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Famous people born on November 20
Short answer
Well-known people born on November 20 include Joe Biden (1942), Selma Lagerlöf (1858), Nadine Gordimer (1923) and Edwin Hubble (1889). Our list below has 81 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives November 20 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1620 (Avvakum) and the most recent is 2004 (Youssoufa Moukoko). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on November 20?
- Joe Biden 1942 46th President of the United States
- Selma Lagerlöf 1858 Swedish writer
- Nadine Gordimer 1923 South African writer
- Edwin Hubble 1889 American astronomer
- Robert F. Kennedy 1925 American politician and lawyer
- Pius VIII 1761 Pope of the Catholic Church from 1829 to 1830
- Benoit Mandelbrot 1924 Polish-born, French and American mathematician
- Kirill 1946 Bishop, priest, eastern Orthodox priest, eastern Orthodox bishop, patriarch
- Goodluck Jonathan 1957 President of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015
- Otto von Habsburg 1912 Head of the House of Habsburg and German politician
- Maya Plisetskaya 1925 Russian ballet dancer
- Karl von Frisch 1886 German-Austrian ethologist
- John Bolton 1948 American lawyer and diplomat
- Mikhail Ulyanov 1927 Soviet and Russian actor, theatre and film director
- Arieh Warshel 1940 Chemist, biochemist and biophysicist
- Don DeLillo 1936 American novelist, playwright and essayist
- Denis Zakaria 1996 Swiss association football player
- Gerardo Martino 1962 Argentine footballer and manager
- Ming-Na Wen 1963 American actress and model
- Robert Byrd 1917 American politician
- Joel McHale 1971 American actor and comedian
- Bo Derek 1956 American actress
- Bob Einstein 1942 American comedian, actor
- Peng Liyuan 1962 Chinese soprano, 2nd spouse of Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist…
- Avvakum 1620 Russian protopope
- Dušan Tadić 1988 Serbian association football player
- Eduardo Vargas 1989 Chilean association football player
- Hu Yaobang 1915 Chinese politician, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
- Toshio Matsuura 1955 Japanese association football player
- Atsushi Yoneyama 1976 Japanese association football player and manager
- Henri-Georges Clouzot 1907 French film director, screenwriter and producer
- Wilfrid Laurier 1841 7th prime minister of Canada
- Sean Young 1959 American actress
- Estelle Parsons 1927 American actress
- Aleksey Batalov 1928 Soviet and Russian actor, file director and screenwriter
- Paulus Potter 1625 Dutch painter
- Margherita of Savoy 1851 Queen of Italy from 1878 to 1900
- Franz Miklosich 1813 Austrian member of Empire parliament (Austria empire), lawyer and university educator
- Youssoufa Moukoko 2004 German association football player
- Andrea Riseborough 1981 British actress
- Eduard Rüppell 1794 German naturalist and explorer
- Duane Allman 1946 American guitarist
- Timothy Gowers 1963 British mathematician
- Saki Ueno 1994 Japanese association football player
- Tarique Rahman 1968 Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- Alberto Suppici 1898 Uruguayan football player and manager
- Carlos Boozer 1981 American basketball player
- Ji Yun-nam 1976 North Korean footballer
- Joe Walsh 1947 American rock musician
- Oskar Potiorek 1853 Austro-Hungarian general
- Yoshiki 1965 Japanese musician
- Mikheil Javakhishvili 1880 Soviet writer
- Victor D'Hondt 1841 Belgian jurist
- Wolfgang Stark 1969 German football referee
- Barbara Hendricks 1948 American operatic soprano and concert singer
- Tusshar Kapoor 1976 Indian actor and producer
- Edvard Westermarck 1862 Finnish academic
- Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan 1970 Emirati royal and politician
- Choe Yong-rim 1930 North Korean politician
- Dmitri Bulykin 1979 Russian association football player
- Cody Linley 1989 American actor
- Nadine Velazquez 1978 American actress and model
- Josiah Royce 1855 American philosopher
- Paul Scheuring 1968 American screenwriter
- Oliver Sykes 1986 British singer and record producer
- Theo Bongonda 1995 DR Congolese footballer
- Kon Ichikawa 1915 Japanese film director and screenwriter
- Dele Aiyenugba 1983 Nigerian footballer
- Grant Hanley 1991 Scottish association football player
- Arpad Šterbik 1979 Spanish handball player
- Roberto Rosales 1988 Venezuelan association football player
- Dan Byrd 1985 Actor
- Rodger Bumpass 1951 American actor
- Jeremy Jordan 1984 American actor and singer
- Jim Garrison 1921 American district attorney
- Orlando Figes 1959 British historian
- Connie Talbot 2000 British singer
- Adrien Truffert 2001 French footballer
- José Figueroa Alcorta 1860 President of Argentina
- Allen Chastanet 1960 Prime Minister of Saint Lucia from 2016 to 2021
- Sergei Polunin 1989 Ukrainian-born ballet dancer, actor and model
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on November 20 share the 20th of November as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.