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Famous people born on November 28
Short answer
Well-known people born on November 28 include Friedrich Engels (1820), William Blake (1757), Stefan Zweig (1881) and Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908). Our list below has 107 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives November 28 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1592 (Hong Taiji) and the most recent is 2002 (Farès Chaïbi). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actress.
Who was born on November 28?
- Friedrich Engels 1820 German philosopher, sociologist and economist
- William Blake 1757 English poet and artist
- Stefan Zweig 1881 Austrian writer
- Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908 French anthropologist and ethnologist
- John Bunyan 1628 English writer and preacher
- Ed Harris 1950 American actor and director
- Anna Nicole Smith 1967 American actress and television personality
- Alfonso Cuarón 1961 Mexican filmmaker
- Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 Italian-born French composer
- Édouard Philippe 1970 Prime Minister of France from 2017 to 2020
- Russell A. Hulse 1950 American astronomer
- Karen Gillan 1987 Scottish actress and filmmaker
- Jon Stewart 1962 American comedian, writer, producer, activist, and television host
- Alfonso XII of Spain 1857 King of Spain from 1874 to 1885
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead 1984 American actress
- Hiroki Fujiharu 1988 Japanese association football player
- Konstantin Simonov 1915 Soviet writer, poet, playwright and wartime correspondent
- Gloria Grahame 1923 American actress
- Hiroshi Nanami 1972 Japanese association football player and manager
- Chase Elliott 1995 American stock car racing driver
- Takashi Shimoda 1975 Japanese association football player
- Fabio Grosso 1977 Italian football player and manager
- Hong Taiji 1592 1st emperor of the Qing Dynasty
- George Yonashiro 1950 Japanese association football player and manager
- Maximilian II of Bavaria 1811 King of Bavaria between 1848 and 1864
- Randy Newman 1943 American singer-songwriter and pianist
- Agnieszka Holland 1948 Polish film director and screenwriter
- Yasutaro Matsuki 1957 Japanese association football player and manager
- Yami Gautam 1988 Indian actress
- Abdul Halim of Kedah 1927 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong and Sultan of Kedah
- Laura Antonelli 1941 Italian actress
- Alessandro Altobelli 1955 Italian footballer
- Tin Jedvaj 1995 Croatian association football player
- Hossein Shahabi 1967 Iranian screenwriter, producer and film director
- Álvaro Pereira 1985 Uruguayan footballer
- Nelson Valdez 1983 Paraguayan footballer
- Dedryck Boyata 1990 Belgian association football player
- apl.de.ap 1974 Filipino musician
- Māris Kučinskis 1961 Latvian politician
- Marcel Ciolacu 1967 Romanian politician
- Tom Regan 1938 American philosopher
- József Bozsik 1925 Hungarian footballer
- John Galliano 1960 British fashion designer
- Nancy Mitford 1904 British writer
- Carl Jonas Love Almqvist 1793 Swedish romantic poet, early feminist, realist, composer, social critic and traveller
- Hope Lange 1933 American actress
- Victor Cousin 1792 French philosopher
- Yasuyo Yamagishi 1979 Japanese association football player
- Andrew Bogut 1984 Australian basketball player
- Leandro Barbosa 1982 Brazilian basketball player
- Barbara Morgan 1951 Astronaut
- Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria 1660 Dauphine of France
- Leo Østigård 1999 Norwegian footballer
- Ritchie De Laet 1988 Belgian association football player
- Philippe Sollers 1936 French philosopher
- Pat Cox 1952 Irish politician
- Daniel Henney 1979 American actor and model
- Carol Gilligan 1936 American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist
- Joe Dante 1946 American filmmaker
- Michael Bennet 1964 United States Senator from Colorado since 2009
- Colman Domingo 1969 American actor
- Jake Sullivan 1976 American attorney and politician
- Chamillionaire 1979 American rapper
- Ryan Kwanten 1976 Australian actor
- Abdelhamid Sabiri 1996 Moroccan association football player
- Rita Mae Brown 1944 Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
- Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya 1941 President of Mauritania from 1984 to 2005
- Aleksandar Ranković 1909 Yugoslav politician
- Adam Hicks 1992 American actor, rapper, singer, and songwriter
- Henry Hazlitt 1894 American journalist & writer
- Jovo Lukić 1998 Bosnian association football player
- Landry Nguémo 1985 Cameroonian and French footballer
- Alexander Godunov 1949 Russian-American ballet dancer and film actor
- Berry Gordy 1929 American record producer, founder of Motown Records
- Louise Bourgoin 1981 French actress
- Esha Gupta 1985 Indian actress
- Sonia O'Sullivan 1969 Irish long and middle-distance runner
- Dmitry Likhachov 1906 Russian philologist
- Yuliia Levchenko 1997 Ukrainian athletics competitor
- Wilbur L. Ross Jr. 1937 United States 39th Secretary of Commerce
- Farès Chaïbi 2002 Algerian and French footballer
- James Karen 1923 American actor
- Alistair Darling 1953 British Labour Party politician
- Luke Howard 1772 British manufacturing chemist
- James Allen 1864 British philosophical writer
- Miki Matsubara 1959 Japanese singer-songwriter
- Sophia Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach 1700 Queen consort of Denmark and Norway
- Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal 1862 Titular Duchess of Parma
- Ekaterina Dafovska 1975 Bulgarian biathlete
- Victor de Broglie 1785 French politician
- Nadezhda Olizarenko 1953 Soviet-Ukrainian middle-distance runner
- Víctor Fernández 1960 Spanish football manager
- Judd Nelson 1959 American actor
- Aimee Garcia 1978 American actress
- S. Epatha Merkerson 1952 American actress
- Matt Cameron 1962 American drummer
- John Lloyd Stephens 1805 American explorer, writer, and diplomat
- Marc-André Fleury 1984 Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Adem Jashari 1955 Commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army
- Rasmussen 1985 Danish singer
- Stuart Taylor 1980 English association football player
- Lorenzo Ruiz 1594 Filipino saint and Martyr
- Stephen Roche 1959 Irish racing cyclist
- Benjamin Angoua 1986 Ivorian and French footballer
- Alfred Kirwa Yego 1986 Kenyan middle distance runner
- Fenriz 1971 Norwegian musician
- Ramón José Velásquez 1916 Venezuelan politician, lawyer and historian
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on November 28 share the 28th of November as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.