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Famous people born on August 18
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 18 include Roman Polanski (1933), Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830), Robert Redford (1936) and Edward Norton (1969). Our list below has 97 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 18 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1606 (Maria Anna of Spain) and the most recent is 2006 (Summer McIntosh). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, actor.
Who was born on August 18?
- Roman Polanski 1933 French-Polish filmmaker
- Franz Joseph I of Austria 1830 Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary
- Robert Redford 1936 American actor and director
- Edward Norton 1969 American actor
- Patrick Swayze 1952 American actor, producer, singer and dancer
- Luc Montagnier 1932 French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)
- Rosalynn Carter 1927 First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981
- Shelley Winters 1920 American actress
- Just Fontaine 1933 French football player and manager
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1792 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1846–1852 and 1865–1866
- Mika 1983 British-Lebanese musician
- Esteban Cambiasso 1980 Argentine association football player
- Carole Bouquet 1957 French actress (b. 1957)
- Renato Sanches 1997 Portuguese association football player
- Christian Slater 1969 American actor and producer
- Alain Robbe-Grillet 1922 French author and film director
- Bryan Ruiz 1985 Costa Rican footballer
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 1900 Indian diplomat and politician
- Gianni Rivera 1943 Italian footballer and politician
- Aphex Twin 1971 British electronic musician
- Brian Aldiss 1925 British science fiction writer
- Brook Taylor 1685 English mathematician
- Andy Samberg 1978 American comedian and actor
- Madeleine Stowe 1958 American actress
- Elsa Morante 1912 Italian novelist
- Timothy Snyder 1969 American historian
- Hifikepunye Pohamba 1935 Namibian politician
- Mohamed Ghannouchi 1941 Tunisian politician
- Marcel Carné 1906 French film director
- Dimitris Salpingidis 1981 Greek footballer
- Nirmala Sitharaman 1959 Indian politician
- Meriwether Lewis 1774 American explorer
- Emir Spahić 1980 Bosnian association football player
- Robert Huth 1984 German association football player
- G-Dragon 1988 South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer
- Maria Anna of Spain 1606 Wife of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III
- Steve Chen 1978 Chinese-American businessman
- Bart Verbruggen 2002 Dutch association football player
- Baji Rao I 1700 General of the Maratha Empire in India
- Madelaine Petsch 1994 American actress and YouTuber
- Percy Fawcett 1867 British explorer, anthropologist and archaeologist
- Anna Ancher 1859 Danish impressionist painter
- Edgar Faure 1908 French politician
- Lydia Litvyak 1921 Soviet flying ace
- Denis Leary 1957 American actor and comedian
- Josephine Langford 1997 Australian actress
- Summer McIntosh 2006 Canadian swimmer
- Riki Harakawa 1993 Japanese association football player
- Timothy Geithner 1961 American central banker and politician
- Maia Mitchell 1993 Australian actress
- Natsumi Hara 1988 Japanese association football player
- Patrik Andersson 1971 Swedish footballer
- Marvin Harris 1927 American anthropologist
- Amar Dedić 2002 Bosnian association football player
- Věra Jourová 1964 Czech politician, businesswoman, jurist and university teacher
- Joseph Arthur Ankrah 1915 Ghanaian politician
- Daler Mehndi 1967 Indian singer
- Graham Zusi 1986 American soccer player
- Michel Kafando 1942 Burkinabé diplomat
- Roberto Rosato 1943 Italian footballer
- Luciano De Crescenzo 1928 Italian writer and engineer
- Ahad Ha'am 1856 Russian Hebrew essayist and thinker
- Bogdan Bogdanović 1992 Serbian basketball player
- Kaitlin Olson 1975 American actress
- Nicole Krauss 1974 American novelist
- Tan Dun 1957 Chinese composer
- Beniamino Stella 1941 Italian Roman-Catholic archbishop and cardinal
- Nick Fuentes 1998 American alt-right political commentator
- Caspar Weinberger 1917 American politician
- Rainer Woelki 1956 Catholic archbishop
- Ertuğrul Osman Osmanoğlu 1912 Ottoman noble
- Don Keefer 1916 American actor
- Clairo 1998 American singer-songwriter
- Klavdia 2002 Greek singer
- Sergio Castellitto 1953 Italian film director, actor and screenwriter
- Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia 1819 Russian grand duchess; eldest daughter of Nicholas I of Russia and sister of Alexander II
- Cesár Sampson 1983 Austrian singer–songwriter
- Siarhiej Cichanowski 1978 Belarusian video blogger and dissident pro-democracy activist
- Richard Harmon 1991 Canadian actor
- Kazuki Hiramoto 1981 Japanese association football player
- Muhammad Junejo 1932 Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Marie Louise Gonzaga 1611 Queen of Poland
- Dušan Basta 1984 Serbian footballer
- Craig Bierko 1964 American actor and singer
- César Delgado 1981 Argentine footballer
- Winona LaDuke 1959 Author and activist
- Leandro Euzébio 1981 Brazilian association football player
- Morgan Sanson 1994 French association football player (1994)
- Ikue Ōtani 1965 Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator
- Roberto Clemente 1934 Puerto Rican baseball player
- Kris Boyd 1983 Scottish association football player
- Jeong Eun-ji 1993 South Korean singer-songwriter and actress
- Georgy Pyatakov 1890 Soviet Ukrainian politician
- Frances Bean Cobain 1992 American artist and model
- Didier Auriol 1958 French rally driver
- Otto Ernst Remer 1912 German Regiment/Division Army Officer in the Wehrmacht
- Pál Turán 1910 Hungarian mathematician
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 18 share the 18th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.