Popular People From Most Populous Countries
by dan_dassow | created - 27 Mar 2023 | updated - 28 Mar 2023 | PublicAccording to World Population Prospects these are the 35 most populous countries. The people in this poll are the most popular people born in these countries listed on IMDb.
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Data are current as of 27-March-2023. Population figures are 2022.
Note: India overtook China's population in 2023.
1. Donnie Yen
Actor | Ip Man
Donnie Yen was born in Guangzhou, China. His mother, Bow-sim Mark, was a kung fu master and his father, Kylster Yen, a newspaper editor and amateur musician. When Donnie was just two years old, the family moved to Hong Kong and then, when he was 11, to Boston, Massachusetts.
There, Master Bow-sim ...
Born: July 27, 1963 in Canton, China
Population: 1,425,887,337
3,333 people listed on IMDb
2. M. Night Shyamalan
Producer | Lady in the Water
Born in Puducherry, India, and raised in the posh suburban Penn Valley area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M. Night Shyamalan is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots.
He is the son of Jayalakshmi, a Tamil ...
Born: August 6, 1970 in Mahé, Pondicherry, India
Population: 1,417,173,173
10,707 people listed on IMDb
3. Lance Reddick
Actor | John Wick
Incisive, intense, multi-talented American actor Lance Solomon Reddick was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the younger of two sons, to Solomon Reddick and public schoolteacher Dorothy Gee. Having opted initially for a career in music, he attended first the Peabody Preparatory Institute and the Walden ...
Born: June 7, 1962 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Population: 338,289,857
185,626 people listed on IMDb
4. Lukita Maxwell
Actress | Genera+ion
Lukita Maxwell was born on October 27, 2001 in Indonesia. She is an actress, known for Generation (2021), Shrinking (2023) and An Autumn Summer.
Born: October 27, 2001 in Indonesia
Population: 275,501,339
708 people listed on IMDb
5. Kumail Nanjiani
Actor | The Big Sick
Kumail Nanjiani was born on May 2, 1978 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. He is an actor and writer, known for The Big Sick (2017), Life as We Know It (2010) and Stuber (2019). He has been married to Emily V. Gordon since July 14, 2007.
Born: May 2, 1978 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Population: 235,824,862
592 people listed on IMDb
6. Nikki Amuka-Bird
Actress | Jupiter Ascending
Amuka-Bird was born in Nigeria, but grew up in the UK and in Antigua. She abandoned her dancing aspirations after suffering a back injury. After attending LAMDA, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Whilst on tour with the RSC in Japan, she met her husband, actor Geoffrey Streatfield. In ...
Born: February 27, 1976 in Nigeria
Population: 218,541,212
362 people listed on IMDb
7. Wagner Moura
Actor | Tropa de Elite
Moura was born in Salvador, a city located in Northeast Region of Brazil, but grew up in the small town of Rodelas, Bahia. His mother, Alderiva, was a housewife, and his father, José Moura, was a Sergeant in the Brazilian Air Force. At the age of 13, he moved with his family to Salvador, Bahia.
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Born: June 27, 1976 in Rodelas, Bahia, Brazil
Population: 215,313,498
7,785 people listed on IMDb
8. Mahi Alam
Actor | Mean Girls
Mahi Alam is a Bengali-American actor, and singer/songwriter. He was born in Tangail, Bangladesh to a Bengali mother and father. At the age of 6, Mahi Alam came to America with his family in order to pursue the arts. His most notable roles are, as Anuj in the Disney Plus series "American Born ...
Born: February 20, 2003 in Tangail, Bangladesh
Population: 171,186,372
558 people listed on IMDb
9. Eve Harlow
Actress | The 100
Eve Harlow was born on June 20, 1989 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for The 100 (2014), Next (2020) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013).
Born: June 20, 1989 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Population: 144,713,314
8,171 people listed on IMDb
10. Melissa Barrera
Actress | Scream VI
Melissa Barrera Martinez was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León México. The first of four daughters of Rosana Maria Martinez García and Tomás Gerardo Barrera Tames. She attended the American School Foundation of Monterrey from the ages of 4 to 18 when she graduated high school. It was during her middle ...
Born: July 4, 1990 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Population: 127,504,125
5,652 people listed on IMDb
11. Ruth Negga
Actress | Loving
Ruth Negga was born on May 4, 1981 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is an actress and producer, known for Loving (2016), Passing (2021) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013).
12. Rina Sawayama
Actress | Turn Up Charlie
With over 400 million plays across streaming services, and her critically acclaimed debut album 'Sawayama' ranking on over 50 album of the year lists in 2020, Japanese-British pop superstar Rina Sawayama is set to make her feature film acting debut in the highly anticipated next entry in the John ...
