Famous birthdays
Famous people born on February 26
Short answer
Well-known people born on February 26 include Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954), Johnny Cash (1932), Ahmet Davutoğlu (1959) and Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869). Our list below has 103 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives February 26 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1619 (Francesco Morosini) and the most recent is 2003 (Levi Colwill). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, singer.
Who was born on February 26?
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 1954 President of Turkey since 2014
- Johnny Cash 1932 American country singer
- Ahmet Davutoğlu 1959 Turkish statesperson and writer
- Nadezhda Krupskaya 1869 Russian revolutionary and politician
- Michel Houellebecq 1956 French writer
- Helen Clark 1950 Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008
- Ahmed Zewail 1946 Egyptian chemist
- Pepe 1984 Portuguese association football player
- Emmanuel Adebayor 1984 Togolese soccer player
- Giulio Natta 1903 Italian chemist
- Li Na 1982 Chinese tennis player
- Ole Gunnar Solskjær 1973 Norwegian association football manager
- Honoré Daumier 1808 French artist
- Camille Flammarion 1842 French astronomer and author
- Kazuyoshi Miura 1967 Japanese association football player
- Ferdinand I of Bulgaria 1861 Bulgarian ruler
- Jamal Musiala 2003 German footballer
- Fernando Llorente 1985 Spanish association football player
- Nacho Monreal 1986 Spanish association football player
- Jackie Gleason 1916 American comedian and actor
- Andrei Zhdanov 1896 Soviet politician
- Buffalo Bill 1846 American frontiersman and showman
- Beren Saat 1984 Turkish actor
- Levi Strauss 1829 German-Jewish-born American businessman
- Talal I of Jordan 1909 King of Jordan from 1951 to 1952
- Artur Rasizade 1935 6th Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan
- Erykah Badu 1971 American singer-songwriter
- Noboru Takeshita 1924 74th Prime Minister of Japan
- Tim Kaine 1958 American lawyer and politician
- Sandie Shaw 1947 English pop singer
- Sébastien Loeb 1974 French racing driver
- Shiro Teshima 1907 Japanese association football player
- Juraj Kucka 1987 Slovak association football player
- Malcom 1997 Brazilian association football player
- Jesé Rodríguez 1993 Spanish association football player
- Leila Lopes 1986 Angolan beauty pageant titleholder
- Teresa Palmer 1986 Australian actress, model, writer and producer
- Venceslau Brás 1868 President of Brazil
- Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot 1725 French inventor
- Michael Bolton 1953 American singer-songwriter
- Sean Baker 1971 American film director
- Theodore Sturgeon 1918 American speculative fiction writer
- Keith Ferguson 1972 American voice actor
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury 1671 English politician and Earl
- Tex Avery 1908 American animator and director
- ATB 1973 German DJ and electronic music producer
- CL 1991 South Korean rapper and singer
- Mark Dacascos 1964 American actor and martial artist
- Yeat 2000 American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer
- Sanya Richards-Ross 1985 Jamaican-American sprinter
- Kazimira Prunskienė 1943 Lithuanian politician
- Aleksandras Stulginskis 1885 Second President of Lithuania (from 19 June 1920 until 7 June 1926)
- Betty Hutton 1921 American actress
- Milan Babić 1956 First President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina 1991–1992
- Jean Bruller 1902 French author and illustrator
- Tony Randall 1920 American actor
- John Bowlby 1907 British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- Levi Colwill 2003 English association football player
- Susan J. Helms 1958 Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force and NASA astronaut
- Demet Özdemir 1992 Turkish actor, dancer and fashion model
- Adem Demaçi 1936 Albanian politician
- Francesco Morosini 1619 Doge of Venice
- Sriti Jha 1986 Indian actress
- Halina Konopacka 1900 Polish athlete
- Max Martin 1971 Swedish record producer and songwriter
- Ronald Lauder 1944 American businessman, art collector, philanthropist, political activist
- Matz Sels 1992 Belgian association football player
- Colin Bell 1946 English professional footballer
- Najwa Karam 1966 Lebanese actress and singer
- Veena Malik 1984 Pakistani actress
- Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria 1746 Austrian archduchess
- Agustín Pedro Justo 1876 Former President of Argentina
- Gabriel Obertan 1989 French footballer
- Abdoulaye Faye 1978 Senegalese footballer
- Margaret Leighton 1922 British actress
- Madeleine Carroll 1906 English actress
- Linda Lampenius 1970 Finnish musician and actress
- Jamie Leweling 2001 German association football player
- Natalia Lafourcade 1984 Mexican singer-songwriter
- Anatoly Filipchenko 1928 Soviet cosmonaut
- Claude Piron 1931 Swiss translator and Esperantist
- Atiq Rahimi 1962 French-Afghan writer
- Bajrang Punia 1994 Indian male freestyle wrestler
- Tiago Ilori 1993 Portuguese-English association football player
- Nate Ruess 1982 American singer
- Corinne Bailey Rae 1979 British singer
- Liubomyr Huzar 1933 Catholic cardinal
- Hilmar Baunsgaard 1920 Danish politician
- Pedro Mendes 1979 Portuguese footballer (born in february 1979)
- Husband E. Kimmel 1882 United States admiral
- Elizabeth George 1949 American mystery and thriller writer
- Guido Pizarro 1990 Argentine association football player
- Rie Mastenbroek 1919 Dutch swimmer
- Azzedine Alaïa 1935 French-Tunisian fashion designer
- Wilhelm Bittrich 1894 German general (1894-1979
- Greg Germann 1958 American actor
- Jenny Thompson 1973 American swimmer
- Antoine Baumé 1728 French chemist
- Fabian Hürzeler 1993 German football manager
- Björn Bergmann Sigurðarson 1991 Icelandic footballer
- Irina Vlah 1974 Moldovan politician
- Gerard Martín 2002 Spanish footballer
- Anders Chydenius 1729 Swedish priest and politician
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on February 26 share the 26th of February as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.