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Famous people born on August 26

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Well-known people born on August 26 include Mother Teresa (1910), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Chris Pine (1980) and Guillaume Apollinaire (1880). Our list below has 86 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 26 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1728 (Johann Heinrich Lambert) and the most recent is 1998 (Dennis Man). The most common fields on this date: politician, football, writer.

Who was born on August 26?

  1. Mother Teresa 1910 Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary
  2. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 French nobleman and chemist
  3. Chris Pine 1980 American actor
  4. Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 French poet
  5. Julio Cortázar 1914 Argentine writer and translator
  6. James Franck 1882 German-American physicist
  7. Katherine Johnson 1918 African-American mathematician
  8. Macaulay Culkin 1980 American actor and singer
  9. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1819 Consort of Queen Victoria from 1840 to 1861
  10. Yun Po-sun 1897 2nd President of South Korea
  11. Thalía 1971 Mexican singer and actress
  12. Zemfira 1976 Russian rock musician and songwriter
  13. Johann Heinrich Lambert 1728 German mathematician, physicist and astronomer
  14. Michael Jeter 1952 American actor
  15. Edward Witten 1951 American theoretical physicist
  16. Mehriban Alieva 1964 Azerbaijani physician and politician; wife of Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliev, Vice…
  17. Prem Tinsulanonda 1920 Former Regent of Thailand
  18. Dylan O'Brien 1991 American actor
  19. Lee de Forest 1873 American inventor
  20. Nichi Vendola 1958 Italian writer and politician
  21. James Harden 1989 American basketball player
  22. Daphne Caruana Galizia 1964 Maltese journalist and blogger
  23. Benedict Anderson 1936 American political scientist
  24. Keke Palmer 1993 American actress
  25. Christopher Isherwood 1904 British-American novelist
  26. Albert B. Sabin 1906 Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines
  27. John Buchan 1875 Scottish author and politician
  28. Tariq Ramadan 1962 Swiss Muslim scholar
  29. Jules Romains 1885 French writer
  30. Michael Gove 1967 British politician
  31. Gennady Yanayev 1937 Vice president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991
  32. Lars Stindl 1988 German association football player
  33. Geraldine Ferraro 1935 American politician
  34. Marko Livaja 1993 Croatian association football player
  35. Dr. Alban 1957 Nigerian-Swedish dentist, musician
  36. Boris Pahor 1913 Slovenian writer
  37. Paula Hawkins 1972 British writer
  38. Michel Micombero 1940 President of Burundi
  39. Aleksandar Đorđević 1967 Yugoslav and Serbian basketball player
  40. Peggy Guggenheim 1898 American art collector, art dealer, museum founder and socialite
  41. Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester 1944 Cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; youngest grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary
  42. Maneka Gandhi 1956 Indian politician and activist
  43. Ayşe Kulin 1941 Turkish novelist
  44. Mike Colter 1976 American actor
  45. Cassie Ventura 1986 American singer, dancer, actress, and model
  46. Shirley Manson 1966 Scottish singer
  47. Barbara Ehrenreich 1941 American writer and journalist
  48. David Hurley 1953 Australian general; 27th Governor-General of Australia
  49. Chen Yi 1901 Chinese military officer, People's Republic of China
  50. Marcello Gandini 1938 Italian automotive designer
  51. Joe Engle 1932 American astronaut
  52. Mateo Musacchio 1990 Argentine footballer
  53. Barbet Schroeder 1941 French film director
  54. Gabriel Urgebadze 1929 Georgian saint
  55. Nobuhiro Ueno 1965 Japanese association football player and manager
  56. Maxwell D. Taylor 1901 American military officer and diplomat
  57. Irina-Camelia Begu 1990 Romanian female tennis player
  58. Cristina Neagu 1988 Romanian handball player
  59. Colin Kâzım-Richards 1986 Turkish-British footballer and manager
  60. Brett Cullen 1956 American actor
  61. Balkrishna Doshi 1927 Indian architect
  62. Ksenia Sukhinova 1987 Russian beauty queen
  63. Jeon Soyeon 1998 South Korean singer and rapper
  64. Alyaksandr Martynovich 1987 Belarusian footballer
  65. Arnaud Démare 1991 French cyclist
  66. Christian Schmidt 1957 German politician, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
  67. Ron Huldai 1944 Israeli politician, mayor of Tel Aviv
  68. Kathryn P. Hire 1959 NASA astronaut and Captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve
  69. Jessie Diggins 1991 US-American cross-country skier
  70. Richard E. Bellman 1920 American mathematician
  71. Hugo Duminil-Copin 1985 French mathematician, Fields Medal winner in 2022
  72. Patrick Devedjian 1944 French politician
  73. Vangelis Moras 1981 Greek manager and former footballer
  74. Mattia Cassani 1983 Italian footballer
  75. Dennis Man 1998 Romanian association football player
  76. Manuel Oribe 1792 2nd President of Uruguay
  77. John Mulaney 1982 American comedian and actor
  78. Earl Derr Biggers 1884 American novelist and playwright
  79. Andy Muschietti 1973 Argentine film director and screenwriter
  80. Léo Baptistão 1992 Brazilian footballer
  81. Mae Muller 1997 British singer
  82. Tomáš Koubek 1992 Czech association football player
  83. Wolfgang Sawallisch 1923 German conductor and pianist
  84. Franz Gürtner 1881 German lawyer and politician
  85. Hestrie Cloete 1978 South African high jumper
  86. Edward Lowassa 1953 Tanzanian politician

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 26 share the 26th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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