List of Famous people born on April 18th

Paul Jean François Bernardoni is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Angers SCO.

Melody Thomas Scott is an American actress best known for playing Nikki Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless.

Neo Rauch is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, although Rauch hesitates to align himself with surrealism. He studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, and he lives in Markkleeberg near Leipzig, Germany and works as the principal artist of the New Leipzig School. The artist is represented by Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and David Zwirner, New York.

Emma Irmgard Marina Rabbe Ramírez is a Canadian-born Venezuelan television actress.

Bengt Robert Holmström is a Finnish economist who is currently Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Together with Oliver Hart, he received the Central Bank of Sweden Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016.

Jennifer Watson Roberts is an American politician, businesswoman and former diplomat who served as the 58th mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina. She was elected on November 3, 2015 having previously served four terms on the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners. In 2012, she was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in North Carolina's 9th congressional district.

Jane Dorothy Hartley is the former United States Ambassador to France and United States Ambassador to Monaco. The United States Senate confirmed Hartley to both posts on September 16, 2014. She left office on January 20, 2017. She is also a former official in the administration of President Jimmy Carter and the former chief executive officer of an economic consulting firm.

Shun Takayama is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

José Eduardo Cardozo is a Brazilian lawyer, politician and former Attorney General of Brazil.

Niall Campbell Ferguson is a Scottish-American historian and the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University and New York University, visiting professor at New College of the Humanities and senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.