List of Famous people born on April 26th

Margaret Stocks née Margaret McKane (1895-1985) was an English badminton & tennis player. Born in London in 1895 she married Andrew Denys Stocks in 1921. She came to prominence the same year when winning the All England women's doubles badminton title with her younger sister Kathleen McKane. The following year the sisters reached the 1922 Wimbledon Championships women's doubles final losing out to Suzanne Lenglen and Elizabeth Ryan. The sisters won a further All England badminton doubles title in 1924 before Stocks became the singles champion in 1925.

Sir Owen Willans Richardson, FRS was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.

Jean-Guy Brunet is a Canadian former alpine skier who competed in the 1960 Winter Olympics and in the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Danylo Oleksandrovych Hetmantsev is a Ukrainian politician and a Member of the Verkhovna Rada of pro-Russian views, gambling tycoon, Chairman of the Parliament Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy. He has populist and regressive economic views.