Famous birthdays
Famous people born on February 21
Short answer
Well-known people born on February 21 include Corbin Bleu (1989), Robert Mugabe (1924), Harald V of Norway (1937) and W. H. Auden (1907). Our list below has 105 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives February 21 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1591 (Gérard Desargues) and the most recent is 2001 (Melissa Jefferson-Wooden). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, actor.
Who was born on February 21?
- Corbin Bleu 1989 American actor
- Robert Mugabe 1924 2nd President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017
- Harald V of Norway 1937 King of Norway
- W. H. Auden 1907 British-American poet
- Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck 1980 Fifth and reigning King of Bhutan
- Alan Rickman 1946 British actor and director
- Anaïs Nin 1903 French-born American author
- John Rawls 1921 American political philosopher
- Nina Simone 1933 American singer, songwriter and pianist and civil rights activist
- Elliot Page 1987 Canadian actor
- Sahle-Work Zewde 1950 President of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
- Riyad Mahrez 1991 Algerian footballer
- Jeanne Calment 1875 French supercentenarian, person with the longest confirmed lifespan
- Sophie Turner 1996 British actress
- Sacha Guitry 1885 French playwright and filmmaker
- Jennifer Love Hewitt 1979 American actress and singer
- Chuck Palahniuk 1962 American novelist, essayist
- John Henry Newman 1801 English cleric and cardinal
- Kelsey Grammer 1955 American actor
- Phil Jones 1992 English association football player, born 1992
- Henrik Dam 1895 Danish biochemist and physiologist
- Abhijit Banerjee 1961 Indian American economist
- Raymond Queneau 1903 French novelist and poet
- Ashley Greene 1987 American actress
- Mélanie Laurent 1983 French actress, model, director and writer
- David Foster Wallace 1962 American fiction writer and essayist
- Sam Peckinpah 1925 American film director
- Giorgos Samaras 1985 Greek footballer
- Léo Delibes 1836 French composer
- Friedrich Carl von Savigny 1779 German jurist
- Lyudmila Ulitskaya 1943 Russian writer
- Jordan Peele 1979 American actor, comedian and filmmaker
- Gérard Desargues 1591 French mathematician and engineer
- Tiziano Ferro 1980 Italian singer
- John Lewis 1940 American politician and civil rights leader
- Davy Klaassen 1993 Dutch association football player
- Anthony Daniels 1946 English actor and mime artist
- Donizete Oliveira 1968 Brazilian association football player
- Tom Gehrels 1925 Dutch astronomer
- Charles-Marie Widor 1844 French organist and composer
- Evair Aparecido Paulino 1965 Brazilian association football player
- Fabrizio Romano 1993 Italian football journalist
- William Baldwin 1963 American actor, producer, and writer
- Jonathan Safran Foer 1977 American novelist
- Mark Kelly 1964 American politician, astronaut, and naval officer
- Dan Calichman 1968 American soccer player
- Michael Roger Oldfield Thomas 1858 British mammalogist
- David Odonkor 1984 German association football player
- Ayumi Hara 1979 Japanese association football player
- José Zorrilla 1817 Spanish poet, writer, fighter
- William Petersen 1953 American actor
- Rue McClanahan 1934 American actress and comedian
- Federico Fernández 1989 Argentine association football player
- Renato 1957 Brazilian association football player
- Tyne Daly 1946 American actress
- Zdeněk Miler 1921 Czech animator and illustrator
- Margarethe von Trotta 1942 German film director
- Raimondo, Prince Montecuccoli 1609 Politician and military commander of the Holy Roman Empire
- Ann Sheridan 1915 American actress
- Scott Kelly 1964 American astronaut and engineer
- Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier 1815 French painter and sculptor
- Carlos Carmona 1987 Chilean footballer
- Emine Erdoğan 1955 First Lady of the Republic of Turkey (b. 1955)
- Vitaly Churkin 1952 Soviet and Russian diplomat
- Barbara Jordan 1936 American politician
- Iván Campo 1974 Spanish footballer
- Plamen Oresharski 1960 52nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria
- Jens Stryger Larsen 1991 Danish footballer
- Pascal Chimbonda 1979 French footballer
- Wendy 1994 South Korean singer and actress
- Shah Waliullah Dehlawi 1703 Indian muslim scholar
- Vera Alentova 1942 Soviet and Russian actress
- Mirra Alfassa 1878 Spiritual Leader, occultist and collaborator of Sri Aurobindo
- Andreas Seppi 1984 Italian tennis player
- Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor 1969 American actress
- Olympia Snowe 1947 American politician; U.S. Senator for Maine
- Benjamin Bloom 1913 American psychologist
- Joe Alwyn 1991 English actor
- Nathalie Dechy 1979 French tennis player
- August von Wassermann 1866 German bacteriologist
- Fatoumata Diawara 1982 Malian musician and actress
- Carlito 1979 Puerto Rican professional wrestler
- Dame N'Doye 1985 Senegalese footballer
- Melissa Jefferson-Wooden 2001 American athlete
- Bob Rafelson 1933 American film director
- Douglas Bader 1910 British World flying ace
- Hendrik Petrus Berlage 1856 Dutch architect
- Eniola Aluko 1987 English association football player
- Jack Coleman 1958 American actor and screenwriter
- Erma Bombeck 1927 American humorist and writer
- Harry Stack Sullivan 1892 American psychiatrist & psychoanalyst
- Svatopluk Čech 1846 Czech poet, publicist and bookwriter
- Sari Essayah 1967 Finnish racewalker and politician
- Catharina of Württemberg 1783 Queen consort of Westphalia
- Charlotte Church 1986 Welsh singer, songwriter, actress and presenter
- Christine Ebersole 1953 American actress
- Justin Roiland 1980 American animator and voice actor
- David Geffen 1943 American businessman
- Daniel Ek 1983 Swedish businessman
- Leroy Burrell 1967 American sprinter
- Ron Clarke 1937 Australian long-distance runner
- Tuppence Middleton 1987 English actress
- Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange 1877 French theologian
- Chespirito 1929 Mexican actor, comedian and producer
- Ronnie Hellström 1949 Swedish association football goalkeeper
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on February 21 share the 21st of February as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.