Famous birthdays
Famous people born on February 18
Short answer
Well-known people born on February 18 include Toni Morrison (1931), John Travolta (1954), Alessandro Volta (1745) and Ramakrishna (1836). Our list below has 98 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives February 18 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1626 (Francesco Redi) and the most recent is 2002 (Manu Bhaker). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actress.
Who was born on February 18?
- Toni Morrison 1931 African American novelist, essayist, and academic
- John Travolta 1954 American actor
- Alessandro Volta 1745 Italian chemist and physicist
- Ramakrishna 1836 Indian mystic and religious preacher
- Yoko Ono 1933 Japanese artist and activist based in the United States
- Dr. Dre 1965 American rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor
- Ernst Mach 1838 Austrian physicist
- Roberto Baggio 1967 Italian association football player
- Miloš Forman 1932 Czech American director, screenwriter, and professor
- Enzo Ferrari 1898 Italian racing driver and entrepreneur
- Gary Neville 1975 English football pundit and former playe
- Igor Dodon 1975 5th President of Moldova from 2016 until 2020
- Matt Dillon 1964 American actor
- Bobby Robson 1933 English association football player and manager
- Jack Palance 1919 American actor
- Audre Lorde 1934 American writer and feminist activist
- Claude Makelélé 1973 French football manager
- Bidzina Ivanishvili 1956 Georgian billionaire and politician
- George Kennedy 1925 American actor
- Yevgeny Kafelnikov 1974 Russian tennis player
- Anders Zorn 1860 Swedish painter and engraver
- Cybill Shepherd 1950 American actress
- Mór Jókai 1825 Hungarian writer
- Francesco Redi 1626 Italian physician, naturalist, biologist, and poet
- J-hope 1994 South Korean rapper, singer, dancer, songwriter, and record producer
- Nathan Aké 1995 Dutch footballer
- Alexander Kielland 1849 Norwegian writer
- Armin Laschet 1961 German politician (CDU)
- Hans Asperger 1906 Austrian pediatrician, medical theorist, and medical professor
- Molly Ringwald 1968 American actress and writer
- Regina Spektor 1980 American musician
- Park Shin-hye 1990 South Korean actress and singer
- Carlos Kameni 1984 Cameroonian footballer
- Paco Rabanne 1934 Spanish-French fashion designer
- Fabrizio De André 1940 Italian singer-songwriter
- Andrei Kirilenko 1981 Russian basketball player
- John Hughes 1950 American filmmaker
- Marita Koch 1957 East German sprint track and field athlete
- Jacques Cassini 1677 French astronomer
- Manu Bhaker 2002 Indian sport shooter
- István Szabó 1938 Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director
- Roberta Vinci 1983 Italian female tennis player
- Nadine Labaki 1974 Lebanese actress and film director
- Josip Šimunić 1978 Croatian footballer
- Greta Scacchi 1960 Italian-Australian actress
- Caroline Graham Hansen 1995 Norwegian footballer
- Johann Schneider-Ammann 1952 Businessman, politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council
- Len Deighton 1929 English writer
- Giacomo Raspadori 2000 Italian association football player
- Louis Comfort Tiffany 1848 American stained glass and jewelry designer
- Jermaine Jenas 1983 English footballer
- Zakaria Aboukhlal 2000 Footballer
- Adolphe Menjou 1890 American actor
- László Nemes 1977 Hungarian filmmaker
- Amir-Abbas Hoveyda 1919 Iranian politician
- Ike Barinholtz 1977 American comedian and actor
- Jean M. Auel 1936 American novelist of Finnish descent
- Maiara Walsh 1988 Brazilian-American actress and singer
- Roman Neustädter 1988 Russian professional footballer
- David Vaughan 1983 Welsh footballer
- Stéphanie, Grand Duchess Consort of Luxembourg 1984 Consort of Luxembourg (2025)
- Bryan Oviedo 1990 Costa Rican association football player
- Cornelis Johannes van Houten 1920 Dutch astronomer
- Rúnar Alex Rúnarsson 1995 Icelandic association football player
- Grzegorz Schetyna 1963 Polish politician
- Jozef Vengloš 1936 Slovak association football player and manager
- Colin Jackson 1967 Welsh athlete and sports commentator
- Anton Ferdinand 1985 English association football player
- Malese Jow 1991 American actress, singer, songwriter and model
- Matti Järvinen 1909 Athletics competitor
- Harry Govier Seeley 1839 British paleontologist
- Angelo Preciado 1998 Ecuadorian association football player
- Aleksei N. Leontiev 1903 Russian psychologist
- Julia Butterfly Hill 1974 American environmental activist
- Wallace Stegner 1909 American historian, writer, and environmentalist
- Wendell Willkie 1892 American lawyer and corporate executive
- Pat Fraley 1949 American voice-over actor
- Krisztián Pars 1982 Hungarian hammer thrower
- Bibras Natcho 1988 Israeli footballer
- Randy Crawford 1952 American jazz and R&B singer
- John Warner 1927 American lawyer and politician
- Krishna Sobti 1925 Indian writer
- Gazebo 1960 Italian singer
- Aleksei Ionov 1989 Russian footballer
- Susan Egan 1970 American actress
- Kentavious Caldwell-Pope 1993 American basketball player
- Ian Hacking 1936 Canadian philosopher
- Princess Christina of the Netherlands 1947 Dutch princess
- Hans Woellke 1911 German shot putter
- Anders Frisk 1963 Swedish football referee
- Helen Gurley Brown 1922 American author, publisher, and businesswoman
- Jérôme Eugène Coggia 1849 French astronomer
- Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière 1734 French politician
- Rüdiger Abramczik 1956 German footballer
- Nimmi 1933 Indian actress
- Takashi Kiyama 1972 Japanese association football player and manager
- Cezar 1980 Romanian opera countertenor, singer and pianist
- Changmin 1988 South Korean singer; member of boy band TVXQ, born 1988
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on February 18 share the 18th of February as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.