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Famous people born on May 11
Short answer
Well-known people born on May 11 include Salvador Dalí (1904), Richard Feynman (1918), Andrés Iniesta (1984) and Camilo José Cela (1916). Our list below has 90 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 11 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1692 (James Stirling) and the most recent is 2003 (Fermín López). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, writer.
Who was born on May 11?
- Salvador Dalí 1904 Spanish artist
- Richard Feynman 1918 American theoretical physicist
- Andrés Iniesta 1984 Spanish footballer and manager
- Camilo José Cela 1916 Spanish writer
- Thibaut Courtois 1992 Belgian association football player
- Edsger W. Dijkstra 1930 Dutch computer scientist
- Irving Berlin 1888 American composer and lyricist
- Antony Hewish 1924 English physicist and radio astronomer
- Pridi Banomyong 1900 Thai prime minister
- Sue Gardner 1967 Canadian journalist
- Natasha Richardson 1963 British actress
- Baron Munchausen 1720 German nobleman
- Martha Graham 1894 American dancer and choreographer
- Jean-Léon Gérôme 1824 French painter and sculptor
- Daisuke Matsui 1981 Japanese association football player
- Laetitia Casta 1978 French actress and model
- Giovani dos Santos 1989 Mexican association football player
- Charles W. Fairbanks 1852 American politician; Vice President of the United States from 1905 to 1909
- Tomoaki Makino 1987 Japanese association football player
- Shohreh Aghdashloo 1952 Iranian actress
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach 1752 German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist
- Pablo Sarabia 1992 Spanish association football player
- Margaret Rutherford 1892 British actress
- Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova 1953 President of North Macedonia
- Abou Diaby 1986 French footballer
- Theodore von Kármán 1881 Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist
- Yuki Tsunoda 2000 Japanese racing driver
- Cory Monteith 1982 Canadian actor
- Fermín López 2003 Spanish association football player
- Igor Matovič 1973 Slovak entrepreneur and politician
- Ethel Lilian Voynich 1864 British writer and musician
- Miguel Veloso 1986 Portuguese footballer
- Lana Condor 1997 Vietnamese-American actress
- Teddy Scholten 1926 Dutch singer
- Nadiya Savchenko 1981 Ukrainian politician
- Marcos Paulo 1977 Brazilian association football player
- Eric Burdon 1941 English singer
- Max Morlock 1925 German footballer
- Gelson Martins 1995 Portuguese and Cape-Verdean association football player
- Pedro Petrone 1905 Uruguayan footballer
- Tim Blake Nelson 1964 American actor, director and writer
- Alexandre Kojève 1902 Russian-born French philosopher and statesman
- Marco Ferreri 1928 Italian film director, screenwriter and actor (1928—1997)
- Frances Fisher 1952 American actress
- Janne Ahonen 1977 Finnish ski jumper
- Laskarina Bouboulina 1771 Heroine of the Greek War of Independence
- Rose Ausländer 1901 Jewish poet from the Bukowina writing in German and English
- Harriet Quimby 1875 American aviator, screenwriter
- Henry Morgenthau Jr. 1891 American politician
- Louis Farrakhan 1933 American religious, leader of Nation of Islam (since 1981)
- Marcel Kittel 1988 German road cyclist
- Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark 1942 Princess of Greece and Denmark
- Kirill Moskalenko 1902 Soviet marshal
- Christina McHale 1992 American female tennis player
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux 1827 French sculptor and painter
- Christoph Schneider 1966 German drummer
- Đorđe Balašević 1953 Serbian singer-songwriter, author and screenwriter
- Jacqueline Cochran 1906 American aviator and businesswoman
- Lauren Jackson 1981 Australian basketball player
- Anton Mussert 1894 Dutch fascist
- Jürgen Schult 1960 German discus thrower
- Yaacov Agam 1928 Israeli sculptor and experimental artist
- Jeffrey Donovan 1968 American actor
- Robert Jarvik 1946 American inventor, creator of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart
- Holly Valance 1983 Australian actress and singer
- Benoît Magimel 1974 French actor
- Renaud 1952 French singer, songwriter and actor
- Saadat Hasan Manto 1912 Indo-Pakistani novelist, playwright and writer
- Anatoly Lyadov 1855 Russian composer, teacher and conductor
- Carla Bley 1936 American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader
- Shira Haas 1995 Israeli actress
- Simon Aspelin 1974 Swedish tennis player
- Pam Ferris 1948 British actress
- Haroun Tazieff 1914 French volcanologist, geologist
- Kamaru Usman 1987 Nigerian-American mixed martial artist
- Concha Buika 1972 Spanish singer of Equatorial Guinean descent
- Pablo Gabriel García 1977 Uruguayan footballer
- Ronielson da Silva Barbosa 1995 Brazilian association football player
- Jhon Córdoba 1993 Colombian footballer
- John F. Kelly 1950 Former White House Chief of Staff and Former United States Marine Corps General
- Severin Freund 1988 German ski jumper
- Marcus Rohdén 1991 Swedish footballer
- Nancy Greene 1943 Canadian alpine skier and politician
- Bobby Roode 1977 Canadian professional wrestler
- Adah Sharma 1992 Indian film actress
- James Stirling 1692 Scottish mathematician (*1692 – †1770)
- Jackie Milburn 1924 English footballer
- László Polgár 1946 Hungarian chess teacher
- Sára Salkaházi 1899 Hungarian Roman Catholic religious sister
- Francisco Umbral 1932 Spanish writer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 11 share the 11th of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.