Famous birthdays
Famous people born on May 18
Short answer
Well-known people born on May 18 include John Paul II (1920), Bertrand Russell (1872), Nicholas II of Russia (1868) and Walter Gropius (1883). Our list below has 96 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 18 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1711 (Ruđer Josip Bošković) and the most recent is 2005 (Alexandria Villaseñor). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, writer.
Who was born on May 18?
- John Paul II 1920 264th pope of the Catholic Church
- Bertrand Russell 1872 British philosopher and logician
- Nicholas II of Russia 1868 14th and last Emperor of Russia
- Walter Gropius 1883 German-American architect
- Frank Capra 1897 Italian-born American film director
- Tina Fey 1970 American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and playwright
- Peter Grünberg 1939 German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
- Rudolf Carnap 1891 German philosopher and logician
- Margot Fonteyn 1919 British ballerina
- Oliver Heaviside 1850 Electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist
- Ricardo Carvalho 1978 Portuguese footballer
- Yuya Osako 1990 Japanese association football player
- Chow Yun-fat 1955 Hong Kong actor
- Delcy Rodriguez 1969 Acting President of Venezuela since 2026
- Ben Feringa 1951 Dutch Nobel laureate in chemistry
- Augusto César Sandino 1895 Nicaraguan revolutionary and guerrilla leader who led resistance to the United States…
- Ruđer Josip Bošković 1711 Croat physicist
- Vincent du Vigneaud 1901 American biochemist
- Perry Como 1912 American singer, actor, television personality
- Hermann Müller 1876 German politician
- Milivoje Novaković 1979 Slovenian association football player
- Yannick Noah 1960 French tennis player and pop singer
- Satoru Mochizuki 1964 Japanese association football player
- Jacques Santer 1937 Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 1984 to 1995
- Alina Zagitova 2002 Russian figure skater
- John Higgins 1975 Scottish snooker player
- Charles Trenet 1913 French singer-songwriter
- Sandra 1962 German singer
- Shivangi Joshi 1998 Indian actress
- Brad Friedel 1971 American soccer player and coach
- W. G. Sebald 1944 German writer and academic
- Jack Johnson 1975 American singer-songwriter
- Eurico Gaspar Dutra 1883 President of Brazil from 1946 to 1951
- Fred Perry 1909 English tennis player
- Eugénie Le Sommer 1989 French footballer
- Heinz-Harald Frentzen 1967 German racing driver
- George Strait 1952 American country music singer
- Richard Brooks 1912 American screenwriter, film director and producer
- Mariusz Lewandowski 1979 Polish footballer
- Kevin Anderson 1986 South African tennis player
- Ryan Sessegnon 2000 English association football player
- Friedrich August II of Saxony 1797 King of Saxony
- Mahamadou Diarra 1981 Malian footballer
- Miriam Margolyes 1941 British-Australian actress
- Nobby Stiles 1942 English footballer
- Nadine Koutcher 1983 Belarusian opera singer
- Michaël Llodra 1980 French tennis player
- Diego Pérez 1980 Uruguayan footballer
- Lusiana Lopilato 1987 Argentine actress and model
- Eric Gerets 1954 Belgian association football player and manager
- John Bruton 1947 Irish politician and prime minister
- Francesco Maria Piave 1810 Italian librettist
- Walter Sisulu 1912 South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress
- Nicolás Gómez Dávila 1913 Colombian writer and philosopher
- Rick Wakeman 1949 English keyboardist
- Michael Cretu 1957 Romanian–German musician, singer, songwriter, and producer
- Fernando Pacheco Flores 1992 Spanish footballer
- Thomas Midgley 1889 American chemist and engineer
- Mathew Benjamin Brady 1822 American photographer
- David Deutsch 1953 British physicist
- Hermann Diels 1848 German classical scholar
- Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria 1869 German general
- Alekseev 1993 Ukrainian singer
- Helton 1978 Brazilian footballer
- Stefan Ilsanker 1989 Former Austrian footballer
- Violett Beane 1996 American actress
- Bernadette Chirac 1933 French politician
- Luke Black 1992 Serbian singer-songwriter
- Jens Bergensten 1979 Swedish video game programmer
- Andreas Katsulas 1946 American actor
- Alexandria Villaseñor 2005 American climate activist
- Tom Udall 1948 American politician and diplomat
- Big Joe Turner 1911 American singer
- Gary O'Neil 1983 English association football manager
- Pierre Balmain 1914 French fashion designer
- Gunnar Gunnarsson 1889 Icelandic author
- Alejandro Rejón Huchin 1997 Mexican poet, cultural manager and researcher
- Ali Zafar 1980 Pakistani singer and film actor
- Kamil Kopúnek 1984 Slovak footballer
- Yaryna Chornohuz 1995 Ukrainian poet and medic
- Robert Morse 1931 American actor
- Spencer Breslin 1992 American actor and musician
- Niki Terpstra 1984 Dutch cyclist
- Karl Goldmark 1830 Hungarian-born Viennese composer
- Hugh Clapperton 1788 Royal Navy officer and explorer
- Taeyang 1988 South Korean singer, dancer, member of Big Bang
- Emma Navarro 2001 US American tennis player
- Jagdeep Dhankhar 1951 Vice President of India from 2022 to 2025
- Priscilla Pointer 1924 American actress
- Michael Rockefeller 1938 American anthropologist and art collector
- Conor Washington 1992 Association football player
- Ivet Lalova-Collio 1984 Bulgarian sprinter
- Danny Mills 1977 English footballer
- Jari Kurri 1960 Finnish ice hockey player
- Brian Idowu 1992 Footballer
- Vincent Jay 1985 French biathlete
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 18 share the 18th of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.