Born: August 16, 1990 in Niigata, Japan
Population: 123,951,692
11,281 people listed on IMDb
13. Vanessa Lachey
Actress | Disaster Movie
Vanessa Joy Minnillo was born on November 9, 1980, at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. She is the daughter of Helen Ramos Bercero and Vincent Charles Minnillo, a crew member on an Air Force aircraft (he has since retired). Her father is American, from Ohio, and is of half Italian, one ...
Born: November 9, 1980 in Clark Air Force Base, Philippines
Population: 115,559,009
1,538 people listed on IMDb
14. Omar Sharif
Actor | Lawrence of Arabia
Omar Sharif, the Egyptian actor best known for playing Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and the title role in Doctor Zhivago (1965), was born Michel Demitri Shalhoub on April 10, 1932 in Alexandria, Egypt to Joseph Shalhoub, a lumber merchant, and his wife, Claire (Saada). Of Lebanese and ...
Born: April 10, 1932 in Alexandria, Egypt
Population: 110,990,103
1,125 people listed on IMDb
15. Laurent Capelluto
Actor | Mr. Nobody
Laurent Capelluto was born on March 16, 1971 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is an actor, known for Mr. Nobody (2009), Fils unique (2011) and The Clearstream Affair (2014).
Born: March 16, 1971 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Population: 99,010,212
58 people listed on IMDb
16. Ke Huy Quan
Actor | Everything Everywhere All at Once
Ke Huy Quan, also known as Jonathan Ke Quan, is a Vietnamese-born Chinese-American actor and stunt choreographer. Quan played Short Round in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984) and Data in "The Goonies" (1985). In 1990 and 1991, he co-starred as Jasper Kwong in the sitcom "Head of the ...
Born: August 20, 1971 in Saigon, Vietnam
Population: 98,186,856
267 people listed on IMDb
17. Omid Abtahi
Actor | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Omid Abtahi was born on July 12, 1979 in Tehran, Iran. He is an actor, known for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015), Brothers (2009) and My Own Worst Enemy (2008).
Born: July 12, 1979 in Tehran, Iran
Population: 88,550,570
1,423 people listed on IMDb
18. Can Yaman
Actor | Erkenci Kus
Can Yaman was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey. Can's father Güven and mother Güldem divorced when he was five years old. From an early age, his grandmothers were actively involved in his upbringing and care due to his parents' financial difficulties, which were also the reason why his education...
Born: November 8, 1989 in Istanbul, Turkey
Population: 85,341,241
6,256 people listed on IMDb
19. Bruce Willis
Actor | Die Hard
Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Collectively, he has appeared in films that have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD.
Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany,...
Born: March 19, 1955 in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany
Population: 83,369,843
32,931 people listed on IMDb
20. Hong Chau
Actress | The Whale
Hong Chau was born on June 25, 1979 in Thailand. She is an actress and writer, known for The Whale (2022), Downsizing (2017) and The Menu (2022).
Born: June 25, 1979 in Thailand
Population: 71,697,030
310 people listed on IMDb
21. Hannah Waddingham
Actress | Ted Lasso
Hannah Waddingham was born in 1974, in Wandsworth, London. Her family was involved in performing arts as her mother, Melodie Kelly, and both her maternal grandparents were opera singers.
She is best known for her contribution to West End musical theatre, particularly her performances in the original...
Born: July 28, 1974 in London, England, UK
Population: 67,508,936
47,160 people listed on IMDb
22. Marin Hinkle
Actress | The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Marin's parents met while serving in the Peace Corps. She was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, but her family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, when she was four months old. Two years later, her brother Mark was born. Her father, Rodney, is a retired school teacher. Her mother, Margaret, is a judge ...
23. Emma Watson
Actress | The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Paris, France, to British parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both lawyers. She moved to Oxfordshire when she was five, where she attended the Dragon School. From the age of six, Emma knew that she wanted to be an actress and, for a number of years,...
Born: April 15, 1990 in Paris, France
Population: 64,626,628
15,218 people listed on IMDb
24. Charlbi Dean
Actress | Triangle of Sadness
Charlbi Dean was born on February 5, 1990 in Cape Town, South Africa. She was an actress, known for Triangle of Sadness (2022), Spud (2010) and Don't Sleep (2017). She died on August 29, 2022 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
Born: February 5, 1990 in Cape Town, South Africa
Population: 59,893,885
1,627 people listed on IMDb
25. Amy Adams
Actress | Arrival
Amy Lou Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, to American parents, Kathryn (Hicken) and Richard Kent Adams, a U.S. serviceman who was stationed at Caserma Ederle in Italy at the time. She was raised in a Mormon family of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado, and has English, as well as ...
Born: August 20, 1974 in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
Population: 59,037,474
13,858 people listed on IMDb
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