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Famous people born on May 26

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Well-known people born on May 26 include John Wayne (1907), Isadora Duncana (1877), Miles Davis (1926) and Sally Ride (1951). Our list below has 85 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 26 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1602 (Philippe de Champaigne) and the most recent is 2007 (Marc Bernal). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.

Who was born on May 26?

  1. John Wayne 1907 American actor
  2. Isadora Duncana 1877 American dancer and choreographer
  3. Miles Davis 1926 American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer
  4. Sally Ride 1951 American astronaut and physicist
  5. Helena Bonham Carter 1966 British actress
  6. Jeremy Corbyn 1949 British politician, leader of the Labour Party 2015 to 2020
  7. Frederik X of Denmark 1968 King of Denmark since 2024
  8. Lenny Kravitz 1964 American guitarist and singer
  9. János Kádár 1912 Former General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
  10. Mary of Teck 1867 Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936
  11. Stevie Nicks 1948 American singer and songwriter born 1948
  12. Abraham de Moivre 1667 French mathematician (*1667 – †1754)
  13. Luca Toni 1977 Italian association football player
  14. Lauryn Hill 1975 American singer and rapper
  15. Peter Cushing 1913 British actor
  16. Juan Cuadrado 1988 Colombian footballer
  17. Peggy Lee 1920 American singer
  18. Edmond de Goncourt 1822 French writer and critic
  19. Matt Stone 1971 American actor, animator and filmmaker
  20. William Petty 1623 English scientist, philosopher, statistician and economist
  21. Paul Lukas 1894 Hungarian-American actor
  22. Hiroshi Saeki 1936 Japanese association football player
  23. Kenji Tochio 1941 Japanese association football player
  24. Pam Grier 1949 American actress
  25. Matt Busby 1909 Scottish football player and manager
  26. Jack Kevorkian 1928 American pathologist, euthanasia activist
  27. Adolfo López Mateos 1910 55th President of Mexico
  28. Philippe de Champaigne 1602 French painter
  29. Al Jolson 1886 American entertainer, actor, and singer
  30. Nicolaus Zinzendorf 1700 German protestant religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church
  31. Astrid Berges-Frisbey 1986 Spanish-French actress
  32. Demy de Zeeuw 1983 Dutch association football player
  33. Alex Garland 1970 British writer, scriptwriter and film director
  34. Adolfo de la Huerta 1881 President of Mexico
  35. Vítězslav Nezval 1900 Czech poet, writer and translator
  36. Luís Neto 1988 Portuguese association football player
  37. Răzvan Raț 1981 Romanian footballer
  38. Bobcat Goldthwait 1962 American comedian, actor, film director and screenwriter
  39. Kwasi Kwarteng 1975 British politician
  40. Aldrich Ames 1941 CIA analyst and Soviet spy
  41. David Kabua 1951 Marshallese politician and government minister
  42. Lyudmila Petrushevskaya 1938 Russian writer
  43. Shunta Tanaka 1997 Japanese association football player
  44. Tomáš Pekhart 1989 Czech association football player
  45. Pieter Boddaert 1730 Dutch physician and naturalist
  46. Sadao Araki 1877 Japanese officer and general
  47. Tooji 1987 Norwegian singer
  48. Andris Kulbergs 1979 Prime Minister of Latvia since 2026
  49. Yuri Lodygin 1990 Russian-Greek association football player
  50. Lindsey Heaps 1994 American soccer player
  51. Robert Morley 1908 British actor
  52. Black 1962 English pop singer
  53. Hwang Dong-hyeok 1971 South Korean film director and screenwriter
  54. Mehmet Okur 1979 Turkish basketball player
  55. James Arness 1923 American actor
  56. Alan Hollinghurst 1954 English writer, translator and poet
  57. Prince Alois II, Prince of Liechtenstein 1796 Prince of Liechtenstein
  58. Levon Helm 1940 American musician
  59. Franco Cervi 1994 Argentine footballer
  60. Dani Stevens 1988 Australian discus thrower
  61. Alaa Al Aswany 1957 Egyptian writer
  62. Henri Farman 1874 French pilot, aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer
  63. Arsen Zakharyan 2003 Russian association football player
  64. Nicki Aycox 1975 American actress
  65. Muhammed Faris Al-Aqidi 1951 Syrian cosmonaut
  66. Halil İnalcık 1916 Turkish historian
  67. Doug Hutchison 1960 American actor
  68. Elisabeth Harnois 1979 American actress
  69. Margaret Colin 1958 American actress
  70. Alexander Prass 2001 Austrian association football player
  71. Pierre Daninos 1913 French writer and humorist
  72. Heinrich Geißler 1814 Physicist
  73. Natalya Gorbanevskaya 1936 Russian poet, translator, and civil rights activist
  74. Zola Budd 1966 South African competitive runner
  75. Marc Bernal 2007 Spanish footballer
  76. Zećira Mušović 1996 Swedish association football player
  77. Necip Fazıl Kısakürek 1904 Turkish novelist, playwright, and Islamist conspiracy theorist
  78. Philip Michael Thomas 1949 American actor
  79. Ulrike Lunacek 1957 Austrian politician
  80. Camille Huysmans 1871 Belgian former prime minister
  81. Richard Christopher Carrington 1826 British astronomer
  82. Tarsem Singh 1961 Indian film director
  83. Nobuhiro Watsuki 1970 Japanese manga artist
  84. Romas Ubartas 1960 Lithuanian discus thrower
  85. Seni Pramoj 1905 Thai politician

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 26 share the 26th of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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