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Famous people born on November 29

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Well-known people born on November 29 include C. S. Lewis (1898), Louisa May Alcott (1832), Empress Dowager Cixi (1835) and Ryan Giggs (1973). Our list below has 101 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives November 29 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1627 (John Ray) and the most recent is 2002 (Yunus Musah). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, actor.

Who was born on November 29?

  1. C. S. Lewis 1898 British writer, lay theologian, and scholar
  2. Louisa May Alcott 1832 American novelist
  3. Empress Dowager Cixi 1835 Chinese empress
  4. Ryan Giggs 1973 Welsh association football player and coach
  5. Garry Shandling 1949 American comedian
  6. Christian Dopplerr 1803 Austrian mathematician and physicist
  7. Chadwick Boseman 1976 American actor
  8. Gaetano Donizetti 1797 Italian opera composer
  9. John Mahama 1958 President of the Republic of Ghana
  10. Don Cheadle 1964 American actor
  11. Anna Faris 1976 American actress
  12. Beji Caid Essebsi 1926 Tunisian politician
  13. Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg 1856 German politician
  14. Jean-Martin Charcot 1825 French neurologist
  15. Wilhelm Hauff 1802 German poet and novelist
  16. Chun Jung-myung 1980 South Korean actor
  17. John Ray 1627 British botanist
  18. António Egas Moniz 1874 Portuguese politian and neurosurgeon
  19. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud 1955 Somali removal of president
  20. The Game 1979 American rapper, record producer and actor
  21. Emma Morano 1899 Italian supercentenarian
  22. Gemma Chan 1982 British actress
  23. Ernst Happel 1925 Austrian footballer and manager
  24. George Kobayashi 1947 Japanese association football player
  25. Tetsuo Sugamata 1957 Japanese association football player
  26. Pierre André Latreille 1762 French zoologist and entomologist
  27. Rahm Emanuel 1959 American politician
  28. Tom Sizemore 1961 American actor
  29. Janet Napolitano 1957 American politician, lawyer, and academic administrator
  30. Marcel Lefebvre 1905 French traditionalist Catholic archbishop
  31. Petra Kelly 1947 German politician and activist
  32. Gonçalo Guedes 1996 Portuguese footballer
  33. Héctor Castro 1904 Uruguayan footballer
  34. Laura Marano 1995 American actress and singer
  35. Madeleine L'Engle 1918 American writer
  36. John Ambrose Fleming 1849 English electrical engineer and physicist
  37. Carlo Levi 1902 Italian painter, writer, politic and anti-fascist
  38. James Rosenquist 1933 American artist
  39. Lucas Black 1982 American actor
  40. William Tubman 1895 Liberian politician, 19th president of Liberia
  41. Lauren German 1978 American actress
  42. Pierre van Hooijdonk 1969 Dutch footballer
  43. Dominic Adiyiah 1989 Ghanaian footballer
  44. Giovanni Losi 1838 Italian presbyter and missionary
  45. Mildred Harris 1901 American actress
  46. John Mayall 1933 English blues musician
  47. Enric Prat de la Riba 1870 Spanish politician
  48. Jeff Fahey 1952 American actor
  49. Amos Bronson Alcott 1799 American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer
  50. Gottfried Semper 1803 German architect
  51. Nicéphore Soglo 1934 Prime Minister of Benin
  52. Andrés Bello 1781 Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist
  53. Kim Delaney 1961 American actress
  54. Sandro Wagner 1987 German football player and manager
  55. John Mensah 1982 Ghanaian footballer
  56. John Layfield 1966 American entrepreneur, professional wrestler, commentator and host
  57. Richard Borcherds 1959 British-American mathematician
  58. Eddie Howe 1977 English association football player and manager
  59. Gertrude Jekyll 1843 Garden designer, artist, editor
  60. Vuk Drašković 1946 Serbian politician and writer
  61. Tomas Brolin 1969 Swedish footballer
  62. John Barrow 1952 British physicist and mathematician
  63. Katlego Mphela 1984 South African footballer
  64. Andrew McCarthy 1962 American actor
  65. Andy Beshear 1977 American attorney and politician
  66. Silvio Rodríguez 1946 Cuban recording artist; musician, singer-songwriter
  67. Lawrence Ati-Zigi 1996 Ghanaian association football player
  68. Jerry Lawler 1949 American professional wrestler and color commentator
  69. Jean-Philippe Toussaint 1957 Belgian writer and filmmaker
  70. Huub Stevens 1953 Dutch association football player and manager
  71. Nellie Tayloe Ross 1876 First woman state governor in the U.S.
  72. Michel Duchaussoy 1938 French actor
  73. Sandro Salvadore 1939 Italian footballer
  74. Janina Gavankar 1980 American actress
  75. Busby Berkeley 1895 American film director and musical choreographer
  76. Yunus Musah 2002 American soccer player
  77. Julius Raab 1891 Austrian chancellor and politician
  78. Ernest William Brown 1866 English-American astronomer and mathematician
  79. Nathan Dyer 1987 English association football player
  80. Gustav Ritter von Kahr 1862 German politician
  81. Cathy Moriarty 1960 Actress
  82. Julius Randle 1994 American basketball player
  83. Billy Strayhorn 1915 American musician, composer, lyricist and arranger
  84. Theodor Escherich 1857 Austrian doctor
  85. Chibly Langlois 1958 Cardinal from Haiti
  86. Maine de Biran 1766 French philosopher
  87. Lothar Emmerich 1941 German association football player and manager
  88. Anniken Huitfeldt 1969 Norwegian politician
  89. Andriy Vorobey 1978 Ukrainian footballer
  90. John Templeton 1912 American-born British stock investor, businessman and philanthropist
  91. Kasey Keller 1969 American soccer player
  92. Andreas Goldberger 1972 Austrian former ski jumper
  93. Mario Aurelio Poli 1947 Catholic Cardinal from Argentine.
  94. Antonio Farnese 1679 Duke of Parma
  95. Tonie Marshall 1951 French actress
  96. Yann Aurel Bisseck 2000 German footballer
  97. Wendell Phillips 1811 American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer
  98. Stanley Ann Dunham 1942 American anthropologist, mother of Barack Obama
  99. Jean Vincent 1930 French association football player and manager
  100. Hayato Sasaki 1982 Japanese association football player
  101. Fawad Khan 1981 Pakistani film actor

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on November 29 share the 29th of November as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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