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Famous people born on July 15

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Well-known people born on July 15 include Rembrandt (1606), Jacques Derrida (1930), Walter Benjamin (1892) and Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei (1946). Our list below has 112 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives July 15 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1606 (Rembrandt) and the most recent is 2008 (Iain Armitage). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, politician.

Who was born on July 15?

  1. Rembrandt 1606 Dutch painter and printmaker
  2. Jacques Derrida 1930 French philosopher
  3. Walter Benjamin 1892 German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic
  4. Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei 1946 Sultan of Brunei since 1967
  5. Emmeline Pankhurst 1858 English suffragist
  6. Vilfredo Pareto 1848 Italian economist and sociologist
  7. Forest Whitaker 1961 American actor
  8. Diane Kruger 1976 German actress and model
  9. Iris Murdoch 1919 Irish-born British writer and philosopher
  10. Leon M. Lederman 1922 American mathematician and physicist
  11. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum 1949 Monarch of Dubai and politician
  12. Aníbal Cavaco Silva 1939 Portuguese economist and politician
  13. Mario Kempes 1954 Argentine footballer
  14. Jocelyn Bell Burnell 1943 British astrophysicist
  15. Bertram Brockhouse 1918 Canadian physicist
  16. Yoshinori Muto 1992 Japanese association football player
  17. Linda Ronstadt 1946 American singer
  18. Carl Bildt 1949 Swedish politician, prime minister 1991–1994, foreign minister 2006–2014
  19. John Hopfield 1933 American scientist
  20. Shōgo Taniguchi 1991 Japanese association football player
  21. Nur Muhammad Taraki 1917 1st General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
  22. Danilo 1991 Brazilian association football player
  23. Leopoldo Galtieri 1926 Military, dictator and de facto president of Argentina from 1981 until 1982
  24. Robert Bruce Merrifield 1921 American biochemist
  25. Ian Curtis 1956 British musician
  26. Takashi Hirano 1974 Japanese association football player
  27. Tetsuji Hashiratani 1964 Japanese association football player and manager
  28. Peter Odemwingie 1981 Nigerian footballer
  29. Burak Yılmaz 1985 Turkish association football player and manager
  30. Yasutoshi Miura 1965 Japanese association football player and manager
  31. Junya Tanaka 1987 Japanese association football player
  32. Arianna Huffington 1950 Greek and American businesswoman
  33. Alexander Frei 1979 Swiss footballer
  34. Brigitte Nielsen 1963 Danish actress, model and singer
  35. Damian Lillard 1990 American basketball player
  36. Adam Savage 1967 American special effects specialist and television host
  37. Graziano Pellè 1985 Italian footballer
  38. Terry O'Quinn 1952 American actor
  39. Jesse Ventura 1951 American professional wrestler and 38th governor of Minnesota
  40. Robert Conquest 1917 British historian and poet
  41. Yūki Nagasato 1987 Japanese association football player
  42. John Dolmayan 1972 Armenian-American drummer
  43. Wayde van Niekerk 1992 South African sprinter
  44. Lana Parrilla 1977 American actress
  45. Gabriel Iglesias 1976 American stand-up comedian
  46. Alou Diarra 1981 French football manager
  47. Brian Austin Green 1973 American actor
  48. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II 1986 American actor
  49. Carl Woese 1928 American microbiologist
  50. Travis Fimmel 1979 Australian actor and model
  51. Vivianne Miedema 1996 Dutch footballer
  52. Irène Jacob 1966 French-born Swiss actress
  53. Stephen Smale 1930 American mathematician
  54. Lydia Davis 1947 American writer
  55. Vincent Lindon 1959 French actor
  56. Clive Cussler 1931 American novelist
  57. David Miliband 1965 British politician
  58. David A. Granger 1945 Guyanese politician
  59. Marco Di Vaio 1976 Italian footballer
  60. Yuriko Koike 1952 Japanese politician
  61. Boris Kolker 1939 Language teacher, translator
  62. Scott Foley 1972 American actor
  63. Iain Armitage 2008 American actor
  64. Nicola Abbagnano 1901 Italian existential philosopher
  65. Frances Xavier Cabrini 1850 Italian-American Catholic nun, misionary and saint
  66. İrfan Kahveci 1995 Turkish association football player
  67. Shkëlzen Gashi 1988 Albanian footballer
  68. Olly Alexander 1990 British singer and actor
  69. Jean-Baptiste Charcot 1867 French scientist
  70. William Dieterle 1893 German/American actor and film director
  71. Édgar Barreto 1984 Paraguayan footballer
  72. Rudolf Arnheim 1904 German psychologist
  73. Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld 1750 German nobleman
  74. Alexander Roslin 1718 Swedish painter
  75. Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine 1823 Third son and fourth child of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse
  76. Taylor Kinney 1981 American actor
  77. Ari Aster 1986 American film director and screenwriter
  78. Jean Rey 1902 Belgian politician
  79. Trevor Horn 1949 British record producer and musician
  80. Brenda Milner 1918 Canada-based British neuroscientist and neuropsychologist
  81. Pal Benko 1928 Hungarian-American chess player
  82. Anne Fontaine 1959 Luxembourger film director
  83. Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 1837 Queen consort of Portugal from 1858 to 1859
  84. Aleksandar Tirnanić 1910 Serbian footballer
  85. Ray Toro 1977 American musician
  86. Albert Ghiorso 1915 American nuclear scientist
  87. Heath Slater 1983 American professional wrestler and actor
  88. Henry Edward Manning 1808 English Catholic archbishop and cardinal
  89. Julian Bream 1933 English classical guitarist and lutenist
  90. Marius Stankevičius 1981 Lithuanian footballer
  91. Leticia Calderón 1968 Mexican actress
  92. José Enrique Rodó 1871 Uruguayan writer
  93. Eddie Griffin 1968 American actor and comedian
  94. George Voinovich 1936 American politician
  95. Harrison Birtwistle 1934 English composer
  96. Jason Bonham 1966 English drummer
  97. David Cox 1924 English statistician
  98. Dieter Herzog 1946 German footballer
  99. Diego Ulissi 1989 Italian road bicycle racer
  100. Birabongse Bhanudej 1914 Prince of Siam, racing driver, sailor and pilot
  101. Joe Turkel 1927 American actor
  102. Tobias Harris 1992 American basketball player
  103. Porter Robinson 1992 American DJ, singer and record producer
  104. Richard Russo 1949 American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter
  105. Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe 1865 British noble
  106. Hendrik Casimir 1909 Dutch physicist
  107. Jean-Christophe Grangé 1961 French writer, journalist, and screenwriter
  108. K.Kamarajar 1903 Indian politician
  109. Kenji Komata 1964 Japanese association football player
  110. Chaudhry Muhammad Ali 1905 Politician and Prime minister of Pakistan
  111. Alisa Kleybanova 1989 Russian tennis player
  112. Milena Rudnytska 1892 Ukrainian women's rights activist, politician and writer

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on July 15 share the 15th of July as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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