Famous birthdays
Famous people born on February 27
Short answer
Well-known people born on February 27 include John Steinbeck (1902), Elizabeth Taylor (1932), Joanne Woodward (1930) and Robert H. Grubbs (1942). Our list below has 98 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives February 27 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1622 (Carel Fabritius) and the most recent is 2002 (Helena Gualinga). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, politician.
Who was born on February 27?
- John Steinbeck 1902 American writer
- Elizabeth Taylor 1932 British-American actress
- Joanne Woodward 1930 American actress
- Robert H. Grubbs 1942 Nobel prize winning American chemist
- Roger Scruton 1944 English conservative philosopher and writer
- Kate Mara 1983 American actress
- Chelsea Clinton 1980 American author and global health advocate
- Paul Ricœur 1913 French philosopher
- Seretse Khama Ian Khama 1953 Botswana politician
- Lawrence Durrell 1912 British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
- Hou Yifan 1994 Chinese chess player
- Jony Ive 1967 English designer and former Chief Design Officer at Apple
- Djalma Santos 1929 Brazilian association football player
- Timothy Spall 1957 English actor
- Sveinn Björnsson 1881 Icelandic politician, 1st President of Iceland
- Ralph Nader 1934 American lawyer and activist
- Josh Groban 1981 American singer and actor
- Kosuke Nakamura 1995 Japanese association football player
- Joan Bennett 1910 American actress
- Carlos Alberto Parreira 1943 Brazilian football manager
- Alphonse Areola 1993 French footballer
- Kakha Kaladze 1978 Georgian footballer and politician
- George Herbert Mead 1863 American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist
- Sergej Milinković-Savić 1995 Serbian association football player
- David H. Hubel 1926 Canadian neurophysiologist
- Thiago Neves 1985 Brazilian professional football manager and former player
- Diniyar Bilyaletdinov 1985 Russian footballer
- Adam Baldwin 1962 American actor
- Joaquín Sorolla 1863 Spanish painter
- Dexter Gordon 1923 American jazz saxophonist
- Adrian Smith 1957 English guitarist
- Maggie Hassan 1958 American politician
- Irwin Shaw 1913 American writer
- Lucio Costa 1902 Brazilian architect
- James A. Robinson 1960 British political scientist and economist
- Ellen Terry 1847 English actress
- Li Bingbing 1973 Chinese actress
- Tomáš Souček 1995 Czech association football player
- Kim Young-gwon 1990 South Korean footballer
- Alan Guth 1947 American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
- Paddy Ashdown 1941 British politician and diplomat
- Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer 1881 Dutch mathematician and logician
- Jonjo Shelvey 1992 English association football player
- Nikolai Ge 1831 Ukrainian-Russian realist painter and early symbolist
- Callum Wilson 1992 English association football player
- Franz Mehring 1846 German communist historian, philosopher, and politician
- Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland 1861 Swedish prince; third son of Oscar II of Sweden and Sophia of Nassau
- Ståle Solbakken 1968 Norwegian association football player and manager
- Koo Ja-cheol 1989 South Korean footballer
- Baltasar Kormákur 1966 Spanish-Icelandic actor and film director
- Franchot Tone 1905 American actor
- James Worthy 1961 American basketball player
- John Connally 1917 American politician
- Thomas Pesquet 1978 French astronaut
- Kenzō Takada 1939 Japanese fashion designer
- Carel Fabritius 1622 Painter from the Northern Netherlands
- Meena Keshwar Kamal 1956 Afghan activist
- Yolande Moreau 1953 Belgian actress, film director and screenwriter
- Mirella Freni 1935 Italian soprano
- Stephen Kiprotich 1989 Ugandan long-distance runner
- Lindsey Morgan 1990 American actress
- Alice Hamilton 1869 American physician and toxicologist
- Anne Veski 1956 Estonian pop singer
- Sergei Semak 1976 Russian footballer
- Jacques Charles Dupont de l'Eure 1767 French politician
- Bezalel Smotrich 1981 Israeli far-right religious politician and lawyer
- Gidon Kremer 1947 Latvian violinist and conductor
- Daniel Olbrychski 1945 Polish actor
- Kelly Bishop 1944 American actress
- Noah Emmerich 1965 American actor
- Edward Cave 1691 British publisher
- Helena Gualinga 2002 Ecuadorian activist
- Bernard Lyot 1897 French astronomer
- David Sarnoff 1891 Russian-born American businessman
- Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara 1793 Spanish general and noble
- Lotta Schelin 1984 Swedish association football player
- Robert de Pinho de Souza 1981 Brazilian association football player
- Hubert Parry 1848 British composer, teacher and historian
- Megan Young 1990 Filipino actress
- Eemil Nestor Setälä 1864 Finnish politician and linguist
- Andraž Šporar 1994 Slovenian association football player
- Bruno Soares 1982 Brazilian tennis player
- Charles Herbert Best 1899 Medical scientist, co-discoverer of insulin
- Marta Torrejón 1990 Spanish footballer
- Sara Blakely 1971 American businesswoman
- Mary-Claire King 1946 American geneticist
- Derren Brown 1971 British illusionist and writer
- James Beattie 1978 English footballer and manager
- Alba Rohrwacher 1979 Italian actress
- N. Scott Momaday 1934 Kiowa author and academic
- An San 2001 South Korean female archer
- Barbara Babcock 1937 American actress
- Gabriel Zubeir Wako 1941 Catholic cardinal
- Andrés Gómez 1960 Ecuadorian tennis player
- André Leducq 1904 French cyclist
- Varlam Liparteliani 1989 Georgian judoka
- Pascal Feindouno 1981 Guinean footballer
- Massimo Stano 1992 Italian racewalker
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on February 27 share the 27th of February as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.