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Famous people born on October 28
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 28 include Bill Gates (1955), Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956), Julia Roberts (1967) and Joaquin Phoenix (1974). Our list below has 92 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 28 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1585 (Cornelius Jansen) and the most recent is 1998 (Francis Uzoho). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, actor.
Who was born on October 28?
- Bill Gates 1955 American businessman, investor, and philanthropist
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 1956 6th President of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 2005 to 2013
- Julia Roberts 1967 American actress
- Joaquin Phoenix 1974 American actor
- Jonas Salk 1914 Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine
- Garrincha 1933 Brazilian association football player
- Evelyn Waugh 1903 British writer and journalist
- Eros Ramazzotti 1963 Italian musician
- Francis Bacon 1909 Irish-born British figurative painter
- Matt Smith 1982 English actor
- Caitlyn Jenner 1949 American media personality and retired decathlete
- Milan Baroš 1981 Czech association football player
- Richard Laurence Millington Synge 1914 British biochemist
- Bernie Ecclestone 1930 British business magnate
- Juan Orlando Hernández 1968 President of Honduras from 2014 to 2022
- Obafemi Martins 1984 Nigerian footballer
- Gwendoline Christie 1978 British actress
- Elsa Lanchester 1902 British-American actress
- Coluche 1944 French comedian and actor
- Joan Plowright 1929 British actress
- Jawed Karim 1979 American entrepreneur, co-founder of YouTube
- Camille Muffat 1989 French swimmer
- Ramón María del Valle-Inclán 1866 Spanish author
- Lauren Holly 1963 American actress
- Jane Alexander 1939 American actress
- Wim Jansen 1946 Dutch association football player and manager
- Auguste Escoffier 1846 French chef and culinary writer
- Maurice de Saxe 1696 Marshal General of France
- Sister Nivedita 1867 Scots-Irish social worker, author, teacher and disciple of Swami Vivekananda
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu 1837 15th and last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate
- Troian Bellisario 1985 American actress
- Marcos Acuña 1991 Argentine association football player
- Alan Smith 1980 English footballer, born 1980
- Arturo Frondizi 1908 President of Argentina
- Per Albin Hansson 1885 Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden between 1932–1936 and 1936–1946
- Dmytro Bortnianskyi 1751 Ukrainian-born Russian Classical composer and conductor
- Lenny Wilkens 1937 American basketball player and coach
- James Connolly 1868 American triple jumper
- Cornelius Jansen 1585 Bishop and theologian
- Taiyo Koga 1998 Japanese association football player
- Lucy Bronze 1991 English footballer
- Jean-Marie Guyau 1854 French writer and philosopher
- Aditi Rao Hydari 1986 Indian actress
- Maria Anna of Neuburg 1667 Queen consort of Spain
- Nolan Gould 1998 American actor
- Andy Richter 1966 American actor and comedian
- Brad Paisley 1972 American country musician
- Finn Wittrock 1984 American actor
- Annie Potts 1952 American actress
- Edith Head 1897 American film and television costumer
- Ben Harper 1969 American singer-songwriter and musician
- Bernadette Lafont 1938 French actress
- Henri Michel 1947 French football player and manager
- Agnes Obel 1980 Danish singer, composer, and pianist
- Volodymyr Ivashko 1932 Ukrainian politician
- Taylor Fritz 1997 American tennis player
- Mark Haddon 1962 English writer and illustrator
- Youssef Msakni 1990 Tunisian association football player
- Daphne Zuniga 1962 American actress
- Montel Vontavious Porter 1973 American professional wrestler
- John Romero 1967 American video game designer
- Francis Uzoho 1998 Nigerian association football player
- Spiros Cyprianou 1932 2nd President of the Republic of Cyprus
- Chris Bauer 1966 American actor
- Dennis Franz 1944 American actor
- Jami Gertz 1965 American actress
- Desmond Child 1953 American songwriter and producer
- Bernhard Wicki 1919 Austrian actor and film director
- Nadzeya Ostapchuk 1980 Belarusian shot putter
- Anne Perry 1938 English author
- Glen Kamara 1995 Finnish association football player
- Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch 1867 German philosopher and biologist
- Florence Arthaud 1957 French sailor
- Giulio Angioni 1939 Italian anthropologist and writer
- Ion Mihai Pacepa 1928 Romanian general
- Ahmet Kaya 1957 Turkish-Kurdish singer
- Sierra McCormick 1997 American actress and model
- David Foenkinos 1974 French author
- So Fujitani 1997 Japanese association football player
- Nelly Ciobanu 1974 Moldovan singer
- Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein 1967 Wife of Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein; eldest daughter of Prince Max, Duke…
- Oksana Markarova 1976 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States
- Charlie Daniels 1936 American singer and musician
- Volker Zotz 1956 Austrian religious studies scholar
- Franky Vercauteren 1956 Belgian footballer
- Dušan Simović 1882 First Prime Minister of Yugoslavia in exile
- Quatremère de Quincy 1755 French archaeologist, architect and writer
- Warren Barguil 1991 French cyclist
- August Batsch 1761 German naturalist
- Abdulaziz Hatem 1990 Qatari association football player
- Marie of Hesse-Kassel 1767 Queen consort of Denmark and Norway
- Taras Mykhalyk 1983 Ukrainian footballer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 28 share the 28th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.