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Famous people born on March 18
Short answer
Well-known people born on March 18 include Neville Chamberlain (1869), Rudolf Diesel (1858), F. W. de Klerk (1936) and John Updike (1932). Our list below has 101 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives March 18 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1640 (Philippe de La Hire) and the most recent is 1999 (Diogo Dalot). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, singer.
Who was born on March 18?
- Neville Chamberlain 1869 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940
- Rudolf Diesel 1858 German inventor and mechanical engineer
- F. W. de Klerk 1936 7th state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994
- John Updike 1932 American novelist, poet
- Salome Zourabichvili 1952 Georgian politician and former French diplomat, fifth President of Georgia
- Stéphane Mallarmé 1842 French Symbolist poet
- Luc Besson 1959 French filmmaker
- Lily Collins 1989 British-American actress
- Nikolai Berdyaev 1874 Russian philosopher
- John C. Calhoun 1782 Vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832
- Adam Levine 1979 American singer
- Fidel Ramos 1928 President of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998
- Queen Latifah 1970 American rapper, singer and actress
- Randal Cremer 1828 English politician
- Christa Wolf 1929 German novelist and essayist
- Friedrich Hebbel 1813 German poet and dramatist
- Radveda Poklonskaya 1980 Russian lawyer, politician and diplomat
- Brad Dourif 1950 American actor
- Vanessa Williams 1963 American actress, singer and former Miss America
- Galeazzo Ciano 1903 Italian noble, diplomat and politician
- Wilfred Owen 1893 English Skateboarder 1893-1918)
- Robert Donat 1905 English actor
- Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington 1673 Prime Minister of Great Britain
- Ingemar Stenmark 1956 Swedish alpine skier
- Vasyl Ivanchuk 1969 Ukrainian chess player
- Jimmy Morales 1969 Comedian and former President of Guatemala
- Shashi Kapoor 1938 Indian film actor and producer
- Diogo Dalot 1999 Portuguese footballer
- Timo Glock 1982 German racing driver
- Edgar Cayce 1877 Purported clairvoyant healer and psychic
- Fabian Cancellara 1981 Swiss cyclist
- Irene Cara 1959 American singer and actress
- René Clément 1913 French film director and screenwriter
- Willy Sagnol 1977 French football manager
- G. E. M. Anscombe 1919 British analytic philosopher
- IanisSigma (Sobă) 1907 First child of Josef Stalin
- Christian Goldbach 1690 German mathematician
- Mana Iwabuchi 1993 Japanese association football player
- Peter Graves 1926 American actor
- Gabriel Mercado 1987 Argentine association football player
- LP 1981 American-Italian musician
- Gordon Schildenfeld 1985 Croatian footballer
- Tom Starke 1981 German association football player
- Jakob Steiner 1796 Swiss mathematician
- Wilson Pickett 1941 American male singer and songwriter
- Bonnie Blair 1964 American speed skater
- Bremer 1997 Brazilian association football player
- Ron Atkinson 1939 English footballer, manager and commentator
- Tora Berger 1981 Norwegian biathlete
- Lykke Li 1986 Swedish singer
- Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll 1848 Viceregal consort of Canada
- Maximilian Mittelstädt 1997 German association football player
- Christer Fuglesang 1957 Swedish astronaut
- Giovanna Antonelli 1976 Brazilian actress
- Sébastien Frey 1980 French footballer
- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges 1830 French historian
- Werner Mölders 1913 German officer and fighter pilot during World War II
- Kurt Koffka 1886 German psychologist
- Lennart Carleson 1928 Swedish mathematician
- Madeline Carroll 1996 American actress
- Steve Kloves 1960 American screenwriter
- Sophia Myles 1980 English actress
- Megumi Ogawa 1980 Japanese association football player
- Marouf al-Bakhit 1947 Jordanian politician
- Ferjani Sassi 1992 Tunisian association football player
- Alex Higgins 1949 Northern Irish snooker player
- Jerry Cantrell 1966 American guitarist and singer
- Seymour Martin Lipset 1922 American sociologist
- Reince Priebus 1972 Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2011 to 2017
- Rebecca Soni 1987 American swimmer
- Danny Murphy 1977 English association football player
- Miltiadis Tentoglou 1998 Greek male long jumper
- Simone Padoin 1984 Italian association football player
- Danneel Ackles 1979 American actress
- Astolphe-Louis-Léonor de Custine, Marquis de Custine 1790 French aristocrat and writer
- Temur Ketsbaia 1968 Georgian footballer and manager
- Egon Bahr 1922 German politician (SPD)
- Bobby Solo 1945 Italian singer (1945)
- Rajeev Ram 1984 American tennis player
- Manly P. Hall 1901 Canadian writer and mystic
- Pierre-Hugues Herbert 1991 French tennis player
- Arnd Peiffer 1987 German biathlete
- Jamie-Lee Kriewitz 1998 German singer
- Alexei Yagudin 1980 Russian figure skater
- Arkady Babchenko 1977 Russian journalist
- Jang Na-ra 1981 South Korean singer and actress
- Åse Kleveland 1949 Swedish-Norwegian singer and politician
- Deborah Lipstadt 1947 American diplomat and Holocaust historian
- Orel Mangala 1998 Belgian association football player
- Stefanos Kapino 1994 Greek footballer
- Pierluigi Gollini 1995 Italian association football player
- Patrice Trovoada 1962 Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe
- Dane Cook 1972 American actor and comedian
- Philippe de La Hire 1640 French mathematician and astronomer
- Jaba Kankava 1986 Georgian footballer
- Sergio Pitol 1933 Mexican politician and writer
- Urassaya Sperbund 1993 Thai actress and model
- Eric W. Weisstein 1969 American mathematician
- Pai Chung-hsi 1893 Chinese military officer and politician
- Ratna Pathak 1963 Indian actress
- Gian Francesco Malipiero 1882 Italian composer of the 20th century
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on March 18 share the 18th of March as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.