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Famous people born on March 21
Short answer
Well-known people born on March 21 include Jair Bolsonaro (1955), Joseph Fourier (1768), Ronaldinho (1980) and Ayrton Senna (1960). Our list below has 96 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives March 21 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1626 (Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur) and the most recent is 2007 (Ethan Nwaneri). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, actor.
Who was born on March 21?
- Jair Bolsonaro 1955 38th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil
- Joseph Fourier 1768 French mathematician and physicist
- Ronaldinho 1980 Brazilian associaton fooball player
- Ayrton Senna 1960 Brazilian racing driver
- Gary Oldman 1958 British actor and filmmaker
- Sergey Lavrov 1950 Russian politician of Armenian origin, Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Antoine Griezmann 1991 French footballer
- Slavoj Žižek 1949 Slovenian philosopher
- Rani Mukerji 1978 Indian actress
- Ali Abdullah Saleh 1947 President of North Yemen and Yemen
- Lothar Matthäus 1961 German association football player, manager, and pundit
- Jordi Alba 1989 Spanish association football player
- Jean Paul 1763 German Romantic writer
- Ronald Koeman 1963 Dutch football coach and former football player
- Matthew Broderick 1962 American actor
- Hans-Dietrich Genscher 1927 German politician and member of the Free Democratic Party
- Walter Gilbert 1932 American biochemist
- Prayut Chanocha 1954 Prime Minister of Thailand from 2014 to 2023
- Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur 1626 Spanish missionary and saint
- Peter Brook 1925 English theatre and film director
- Éric Rohmer 1920 French film director
- Rosie O'Donnell 1962 American comedian, producer, actress, and television personality
- Ali Daei 1969 Iranian football player
- Nizar Qabbani 1923 Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher
- Karolína Plíšková 1992 Czech female tennis player
- Brian Clough 1935 English football player and manager
- Abdul Salam Arif 1921 Iraqi politician
- Marit Bjørgen 1980 Norwegian female cross-country skier
- Tini Stoessel 1997 Argentine singer and actress
- Moacir Rodrigues Santos 1970 Brazilian association football player
- Mark Williams 1975 Welsh snooker player
- Erich Mendelsohn 1887 Jewish-German architect
- Deryck Whibley 1980 Canadian rock musician
- Françoise Dorléac 1942 French actress
- Ghazi of Iraq 1912 King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq (ruled 1933-1939)
- Abdeljalil Hadda 1972 Moroccan association football player
- Scott Eastwood 1986 American actor
- Solomon Burke 1940 American singer
- Nico O'Reilly 2005 English footballer
- Ramin Rezaeian 1990 Iranian association football player
- Mohsen Fakhrizadeh 1961 Iranian general and physicist
- Nicolás Lodeiro 1989 Uruguayan association football player
- Fausto Cercignani 1941 Italian scholar, essayist and poet
- Kevin Federline 1978 American rapper and entertainer
- Fradique de Menezes 1942 São Tomé and Príncipe politician
- Jace Norman 2000 American actor
- Ethan Nwaneri 2007 English association football player
- Marie-Christine Barrault 1944 French actress
- Bismillah Khan 1916 Indian shehnai player
- Miguel Pérez Cuesta 1986 Spanish footballer
- Derartu Tulu 1972 Ethiopian athletics competitor
- Philippe Troussier 1955 French footballer and manager
- Alireza Faghani 1978 Iranian-born Australian football referee
- Sonequa Martin-Green 1985 American actress
- Raul Khadjimba 1958 Abkhazian politician
- Son House 1902 American blues singer and guitarist
- Wakatsuki Reijirō 1866 Japanese politician
- Theodore Nicholas Gill 1837 American biologist
- Jaye Davidson 1968 British-American actor
- Lee Cattermole 1988 English footballer
- Shobana 1966 Indian actress
- Nobuo Uematsu 1959 Japanese video game composer
- George David Birkhoff 1884 American mathematician
- Halton Arp 1927 Astronomer from the United States
- M. N. Roy 1887 Indian political activist and intellectual
- Nirmala Srivastava 1923 Indian spiritual teacher
- Jordi Amat 1992 Indonesian association football player
- Broncho Billy Anderson 1880 American actor, writer, film director, and film producer
- W. S. Van Dyke 1889 American film director
- Mateus Uribe 1991 Colombian association football player
- Léo Taxil 1854 French writer
- Lajos Tichy 1935 Hungarian footballer
- Antar Yahia 1982 Algerian and French footballer
- Walter Tewksbury 1876 Athletics competitor
- Samad Vurgun 1906 Azerbaijani-Soviet writer
- Nat Phillips 1997 English association football player
- Hernán Siles Zuazo 1914 President of Bolivia variously in the 20th century
- Surya Bahadur Thapa 1928 Prime Minister of Nepal
- Fabricio Oberto 1975 Argentinian basketball player
- Maria Theresa of Austria 1801 Austrian archduchess
- Michael Heseltine 1933 British Conservative politician, former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Bärbel Wöckel 1955 East German sprinter
- Marlies Göhr 1958 German athlete
- Suraj Sharma 1993 Indian actor
- Pinarayi Vijayan 1936 Indian politician and Former Chief Minister of Kerala
- Mohammad-Reza Golzar 1977 Iranian actor
- Luigi Tenco 1938 Italian recording artist; singer, songwriter
- Fred Akuffo 1937 Soldier, politician, former Chief of Defence Staff and head of state of Ghana
- Gonzalo Fierro 1983 Chilean footballer
- Carwyn Jones 1967 First Minister of Wales from 2009 to 2018
- Tom Leeb 1990 French actor, singer and comedian
- Alda Merini 1931 Italian writer and poet
- Benito Archundia 1966 Mexican football referee
- Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg 1889 Military leader, viceroy, Victoria Cross
- Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal 1887 Portuguese crown prince
- Mohamed Ennaceur 1934 Tunisian politician
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on March 21 share the 21st of March as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.