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Famous people born on November 16

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Well-known people born on November 16 include Guillermo Lasso (1955), José Saramago (1922), Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717) and Chinua Achebe (1930). Our list below has 76 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives November 16 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1717 (Jean Le Rond d'Alembert) and the most recent is 2000 (Hannah Hampton). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, actress.

Who was born on November 16?

  1. Guillermo Lasso 1955 55th President of Ecuador from 2021 to 2023
  2. José Saramago 1922 Portuguese novelist
  3. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist
  4. Chinua Achebe 1930 Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
  5. Sanna Marin 1985 Prime Minister of Finland from 2019 to 2023
  6. Paul Scholes 1974 English footballer
  7. Maggie Gyllenhaal 1977 American actress, singer and filmmaker
  8. Shigeru Miyamoto 1952 Japanese video game designer
  9. Burgess Meredith 1907 American actor
  10. Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi 1894 Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher
  11. Robert Nozick 1938 American political philosopher
  12. Paul Hindemith 1895 German composer
  13. Sooronbay Jeenbekov 1958 President of Kyrgyzstan from 2017 to 2020
  14. Marcelo Brozović 1992 Croatian association football player
  15. Nnamdi Azikiwe 1904 First President of Nigeria
  16. Mackenyu 1996 Japanese actor
  17. Nélson Semedo 1993 Portuguese footballer
  18. Bruno Guimarães 1997 Brazilian footballer
  19. Oswald Mosley 1896 British aristocrat and fascist politician
  20. Diana Krall 1964 Canadian recording artist; jazz singer and pianist
  21. Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi 1964 Italian and French actress, director, screenwriter
  22. André-Frank Zambo Anguissa 1995 Cameroonian association football player
  23. Elpidio Quirino 1890 President of the Philippines from 1948 to 1953
  24. Luciano Floridi 1964 Italian philosopher
  25. Kalākaua 1836 Last reigning king of the Kingdom of Hawaii
  26. Lisa Bonet 1967 American actress
  27. Marg Helgenberger 1958 American actress
  28. Terence McKenna 1946 American ethnobotanist and mystic
  29. Héctor Cúper 1955 Argentine footballer
  30. Guo Moruo 1892 Chinese writer
  31. Midori Honda 1964 Japanese association football player
  32. Naoko Kawakami 1977 Japanese association football player
  33. Missi Pyle 1972 American actress and singer
  34. Pete Davidson 1993 American comedian and actor
  35. Mustapha Hadji 1971 Moroccan and French footballer
  36. Santiago Peña Palacios 1978 President of Paraguay since 2023
  37. France-Albert René 1935 President of Seychelles
  38. Flake Lorenz 1966 German keyboardist
  39. Britta Steffen 1983 German swimmer
  40. Nemanja Gudelj 1991 Serbian footballer
  41. Oksana Baiul 1977 Ukrainian figure skater
  42. Gene Amdahl 1922 American physicist
  43. Kate Miller-Heidke 1981 Australian singer
  44. Arie Haan 1948 Dutch footballer and manager
  45. Eugenio Beltrami 1835 Italian mathematician
  46. W. C. Handy 1873 American blues composer and musician
  47. Aleksandr Popov 1971 Russian swimmer and politician
  48. Aditya Roy Kapur 1985 Indian actor
  49. Martha Plimpton 1970 American actress
  50. Mats Wieffer 1999 Dutch association football player
  51. Boulaye Dia 1996 Senegalese and French footballer
  52. Zina Garrison 1963 American tennis player
  53. Yacouba Isaac Zida 1965 Burkinabé military officer and politician
  54. Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah 1935 Lebanese cleric
  55. Tommaso Tittoni 1855 Prime Minister of Italy
  56. Corinne Hermès 1961 French singer
  57. Mohammad Rasoulof 1972 Iranian filmmaker
  58. Brendan Murray 1996 Irish singer
  59. Jo Jo White 1946 American basketball player
  60. Christian Horner 1973 Former British motorsport executive and former racing driver
  61. Odoardo Beccari 1843 Italian botanist and naturalist
  62. Tazio Nuvolari 1892 Italian racecar driver
  63. Kazuhiro Suzuki 1976 Japanese association football player
  64. Gemma Atkinson 1984 British actress and model
  65. Aliaa Magda Elmahdy 1991 Egyptian women's rights activist
  66. Elena Tsagkrinou 1994 Greek singer
  67. Jónas Hallgrímsson 1807 Icelandic writer
  68. Dénes Dibusz 1990 Hungarian association football player
  69. Ernest Nagel 1901 American philosopher
  70. Héctor Baley 1950 Argentinian footballer
  71. Hannah Hampton 2000 English footballer
  72. Marco Pezzaiuoli 1968 German association football player and manager
  73. Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg 1852 German noble; Grand Duke from 1900 until 1918
  74. Anne Holt 1958 Norwegian writer, lawyer and politician
  75. Park Hyung-sik 1991 South Korean actor and singer
  76. Stefan Küng 1993 Swiss cyclist

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on November 16 share the 16th of November as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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