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Famous people born on November 12
Short answer
Well-known people born on November 12 include Sun Yat-sen (1866), Auguste Rodin (1840), Hassan Rouhani (1948) and Grace Kelly (1929). Our list below has 90 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives November 12 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1615 (Richard Baxter) and the most recent is 2002 (Tino Livramento). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actress.
Who was born on November 12?
- Sun Yat-sen 1866 Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary
- Auguste Rodin 1840 French sculptor
- Hassan Rouhani 1948 President of Iran from 2013 to 2021
- Grace Kelly 1929 American actress and Princess consort of Monaco
- Baháʼu'lláh 1817 Founder of the Bahá'í Faith
- John William Strutt 1842 English physicist
- Nadia Comăneci 1961 Romanian gymnast and five-time Olympic gold medalist
- Ryan Gosling 1980 Canadian actor
- Roland Barthes 1915 French philosopher and essayist
- Neil Young 1945 Canadian singer, songwriter and filmmaker
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815 American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
- Michael Ende 1929 German writer
- Jalal Talabani 1933 Iraqi politician
- Hiroshi Kiyotake 1989 Japanese association football player
- Jules Koundé 1998 French footballer
- Russell Westbrook 1988 American basketball player
- Ignazio Abate 1986 Italian association football player
- Wallace Shawn 1943 American actor and playwright
- Takuya Takagi 1967 Japanese association football player and manager
- Thomas Lemar 1995 French footballer
- Kim Hunter 1922 American actress
- Michael Kremer 1964 American development economist
- Vavá 1934 Brazilian association football player
- Lyudmila Gurchenko 1935 Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, singer, composer, director (1935—2011)
- Enzo Francescoli 1961 Uruguayan footballer
- Atsushi Natori 1961 Japanese association football player
- Benjamin Mkapa 1938 Tanzanian politician and former president
- Benni McCarthy 1977 South African association football player
- Alexandra Maria Lara 1978 German actress
- James McCarthy 1990 Irish association football player
- Tonya Harding 1970 American figure skater
- Letitia Christian Tyler 1790 First Lady of the United States
- Patrice Leconte 1947 French film director and screenwriter
- Jacques Charles 1746 French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist
- Naomi Wolf 1962 American feminist and journalist
- Dario Šimić 1975 Croatian footballer
- Maximilian von Weichs 1881 German field marshal
- Cote de Pablo 1979 Chilean-American actress
- Céline Sciamma 1978 French director and screenwriter
- Thomas Berthold 1964 German footballer
- Charles Bell 1774 Scottish physician, painter and theologian
- Sandara Park 1984 South Korean rapper, singer, model and actress
- Mary Astell 1666 English feminist writer
- Shiho Kohata 1989 Japanese association football player
- David Ellefson 1964 American bass guitarist
- Nima Yushij 1895 Iranian poet
- Chen Guangcheng 1971 Chinese dissident lawyer
- Wim Kieft 1962 Dutch footballer
- Salim Ali 1896 Indian ornithologist
- Damon Galgut 1963 South African writer
- Gustaf Skarsgård 1980 Swedish actor
- Edward Schillebeeckx 1914 Belgian theologian
- Florent Manaudou 1990 French swimmer
- Keith Mitchell 1946 Grenadian politician
- Nur Fettahoğlu 1980 Turkish actor
- Adlène Guedioura 1985 Algerian and French footballer
- Kathleen Hanna 1968 American musician and feminist activist
- Jack Reed 1949 American politician
- Omarion 1984 American R&B singer
- Ōyama Iwao 1842 Japanese general
- Tamala Jones 1974 American actress
- Seth Barnes Nicholson 1891 American astronomer
- Yan Zi 1984 Chinese tennis player
- Nedum Onuoha 1986 English association football player
- Jacques Tourneur 1904 French film director
- Amjad Khan 1940 Indian actor
- Laxmi Prasad Devkota 1909 Nepali poet
- Scott McKenna 1996 Scottish association football player
- Nasser Al-Kadafi 1973 A Qatari businessman residing in France and president of Paris Saint-Germain football club
- Benjamin Moukandjo 1988 Cameroonian and French association football player
- Tino Livramento 2002 English association football player
- Richard Baxter 1615 English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer
- Loriot 1923 German humorist, cartoonist, film director and actor
- Julia, Princess of Battenberg 1825 German noblewoman; wife of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine
- Tadeusz Borowski 1922 Polish writer and journalist
- Richard H. Truly 1937 American astronaut and NASA administrator
- Donald Wuerl 1940 American cardinal
- Benoît Pedretti 1980 French football manager
- Lea Schüller 1997 German association football player
- Luguelín Santos 1992 Dominican sprinter
- Alessandro Birindelli 1974 Italian footballer
- Dāvis Bertāns 1992 Latvian basketball player
- Leon Štukelj 1898 Slovenian gymnast
- Cristina Peri Rossi 1941 Uruguayan writer
- Jack Oakie 1903 American actor
- Jason Lezak 1975 American swimmer
- Richelle Mead 1976 American writer
- Nadya Nozharova 1916 Bulgarian operetta actress and businesswoman
- Eric Addo 1978 Ghanaian footballer
- Mista 1978 Spanish former footballer, currently a manager caravaqueño
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on November 12 share the 12th of November as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.