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Famous people born on August 25
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 25 include Sean Connery (1930), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Erich Honecker (1912) and Tim Burton (1958). Our list below has 99 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 25 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1707 (Louis I of Spain) and the most recent is 2006 (Kimi Antonelli). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, singer.
Who was born on August 25?
- Sean Connery 1930 Scottish actor
- Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 German philosopher, theologian, poet
- Erich Honecker 1912 Former leader of East Germany, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party
- Tim Burton 1958 American filmmaker and artist
- Võ Nguyên Giáp 1911 Vietnamese general and communist politician
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani 1934 Iranian politician
- Leonard Bernstein 1918 American conductor and composer
- Claudia Schiffer 1970 German model
- Blake Lively 1987 American actress
- Liu Yifei 1987 Chinese-American actress and singer
- Taslima Nasrin 1962 Author, secular humanist, and feminist
- Maurizio Malvestiti 1953 Italian Catholic bishop
- Hans Krebs 1900 German-British biochemist
- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just 1767 Philosopher, military and political leader
- Herbert Kroemer 1928 German-American physics
- Emil Theodor Kocher 1841 Surgeon, laureate of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Santa Faustina Kowalska 1905 Nun and saint from Poland
- Louis I of Spain 1707 King of Spain
- Amy Macdonald 1987 Scottish singer-songwriter
- Martin Amis 1949 British novelist
- Ludwig I of Bavaria 1786 King of Bavaria
- Jonas Gahr Støre 1960 Prime Minister of Norway since 2021
- Takeshi Okada 1956 Japanese association football player and manager
- Alexander Skarsgård 1976 Swedish actor
- Billy Ray Cyrus 1961 American country singer and actor
- Frederick Chapman Robbins 1916 American doctor
- Frederick Forsyth 1938 English novelist
- Georgiy Daneliya 1930 Soviet film director and screenwriter
- Charles M. Rice 1952 American virologist
- Kimi Antonelli 2006 Italian F1 driver 67
- Ricardo Rodriguez 1992 Swiss association football player
- Gene Simmons 1949 Israeli-American musician and songwriter
- Althea Gibson 1927 American tennis player
- Ryuji Michiki 1973 Japanese association football player
- Salif Keita 1949 Malian singer-songwriter, referred to as the "Golden Voice of Africa".
- Rachel Bilson 1981 American actress
- Bret Harte 1836 American writer and poet
- Rob Halford 1951 British heavy metal singer
- Louis Barthou 1862 French politician
- Tomohiko Ikoma 1932 Japanese association football player
- Miro Cerar 1963 Slovenian lawyer and politician
- Mel Ferrer 1917 American actor, director and producer
- Fatih Akin 1973 German filmmaker
- Yutaka Ikeuchi 1961 Japanese association football player
- George Wallace 1919 45th Governor of Alabama
- Wayne Shorter 1933 American jazz saxophonist and composer
- China Anne McClain 1998 American actress and singer
- Tom Skerritt 1933 American actor
- Tom Hollander 1967 British actor
- Shinnosuke Hatanaka 1995 Japanese association football player
- Igor Burzanović 1985 Montenegrin association football player
- John Savage 1949 American actor
- Arpad Elo 1903 Hungarian American physicists, developer of the Elo rating
- Regis Philbin 1931 American television personality
- Zilda Arns 1934 Brazilian pediatrician
- Howard Jacobson 1942 British author and journalist
- Álvaro Mutis 1923 Colombian novelist
- Rona Nishliu 1986 Kosovo-Albanian singer
- Joe Wright 1972 British film director
- Gonçalo Inácio 2001 Portuguese footballer
- Maxim Kontsevich 1964 Russian-born French mathematician and Fields Medallist
- Seán T. O'Kelly 1882 Second President of Ireland
- Van Johnson 1916 American actor
- Kōki Machida 1997 Japanese association football player
- Jonathan Togo 1977 American actor
- Alexandra Burke 1988 British singer and songwriter
- La Zarra 1987 Canadian singer
- Vinesh Phogat 1994 Indian wrestler
- Angelo Domenghini 1941 Italian footballer
- Mario Corso 1941 Italian football player and manager
- Salif Sané 1990 Senegalese and French footballer
- Aras Bulut İynemli 1990 Turkish actor
- Kurban Berdyev 1952 Russian footballer Russian footballer and manager
- Pavel Axelrod 1850 Russian Menshevik
- Robert Horry 1970 American basketball player
- Gianluca Rocchi 1973 Association football referee
- Robert Stolz 1880 Austrian conductor and composer
- Hao Haidong 1970 Chinese footballer and activist
- Helmut Hasse 1898 German mathematician
- Kjeld Abell 1901 Playwright
- Allan Pinkerton 1819 Scottish-American civil war detective and spy
- Lee Archambault 1960 Astronaut, test pilot
- Natasha Liu Bordizzo 1994 Australian actress
- J. L. Mackie 1917 Australian philosopher
- Tony Ramos 1948 Brazilian actor
- Simon McBurney 1957 British actor
- Hugh Hudson 1936 British director
- Marlon Harewood 1979 British footballer
- Ivan Jurić 1975 Croatian football player and manager
- Dominique Fernandez 1929 French novelist, essayist, travel writer
- Iñaki Godoy 2003 Mexican actor
- Miguel Trauco 1992 Peruvian association football player
- Aleksei Bugayev 1981 Russian association football player
- Nils Edén 1871 Swedish 20th century prime minister
- Nathan Deal 1942 82nd governor of Georgia from 2011 to 2019
- Blair Underwood 1964 American actor
- Adam Wilhelm Moltke 1785 Danish politician
- Roberto Mussi 1963 Italian association football player
- Vivian Campbell 1962 Northern Irish guitarist
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 25 share the 25th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.