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Famous people born on January 11
Short answer
Well-known people born on January 11 include William James (1842), Matteo Renzi (1975), Kailash Satyarthi (1954) and Siti Nurhaliza (1979). Our list below has 87 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 11 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1638 (Nicolas Steno) and the most recent is 2005 (Roksana Węgiel). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, writer.
Who was born on January 11?
- William James 1842 American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
- Matteo Renzi 1975 Italian politician
- Kailash Satyarthi 1954 Indian Social Worker
- Siti Nurhaliza 1979 Malaysian singer, actress, and model
- Albert Hofmann 1906 Swiss chemist
- Amanda Peet 1972 American actress
- Dani Carvajal 1992 Spanish footballer
- Jamie Vardy 1987 English association football player
- Jean Chrétien 1934 Prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003
- Leroy Sané 1996 German association football player
- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 1859 Viceroy of India and British Foreign Secretary
- John A. Macdonald 1815 1st prime minister of Canada from 1867 to 1873 and 1878 to 1891
- Roger Guillemin 1924 French-American neuroscientist
- Emile Heskey 1978 English association football player
- Nicolas Steno 1638 Pioneer in anatomy and geology, bishop
- Masashi Watanabe 1936 Japanese association football player and manager
- Alice Paul 1885 American suffragist, feminist, and activist
- Benjamin List 1968 German chemist
- Constantin Fehrenbach 1852 German politician
- Tony Hoare 1934 British computer scientist
- Alan Paton 1903 South African writer and activist
- Rod Taylor 1930 Australian actor
- Zenkō Suzuki 1911 Prime Minister of Japan
- Michael Keane 1993 English association football player, born 1993
- Pierre Mendès France 1907 French politician
- Adrian Sutil 1983 German racing driver
- Bryan Robson 1957 English footballer and manager
- Konstantin Khabensky 1972 Russian actor and film director
- Gérson 1941 Brazilian footballer
- Karl von Habsburg 1961 Head of the House of Habsburg
- Jens Nowotny 1974 German association football player
- Kazuki Nakajima 1985 Japanese racing driver
- Son Ye-jin 1982 South Korean actress
- Cody Simpson 1997 Australian singer
- Filip Bradarić 1992 Croatian association football player
- Salih Özcan 1998 Turkish-German association football player
- Stijn Schaars 1984 Dutch association football player
- Christian Nodal 1999 Mexican singer and songwriter
- Edward B. Titchener 1867 American psychologist
- Aldo Leopold 1887 American writer and scientist
- Eva Hesse 1936 German-born American sculptor and textile artist
- Rie Azami 1989 Japanese association football player
- Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907 Polish-American rabbi, philosopher, and civil rights activist
- Trygve Bratteli 1910 26th Prime Minister of Norway
- Diana Gabaldon 1952 American author
- Rahul Dravid 1973 Indian cricketer
- Fatima Sana Shaikh 1992 Indian film and television actress
- Eduardo Mendoza Garriga 1943 Spanish writer
- Bekim Balaj 1991 Albanian footballer
- Marc Blucas 1972 American actor
- Rockmond Dunbar 1973 American actor
- Mustafa Sandal 1970 Turkish singer-songwriter
- Clarence Clemons 1942 American saxophonist
- Mathias Énard 1972 French writer, translator, and university teacher
- Roksana Węgiel 2005 Polish singer
- Aja Naomi King 1985 American film and television actress
- Bernard Blier 1916 French character actor
- Denis Kolodin 1982 Russian footballer
- Carroll Shelby 1923 American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur
- Cai Yuanpei 1868 Chinese educator, Esperantist and the president of Peking University
- Peter Forsskål 1732 Swedish explorer, orientalist, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus
- Kaisa Mäkäräinen 1983 Finnish biathlete
- Will Keane 1993 Irish-English footballer
- Andrea Bertolacci 1991 Italian footballer
- Kazimierz Nowak 1897 Polish photographer
- Gökdeniz Karadeniz 1980 Turkish association football player
- Thomas Hicks 1876 American track and field athlete
- Albert Dupontel 1964 French actor, comedian, film director and screenwriter
- Ernst Nolte 1923 German historian and philosopher
- Maria Elena Kyriakou 1984 Greek Cypriot singer
- Ankita Raina 1993 Indian tennis player
- Lev Dyomin 1926 Soviet cosmonaut
- Amar Benikhlef 1982 Algerian judoka
- Edward A. Murphy, Jr. 1918 American engineer, coiner of Murphy's law
- Félix Torres 1997 Ecuadorian association football player
- Andres Tarand 1940 Estonian politician, geographer and climatologist
- Anni Friesinger-Postma 1977 German speed skater
- Devin Ratray 1977 American actor
- Mitchell Ryan 1934 American actor
- Kyle Richards 1969 American actress and television personality
- Jamelia 1981 British singer and songwriter
- Maurice Duruflé 1902 French composer and organist
- Christine Kaufmann 1945 German actress and businesswoman
- Theodoros Pangalos 1878 Greek military and politician
- Junji Koizumi 1968 Japanese association football player
- André Myhrer 1983 Swedish alpine skier
- Vieng Narumon 1992 Thai female singer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 11 share the 11th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.