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Famous people born on August 30
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 30 include Ernest Rutherford (1871), Alexander Lukashenka (1954), Warren Buffett (1930) and Mary Shelley (1797). Our list below has 97 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 30 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1745 (Johann Hieronymus Schröter) and the most recent is 2007 (Momiji Nishiya). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, singer.
Who was born on August 30?
- Ernest Rutherford 1871 New Zealand physicist
- Alexander Lukashenka 1954 President of the Republic of Belarus
- Warren Buffett 1930 American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
- Mary Shelley 1797 English writer
- Cameron Diaz 1972 American actress and model
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff 1852 Dutch physical and organic chemist
- Anna Politkovskaya 1958 Russian journalist
- Jacques-Louis David 1748 French painter
- Edward Mills Purcell 1912 American physicist
- Andy Roddick 1982 American tennis player
- Theodor Svedberg 1884 Swedish chemist
- Pavel Nedvěd 1972 Czech association football player
- Shirley Booth 1898 American actress
- Theo van Doesburg 1883 Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer
- Bebe Rexha 1989 American singer
- Richard Stone 1913 British economist, Nobel Memorial Prize winner
- Friedrich Ratzel 1844 German geographer and ethnographer
- Paco Alcácer 1993 Spanish association football player
- Sylvia A. Earle 1935 American oceanographer
- Simone Pepe 1983 Italian association football player
- Jean-Claude Killy 1943 French alpine skier
- Gediminas Kirkilas 1951 Lithuanian politician
- Jack Swigert 1931 NASA Astronaut, Pilot
- Camilla Läckberg 1974 Swedish crime writer
- Queen Anne-Marie of Greece 1946 Queen consort of Greece from 1964 to 1973
- Antony Gormley 1950 British sculptor
- Fred MacMurray 1908 American actor
- Lin Tse-hsu 1785 Chinese scholar and politician
- Bruce McLaren 1937 New Zealand racecar driver, designer and team owner
- Anna Ushenina 1985 Ukrainian chess player
- Gabriel Barbosa 1996 Brazilian association football player
- Nancy Wake 1912 New Zealander and Australian war heroine
- Dana Rosemary Scallon 1951 Northern Irish singer and politician
- Peggy Lipton 1946 American actress and singer
- Ernests Gulbis 1988 Latvian tennis player
- Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland 1915 Welsh model who became a member of the Swedish royal family
- Joan Blondell 1906 American actress
- Félix Sánchez 1977 Dominican track and field athlete
- Behgjet Pacolli 1951 President of Kosovo in 2011
- Michael Chiklis 1963 American actor
- Huey Long 1893 American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United States Senator
- Carl David Tolmé Runge 1856 German mathematician and physicist
- Paulo Sousa 1970 Portuguese footballer
- Robert Parish 1953 American former basketball player
- Farid Mammadov 1991 Azerbaijani singer
- Mauro Ramos 1930 Brazilian footballer
- Muhammad bin Nayef 1959 Former Saudi crown prince
- Robert Crumb 1943 American illustrator and cartoonist
- Maurice Hilleman 1919 American vaccinologist
- Manami Nakano 1986 Japanese association football player
- Yves Bissouma 1996 Malian-Ivorian association football player
- Bako Sahakyan 1960 3rd President of Artsakh
- Sara Ahmed 1969 British-Australian scholar (b. 1985)
- Raymond Massey 1896 Canadian American actor
- Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark 1870 Daughter of George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia; wife of Grand Duke…
- Tomasz Majewski 1981 Polish shot putter
- Fábio Carvalho 2002 Portuguese association football player
- Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman 1966 Algerian politician
- John Phillips 1935 American musician
- Princess Ludovika of Bavaria 1808 Bavarian Royal
- Laura Põldvere 1988 Estonian musician
- Johann Hieronymus Schröter 1745 German selenographer
- Maksim Shatskikh 1978 Uzbekistani footballer
- Paul Oakenfold 1963 British DJ and electronic music producer
- John Peel 1939 English DJ and radio presenter
- Olga Taussky-Todd 1906 Mathematician
- Evelyn De Morgan 1855 Pre-Raphaelite artist (1993-
- Liam Cooper 1991 Scottish-English association football player
- Li Zhanshu 1950 10th Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the…
- Ted Williams 1918 American baseball player and fighter pilot
- Leisel Jones 1985 Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder
- Jessica Henwick 1992 British actress
- Megan McArthur 1971 NASA astronaut
- Vladimir Jugović 1969 Serbian footballer
- Tianna Madison-Bartoletta 1985 American long jumper
- Thom Tillis 1960 American politician
- Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani 1959 Qatari politician; prime minister and foreign minister
- Fred Hampton 1948 African-American activist
- Anita Garibaldi 1821 Italo-brazillian revolutionary
- Anatoly Solonitsyn 1934 Soviet Russian actor
- Radhi Jaïdi 1975 Tunisian association football player and manager
- Elizabeth Ashley 1939 American actress
- Angel Coulby 1980 English actress
- Gaia Weiss 1991 French actress and model
- Jun Matsumoto 1983 Japanese singer, actor, radio host
- Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, Grand Duke of Russia 1917 Pretender to the Russian throne from 1938–1992; son of Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich…
- Victor Skumin 1948 Russian scientist, writer, philosopher
- Mehdi Mostefa 1983 Algerian and French footballer
- Kitty Wells 1919 American country music singer
- Paul Poupard 1930 Catholic cardinal
- Peter Withe 1951 English footballer
- Jacques Tardi 1946 French comics author
- Duke Ludwig of Württemberg 1756 German prince
- Diodato 1981 Italian singer-songwriter
- Momiji Nishiya 2007 Japanese street skateboarder
- Alina Dumitru 1982 Romanian judoka
- Bohdan Bondarenko 1989 Ukrainian high jumper
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 30 share the 30th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.