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Famous people born on March 26
Short answer
Well-known people born on March 26 include Richard Dawkins (1941), Nancy Pelosi (1940), Keira Knightley (1985) and Larry Page (1973). Our list below has 117 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives March 26 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1633 (Mary Beale) and the most recent is 2004 (Lesley Ugochukwu). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on March 26?
- Richard Dawkins 1941 English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
- Nancy Pelosi 1940 American politician
- Keira Knightley 1985 British actress
- Larry Page 1973 American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur
- Syngman Rhee 1875 President of South Korea from 1948 to 1960
- Diana Ross 1944 American singer and actress
- Paul Erdős 1913 Hungarian mathematician
- Leonard Nimoy 1931 American actor
- Alan Arkin 1934 American actor, filmmaker
- James Caan 1940 American actor
- Anthony James Leggett 1938 British physicist
- Mikel Arteta 1982 Spanish football manager
- Steven Tyler 1948 American singer
- Patrick Süskind 1949 German writer and screenwriter
- Joseph Campbell 1904 American mythologist, writer and lecturer
- Carl Wieman 1951 Nobel prize winning US physicist
- Erica Jong 1942 American novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
- Alar Karis 1958 Estonian molecular geneticist and President of Estonia
- Pierre Boulez 1925 French composer, conductor and writer
- Christian B. Anfinsen 1916 American biochemist
- Bernard Katz 1911 German-British biophysicist
- Martin Short 1950 Canadian comedian and actor
- Bob Woodward 1943 American investigative journalist
- Simon Kjær 1989 Danish footballer
- Sandra Day O'Connor 1930 American lawyer and jurist
- Leslie Mann 1972 American actress
- Alan Silvestri 1950 American composer, conductor, orchestrator and music producer
- Gary Ruvkun 1952 American geneticist
- Palmiro Togliatti 1893 Former leader of the Italian Communist Party
- Catherine Keener 1959 American actress
- John Stockton 1962 American basketball player
- Fuad I of Egypt 1868 Egyptian former King and former Sultan
- Subhash Kak 1947 Indian computer scientist
- Morgan De Sanctis 1977 Italian association football player
- Martin McDonagh 1970 British-Irish filmmaker and playwright
- John Langshaw Austin 1911 English philosopher
- Karina Maruyama 1983 Japanese tarento and footballer
- Edward Bellamy 1850 American author and socialist
- Tinto Brass 1933 Italian film director
- Takashi Kasahara 1918 Japanese association football player
- Amy Smart 1976 American actress
- Benjamin Thompson 1753 American-born British physicist and inventor
- Romain Saïss 1990 Moroccan association football player
- Sterling Hayden 1916 American actor
- William Hague 1961 British politician
- William Westmoreland 1914 United States Army general
- Sarah Mullally 1962 106th archbishop of Canterbury
- Elaine Chao 1953 18th United States Secretary of Transportation and 24th United States Secretary of Labor
- Michael Imperioli 1966 American actor
- Jonathan Groff 1985 American actor and singer
- Almir de Souza Fraga 1969 Brazilian association football player
- Alfred Edward Housman 1859 British classical scholar and poet
- Rudolf Dassler 1898 German businessman
- Shirin Neshat 1957 Iranian artist, film director, and photographer
- Koji Miyoshi 1997 Japanese footballer
- Călin Georgescu 1962 Romanian politician
- Stoffel Vandoorne 1992 Belgian racing driver
- Michel Bréal 1832 French philologist
- Mahadevi Varma 1907 Indian Hindi writer and poet
- Jennifer Grey 1960 American actress
- Francis Lawrence 1971 American director
- Rudolf Erich Raspe 1736 German author and scientist
- David Amess 1952 British politician
- Shiho Tomari 1990 Japanese association football player
- Xiumin 1990 South Korean singer
- Nurgül Yeşilçay 1976 Turkish actor
- Franz Stangl 1908 Austrian-born SS officer, commandant at first Sobibór extermination camp and then…
- Jay Sean 1981 British singer, rapper and songwriter
- Yui 1987 Japanese singer-songwriter
- Emilio Fernández 1904 Mexican film director and actor
- William, Prince of Albania 1876 Prince of Albania
- T. R. Knight 1973 American actor
- Jon Meade Huntsman Jr. 1960 American politician, businessman and diplomat
- Benoît Badiashile 2001 French footballer
- Guccio Gucci 1881 Italian businessman and fashion designer, founder of Gucci
- Gregory Corso 1930 American writer
- Khéphren Thuram 2001 French association football player
- Andreas Hinkel 1982 German association football player
- Margareta of Romania 1949 Head of the House of Romania (2017 - present)
- Prakash Raj 1965 Indian film actor, director, producer, and television presenter
- Elio de Angelis 1958 Italian racing driver
- Lella Lombardi 1941 Italian racing driver, female F1 driver
- Héctor José Cámpora 1909 President of Argentina from May to July 1973
- Jonathan Glazer 1965 British film director
- Michael Olunga 1994 Kenyan association football player
- Steven Fletcher 1987 Scottish association football player
- Lincoln Chafee 1953 American politician and former United States Senator from Rhode Island
- Rennae Stubbs 1971 Australian tennis player
- Didier Pironi 1952 French racing driver
- Max Abraham 1875 German physicist
- Attilio Ferraris 1904 Italian footballer
- Arkady Dvorkovich 1972 Russian economist
- Teddy Pendergrass 1950 American singer
- Juliana Paes 1979 Brazilian actress
- Prince George, Duke of Cambridge 1819 British prince and military commander
- Nina Agdal 1992 Danish model
- Kevin Davies 1977 English association football player and manager
- Stéphane Séjourné 1985 French politician
- Jonida Maliqi 1983 Albanian singer
- James Bryant Conant 1893 American chemist
- Bhad Bhabie 2003 American rapper
- George Smith 1840 English Assyriologist
- Mary Beale 1633 English painter
- Adolf Hurwitz 1859 German mathematician
- Andrey Lavrov 1962 Soviet handball player
- Sarah Menezes 1990 Brazilian judoka
- Jonathan Bamba 1996 French-Ivorian footballer
- Park Won-soon 1956 Korean lawyer, Mayor of Seoul
- Ahmed Qurei 1937 Prime Minister of Palestine
- Carly Chaikin 1990 American actress
- Kenny Chesney 1968 American country musician
- Óscar Sonejee 1976 Andorran footballer
- Pierre Womé 1979 Cameroonian footballer
- Lesley Ugochukwu 2004 French footballer
- Wilhelm Backhaus 1884 German pianist
- Ali Olwan 2000 Jordanian footballer
- Ivica Kralj 1973 Montenegrin footballer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on March 26 share the 26th of March as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.