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Famous people born on November 26
Short answer
Well-known people born on November 26 include Tina Turner (1939), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Elizabeth Blackburn (1948) and Rita Ora (1990). Our list below has 88 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives November 26 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1607 (John Harvard) and the most recent is 2000 (Tali Golergant). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, singer.
Who was born on November 26?
- Tina Turner 1939 American-born Swiss singer and songwriter
- Ferdinand de Saussure 1857 Swiss linguist and philosopher
- Elizabeth Blackburn 1948 Australian-American biological researcher
- Rita Ora 1990 English-Albanian singer and actress
- Norbert Wiener 1894 American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence
- Danny Welbeck 1990 English association football player
- Karl Ziegler 1898 German chemist
- Adolfo Pérez Esquivel 1931 Argentine activist, architect and sculptor
- William Cowper 1731 English poet and hymnodist
- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi 1939 Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009
- Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) 1847 Empress consort of Russia
- Ellen G. White 1827 American author, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Maud of Wales 1869 British princess, Queen consort of Norway from 1905 to 1938
- Shū Kurata 1988 Japanese association football player
- Akira Narahashi 1971 Japanese association football player
- Heinrich Brüning 1885 German chancellor
- Keiji Kaimoto 1972 Japanese association football player
- Charles M. Schulz 1922 American cartoonist, known for creating the comic strip, "Peanuts"
- Aurel Stein 1862 Hungarian-British archaeologist
- Satoshi Miyauchi 1959 Japanese association football player and manager
- DJ Khaled 1975 American DJ and rapper
- Marilynne Robinson 1943 American novelist and essayist
- Frederik Pohl 1919 American science fiction writer and editor
- Patricio Aylwin 1918 Chilean politician and former president
- Samuel Reshevsky 1911 American chess player
- Enrico Bombieri 1940 Italian mathematician
- Sergei Aksyonov 1972 Crimean politician
- Aaron Wan-Bissaka 1997 DR Congo footballer
- Héctor Scarone 1898 Uruguayan footballer
- Willis Carrier 1876 American inventor
- Charles Adolphe Wurtz 1817 French chemist
- Ryszard Kaczorowski 1919 Polish statesman, Last President of Poland in Exile
- Peter Facinelli 1973 American actor
- John Alexander Reina Newlands 1837 British chemist who did work concerning the periodicity of elements
- Mihály Babits 1883 Hungarian poet, translator
- Arjun Rampal 1972 Indian film actor, producer, model and television host
- Yamamoto Gonnohyōe 1852 Prime Minister of Japan
- gabriel putita del leon 1990 Brazilian association football player
- Françoise Gilot 1921 French painter, art critic, writer and beloved of Pablo Picasso
- Vreni Schneider 1964 Swiss alpine ski racer
- Chris Hughes 1983 American entrepreneur
- Scott Adsit 1965 American stand-up comedian
- John Harvard 1607 English-American clergyman and philanthropist
- Boris Borisovich Yegorov 1937 Soviet cosmonaut
- James Dashner 1972 American author
- Roman Šebrle 1974 Czech high jumper and decathlete
- Ivan Basso 1977 Italian road racing cyclist
- Mark Margolis 1939 American actor
- Georgios Tzavellas 1987 Greek association football player
- Manolo Gabbiadini 1991 Italian association football player
- Mary Edwards Walker 1832 American feminist and doctor
- Alice Herz-Sommer 1903 British Jewish pianist and music teacher from Bohemia
- Auguste Charlois 1864 French astronomer
- Aruna Dindane 1980 Ivorian association football player
- Mari Alkatiri 1949 Prime Minister of East Timor
- Stephan Andersen 1981 Danish footballer
- Shelley Moore Capito 1953 United States Senator from West Virginia
- Sarah Grimké 1792 American abolitionist
- Uladzimir Karatkievich 1930 Belarusian writer
- Krešimir Ćosić 1948 Yugoslav basketball player
- Shawn Kemp 1969 American basketball player
- Sulejman Tihić 1951 Bosnian politician
- Adrianus Johannes Simonis 1931 Catholic cardinal
- Zeng Guofan 1811 Chinese politician and military commander
- Luka Ivanušec 1998 Croatian association football player
- Bauke Mollema 1986 Dutch road racing cyclist
- Verghese Kurien 1921 Indian entrepreneur
- Ivan Patzaichin 1949 Romanian sprint canoeist
- Galina Prozumenshchikova 1948 Soviet Olympic swimmer
- Kuo Hsing-chun 1993 Taiwanese weightlifter
- Manuel Odría 1897 38th & 40th President of Peru
- Edward L. G. Bowell 1943 American astronomer
- Kara Walker 1969 American painter and installation artist
- Lamecha Girma 2000 Ethiopian athletics competitor
- Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson 1988 Icelandic strongman and actor
- Tali Golergant 2000 Israeli-Luxembourgish singer and actress
- Silvester Belt 1997 Lithuanian singer and songwriter
- Michał Szpak 1990 Polish singer
- Jack Markell 1960 American politician
- Nikola Pokrivač 1985 Croatian footballer
- Marc Roca Junqué 1996 Spanish association football player
- Albert Montañés 1980 Spanish tennis player
- Jozefina Topalli 1963 Albanian politician
- Garcelle Beauvais 1966 Haitian-American actress
- Leonardo Pavoletti 1988 Italian footballer
- Andrejs Rubins 1978 Latvian association football player
- Armando Cooper 1987 Panamanian footballer
- Ana Maria Popescu 1984 Romanian épée fencer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on November 26 share the 26th of November as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.