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Famous people born on November 2
Short answer
Well-known people born on November 2 include James K. Polk (1795), Warren G. Harding (1865), Shah Rukh Khan (1965) and Marie Antoinette (1755). Our list below has 95 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives November 2 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1699 (Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin) and the most recent is 2001 (Moisés Caicedo). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on November 2?
- James K. Polk 1795 President of the United States from 1845 to 1849
- Warren G. Harding 1865 President of the United States from 1921 to 1923
- Shah Rukh Khan 1965 Indian actor, producer and television personality
- Marie Antoinette 1755 Last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution
- Odysseas Elytis 1911 Greek poet and art critic
- Burt Lancaster 1913 American actor
- Borut Pahor 1963 Slovenian Politician, former Prime Minister and President, born 1963
- Mehmed V 1844 35th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Luchino Visconti 1906 Italian director
- David Schwimmer 1966 American actor
- Richard E. Taylor 1929 Canadian physicist
- Melvin Schwartz 1932 American experimental physicist
- Queen Sofía of Spain 1938 Queen consort of Spain from 1975 to 2014
- Alphonso Davies 2000 Canadian soccer player
- Georgy Lvov 1861 Russian statesman and the first post-imperial prime minister of Russia
- Georges Sorel 1847 French philosopher and sociologist
- Carmen Amaya 1918 Spanish flamenco dancer and singer
- Harlow Shapley 1885 American astronomer
- Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly 1808 French writer
- Paweł Adamowicz 1965 Mayor of Gdańsk
- Alice Brady 1892 American actress
- Stevan Jovetić 1989 Montenegrin footballer
- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin 1699 Painter from France
- Diego Lugano 1980 Uruguayan footballer
- Joseph Radetzky von Radetz 1766 Czech nobleman and Austrian general
- Esha Deol 1981 Indian actress
- Alan Jones 1946 Australian racing driver and journalist
- Moisés Caicedo 2001 Ecuatorian association football player
- Steve Ditko 1927 American comics artist
- Lois McMaster Bujold 1949 American novelist
- Pat Buchanan 1938 American politician and commentator
- Koji Tanaka 1955 Japanese association football player and manager
- Keith Emerson 1944 British recording artist; keyboard player and composer
- Muhammad Rafiq Tarar 1929 Pakistani judge and activist
- Patrice Chéreau 1944 French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer
- Aga Khan III 1877 48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community
- Daniel Boone 1734 American pioneer and frontiersman
- Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn 1767 British prince; fourth son of George III
- Pablo Armero 1986 Colombian footballer
- James Dunn 1901 Actor, Vaudeville performer
- Ken Rosewall 1934 Australian tennis player
- k.d. lang 1961 Canadian singer-songwriter
- Ann Rutherford 1917 Canadian-American actress
- Santos Iriarte 1902 Uruguayan footballer
- Helmuth Weidling 1891 Wehrmacht general
- Julia Görges 1988 German tennis player
- Kendall Schmidt 1990 American musician, singer, songwriter and actor
- Enrico Albertosi 1939 Italian footballer
- Katharine Isabelle 1981 Canadian actress
- Saïd Aouita 1959 Moroccan runner Olympic and world 5000 m champion
- Moa Martinson 1890 Swedish writer
- Scott Walker 1967 45th Governor of Wisconsin
- Marisol Nichols 1973 American actress
- Larry Fink 1952 American Billionaire Business Person and Board Member, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
- Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange 1709 British princess; eldest daughter of George II
- Hanna Öberg 1995 Swedish biathlete
- Pornsak Songsaeng 1960 Thai male singer
- Ron McGovney 1962 American bassist
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf 1739 Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist
- Charles Itandje 1982 Cameroonian-French footballer
- Zvonimir Soldo 1967 Croatian footballer
- Vitolo 1989 Spanish association football player
- Vladimir Beara 1928 Croatian footballer
- Sigrid Kaag 1961 Dutch diplomat and politician
- Arun Shourie 1941 Indian journalist and politician
- Brian Kemp 1963 American politician
- Leo Perutz 1882 Austrian mathematician and writer
- Andreas Mogensen 1976 Danish astronaut
- Thierry Omeyer 1976 French handball player
- Paul Abraham 1892 Jewish-Hungarian composer
- Lucien Favre 1957 Swiss footballer and coach
- Ida Vitale 1923 Uruguayan writer
- Shere Hite 1942 German-American sexologist
- Rodney Williams 1947 Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda
- Gigi Proietti 1940 Italian actor
- Paul Johnson 1928 Journalist, grand historian and speechwriter from England
- Lauren Vélez 1964 American actress
- Rafael Vitti 1995 Brazilian actor
- Sofia Polgar 1974 Chess player
- Diana Penty 1985 Indian model and actress
- Vasil Garvanliev 1984 Macedonian singer
- Kim So-yeon 1980 South Korean actress, 1980
- Peter Mullan 1959 British actor, filmmaker and socialist
- Nadav Guedj 1998 Israeli singer
- Giuseppe Sinopoli 1946 Italian conductor and composer
- Noah Ngeny 1978 Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Enrique Collar 1934 Spanish footballer
- Jon M. Chu 1979 American filmmaker
- Darren Young 1983 American professional wrestler
- Riley McGree 1998 Australian association football player
- Maurice Blondel 1861 French philosopher
- Gyula Illyés 1902 Hungarian poet
- Anu Malik 1960 Indian music director and singer
- Tomáš Zdechovský 1979 Member of the European Parliament for Czechia
- Victorino de la Plaza 1840 President of Argentina
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on November 2 share the 2nd of November as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.