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Famous People Born on May 25(236 people)
Chloé Lukasiak, American actress and dancer
David Pastrňák, Czech ice hockey player
Kagiso Rabada, South African cricketer
Matt Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
Norman Powell, American basketball player
Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player
Cameron van der Burgh, South African swimmer
Takahiro Hōjō, Japanese actor and musician
Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress
Roman Reigns, American football player and wrestler
Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
A. J. Foyt IV, American race car driver
Shawne Merriman, American football player
Ryan Gallant, American skateboarder
Justin Hodges, Australian rugby league player
Stacey Pensgen, American figure skater and meteorologist
Michalis Pelekanos, Greek basketball player
Matt Utai, New Zealand rugby league player
Carlos Bocanegra, American footballer and executive
Caroline Ouellette, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby player
Chris Young, American baseball pitcher
Adam Gontier, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Brian Urlacher, American football player
Alberto Del Rio, Mexican-American mixed martial artist and wrestler
Blaise Nkufo, Congolese-Swiss footballer
Dougie Freedman, Scottish footballer and manager
Frank Klepacki, American drummer and composer
Miguel Tejada, Dominican-American baseball player
Daz Dillinger, American rapper and producer
Karan Johar, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Robert Croft, Welsh-English cricketer and sportscaster
Jamie Kennedy, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
Octavia Spencer, American actress and author[a]
Glen Drover, Canadian guitarist and songwriter
Anne Heche, American actress (died 2022)
Stacy London, American journalist and author
Kendall Gill, American basketball player, boxer, and sportscaster
Luc Nilis, Belgian footballer and manager
Mark Rosewater, head designer of Magic: the Gathering
Andrew Sznajder, Canadian tennis player
Yahya Jammeh, Gambian colonel and politician, President of the Gambia
David Shaw, Canadian-American ice hockey player
George Hickenlooper, American director and producer (died 2010)
Mike Myers, Canadian-American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
Ludovic Orban, Romanian engineer and politician, 68th Prime Minister of Romania
Ric Nattress, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
Amy Klobuchar, American lawyer and politician
Anthea Turner, English journalist and television host
Julian Clary, English comedian, actor, and author
Manolis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician
Rick Wamsley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Dorothy Straight, American children's author
Paul Weller, English singer, songwriter and musician
Alastair Campbell, English journalist and author
Robert Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
Stavros Arnaoutakis, Greek politician
Larry Hogan, American politician, 62nd Governor of Maryland
Kevin Lynch, Irish Republican (died during the 1981 Irish hunger strike)
David P. Sartor, American composer and conductor
Alistair Burt, English lawyer and politician
John Beck, English footballer and manager
Murali, Indian actor, producer, and politician (died 2009)
Eve Ensler, American playwright and producer
Daniel Passarella, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
Stan Sakai, Japanese-American author and illustrator
Gaetano Scirea, Italian footballer (died 1989)
Nick Fotiu, American ice hockey player and coach
David Jenkins, Trinidadian-Scottish runner
Al Sarrantonio, American author and publisher
Gordon H. Smith, American businessman and politician
Bob Gale, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Robby Steinhardt, American rock violinist and singer (died 2021)
Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist
Barry Windsor-Smith, English painter and illustrator
Bülent Arınç, Turkish lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
Marianne Elliott, Northern Irish historian, author, and academic
Klaus Meine, German rock singer-songwriter
Catherine G. Wolf, American psychologist and computer scientist (died 2018)
Bill Adam, Scottish-Canadian racing driver
David A. Hargrave, American game designer, created Arduin (died 1988)
Digby Anderson, English journalist and philosopher
Pierre Bachelet, French singer-songwriter (died 2005)
Charlie Harper, English singer-songwriter and producer
Robert MacPherson, American mathematician and academic
Frank Oz, English-born American puppeteer, filmmaker, and actor
Chris Ralston, English rugby player
Jessi Colter, American singer-songwriter and pianist
John Palmer, English keyboard player
Leslie Uggams, American actress and singer
Uta Frith, German developmental psychologist
Vladimir Voronin, Moldovan economist and politician, 3rd President of Moldova
Dixie Carter, American actress and singer (died 2010)
Raymond Carver, American short story writer and poet (died 1988)
Margaret Forster, English historian, author, and critic (died 2016)
Geoffrey Robinson, English businessman and politician
Yury Semyonov, Russian economist and politician (died 2024)
Tom Phillips, English painter and academic (died 2022)
Tom T. Hall, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2021)
Rusi Surti, Indian cricketer (died 2013)
John Ffowcs Williams, Welsh engineer and academic (died 2020)
Cookie Gilchrist, American football player (died 2011)
W. P. Kinsella, Canadian novelist and short story writer (died 2016)
Victoria Shaw, Australian actress (died 1988)
Sarah Marshall, English-American actress (died 2014)
Basdeo Panday, Trinidadian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (died 2024)
Ray Spencer, English footballer (died 2016)
Jógvan Sundstein, Faroese accountant and politician, 7th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 2024)
John Gregory Dunne, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (died 2003)
K.C. Jones, American basketball player and coach (died 2020)
Herb Gray, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (died 2014)
Georgy Grechko, Russian engineer and astronaut (died 2017)
