Famous birthdays
Famous people born on July 20
Short answer
Well-known people born on July 20 include Edmund Hillary (1919), Gregor Mendel (1822), Gisele Bündchen (1980) and Carlos Alazraqui (1962). Our list below has 90 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives July 20 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1656 (Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach) and the most recent is 2001 (Álex Baena). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, actor.
Who was born on July 20?
- Edmund Hillary 1919 New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist
- Gregor Mendel 1822 Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar
- Gisele Bündchen 1980 Brazilian fashion model
- Carlos Alazraqui 1962 American actor
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt 1864 Swedish poet
- Mahmud II 1785 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Haakon VIII of Norway 1973 King of Norway since 2026
- Natalie Wood 1938 American actress
- Frantz Fanon 1925 French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher
- Gerd Binnig 1947 German physicist
- Cormac McCarthy 1933 American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
- Diana Rigg 1938 English actress
- Richard Owen 1804 English biologist and paleontologist
- Jacques Delors 1925 French economist and politician
- Chris Cornell 1964 American musician
- Lucas Digne 1993 French footballer
- Alberto Santos-Dumont 1873 Brazilian aviation pioneer
- Alessandro Santos 1977 Brazilian-Japanese association football player
- Nguyễn Xuân Phúc 1954 Former President of Vietnam
- Max Liebermann 1847 German painter
- Sandra Oh 1971 Canadian and American actress
- Josh Holloway 1969 American actor
- László Moholy-Nagy 1895 Hungarian artist
- Ray Allen 1975 American basketball player
- Giorgi Kvirikashvili 1967 Georgian politician
- Monkhaen Kaenkoon 1973 Thai male singer
- Mamadou Tandja 1938 President of Niger from 1999 to 2010
- Thomas Friedman 1953 American journalist and author
- Auguste de Marmont 1774 French General, nobleman and Marshal of France
- Naseeruddin Shah 1950 Indian actor and director
- Álex Baena 2001 Spanish footballer
- Omar Epps 1973 American actor and musician
- Yuri Gazinskiy 1989 Russian footballer
- Judy Greer 1975 American actress
- Htin Kyaw 1946 Burmese politician and scholar serving as the 9th President of Myanmar
- Miklós Fehér 1979 Hungarian footballer
- Giorgio Morandi 1890 Italian painter and printmaker
- Roger Hunt 1938 English associsation football player
- Wendie Renard 1990 French footballer
- Judy Chicago 1939 American artist, author, and teacher
- Waldemar Anton 1996 German-Uzbek footballer
- Keigo Higashi 1990 Japanese association football player
- Kim Carnes 1945 American singer and songwriter
- Pavel Kohout 1928 Czech poet, playwright, exil writer, film director, politic writer and bookwriter
- Billy Mays 1958 European-American salesperson
- Egidio Miragoli 1955 Italian Roman Catholic bishop
- John Francis Daley 1985 American actor and director
- Kanako Ito 1983 Japanese association football player
- Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach 1656 Sculptor and architect from Austria
- Lyudmila Alexeyeva 1927 Soviet-Russian human rights activist
- Yevhen Seleznyov 1985 Ukrainian footballer
- Julianne Hough 1988 American dancer, choreographer, actress, singer, and songwriter
- Nam June Paik 1932 American video art pioneer
- Simin Behbahani 1927 Iranian poet
- Pop Smoke 1999 American rapper
- Antoine Destutt de Tracy 1754 French philosopher
- Simon Rex 1974 American actor
- Claudio Reyna 1973 American soccer player
- Alycia Debnam-Carey 1993 Australian actress and model
- José Félix Uriburu 1868 Former de facto President of Argentina
- Tatyana Lioznova 1924 Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter
- Ben Simmons 1996 Australian basketball player
- Steven Adams 1993 New Zealand basketball player
- Peter Forsberg 1973 Swedish ice hockey player
- Barbara Mikulski 1936 American politician
- Wendell Nascimento Borges 1993 Brazilian footballer
- Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin 1766 British nobleman and diplomat
- Gracy Singh 1980 Indian actress
- Saginaw Grant 1936 Native American actor, dancer, motivational speaker
- Heidi Weng 1991 Norwegian cross-country skier and fell runner
- Giovanna Amati 1959 Racecar driver
- Prvoslav Vujcic 1960 Serbian Canadian poet
- Vladimir Lyakhov 1941 Soviet cosmonaut
- Aimee Mullins 1975 American athlete, actress, and fashion model
- Larry Craig 1945 American politician
- Roberto Orci 1973 American screenwriter producer (1973—2025)
- Chris Amon 1943 New Zealand racing driver
- Niall McGinn 1987 Northern Irish footballer
- Paula Ivan 1963 Romanian athlete
- Pavel Datsyuk 1978 Russian ice hockey player
- Artur Taymazov 1979 Uzbek-Russian wrestler and politician
- Solly March 1994 English association footballer
- Alex Yoong 1976 Malaysian racing driver
- Mima Jaušovec 1956 Yugoslavian tennis player
- Verna Felton 1890 American actress
- Chuck Daly 1930 American basketball coach
- Stone Gossard 1966 American guitarist
- Adam Maher 1993 Dutch association football player
- Bernd Schneider 1964 German racing driver
- Debrah Scarlett 1993 Norwegian-Swiss singer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on July 20 share the 20th of July as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.