Lesego Rampolokeng (born July 7, 1965) South African performance poet
David McCullough (born July 7, 1933) U.S. historian – John Adams (2002)
Helene Johnson (born July 7, 1906) U.S. poet of the Harlem Renaissance – “Trees at Night”
Lillien Martin (born July 7, 1851) – U.S. psychologist, specialist in early childhood and old age – Salvaging Old Age (1930; co-author Clare de Gruchy)