Irwin Winkler, American director and producer
Makrand Mehta, Indian historian (died 2024)
Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (died 2016)
Beverly Sills, American soprano and actress (died 2007)
Robert Ludlum, American soldier and author (died 2001)
Norman Petty, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (died 1984)
Claude Akins, American actor (died 1994)
William Bowyer, English painter and academic (died 2015)
Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author and poet (died 2009)
Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (died 2013)
David Wynne, English sculptor and painter (died 2014)
Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and author (died 1974)
Jeanne Crain, American actress (died 2003)
Eldon Griffiths, English journalist and politician (died 2014)
Don Liddle, American baseball player (died 2000)
Claude Pinoteau, French film director and screenwriter (died 2012)
István Nyers, French-Hungarian footballer (died 2005)
Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (died 1984)
Hal David, American songwriter and composer (died 2012)
Kitty Kallen, American singer (died 2016)
Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)
Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner and diplomat (died 1992)
Steve Cochran, American film, television and stage actor (died 1965)
Theodore Hesburgh, American priest, theologian, and academic (died 2015)
Brian Dickson, Canadian captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th Chief Justice of Canada (died 1998)
Giuseppe Tosi, Italian discus thrower (died 1981)
Heinrich Bär, German colonel and pilot (died 1957)
Richard Dimbleby, English journalist and producer (died 1965)
Dean Rockwell, American commander, wrestler, and coach (died 2005)
Alfred Kubel, German politician, 5th Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (died 1999)
Theodore Roethke, American poet (died 1963)
U Nu, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Burma (died 1995)
Alain Grandbois, Canadian poet and author (died 1975)
George Lennon, Irish Republican Army leader during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War (died 1991)
Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, author, and flute player (died 1976)
Panka Pelishek, Bulgarian pianist and music teacher (died 1990)
Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television game show panelist; co-founded Random House (died 1971)
Alan Kippax, Australian cricketer (died 1972)
Gene Tunney, American boxer and soldier (died 1978)
Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, American country musician (died 1968)
Günther Lütjens, German admiral (died 1941)
Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American aircraft designer, founded Sikorsky Aircraft (died 1972)
Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter (died 1969)
Padre Pio, Italian priest and saint (died 1968)
Rash Behari Bose, Indian soldier and activist (died 1945)
Philip Murray, Scottish-American miner and labor leader (died 1952)
Carl Johan Lind, Swedish hammer thrower (died 1965)
Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist and academic (died 1967)
Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian-English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (died 1964)
C. C. Martindale, English Jesuit priest (died 1963)
William Stickney, American golfer (died 1944)
Bill Robinson, American actor and dancer (died 1949)
Robbie Ross, Canadian journalist and art critic (died 1918)
Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish target shooter (died 1950)
John Mott, American evangelist and saint, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)
Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943)
Mathilde Verne, English pianist and educator (died 1936)
James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist and academic (died 1944)
Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Algerian-French general (died 1942)
William Muldoon, American wrestler and trainer (died 1933)
Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, educator, and publisher (died 1924)
Naim Frashëri, Albanian-Turkish poet and translator (died 1900)
Trebor Mai (né Robert Williams), Welsh poet (died 1877)
Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (died 1897)
Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville, French essayist and biographer (died 1882)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author, playwright, and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (died 1873)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher (died 1882)
Minh Mạng, Vietnamese emperor (died 1841)
Philip P. Barbour, American farmer and politician, 12th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died 1841)
Samuel Ward, American politician, 31st and 33rd Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (died 1776)
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1792)
Claude Buffier, Polish-French historian and philosopher (died 1737)
Charles Garnier, French missionary and saint (died 1649)
Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint and nurse (died 1614)
Catherine of Cleves, Duchess consort regent of Guelders (died 1479)
Jakobus ("James"), Count of Lichtenburg (died 1480)
Toghon Temür, Mongolian emperor (died 1370)
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💰 Richest People Born on May 25
Net worth of notable people who share this birthday. Tap a name for the full breakdown.
Who Was Born on May 25?
Our records list 236 notable people born on May 25, with confirmed birth years spanning from 1048 (Emperor Shenzong of Song (died 1085)) to 2002 (Cam Ward, American football player). At least 236 of them have no recorded death year.
Most Common Fields for May 25 Births
The people in our list for this date are concentrated in a handful of fields:
- Notable Figure — 50 people
- Athlete — 48 people
- Actor — 28 people
- Writer — 23 people
- Musician — 19 people
- Politician — 18 people
May 25 is also the birthday of 4 people tracked in our net-worth data, led by Andre Koo. See the full breakdown in the “Richest People Born on This Day” section above.
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