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Famous people born on September 26

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Well-known people born on September 26 include T. S. Eliot (1888), Martin Heidegger (1889), Serena Williams (1981) and Paul VI (1897). Our list below has 83 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives September 26 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1641 (Nehemiah Grew) and the most recent is 2006 (Myles Lewis-Skelly). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, politician.

Who was born on September 26?

  1. T. S. Eliot 1888 US-British poet
  2. Martin Heidegger 1889 German philosopher
  3. Serena Williams 1981 American tennis player
  4. Paul VI 1897 Pope of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978
  5. Petro Poroshenko 1965 President of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019
  6. Manmohan Singh 1932 Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician
  7. George Gershwin 1898 American composer and pianist
  8. Michael Ballack 1976 German association football player
  9. Olivia Newton-John 1948 British and Australian singer
  10. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela 1936 South African activist and politician
  11. Archibald Hill 1886 English physiologist and biophysicist
  12. Christian X of Denmark 1870 King of Denmark and Iceland
  13. Ricardo Quaresma 1983 Portuguese association football player
  14. Jim Caviezel 1968 American actor
  15. Linda Hamilton 1956 American actress
  16. Kim Yo-jong 1987 North Korean politician and diplomat, sister of Kim Jong Un
  17. Andrea Dworkin 1946 American feminist writer
  18. Matilde Camus 1919 Spanish poet
  19. Kieran Gibbs 1989 English association football player
  20. Uwe Bein 1960 German association football player
  21. Bryan Ferry 1945 British singer
  22. Taavi Rõivas 1979 Estonian politician
  23. Idrissa Gueye 1989 Senegalese association football player
  24. Kazuki Ganaha 1980 Japanese association football player
  25. Dev Anand 1923 Indian actor, producer, director
  26. Enzo Bearzot 1927 Italian football player and manager
  27. Klaus Augenthaler 1957 German football player and manager
  28. Ōkubo Toshimichi 1830 One of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration, regarded as one of the…
  29. Christina Milian 1981 American actress and singer
  30. Edmund Gwenn 1877 British actor
  31. Joseph Proust 1754 French chemist
  32. Ciaran Clark 1989 Association football player
  33. Talulah Riley 1985 British actress
  34. George Raft 1901 American actor
  35. Marcell Jacobs 1994 Italian athlete
  36. João Pedro 2001 Brazilian association football player
  37. Alfred Cortot 1877 Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor
  38. Hans Reichenbach 1891 German–American philosopher
  39. Zlatko Junuzović 1987 Austrian footballer
  40. Julie London 1926 American actress and singer
  41. Lewis Hine 1874 American sociologist and photographer
  42. Jaime Penedo 1981 Panamanian footballer
  43. Miloš Veljković 1995 Serbian-Swiss association football player
  44. Gal Costa 1945 Brazilian singer
  45. Vladimir Voinovich 1932 Soviet Russian writer and dissident
  46. Beto O'Rourke 1972 American politician
  47. Jan Brewer 1944 Governor of Arizona from 2009 to 2015
  48. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 1820 Philosopher, academic, writer, translator, entrepreneur, social reformer and…
  49. Vladimír Remek 1948 Czech ambassador, astronaut and pilot
  50. James Blake 1988 English singer-songwriter
  51. Mehdi Karroubi 1937 Iranian reformist politician, democracy activist, mojtahed, and chairman of the…
  52. Paul Dummett 1991 Welsh association football player
  53. Patrick Friesacher 1980 Austrian racing driver
  54. Charles Bradlaugh 1833 British freethinker and politician
  55. Myles Lewis-Skelly 2006 English footballer
  56. Melissa Sue Anderson 1962 Actress
  57. Lynn Anderson 1947 American country music singer
  58. Gloria E. Anzaldúa 1942 Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory
  59. Lenna Kuurmaa 1985 Estonian singer-songwriter and actress
  60. Hadi Choopan 1987 Iranian bodybuilder
  61. Maurizio Gucci 1948 Italian businessman
  62. Maria Bonnevie 1973 Norwegian-Swedish actress
  63. Johnny Appleseed 1774 American nurseryman and missionary
  64. Michael Matthews 1990 Australian racing cyclist
  65. Marcin Mroziński 1985 Polish actor and singer
  66. Xabier Azkargorta 1953 Spanish association football player and manager
  67. Robert Kagan 1958 American historian
  68. Anthony Blunt 1907 British art historian and Soviet spy
  69. Lilly Singh 1988 Canadian YouTube personality, vlogger and comedian
  70. Barnes Wallis 1887 English scientist, engineer and inventor
  71. Ernst Gräfenberg 1881 German gynaecologist and medical researcher
  72. Achille Compagnoni 1914 Italian mountain climber and skier
  73. Oleg Basilashvili 1934 Soviet and Russian actor
  74. Adelardo Rodríguez 1939 Spanish footballer
  75. Henrik Sedin 1980 Swedish ice hockey player
  76. Jane Smiley 1949 American novelist
  77. Marco Etcheverry 1970 Bolivian footballer
  78. Dido Havenaar 1957 Dutch-Japanese association football player
  79. Nehemiah Grew 1641 English plant anatomist and physiologist
  80. Kiira Korpi 1988 Finnish figure skater
  81. Paul Gervais 1816 French paleontologist and entomologist
  82. Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord 1878 German general
  83. Antonio Moreno 1887 Spanish film actor and director

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

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