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Famous people born on December 28

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Well-known people born on December 28 include Woodrow Wilson (1856), Linus Torvalds (1969), John von Neumann (1903) and Liu Xiaobo (1955). Our list below has 86 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 28 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1856 (Woodrow Wilson) and the most recent is 2004 (El Hadji Malick Diouf). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actress.

Who was born on December 28?

  1. Woodrow Wilson 1856 28th President of the United States
  2. Linus Torvalds 1969 Finnish software engineer
  3. John von Neumann 1903 Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist
  4. Liu Xiaobo 1955 Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist
  5. Denzel Washington 1954 American actor
  6. Stan Lee 1922 American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer
  7. Arthur Eddington 1882 British astrophysicist
  8. Sienna Miller 1981 British-American actress
  9. Kary Mullis 1944 American biochemist
  10. Milton Obote 1925 President of Uganda (1966–1971; 1980–1985)
  11. Salvador Sobral 1989 Portuguese singer
  12. Ivan Konev 1897 Soviet military commander
  13. Kaliopi 1966 Macedonian singer and songwriter
  14. John Legend 1978 American singer-songwriter
  15. Guy Debord 1931 French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker
  16. Noomi Rapace 1979 Swedish actress
  17. Richard Clayderman 1953 French pianist
  18. Dhirubhai Ambani 1932 Indian business tycoon
  19. Pío Baroja 1872 Spanish writer
  20. Jessie Buckley 1989 Irish actress and singer
  21. Girma Wolde-Giorgis 1924 Former Ethiopian President
  22. F. W. Murnau 1888 German film director
  23. Lili Elbe 1882 Danish painter and transgender woman
  24. Khalid Boulahrouz 1981 Dutch association football player
  25. Henri de Régnier 1864 French poet
  26. Marcos Alonso Mendoza 1990 Spanish association football player
  27. Patrick Rafter 1972 Australian tennis player
  28. Shinichi Morishita 1960 Japanese association football player and manager
  29. Hildegard Knef 1925 German actress, singer and writer
  30. Kazuo Echigo 1965 Japanese association football player
  31. Nichelle Nichols 1932 American actress
  32. James Blake 1979 American tennis player
  33. Brian Steen Nielsen 1968 Danish association football player
  34. Mortimer J. Adler 1902 American philosopher, author and educator
  35. Joe Manganiello 1976 American actor
  36. David Archuleta 1990 American singer-songwriter
  37. Quim Torra 1962 Former president of Catalonia
  38. Erich Mielke 1907 German politician
  39. Chad McQueen 1960 American actor and racecar driver
  40. Seth Meyers 1973 American comedian, television host and actor
  41. Ana Pauker 1893 Romanian politician
  42. Adam Peaty 1994 British swimmer
  43. Tom Huddlestone 1986 English association football player
  44. Sandra Faber 1944 American astrophysicist
  45. Manuel Puig 1932 Argentine writer
  46. Arun Jaitley 1952 Indian politician and attorney
  47. Sean St Ledger 1984 Irish footballer
  48. Emiko Kubo 1966 Japanese association football player
  49. Mikhail Kalatozov 1903 Soviet film director and screenwriter
  50. Tanguy Ndombele 1996 French footballer
  51. Mai Kyokawa 1993 Japanese association football player
  52. Rie Usui 1989 Japanese association football player
  53. Mustafa Akıncı 1947 President of Northern Cyprus from 2015 to 2020
  54. Nicola Olyslagers 1996 Australian athlete
  55. Alasdair Gray 1934 Scottish writer and artist
  56. Han Seung-soo 1936 South Korean politician and diplomat.; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade
  57. Sergei Yutkevich 1904 Soviet film director and screenwriter
  58. Benoît Trémoulinas 1985 French footballer
  59. Boško Gjurovski 1961 Macedonian association football player and manager
  60. Sergi Barjuan 1971 Spanish footballer
  61. Nahitan Nández 1995 Uruguayan footballer
  62. Nigel Kennedy 1956 British-born violinist and violist
  63. Maitreyi Ramakrishnan 2001 Canadian actress
  64. Michel Petrucciani 1962 French jazz pianist
  65. Akihiko Hoshide 1968 Japanese astronaut
  66. André Holland 1979 American actor
  67. Lew Ayres 1908 American actor
  68. Earl Hines 1903 American jazz pianist
  69. Beau Garrett 1982 American actress and model
  70. Johnny Isakson 1944 American politician
  71. Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne 1943 Catholic cardinal
  72. Marcos Lopes 1995 Portuguese footballer
  73. Viktor Lutze 1890 SA Stabschef
  74. El Hadji Malick Diouf 2004 Senegalese footballer
  75. Terry Butcher 1958 English footballer and manager
  76. Mike Beebe 1946 Governor of Arkansas from 2007 to 2015
  77. Elaine Hendrix 1970 American actress
  78. Mike Hopkins (astronaut) 1968 American astronaut
  79. Trip Hawkins 1953 American businessman (b. 1953)
  80. Bobbie Rosenfeld 1904 Canadian athletics competitor
  81. Lomana LuaLua 1980 DR Congolese association football player
  82. Makoto Yonekura 1970 Japanese association football player
  83. Philippe de Gaulle 1921 Son of Charles de Gaulle
  84. James Foley 1953 American film director and screenwriter
  85. Lucas Cavallini 1992 Canadian soccer player
  86. Shen Congwen 1902 Chinese writer

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on December 28 share the 28th of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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