Famous birthdays
Famous people born on October 26
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 26 include François Mitterrand (1916), Evo Morales (1959), Mohammad Reza I of Iran (1919) and Bob Hoskins (1942). Our list below has 82 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 26 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1685 (Domenico Scarlatti) and the most recent is 2004 (Patrick Dorgu). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, singer.
Who was born on October 26?
- François Mitterrand 1916 21st President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995
- Evo Morales 1959 President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019
- Mohammad Reza I of Iran 1919 Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979
- Bob Hoskins 1942 English actor
- Seth MacFarlane 1973 American writer, actor, and producer
- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder 1800 German Field Marshal
- Domenico Scarlatti 1685 Italian composer, son of Alessandro Scarlatti
- Uhuru Kenyatta 1961 4th President of Republic of Kenya
- Vasily Vereshchagin 1842 Russian painter
- Mahalia Jackson 1911 American gospel singer
- Karin Boye 1900 Swedish poet and novelist
- CM Punk 1978 American professional wrestler, actor, and retired mixed martial artist
- Raveena Tandon 1974 Indian actress
- Lars Peter Hansen 1952 American economist
- Zlatko Dalić 1966 Croatian association football player and coach
- Cristian Chivu 1980 Romanian association football player
- Adriano Correia Claro 1984 Brazilian association football player
- Asin 1985 Indian actress
- Rita Wilson 1956 American actress, singer and producer
- Miguel I of Portugal 1802 King of Portugal from 1828 to 1834
- Jefferson Farfán 1984 Peruvian association football player
- Cary Elwes 1962 British actor
- Don Siegel 1912 American film director
- Washington Luís 1869 President of Brazil from 1926 to 1930
- Dmitri Sychev 1983 Russian footballer
- Jackie Coogan 1914 American actor
- Hilma af Klint 1862 Swedish artist
- Dylan McDermott 1961 American actor
- Rosemarie DeWitt 1971 American actress
- Eva Kaili 1978 Greek politician and newscaster
- Julian Schnabel 1951 American painter and filmmaker
- Ashraf Pahlavi 1919 Iranian royal
- Michiko Matsuda 1966 Japanese association football player
- Jaclyn Smith 1945 American actress
- Sasha Cohen 1984 American figure skater
- Guy Sebastian 1981 Australian singer-songwriter
- Shiing-Shen Chern 1911 Chinese-American mathematician and poet
- Robert Jarni 1968 Croatian footballer and manager
- Andrea Bargnani 1985 Italian basketball player
- Giuseppe Zanardelli 1826 Prime Minister of Italy
- Sarina Wiegman 1969 Dutch footballer and manager
- Carlos Agostinho do Rosário 1954 Prime Minister of Mozambique
- Keith Urban 1967 Australian-American musician
- Ferdinand Georg Frobenius 1849 German mathematician
- Thorvald Stauning 1873 Prime Minister of Denmark
- Takashi Sekizuka 1960 Japanese association football player and manager
- Patrick Dorgu 2004 Danish association football player
- Ibrahim Abboud 1900 Sudanese politician and head of state
- Mike Godwin 1956 American attorney and author
- Edward Brooke 1919 American politician from Massachusetts
- Milton Nascimento 1942 Brazilian singer-songwriter and musician
- Miloš Crnjanski 1893 Expressionist modernist poet, author, and diplomat from Austria-Hungary
- Sota Nakazawa 1982 Japanese association football player
- Abbas al-Musawi 1952 Lebanese Shia cleric and co-founder and Secretary General of Hezbollah
- Blas Cantó 1991 Spanish singer
- Florence Kasumba 1976 Ugandan-German actress
- Benjamin Guggenheim 1865 American businessman
- Aaron Kwok 1965 Hong Kong singer and actor
- Erik Jendrišek 1986 Slovak footballer
- James Pickens Jr. 1954 American actor
- Amala Paul 1991 Indian actress
- Henri Saivet 1990 Senegalese footballer
- Anthony Rapp 1971 American actor and singer
- Ignacy Daszyński 1866 Polish politician
- Alexander Guchkov 1862 Russian politician
- Stephen Robinson 1955 American astronaut
- Amy Chua 1962 American law professor and writer
- Beryl Clutterbuck Markham 1902 British writer, aviator, adventurer, racehorse trainer
- Martin Lowry 1874 English chemist
- Jon Heder 1977 American actor
- Monta Ellis 1985 American basketball player
- Schoolboy Q 1986 American rapper
- Tom Cavanagh 1963 Canadian actor
- Harald Nielsen 1941 Danish footballer
- Dwight Lodeweges 1957 Dutch association football player and manager
- Jan Wolkers 1925 Dutch sculptor and writer
- Soko 1985 French singer
- Luigi Carlo Borromeo 1893 Italian bishop
- Satoshi Horinouchi 1979 Japanese association football player
- Iwakura Tomomi 1825 Japanese politician
- Elisabeta Lipă 1964 Romanian rower
- Baltasar Garzón 1955 Spanish former judge
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 26 share the 26th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.