Famous birthdays
Famous people born on September 25
Short answer
Well-known people born on September 25 include William Faulkner (1897), Will Smith (1968), Lu Xun (1881) and Anatoliy Solovyanenko (1932). Our list below has 118 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives September 25 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1613 (Claude Perrault) and the most recent is 2003 (Bella Ramsey). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on September 25?
- William Faulkner 1897 American writer
- Will Smith 1968 American actor, film producer and rapper
- Lu Xun 1881 Chinese novelist and essayist
- Anatoliy Solovyanenko 1932 Ukrainian singer
- Dmitri Shostakovich 1906 Soviet composer and pianist
- Catherine Zeta-Jones 1969 British actress
- Michael Douglas 1944 American actor, producer and activist
- Pedro Almodóvar 1949 Spanish filmmaker
- Ole Rømer 1644 Danish astronomer (*1644 – †1710)
- Thomas Hunt Morgan 1866 American biologist and professor from Kentucky
- Christopher Reeve 1952 American actor
- Mark Hamill 1951 American actor
- Mark Rothko 1903 American painter of Latvian-Jewish descent
- Sandro Pertini 1896 Italian journalist, resistance leader and politician, President of Italy from 1978 to 1985
- Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 French composer and music theorist
- Qianlong Emperor 1711 Emperor of the Qing Dynasty
- Karl-Heinz Rummenigge 1955 German football executive and former football player
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón 1964 Spanish writer
- bell hooks 1952 American author and activist
- Barbara Walters 1929 American broadcast journalist
- Ales Bialiatski 1962 Belarusian activist, Nobel laureate
- Michael Madsen 1957 American actor
- Robert Bresson 1901 French film director
- Sergei Bondarchuk 1920 Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor
- Rosalía 1992 Spanish singer-songwriter
- Glenn Gould 1932 Canadian composer and pianist
- Scottie Pippen 1965 American basketball player
- Robert Gates 1943 CIA director, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and university president
- Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia 1744 King of Prussia from 1786 to 1797
- Wladimir Köppen 1846 German meteorologist
- Yuhei Tokunaga 1983 Japanese association football player
- Heather Locklear 1961 American actress
- Kenta Hasegawa 1965 Japanese association football player and manager
- Irakli Kobakhidze 1978 Prime Minister of Georgia since 2024
- T.I. 1980 American rapper, actor and record producer
- Plutarco Elías Calles 1877 47th President of Mexico
- Billy Hughes 1862 Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923
- Shinji Tanaka 1960 Japanese association football player and manager
- Nikola Žigić 1980 Serbian footballer
- Bella Ramsey 2003 British actor
- Zucchero 1955 Italian singer-songwriter and musician
- Igor Belanov 1960 Ukrainian footballer
- Annabelle Wallis 1984 British actress
- Corneliu Zelea Codreanu 1899 Romanian fascist politician; leader of the Iron Guard between 1927–1938
- Siphiwe Tshabalala 1984 South African footballer
- Chauncey Billups 1976 American basketball player and coach
- Josef Bican 1913 Austrian-Czech footballer
- Moussa Traoré 1936 Malian former dictator
- Tate Donovan 1963 American actor
- Syed Abul Ala Maududi 1903 South Asian Islamic scholar, Founder of Jamaat-e-Islami
- David Benioff 1970 American writer and producer
- José Figueres Ferrer 1906 Costa Rican politician
- Rudolf Otto 1869 German theologian, philosopher, and comparative religionist
- Imre Thököly 1657 Ruler of Transylvania
- Juande Ramos 1954 Spanish footballer and manager
- Tanzan Ishibashi 1884 Prime Minister of Japan from 1956 to 1957
- Hyun Bin 1982 South Korean actor
- Abraham Gottlob Werner 1749 German geologist
- Michele Scarponi 1979 Italian road bicycle racer
- Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau 1968 Second son of Beatrix of the Netherlands and Claus von Amsberg; brother of King…
- Ryu Jun-yeol 1986 South Korean actor
- Albrecht Penck 1858 German geologist and geographer
- Angelo Palombo 1981 Italian association football player
- Petit 1976 Portuguese football manager and former player
- Suraphol Sombatcharoen 1930 Thai singer
- William Le Baron Jenney 1832 American architect
- Claude Perrault 1613 French architect and doctor of medicine
- Roger Etchegaray 1922 French cardinal
- Mao Asada 1990 Japanese figure skater
- Massimo Luongo 1992 Australian association football player
- Monica Niculescu 1987 Romanian tennis player
- Kim Grant 1972 Ghanaian association football player
- Divya Dutta 1977 Indian actress
- Charles Maturin 1782 Irish writer
- Chiara Siracusa 1976 Maltese singer
- Rafael Martín Vázquez 1965 Spanish footballer
- Amina Wadud 1952 American Islamic scholar
- Jason Flemyng 1966 British actor
- Colin Davis 1927 British conductor
- Felicia Hemans 1793 English poet
- Ronnie Whelan 1961 Irish footballer and manager
- Niccolò Ammaniti 1966 Italian writer (1966)
- Jamie Hyneman 1956 American special effects specialist and television host
- Sebastião Lazaroni 1950 Brazilian association football player and manager
- Cuco Martina 1989 Curaçaoan footballer
- Jonathan Clauss 1992 French footballer
- Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu 1766 French politician
- Hans Vaihinger 1852 German philosopher
- Arlind Ajeti 1993 Albanian-Swiss association football player
- Joel David Moore 1977 American actor
- Bridgette Wilson 1973 American actress, singer, and model
- Bob McAdoo 1951 American basketball player
- Alexander Rossi 1991 American racing driver
- Olivier Dacourt 1974 French footballer
- Feroz Khan 1939 Indian actor and filmmaker
- Jo Hyeon-woo 1991 South Korean footballer
- Aida Turturro 1962 American actress
- Fletcher Christian 1764 HMS Bounty mutineer
- Silvana Pampanini 1925 Italian actress and director
- Tijani Babangida 1973 Nigerian footballer
- Kim Jong-chul 1981 North Korean politician
- Daniel Fernandes 1983 Portuguese footballer
- Hammer DeRoburt 1922 President of Nauru
- Mikael Persbrandt 1963 Swedish actor
- Maj Sjöwall 1935 Swedish writer
- Chris Owen 1980 American actor
- Alfred Vail 1807 American inventor
- Jean-Andoche Junot 1771 French general
- Ricardo Gardner 1978 Jamaican footballer
- Stine Oftedal Dahmke 1991 Norwegian handball player
- Jonathan Motzfeldt 1938 Prime Minister of Greenland
- Zach Woods 1984 American actor
- Matías Silvestre 1984 Argentine footballer
- Giuseppe Merisi 1938 Catholic bishop
- Cardinal de Rohan 1734 Catholic cardinal
- François Bernier 1620 French physician and traveller
- Nobutake Kondō 1886 Japanese admiral
- Vânia Fernandes 1985 Portuguese singer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on September 25 share the 25th of September as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.