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Famous people born on November 5
Short answer
Well-known people born on November 5 include Vivien Leigh (1913), Bryan Adams (1959), Vandana Shiva (1952) and Ibrahim I (1615). Our list below has 100 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives November 5 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1607 (Anna Maria van Schurman) and the most recent is 2000 (Yuval Raphael). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, singer.
Who was born on November 5?
- Vivien Leigh 1913 British actress
- Bryan Adams 1959 Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
- Vandana Shiva 1952 Indian philosopher, activist and environmentalist (*1952)
- Ibrahim I 1615 18th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Yair Lapid 1963 Leader of the Opposition in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament), Former Prime Minister of…
- Famke Janssen 1964 Dutch actress
- Paul Sabatier 1854 French chemist
- Virat Kohli 1988 Indian cricket player
- Will Durant 1885 American historian, philosopher and writer
- William Daniel Phillips 1948 Physics Nobel laureate
- Oleh Blokhin 1952 Ukrainian footballer, coach, and politician
- Sam Rockwell 1968 American actor
- Kasper Schmeichel 1986 Danish association football player
- Jeffrey Sachs 1954 American economist
- J.B.S. Haldane 1892 Geneticist and evolutionary biologist
- Marco Verratti 1992 Italian association football player
- Sam Shepard 1943 American playwright and actor
- Jean-Pierre Papin 1963 French football manager
- Art Garfunkel 1941 American singer, actor, and poet
- Eliud Kipchoge 1984 Kenyan long-distance runner
- BoA 1986 South Korean singer, actress and songwriter
- Joe Dassin 1938 French-American musician
- Kira Muratova 1934 Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter, film actress
- Robert Patrick 1958 American actor
- Douglass North 1920 American economist and Nobel laureate
- Uwe Seeler 1936 German association football player
- Takehiro Tomiyasu 1998 Japanese association football player
- Thorbjørn Jagland 1950 32nd Prime Minister of Norway
- Kris Jenner 1955 American media personality, socialite, and businesswoman
- César Luis Menotti 1938 Argentine footballer and manager
- Ike Turner 1931 American musician
- Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt 1921 Queen consort of Iran from 1941 to 1948
- Kseniya Sobchak 1981 Russian television personality and politician
- Eugene V. Debs 1855 American labor and political leader
- Catherine Connolly 1955 President of Ireland since 2025
- John Berger 1926 British painter, writer and art critic
- Giovanni Battista Belzoni 1778 Italian antiquarian
- Christoph Metzelder 1980 German footballer
- Kevin Jonas 1987 American singer, actor and musician
- Abedi Pele 1964 Ghanaian and French association football player
- Tatum O'Neal 1963 American actress
- Hans Gillhaus 1963 Dutch association football player
- Alejandro Sabella 1954 Argentine association football player and manager
- Elke Sommer 1940 German actress
- David Suazo 1979 Honduran footballer and manager
- Anna Maria van Schurman 1607 Artist, scientist and philosopher from the Northern Netherlands
- Charles Taylor 1931 Canadian philosopher
- Roy Rogers 1911 American actor and singer
- Bill Walton 1952 American basketball player and sportscaster
- Chieko Homma 1964 Japanese association football player
- Mike Hanke 1983 German association football player
- Angela Gossow 1974 German metal vocalist
- Lennart Johansson 1929 Industrialist, Swedish football administrator, president of UEFA
- Joel McCrea 1905 American actor
- Fred Lawrence Whipple 1906 American astronomer
- Ida Tarbell 1857 American journalist
- Dado Pršo 1974 Croatian and French footballer
- Miho Manya 1996 Japanese association football player
- Nao Shikata 1979 Japanese association football player
- Mikhail Artsybashev 1878 Russian writer and playwright
- Edwin Flack 1873 Australian middle distance runner and tennis player
- Mihail Sadoveanu 1880 Romanian writer, journalist and politician
- Luke Hemsworth 1980 Australian actor
- Chittaranjan Das 1870 Bengali lawyer, politician, author and leader of the Bengali Swaraj Party
- Luiza Gega 1988 Albanian runner
- Corin Nemec 1971 American actor and producer
- Yuval Raphael 2000 Israeli singer
- Washington Allston 1779 American artist
- Raymond Loewy 1893 French-born American industrial designer
- Charles Dupuy 1851 French politician
- György Cziffra 1921 Hungarian-French virtuoso pianist and composer
- Princess Maria Carolina, Duchess of Berry 1798 Two Sicilian Royal
- Chris Mepham 1997 Welsh association football player
- Connor Metcalfe 1999 Australian soccer player
- Athiya Shetty 1992 Bollywood actress
- Leandro Castán 1986 Brazilian footballer
- Magomed Ozdoyev 1992 Russian footballer
- Pita Taufatofua 1983 Tongan taekwondo practitioner and skier, flag bearer of Tonga at the opening ceremony…
- Richard Wright 1977 English footballer
- Alexa Chung 1983 English television presenter, model and contributing editor
- Félix Gaillard 1919 Prime Minister of France
- Milena Pavlović-Barili 1909 Serbian artist and poet
- Nigmatilla Yuldashev 1962 Uzbek lawyer and politician
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850 American author and poet
- Benjamin Franklin Butler 1818 American general and politician
- Alan G. Poindexter 1961 American test pilot and astronaut
- Peter Hammill 1948 English singer-songwriter
- Seth Gilliam 1968 American actor
- Gram Parsons 1946 American singer-songwriter
- Khalil al-Hayya 1960 Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau
- Nodiko Tatishvili 1986 Georgian singer
- Patrick Owomoyela 1979 German footballer
- Franco Trappoli 1947 Italian politician
- Jaime Roldos Aquilera 1940 President of Ecuador
- John Richardson 1787 Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer
- Aitana Sánchez-Gijón 1968 Spanish-Italian actress
- Ryan Adams 1974 American musician
- Endre Kabos 1906 Hungarian fencer
- Ivo Lapenna 1909 Law professor from Yugoslavia
- Ivan Stambolić 1936 President of Serbia
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on November 5 share the 5th of November as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.