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Famous people born on November 8
Short answer
Well-known people born on November 8 include Alain Delon (1935), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), Gottlob Frege (1848) and Aaron Swartz (1986). Our list below has 93 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives November 8 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1622 (Charles X Gustav of Sweden) and the most recent is 2003 (Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, actor.
Who was born on November 8?
- Alain Delon 1935 French actor
- Kazuo Ishiguro 1954 British novelist
- Gottlob Frege 1848 German philosopher, logician, and mathematician
- Aaron Swartz 1986 American computer programmer and internet-political activist
- Jack Kilby 1923 American electrical engineer
- Guus Hiddink 1946 Dutch football player and manager
- Christiaan Barnard 1922 South African cardiac surgeon
- Masashi Kishimoto 1974 Japanese manga artist
- Gordon Ramsay 1966 British chef, restaurateur, and television personality
- Virna Lisi 1936 Italian actress
- Prajadhipok 1893 King of Siam
- Charles X Gustav of Sweden 1622 King of Sweden
- Jean Casimir-Perier 1847 6th President of the French Republic
- Tara Reid 1975 American actress
- Joe Cole 1981 English association football player
- Hermann Rorschach 1884 Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- Dorothy Day 1897 American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert
- Patti Page 1927 American country-pop singer
- Luís Fabiano 1980 Brazilian footballer
- Yoav Gallant 1958 Israeli politician and former military officer
- Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej 1901 47th Prime Minister of Romania
- Alfre Woodard 1952 American actress
- Désirée Clary 1777 Queen of Sweden and Norway as the consort of Charles XIV John
- Peter Weiss 1916 Swedish-German playwright and author
- Blanka Vlašić 1983 Croatian high jumper
- Felix Hausdorff 1868 German mathematician (*1868 – †1942)
- José Manuel Pinto 1975 Spanish footballer
- Johannes Rydberg 1854 Swedish physicist
- Win Myint 1951 10th President of Myanmar
- Parker Posey 1968 American actress
- Nazlı Tolga 1979 Turkish-Dutch journalist and newscaster
- Morgan Schneiderlin 1989 French footballer
- Martha Gellhorn 1908 Journalist from the United States
- Bonnie Raitt 1949 American musician
- Pavel Pogrebnyak 1983 Russian footballer
- Qiu Jin 1875 Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer
- George Bernard Dantzig 1914 American mathematician
- Ademir de Menezes 1922 Brazilian footballer
- Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor 2003 Noblewoman; daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh
- L. K. Advani 1927 Deputy Prime Minister of India
- Gretchen Mol 1972 American actress and former model
- Richard Curtis 1956 British screenwriter
- Ali Karimi 1978 Iranian footballer
- Martin Peters 1943 English footballer and manager
- Michael Nyqvist 1960 Swedish actor
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford 1869 American lawyer, Watch Tower Society president
- Ayumi Oya 1994 Japanese association football player
- Can Yaman 1989 Turkish actor and fashion model
- Luigi Allemandi 1903 Italian footballer
- Murtala Muhammed 1938 Nigerian politician and general
- Aaron Hughes 1979 Northern Irish footballer
- Matthew Rhys 1974 Welsh actor
- Courtney Thorne-Smith 1967 American actress
- John Dickinson 1732 American politician
- Dania Ramirez 1979 Dominican actress
- Ryōyū Kobayashi 1996 Japanese ski jumper
- Bill Joy 1954 American computer scientist
- René Viviani 1863 Prime Minister of France
- Margaret Rhea Seddon 1947 Surgeon and former NASA astronaut
- Ted DiBiase Jr. 1982 American professional wrestler and actor
- H. C. Hansen 1906 Danish politician
- Tim de Cler 1978 Dutch association football player
- Remko Pasveer 1983 Dutch association football player
- Oleg Menshikov 1960 Soviet and Russian actor, theatre director
- Arnold Bax 1883 English composer, poet, and author
- Norman Lloyd 1914 American actor, producer and director
- Minnie Riperton 1947 American singer
- S10 2000 Dutch singer and rapper
- Nia DaCosta 1989 American director and screenwriter
- Tech N9ne 1971 American rapper
- Jesse Marsch 1973 American soccer coach
- Jasmine Thompson 2000 British singer
- Jessica Lowndes 1988 Canadian actress and singer
- Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern 1715 Queen of Prussia and Electress of Brandenburg
- Diomansy Kamara 1980 Senegalese-French footballer
- June Havoc 1912 American actress, vaudeville performer, and memoirist
- Edward G. Gibson 1936 American astronaut
- Robert Tappan Morris 1965 American computer scientist; creator of Morris Worm; associate professor at MIT
- Ben Bova 1932 American writer
- Natalie Zemon Davis 1928 Canadian-American historian
- David Zima 2000 Czech association football player
- Aksel V. Johannesen 1972 Faroese politician
- Gustav Hartlaub 1814 German physician, ornithologist, zoologist and Goethe researcher
- José Luis Caminero 1967 Spanish footballer
- John Musker 1953 American animation director
- Charles T. Kowal 1940 American astronomer
- Brad Davis 1981 American soccer player
- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton 1831 British Viceroy of India, diplomat and author
- Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner 1834 German astrophysicist
- Ado Onaiwu 1995 Japanese association football player
- Ugo Mifsud Bonnici 1932 Maltese politician, activist and writer
- Mari Boine 1956 Northern Sámi singer from Norway
- Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom 1768 Sixth child and second daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on November 8 share the 8th of November as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.