Famous birthdays
Famous people born on July 26
Short answer
Well-known people born on July 26 include George Bernard Shaw (1856), Stanley Kubrick (1928), Aldous Huxley (1894) and Sandra Bullock (1964). Our list below has 91 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives July 26 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1727 (Horatio Gates) and the most recent is 2005 (Angelina Topić). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, singer.
Who was born on July 26?
- George Bernard Shaw 1856 Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist
- Stanley Kubrick 1928 American filmmaker
- Aldous Huxley 1894 Viva el completo
- Sandra Bullock 1964 American actress and film producer
- Liz Truss 1975 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2022
- Jacinda Ardern 1980 Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Helen Mirren 1945 British actress
- Mick Jagger 1943 British singer and songwriter; vocalist of The Rolling Stones
- Jason Statham 1967 English actor
- Asif Ali Zardari 1955 President of Pakistan (2008–2013; since 2024)
- Kevin Spacey 1959 American actor
- Francesco Cossiga 1928 8th President of Italy
- Kate Beckinsale 1973 English actress
- John Howard 1939 Prime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007
- Thaksin Shinawatra 1949 Prime Minister of Thailand form 2001 to 2006
- André Maurois 1885 French author
- Alfred Marshall 1842 British economist
- Taylor Momsen 1993 American actress, singer and model
- Roger Taylor 1949 English musician, drummer of Queen
- Antonio Machado 1875 Spanish poet and essayist
- George Grosz 1893 German artist
- Auguste Beernaert 1829 Belgian prime minister and human rights activist
- Maicon 1981 Brazilian football player
- James Lovelock 1919 English scientist
- Ferdinand Tönnies 1855 German sociologist, economist and philosopher
- Edmund Phelps 1933 American economist
- George Clinton 1739 Vice president of the United States of America from 1805 to 1812
- Jason Robards 1922 American actor
- Gaël Clichy 1985 French footballer and manager
- Philipp Scheidemann 1865 German politician
- Elizabeth Gillies 1993 American actress and singer
- Felix Magath 1953 German association football player and manager
- Olivia Williams 1968 British actress
- Hiroshi Soejima 1959 Japanese association football player and manager
- Vladimír Mečiar 1942 Prime Minister of Slovakia (1990–1991; 1992–1994; 1994–1998)
- Oleksandr Syrskyi 1965 Ukrainian general
- Morgan Rogers 2002 English association football player
- Koya Kitagawa 1996 Japanese association football player
- Joel Mokyr 1946 American-Israeli economic historian
- Diego Perotti 1988 Argentine association football player
- David Heyman 1961 British film producer
- Lasha Bekauri 2000 Georgian judoka
- Joe Jackson (talent manager) 1928 American music manager, father of the Jackson family
- John Field 1782 Irish pianist, composer, and teacher
- Chairil Anwar 1922 Indonesian poet
- Jeremy Piven 1965 American actor
- Sergei Kirienko 1962 Russian politician
- Vitas Gerulaitis 1954 American tennis player
- Panagiotis Pikrammenos 1945 Greek judge and Acting prime minister of Greece from 16 May to 20 June 2012
- Angelo Di Livio 1966 Italian association football player
- Andrei Okounkov 1969 Russian mathematician
- Gracie Allen 1895 American actress and entertainer
- Nana Visitor 1957 American actress
- Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart 1791 Austrian composer, teacher and performer; youngest son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Telê Santana 1931 Brazilian footballer and manager
- Lenka Kotková 1973 Czech astronomer, asteroid discoverer
- Umberto Caligaris 1901 Italian footballer
- Amedeo Amadei 1921 Italian footballer
- Takeshi Motoyoshi 1967 Japanese association football player
- Galina Chistyakova 1962 Soviet long jumper and triple jumper
- William Shepherd 1949 American astronaut
- Markwayne Mullin 1977 American politician
- Martin Laursen 1977 Danish footballer
- Yuen Biao 1957 Hong Kong actor, stuntman and martial artist
- Serge Koussevitzky 1874 Russian and American conductor, composer, and double-bassist
- Dorothy Hamill 1956 American figure skater
- Leonardo Ulloa 1986 Argentine association football player
- Jean-Luc Nancy 1940 French philosopher
- Marcel Jouhandeau 1888 French writer
- Panagiotis Kone 1987 Greek footballer
- Peter Brown 1935 Irish historian
- Pável Pardo 1976 Mexican footballer
- Thomasin McKenzie 2000 New Zealand actress
- Guro Reiten 1994 Norwegian association football player
- Angelina Topić 2005 Serbian high jumper
- Andy Goldsworthy 1956 British sculptor and photographer
- Louise Lake-Tack 1944 Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda
- Takashi Ono 1931 Japanese artistic gymnast
- Vítor Pereira 1968 Portuguese football manager
- Mariano Arista 1802 President of Mexico
- Sabri Sarıoğlu 1984 Turkish association football player
- James Stafford 1932 American Catholic cardinal
- Horatio Gates 1727 American general in the American Revolutionary War
- Jesse Lauriston Livermore 1877 American stock trader
- Jagdish Bhagwati 1934 Economist
- Susan George 1950 English actress
- Stormzy 1993 English-Ghanaian rapper
- Michael Ben David 1996 Israeli singer
- Shunroku Hata 1879 Japanese general
- Robert Remak 1815 Polish/German embryologist, physiologist, and neurologist
- Zara 1983 Russian actress and 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 26 share the 26th of July as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.