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Famous people born on December 11
Short answer
Well-known people born on December 11 include Naguib Mahfouz (1911), Hector Berlioz (1803), Robert Koch (1843) and Max Born (1882). Our list below has 96 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 11 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1712 (Francesco Algarotti) and the most recent is 2001 (Armel Bella-Kotchap). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, singer.
Who was born on December 11?
- Naguib Mahfouz 1911 Egyptian writer
- Hector Berlioz 1803 French composer and conductor
- Robert Koch 1843 German physician, bacteriologist
- Max Born 1882 German-Jewish physicist and mathematician
- John Kerry 1943 American politician and diplomat
- Viswanathan Anand 1969 Indian chess grandmaster
- Alfred de Musset 1810 French writer
- Osho 1931 Indian guru and leader of the Rajneesh movement
- Pranab Mukherjee 1935 President of India from 2012 to 2017
- Emmanuelle Charpentier 1968 French microbiologist and biochemist
- Jean Marais 1913 French actor and theatre director
- Hailee Steinfeld 1996 American actress and singer
- Macky Sall 1961 4th President of Senegal, formerly Prime Minister
- Annie Jump Cannon 1863 American astronomer
- David Brewster 1781 Scottish astronomer and mathematician
- Leighton Baines 1984 English association football player
- Rita Moreno 1931 Puerto Rican actress
- Jean-Louis Trintignant 1930 French actor
- Gen Shōji 1992 Japanese association football player
- Carlo Ponti 1912 Italian film producer
- Javier Saviola 1981 Argentine footballer
- Dilip Kumar 1922 Indian actor and politician
- Pushpa Kamal Dahal 1954 Nepalese politician and former prime minister
- Paul Greengard 1925 American neuroscientist
- Rey Mysterio 1974 American professional wrestler
- Teri Garr 1944 American actress
- Manoel de Oliveira 1908 Portuguese film director
- Mo'Nique 1967 American stand-up comedian and actress
- Colleen Hoover 1979 American author
- Ellen Key 1849 Swedish writer
- Anna Bergendahl 1991 Swedish singer and songwriter
- Yasiin Bey 1973 American rapper
- Alain de Benoist 1943 French political theorist
- Gianni Morandi 1944 Italian singer
- Fiorello H. La Guardia 1882 American politician; 99th Mayor of New York City
- Ronald Dworkin 1931 American legal philosopher
- Brenda Lee 1944 American singer and recording artist
- Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria 1724 Elector Palatine, Elector of Bavaria
- Ülle Madise 1974 Estonian legal scholar and politician
- Jermaine Jackson 1954 American musician
- Antonio Napolioni 1957 Italian Roman Catholic bishop
- Alexa Demie 1990 American actress and singer
- Charles Bachman 1924 American computer scientist
- Big Mama Thornton 1926 American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
- Qian Xuesen 1911 Chinese rocket scientist
- Konstantinos Mavropanos 1997 Greek association football player
- András Baka 1952 Hungarian jurist and politician, President of Hungary
- Hassan Al Haidos 1990 Qatari footballer
- Erskine Hamilton Childers 1905 4th President of Ireland
- Mohamed Zidan 1981 Egyptian association football player
- Peter Hegemann 1954 German biophysicist
- Natalia Gordienko 1987 Moldovan singer
- Enrico Macias 1938 French recording artist; singer
- Hermann von Abich 1806 German-Russian mineralogist and geologist
- Fabrizio Ravanelli 1968 Italian football player and manager
- Ben Browder 1962 American actor
- Betsy Blair 1923 American actress
- Timmy Simons 1976 Belgian footballer
- Sami Al-Jaber 1972 Former Saudi Arabian footballer and manager
- Carlos Arias Navarro 1908 Spanish politician
- George Mason 1725 American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention
- Nikki Sixx 1958 American musician
- Christian Dietrich Grabbe 1801 German playwright
- Olga Skabeyeva 1984 Russian television propagandist
- Jack Griffo 1996 American actor
- Shareef Abdur-Rahim 1976 American basketball player
- Joseph Mohr 1792 Austrian priest and composer
- Peter Scholze 1987 German mathematician
- Lê Minh Hưng 1970 Vietnamese politician
- McCoy Tyner 1938 American jazz pianist
- Fabian Johnson 1987 American soccer player
- Ricardo Giusti 1956 Argentine footballer
- Michael Oakeshott 1901 British philosopher
- Derek Parfit 1942 British philosopher
- Perez Prado 1916 Cuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger
- Chris Hughton 1958 Irish association football player and manager
- Andrey Makarevich 1953 Soviet and Russian rock musician
- Zacky Vengeance 1981 American guitarist
- Paul Wegener 1874 German actor and film director
- Armel Bella-Kotchap 2001 German-French association football player
- Francesco Algarotti 1712 Italian philosopher
- Stig Inge Bjørnebye 1969 Norwegian association football player and manager
- Subramanya Bharathi 1882 Tamil poet, social reformer, fighter for Indian freedom & women's rights
- William Henry Waddington 1826 19th century French statesman, Prime Minister and an Ambassador of France
- Yao Wenyuan 1931 Chinese politician
- Christophe Laporte 1992 French bicycle racer
- Tornike Kipiani 1987 Georgian singer
- Kellie Harrington 1989 Irish boxer
- Karla Souza 1985 Mexican actress
- Gary Dourdan 1966 American actor
- Carl Friedrich Zelter 1758 German composer
- Stevie Young 1956 Scottish musician
- Bess Armstrong 1953 American actress
- Max Baucus 1941 American politician
- Abdel Hakim Amer 1919 Egyptian military officer and politician
- Hyolyn 1990 South Korean singer, rapper and songwriter
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on December 11 share the 11th of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.