Famous Birthdays on April 30

Ashley DiPietro also known by her stage name Ashley Alexandra Dupré, is a former call girl. She gained fame in 2008 for her role as "Kristen" in the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, which led to the resignation of Eliot Spitzer as Governor of New York.

Emily Joanna Carey is an English actor. They began their career as a child performer on stage and in the BBC medical drama series Casualty. They went on to play several young versions of characters, such as Diana Prince in Wonder Woman (2017) and Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (2018). Carey is best known for playing young Alicent Hightower in the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon (2022) and Harriet Manners in the Netflix teen drama series Geek Girl (2024).

Andrew Peter Allen is an Australian cook and television presenter. He is most notable for winning the fourth season of MasterChef Australia in 2012. Since 2020, he has been a judge on the show.

David Lee Meggett is an American former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons. A return specialist for most of his career, he ranks second in NFL punt return yards, which he led at the time of his retirement.

Troy Williamson is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for five seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Minnesota Vikings seventh overall in the 2005 NFL draft. He played college football for the South Carolina Gamecocks.

Chen Neng-chuan, better known by his online alias Goodnight Chicken, is a Taiwanese YouTuber and live streamer who was criminally convicted in the country of Cambodia. He is known for his livestreams exploring abandoned areas and buildings and for investigating paranormal activities. Chen became a prominent content creator in 2020 after discovering a mummified body in a hospital that he was exploring, which helped solve a missing persons case. Chen continued to create content revolving around paranormal themes, garnering controversy for allegedly trespassing private properties multiple times. In February 2024, he was arrested after staging his own kidnapping on a livestream with another Taiwanese live-streamer in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, and both were sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay a fine. The general public, including prominent Cambodian politicians, were unsympathetic towards him and supported the conviction. Following their release in March 2026, both were banned from the country and deported to Taiwan, where they face further criminal charges.

Nicole Anne Kaczmarski is an American former professional basketball player. A standout player in high school, she received a Gatorade Player of the Year award, was named Miss New York Basketball and earned a spot in the 1999 USA Today All-USA high school basketball team. Heavily recruited by colleges, Kaczmarski eventually enrolled at UCLA and played one season for their women's basketball team. Kaczmarski then enrolled at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Afterward, she had brief stints with two Women's National Basketball Association teams, the New York Liberty and the Los Angeles Sparks. In 2011, she became a color commentator for basketball telecasts. Kaczmarski's high school career and college recruitment were chronicled in the documentary film Running Down a Dream.

Christopher Henry Morris is a former South African professional cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for Titans and played for South Africa national cricket team. On 11 January 2022, Chris Morris announced retirement from all forms of cricket.

Maxwell James Merritt was an Australian-New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist who was renowned as an interpreter of soul music and R&B. As leader of Max Merritt & the Meteors, his best known hits are "Slippin' Away" (1975), which reached No. 2 on the Australian singles charts, and "Hey, Western Union Man" (1969) which reached No. 13. Merritt rose to prominence in his native New Zealand from 1958 and relocated to Sydney, Australia, in December 1964. Merritt was acknowledged as one of the best local performers of the 1960s and 1970s and his influence did much to popularise soul, R&B and rock in New Zealand and Australia.

Warren Defever is a musician and producer, originally from Livonia, Michigan, and now based in Detroit. He is most known for his chameleonic project His Name Is Alive, though he is active in numerous other circles. He produced, engineered, and/or remixed recordings by Iggy and the Stooges, Easy Action, Low, Ida, Michael Hurley, Califone, Yoko Ono, Thurston Moore, the Gories, the Go, Nomo, Saturday Looks Good to Me, Ethan Daniel Davidson, Faruq Z. Bey, the Von Bondies, Reba Fritz, Destroy All Monsters, Jenny Toomey, Slumber Party, John Sinclair, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Lisa Loeb, as well as HNIA offshoot Velour 100.

Davian Clarke is a Jamaican former athlete, who mainly competed in the 400 metres. He was born in Spanish Town, St. Catherine and went to St. Catherine Primary & Kingston College HS won the bronze medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1996 Olympics, and many relay medals followed, before he won his first individual medal at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Davian Clarke is also a graduate of University of Miami Patti & Allan Herbert Business School with Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA).

Charles Beetham was an American middle-distance runner. He was United States champion in the 800-meter run in 1936, 1939, 1940 and 1941 and NCAA champion in 1936; he entered the 1936 United States Olympic Trials as one of the favorites, but fell in the final and failed to qualify for the Olympics.

Tom Køhlert is a Danish football manager and former player who managed Brøndby IF from 1979 to 1985 and several times later as a caretaker. He led the club to its first ever Danish championship in 1985. He has also functioned as a caretaker for the club's first team on two occasions.

Jeff Randall Brown is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from the mid-1980s to late 1990s. He was selected to play in the 1992 NHL All-Star Game and holds many offensive records for the St. Louis Blues.

Ülo Õun was an Estonian sculptor whose career began in the late 1960s and came to prominence in the 1970s. Õun mainly worked as a portrait and figural sculptor and was known for his works in colored plaster and bronze.

Uno Laht was an Estonian writer and poet who wrote about the characteristics of everyday Soviet life in poetry. Laht was also a NKVD officer who participated in arrests and deportations in the 1940s.

Margit Papp is a Hungarian former athlete. She competed in the Summer Olympic Games in 1972, 1976 and 1980 and won the gold medal in women's pentathlon at the 1978 European Championships.

Martten Kaldvee is a former Estonian biathlete. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 74th in the 10 km sprint and 81st in the 20 km individual.

Paul Kuusberg was an Estonian writer and journalist. Novellas by him include "Roostetanud kastekann" (1971) and "Võõras või õige mees" (1978), which won an award in Estonia.

Jung Yoon-seok is a South Korean actor. He won Best Young Actor award in 2009 SBS Drama Awards for his role in Temptation of Wife.

Emmanuele Vitale was a Maltese notary, commander and statesman. During the Siege of Malta, he commanded 10,000 irregular Maltese soldiers.

Walter Simon was a German banker, councillor and philanthropist active in Königsberg and Tübingen.

Harold Patrick Breen was a senior Australian public servant. He was head of the Department of Defence Production between 1951 and 1957.

Hans List was a technical scientist, inventor and entrepreneur.

Hugh John Blagdon Hood, OC was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor.

Paul Stuart Fiddes is an English Baptist theologian and novelist.

Karl Meiler was a tennis player from West Germany who was active in the 1970s and 1980s.

Frank-Michael Marczewski is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender.

Andrew Carwood is the Director of Music at St Paul's Cathedral in London and director of The Cardinall's Musick.

Lorenzo Jules Staelens is a Belgian professional football manager and former player. He most recently coached Dutch club HSV Hoek.

Lee Daniel Roache is an English retired footballer who played as a striker. He played in the Football League for Barnet.

Marcel Karl Bernhard Bauer is a German politician and member of the Bundestag. A member of The Left, he has represented Baden-Württemberg since 2025.

Dion Dreesens is a Dutch swimmer.

Adam Ryczkowski is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a winger for II liga club Legia Warsaw II.

Yui Hiwatashi is a Japanese idol and former member of the groups AKB48 and Karat. She is represented by the talent agency AKS.