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Famous people born on August 14
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 14 include John Galsworthy (1867), Halle Berry (1966), Dani Rodrik (1957) and Hans Christian Ørsted (1777). Our list below has 77 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 14 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1642 (Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany) and the most recent is 2007 (Franco Mastantuono). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, writer.
Who was born on August 14?
- John Galsworthy 1867 English novelist and playwright
- Halle Berry 1966 American actress
- Dani Rodrik 1957 Turkish economist and publicist
- Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 Danish physicist and chemist
- Pius VII 1742 Head of the Catholic Church, ruler of the Papal States from 1800 to 1823
- Magic Johnson 1959 American basketball player and entrepreneur
- Wim Wenders 1945 German filmmaker
- Giorgio Chiellini 1984 Italian sports executive and former association football player
- James Horner 1953 American film composer and conductor
- Richard Ernst 1933 Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate
- Steve Martin 1945 American comedian, actor, musician and writer
- René Goscinny 1926 French comic book artist and author
- Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia 1688 King of Prussia
- Guangxu Emperor 1871 Chinese emperor
- Emmanuelle Béart 1963 French film actress
- Marcia Gay Harden 1959 American actress
- Ander Herrera 1989 Spanish association football player
- Sarah Brightman 1960 British singer and actress
- Lina Wertmüller 1928 Italian film writer and director
- David Crosby 1941 American singer, guitarist and songwriter
- Satoshi Tsunami 1961 Japanese association football player and manager
- Jay-Jay Okocha 1973 Nigerian footballer
- Robin Söderling 1984 Swedish tennis player
- Richard von Krafft-Ebing 1840 Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and nobleman
- Jean Gaston Darboux 1842 French mathematician
- Heiko Westermann 1983 German footballer
- Tracy Caldwell Dyson 1969 American chemist and NASA astronaut
- Ray William Johnson 1981 American YouTuber
- Kofi Kingston 1981 Ghanaian-American professional wrestler
- Franco Mastantuono 2007 Argentine association football player
- Ernest Thompson Seton 1860 British/American author, artist and naturalist, and one of the founders of the…
- Ikililou Dhoinine 1962 Comoros president
- Joseph Vernet 1714 French painter and engraver from Avignon
- Johnny Lever 1957 Indian actor
- Joelinton 1996 Brazilian association football player
- Morten Olsen 1949 Danish footballer
- Sunidhi Chauhan 1983 Indian playback singer
- Lynne Cheney 1941 Second Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009
- Maxi Gómez 1996 Uruguayan association football player
- Doechii 1998 American rapper and singer
- Catherine Bell 1968 British actress
- Sibilla Aleramo 1876 Italian writer and feminist, editor
- Sverre Fehn 1924 Norwegian architect
- Karen Karapetyan 1963 Prime Minister of Armenia
- Brianna Hildebrand 1996 American actress (born 1996 or 1997)
- Freddy Rincón 1966 Colombian footballer
- Elena Baltacha 1983 British tennis player
- Louise Élisabeth of France 1727 French princess
- Raoul Bova 1971 Italian actor
- Jared Borgetti 1973 Mexican footballer
- Beata Tyszkiewicz 1938 Polish actress
- Fran García 1999 Spanish association football player
- Montaigne 1995 Australian singer
- Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji 1892 English composer, music critic, pianist and writer
- Christian Gentner 1985 German footballer
- Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany 1642 Grand Prince of Tuscany
- Prince Henry of Prussia 1862 Member of the House of Hohenzollern
- Poul Hartling 1914 Danish politician and diplomat
- Neal Maupay 1996 French footballer
- Doc Holliday 1851 Gambler, gunfighter, and dentist in the American West
- Christopher Gorham 1974 American actor
- Arthur Laffer 1940 American economist
- Gustavo Alfaro 1962 Argentine football player and manager
- Cameron Jerome 1986 British footballer
- Alma Reville 1899 English film editor and screenwriter
- Matthew Etherington 1981 British footballer
- Sayaka Murata 1979 Japanese writer
- Prince François, Prince of Joinville 1818 Admiral of the French Navy
- Carl Lumbly 1951 American actor
- Susan Saint James 1946 American actress and activist
- Gareth Jones 1905 Welsh journalist
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 British poet and novelist
- Georges Pretre 1924 French orchestral and opera conductor
- Giorgio Strehler 1921 Italian opera and theatre director
- Naoki Ishihara 1984 Japanese association football player
- Yoo Jae-suk 1972 South Korean comedian, presenter
- Marcelino García Toral 1965 Spanish football player/manager
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 14 share the 14th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.