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Famous people born on July 21
Short answer
Well-known people born on July 21 include Ernest Hemingway (1899), Robin Williams (1951), Erling Haaland (2000) and Marshall McLuhan (1911). Our list below has 86 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives July 21 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1620 (Jean Picard) and the most recent is 2006 (Endrick). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, politician.
Who was born on July 21?
- Ernest Hemingway 1899 American author and journalist
- Robin Williams 1951 American actor and comedian
- Erling Haaland 2000 Norwegian footballer
- Marshall McLuhan 1911 Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar
- Stefan Löfven 1957 Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden between 2014–2021
- John Evans Atta Mills 1944 Sixth President of the Republic of Ghana
- Josh Hartnett 1978 American actor and producer
- Don Knotts 1924 American actor and stand-up comedian
- Rudolph A. Marcus 1923 Canadian-American chemist
- Beppe Grillo 1948 Italian comedian, actor, blogger, and politician
- Marcelo Bielsa 1955 Argentinian association football player and manager
- Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1693 Prime Minister of Great Britain
- Lovis Corinth 1858 German painter
- Hans Fallada 1893 German writer
- Béla Tarr 1955 Hungarian filmmaker and anarchist
- Juno Temple 1989 British actress
- Norman Jewison 1926 Canadian film director, producer and actor
- Jon Lovitz 1957 American actor and comedian
- Endrick 2006 Brazilian footballer
- Buchi Emecheta 1944 Nigerian writer
- elpisha 1981 Spanish footballer
- Frances Cleveland 1864 First Lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897
- Maria Christina of Austria 1858 Queen consort of Spain
- Milan Rastislav Štefánik 1880 Slovak politician, diplomat, French Army general and astronomer
- Sami Yusuf 1980 British musician
- Albert Edelfelt 1854 Finland Swedish painter and illustrator
- Andriy Voronin 1979 Ukrainian association football player and manager
- Sarah Waters 1966 Welsh novelist
- Justin Bartha 1978 American actor
- Michael Connelly 1956 American novelist, journalist, crime fiction writer, and screenwriter
- Hart Crane 1899 American writer
- Isaac Stern 1920 American musician
- Ubaldo Fillol 1950 Argentine association football player
- Henri Victor Regnault 1810 French physicist
- Chris Gunter 1989 Welsh association football player
- Janet Reno 1938 Former Attorney General of the United States
- Helmut Haller 1939 German footballer
- Tatyana Lebedeva 1976 Russian triple jumper and long jumper
- Ömer Toprak 1989 Turkish association football player
- Damian Marley 1978 Jamaican DJ, singer and rapper
- John Barrasso 1952 American physician and politician
- Paloma Faith 1981 British singer
- Catherine Ndereba 1972 Kenyan marathon runner and Olympic medalist
- Eduard Streltsov 1937 Soviet footballer
- Práxedes Mateo Sagasta 1825 Spanish politician
- Karel Reisz 1926 Czech-born British director, producer, film theorist, theatre director
- Rikako Kobayashi 1997 Japanese association football player
- Rory Culkin 1989 American actor
- Edward Herrmann 1943 American actor, director
- DeAndre Jordan 1988 American basketball player
- Jean Picard 1620 French astronomer
- Jens Weißflog 1964 German ski jumper
- Anthony Annan 1986 Ghanaian footballer
- David Dastmalchian 1975 American actor
- Eivør Pálsdóttir 1983 Faroese singer and songwriter
- Yaa Gyasi 1989 Ghanaian-American novelist
- Marco Fabián 1989 Mexican association football player
- Betty Gilpin 1986 American actress
- Jacques Feyder 1885 Belgian-French film director
- Jessica Barden 1992 British actress
- Jhonny Acosta 1983 Costa Rican association football player
- Jaime Murray 1976 English actress
- Mohammed Dib 1920 Algerian writer
- C. Aubrey Smith 1863 British actor
- Sara Seager 1971 Canadian astronomer and planetary scientist
- Liam Ridgewell 1984 English association football player
- Philippe Ariès 1914 French academic and historian
- Isabell Werth 1969 German equestrian
- Joseph Coutts 1945 Catholic archbishop
- Viggo Kampmann 1910 Danish politician
- Eduard Dietl 1890 German general
- Sara Sampaio 1991 Portuguese model and actress
- Diogo de Freitas do Amaral 1941 Portuguese politician
- Ester Peony 1993 Romanian singer and songwriter
- Ken Starr 1946 American judge and educational administrator
- Romeo Santos 1981 American singer
- Ákos Elek 1988 Hungarian association football player
- Antonina Krivoshapka 1987 Russian 400 metres sprinter
- John Negroponte 1939 American diplomat
- Jüri Tarmak 1946 Estonian athletics competitor
- Pedro Calungsod 1654 Filipino catechist, saint and martyr
- Sadaf Taherian 1988 Iranian actress and model
- Vahid Hashemian 1976 Iranian footballer
- Edwin Uehara 1969 Japanese association football player
- Victor Hănescu 1981 Romanian tennis player
- Tsering Woeser 1966 Tibetan activist, blogger, poet and essayist in China
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on July 21 share the 21st of July as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.