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Famous people born on July 18
Short answer
Well-known people born on July 18 include Hendrik Lorentz (1853), Priyanka Chopra (1982), Vin Diesel (1967) and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811). Our list below has 104 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives July 18 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1659 (Hyacinthe Rigaud) and the most recent is 2000 (Yuki Kobayashi). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on July 18?
- Hendrik Lorentz 1853 Dutch physicist
- Priyanka Chopra 1982 Indian actress
- Vin Diesel 1967 American actor
- William Makepeace Thackeray 1811 British novelist
- Kristen Bell 1980 American actress
- John Glenn 1921 American astronaut and politician
- Richard Branson 1950 British business magnate
- Thomas Kuhn 1922 American historian, physicist and philosopher
- Hunter S. Thompson 1937 American journalist and author
- Elio Di Rupo 1951 Belgian politician
- Peter Mutharika 1940 President of Malawi
- Paul Verhoeven 1938 Dutch film director
- Virginia Raggi 1978 Italian politician (1978)
- Roald Hoffmann 1937 Polish-American Nobel laureate chemist and playwright
- M.I.A. 1975 British singer and rapper
- Vasil Levski 1837 Bulgarian revolutionary
- Giacinto Facchetti 1942 Italian association football player
- Daron Malakian 1975 Armenian-American rock musician
- Nabil Fekir 1993 French footballer
- Hartmut Michel 1948 German biochemist (1988 Nobel Prize)
- Mohammed Daoud Khan 1909 Politician, first President of Afghanistan
- Gino Bartali 1914 Italian road cyclist
- Margaret Brown 1867 Survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, women's rights activist, philanthropist
- Elizabeth Gilbert 1969 American writer
- Elsa Pataky 1976 Spanish model and actress
- Chace Crawford 1985 American actor
- Ken Noritake 1922 Japanese association football player
- Mehdi Taremi 1992 Iranian footballer
- Noah Lyles 1997 American sprinter
- Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk 1995 Ukrainian athletics competitor
- Hyacinthe Rigaud 1659 Catalan-French baroque painter
- Giacomo Balla 1871 Italian artist
- James Brolin 1940 American actor
- Lutsharel Geertruida 2000 Dutch association football player
- Alexander Morozevich 1977 Russian chess player
- Elizabeth McGovern 1961 American actress
- W. G. Grace 1848 English amateur cricketer
- Tristan Corbière 1845 French poet
- Pauline Viardot 1821 French mezzo-soprano and composer
- Martín Torrijos 1963 President of Panama
- Arthur Friedenreich 1892 Brazilian footballer
- Kelly Reilly 1977 British actress
- Alan Pardew 1961 English football player and manager
- Kurt Masur 1927 German conductor
- Frank Farian 1941 German music producer
- Louis de Geer the Elder 1818 Swedish 19th century prime minister
- Bam Adebayo 1997 American basketball player
- Frank Forde 1890 Australian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia
- Michiel Huisman 1981 Dutch actor
- Bhumi Pednekar 1989 Indian actress
- Per Petterson 1952 Norwegian novelist
- Margo Martindale 1951 American actress
- Penny Hardaway 1971 American basketball player and coach
- Wendy Williams 1964 American media personality
- H. L. A. Hart 1907 English legal philosopher
- Henri Salvador 1917 French Caribbean recording artist; singer, songwriter
- Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria 1724 German composer, opera singer and librettist
- Lee Taemin 1993 South Korean singer, model, dancer and actor
- Dick Button 1929 American figure skater, sports personality, actor, lawyer
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins 1929 American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, film producer, and boxer
- Taylor Russell 1994 Canadian actress
- Calvin Jong-a-Pin 1986 Dutch association football player
- Hugo Riemann 1849 German musicologist
- Canelo Álvarez 1990 Mexican boxer
- Axel Paulsen 1855 Norwegian figure skater and speed skater
- Shirley Strickland 1925 Australian hurdler and sprinter
- Zrinka Cvitešić 1979 Croatian actress
- Carlo Costly 1982 Honduran footballer
- Giovanni Bononcini 1670 Italian composer
- Jack Layton 1950 Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
- Yung Lean 1996 Swedish rapper and record producer
- Jean-Robert Argand 1768 Swiss mathematician
- Ian Stewart 1938 British keyboardist
- Hume Cronyn 1911 Canadian-American actor
- Smriti Mandhana 1996 Indian cricketer
- Yuki Kobayashi 2000 Japanese association football player
- Tomas Danilevičius 1978 Lithuanian footballer
- Red Skelton 1913 American comedian
- Tenley Albright 1935 American figure skater and surgeon
- Gideon Mensah 1998 Association football player
- James Norton 1985 British actor
- Eugenio Mena 1988 Chilean footballer
- Julius Fucik 1872 Czech composer
- Ignazio Benito Maria La Russa 1947 Italian politician
- Marc Girardelli 1963 Luxembourgian-Austrian alpine ski racer
- Saud Abdulhamid 1999 Saudi footballer
- Richard Dix 1893 American actor
- Michael Dante DiMartino 1974 American animation director
- Laura Rizzotto 1994 Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- Michael Czerny 1946 Canadian Jesuit and Catholic cardinal
- Franca Rame 1929 Italian theatre actress and playwright
- Ryōko Hirosue 1980 Japanese actress
- Hadia Tajik 1983 Norwegian politician
- Lee Arenberg 1962 American actor
- Dan O'Brien 1966 American athlete
- Joshua Fishman 1926 American linguist
- Clifford Odets 1906 American playwright, screenwriter, and actor
- Amar Osim 1967 Bosnian footballer
- Elin Pelin 1877 Bulgarian writer
- Víctor Manuel Fernández 1962 Cardinal Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
- Esther Vergeer 1981 Dutch wheelchair tennis player
- Axel Honneth 1949 German philosopher
- Vladimir Medinsky 1970 Russian politician
- Carlos Diogo 1983 Uruguayan footballer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on July 18 share the 18th of July as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.