Famous birthdays
Famous people born on September 15
Short answer
Well-known people born on September 15 include Agatha Christie (1890), William Howard Taft (1857), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977). Our list below has 105 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives September 15 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1613 (François de La Rochefoucauld) and the most recent is 2004 (David Popovici). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actor.
Who was born on September 15?
- Agatha Christie 1890 English mystery and detective writer
- William Howard Taft 1857 27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913
- François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 French author of maxims and memoirs
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 1977 Nigerian writer
- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex 1984 Younger son of Charles III of the United Kingdom and Diana, Princess of Wales
- James Fenimore Cooper 1789 American writer
- Murray Gell-Mann 1929 American physicist
- Yoweri Museveni 1944 President of Uganda since 1986
- Jolin Tsai 1980 Taiwanese singer, songwriter, and actress
- Robert Fico 1964 Prime Minister of Slovakia since 2023
- Tom Hardy 1977 British actor
- Oliver Stone 1946 American film director, screenwriter, and producer
- Wen Jiabao 1942 6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2013
- Tommy Lee Jones 1946 American actor and film director
- Porfirio Díaz 1830 President of Mexico
- Emmerson Mnangagwa 1942 President of the Republic of Zimbabwe
- Jean Renoir 1894 French film director and screenwriter
- Queen Letizia of Spain 1972 Queen consort of Spain since 2014
- Robert Lucas 1937 American economist
- Viktor Zubkov 1941 Russian politician and businessman
- Fausto Coppi 1919 Italian cyclist
- Johan Neeskens 1951 Dutch football manager and player
- Flórián Albert 1941 Hungarian footballer
- Eiður Guðjohnsen 1978 Icelandic footballer
- David Raya 1995 Spanish association football player
- Charles de Foucauld 1858 French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar
- Hrant Dink 1954 Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor, journalist, and columnist
- Fay Wray 1907 Actress
- Adolfo Bioy Casares 1914 Argentine novelist
- Katsuyoshi Shinto 1960 Japanese association football player and manager
- Dejan Savićević 1966 Montenegrin footballer
- Marko Pantelić 1978 Serbian footballer
- Jean Sylvain Bailly 1736 French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader
- Jean-Pierre Serre 1926 French mathematician
- Carmen Maura 1945 Spanish actress
- Jessye Norman 1945 American opera singer
- Helmut Schön 1915 German football player and coach
- Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland 1973 Husband of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
- Paweł Pawlikowski 1957 Polish film director and screenwriter
- Ettore Bugatti 1881 Italian automobile designer and manufacturer
- Mirosław Hermaszewski 1941 Polish cosmonaut
- Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay 1876 Bengali novelist and short story writer
- Alexander Butlerov 1828 Russian chemist
- Jackie Cooper 1922 American actor, director
- Shohei Imamura 1926 Japanese film director
- Sophia Dorothea of Celle 1666 Wife of George I of Great Britain
- Joseph Lyons 1879 Australian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia
- Wout van Aert 1994 Belgian cyclist
- Otto Wels 1873 German politician
- Cannonball Adderley 1928 American jazz saxophonist
- Awer Mabil 1995 Australian association football player
- Jacques Becker 1906 French screenwriter and film director
- Bruno Walter 1876 German-born conductor, pianist, and composer
- Caterina Murino 1977 Italian actress
- Tomáš Sivok 1983 Czech footballer
- John Bradley 1988 English actor
- Hans-Gert Pöttering 1945 German politician
- Nayuha Toyoda 1986 Japanese association football player
- Murat Yakin 1974 Swiss association football player and coach
- Chelsea Kane 1988 American actress and singer
- Margaret Keane 1927 American artist
- Jens Otto Krag 1914 Danish politician
- Dennis Schröder 1993 German basketball player
- David Popovici 2004 Romanian swimmer
- Robert Benchley 1889 American writer and actor
- Aaron Mooy 1990 Australian association football player
- Aly Cissokho 1987 French association football player
- Muqrin bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud 1945 Saudi royal
- Josh Charles 1971 American actor
- Heinrich von Treitschke 1834 German historian and political writer
- Jean Batten 1909 New Zealand aviator
- Dan Marino 1961 American football player, quarterback, Pro Football Hall of Fame member
- Carlos Ruiz 1979 Guatemalan footballer
- Kirill Lavrov 1925 Soviet and Russian actor
- Yuri Norstein 1941 Soviet film director
- Creighton Abrams 1914 United States Army General
- Márcio Roberto dos Santos 1969 Brazilian footballer
- Maggie Reilly 1956 British singer
- Kew Jaliens 1978 Dutch association football player
- Ricardo Horta 1994 Portuguese footballer
- Darko Lazović 1990 Serbian footballer
- Oskar Klein 1894 Swedish physicist
- Guillaume Henri Dufour 1787 Swiss army officer, bridge engineer and topographer
- Ben Schwartz 1981 American actor
- James W. Christy 1938 American astronomer
- Jimmy Carr 1972 British comedian and humourist
- Mauro Piacenza 1944 Catholic cardinal
- Gunnar Ekelöf 1907 Swedish writer
- Jason Terry 1977 American basketball player
- John Julius Norwich 1929 British historian
- C. N. Annadurai 1909 Indian film writer and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India
- Dave Annable 1979 American actor
- Carlos Alberto Carvalho dos Anjos Junior 1977 Brazilian association football player
- Ramya Krishnan 1970 Indian actress
- Alex Florea 1991 Romanian singer
- Wayne Ferreira 1971 South African tennis player
- Danny Nucci 1968 American actor
- Ashley Cooper 1936 Australian tennis player
- Edmílson dos Santos Silva 1982 Brazilian association football player
- Margaret Lockwood 1916 British stage and film actress
- Graham Taylor 1944 English association football player and manager
- Pat O'Callaghan 1905 Irish athletics competitor
- Hayato Hashimoto 1981 Japanese association football player
- Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar 1897 Pakistani politician and diplomat
- Frank Martin 1890 Swiss composer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on September 15 share the 15th of September as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.