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Famous people born on December 26

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Well-known people born on December 26 include Mao Zedong (1893), Charles Babbage (1791), Henry Miller (1891) and Jared Leto (1971). Our list below has 77 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 26 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1618 (Elisabeth of the Palatinate) and the most recent is 1999 (Aiko). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actor.

Who was born on December 26?

  1. Mao Zedong 1893 1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China
  2. Charles Babbage 1791 English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer
  3. Henry Miller 1891 American novelist
  4. Jared Leto 1971 American actor, singer, musician and songwriter
  5. Hugo Lloris 1986 French footballer
  6. Yun Ch'iho 1864 Korean independence activist
  7. José Ramos-Horta 1949 2nd and 5th President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureate
  8. Toomas Hendrik Ilves 1953 Estonian politician and diplomat, fourth president of Estonia
  9. Lars Ulrich 1963 Danish musician
  10. Alejo Carpanter 1904 Cuban-French writer and musicologist
  11. Aaron Ramsey 1990 Welsh association football player and manager
  12. Denis Cheryshev 1990 Russian footballer
  13. Cho Jung-seok 1980 South Korean actor
  14. Mary Somerville 1780 Scottish scientist, writer and polymath
  15. Thomas Gray 1716 English poet and classical scholar
  16. Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma 1935 President of Togo from 1967 to 2005
  17. Phil Spector 1939 American record producer
  18. Edward C. Prescott 1940 American economist
  19. Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald 1803 Estonian writer, author of the national epic Kalevipoeg
  20. Teruki Miyamoto 1940 Japanese association football player
  21. Yohan Blake 1989 Jamaican athletics competitor
  22. Sofiane Feghouli 1989 Algerian and French footballer
  23. Richard Widmark 1914 American actor and producer
  24. John Horton Conway 1937 English mathematician
  25. Maurice Utrillo 1883 French painter
  26. Kunimitsu Sekiguchi 1985 Japanese association football player
  27. Leonel Fernández 1953 Former president of the Dominican Republic
  28. Yusuke Omi 1946 Japanese association football player
  29. Martin Cooper 1928 American engineer, father of mobile phone
  30. Mazinho Oliveira 1965 Brazilian association football player
  31. John Rackham 1682 English pirate
  32. Oldřich Nejedlý 1909 Czech footballer
  33. Jioji Konrote 1947 Fijian politician
  34. Marcelo Ríos 1975 Chilean tennis player
  35. Bernard Germain de Lacépède 1756 French naturalist
  36. Julie Clary 1771 Queen consort of Naples and Spain
  37. Alexander Ankvab 1952 Abkhaz politician and businessman
  38. Beth Behrs 1985 American actress
  39. Adrian Newey 1958 British Formula One engineer
  40. Elton Mayo 1880 Australian psychologist and sociologist
  41. Temuera Morrison 1960 New Zealand actor
  42. Aksel Lund Svindal 1982 Norwegian former alpine skier
  43. Nobuko Jashima 1959 Japanese association football player
  44. Jean Ferrat 1930 French singer-songwriter and poet
  45. Shiho Ogawa 1988 Japanese association football player
  46. Gyula Gömbös 1886 Hungarian fascist politician
  47. Baba Amte 1914 Indian freedom fighter, social worker
  48. Raja Pervez Ashraf 1950 Pakistani politician
  49. Steve Allen 1921 American actor, comedian, musician and presenter
  50. Caroll Spinney 1933 American puppeteer
  51. Julien Benda 1867 French essayist and philosopher
  52. Mikhail Boyarsky 1949 Soviet and Russian actor and singer
  53. Elisabeth of the Palatinate 1618 German princess, philosopher, and Calvinist
  54. Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse 1777 Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
  55. Hassan Yazdani 1994 Iranian sportsperson
  56. Omar Alderete 1996 Paraguayan association football player
  57. Aiko 1999 Czech singer-songwriter
  58. Jean-Marc Aveline 1958 French Roman Catholic priest, cardinal
  59. Thomas Linke 1969 German association football player
  60. Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 1943 Turkish historian of science, Islamicist, and politician
  61. Clemens Winkler 1838 German chemist
  62. Georgios Rallis 1918 Prime Minister of Greece
  63. Eden Sher 1991 American actress
  64. Alexander Wang 1983 American fashion designer
  65. Andy Biersack 1990 American singer
  66. Roger Piantoni 1931 French footballer
  67. Wolfgang Rolff 1959 German association football player and manager
  68. Emil Wiechert 1861 German geophysicist and seismologist
  69. Bahram Beyzai 1938 Iranian film director
  70. Kan Kikuchi 1888 Japanese writer and businessman
  71. Mikhail Kukushkin 1987 Kazakh tennis player
  72. Evan Bayh 1955 U.S. Senator from Indiana
  73. James Kottak 1962 American drummer
  74. Wilhelm Dörpfeld 1853 German architect and archaeologist
  75. Gray Davis 1942 Governor of California from 1999 to 2003
  76. Mario Varglien 1905 Italian footballer and manager
  77. Tatiana Sorokko 1971 Russian model and journalist

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

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