtiero Bassetti 1942 Italian Catholic archbishop
- Saad Lamjarred 1985 Moroccan singer and actor
- Wayne Rogers 1933 American actor
- Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa 1750 Austrian archduchess
- James Glaisher 1809 British meteorologist and aeronaut
- Vincenzo Grifo 1993 German/Italian association football player
- Mitch Daniels 1949 Governor of Indiana
- Parvathy Thiruvothu 1988 Indian actress
- Mohammad-Ali Fardin 1930 Iranian wrestler and actor
- Leif Ove Andsnes 1970 Norwegian pianist
- Choi Siwon 1986 South Korean singer, actor and model
- Erik Ivar Fredholm 1866 Swedish mathematician
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on April 7 share the 7th of April as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.