February 11 is the birthday of 59 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, scientists and actors, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
$1.7Bolder estimate, as of September 2021 · Forbes
Christoph Henkel is a London-based German billionaire businessman and entrepreneur. As of September 2021, his net worth is estimated at US$1.7 billion.
Jennifer Joanna Aniston is an American actress. Her accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Aniston has consistently ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses, as of 2023.
Angela George, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 59 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors27% (16 people)
Entrepreneurs24% (14 people)
Scientists22% (13 people)
Actors20% (12 people)
Athletes20% (12 people)
Musicians19% (11 people)
Creators17% (10 people)
Countries
28 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States18 (18 people)
Germany5 (5 people)
France4 (4 people)
Soviet Union3 (3 people)
Spain3 (3 people)
Hungary2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on February 11 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
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25Alex JonesFounded Infowars (1999)
13Taylor LautnerNotable work: The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (2005)
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures.
Louis Bachrach, Bachrach Studios, restored by Michel Vuijlsteke, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. was an American actor. His early work included the television series Gunsmoke (1962–1965), Hawk (1966) and Dan August (1970–1971).
Alan Light (https://www.flickr.com/people/alan-light/), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Taylor Daniel Lautner is an American actor, martial artist, and producer. He is best known for playing the werewolf Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga film series (2008–2012).
Leslie William Nielsen was a Canadian and American actor and comedian. With a career spanning 60 years, he appeared in more than 100 films and 150 television programs, portraying more than 220 characters.
Natalie Dormer is an English actress. She is known for her roles in period films, blockbusters, independent films, as well as her work on prominent television series.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. was an American politician who served as the 69th United States secretary of the treasury under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1994.
Department of the Treasury[1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is the second son of former president George H. W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush, and a younger brother of former president George W. Bush.
Maryland GovPics, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul François Pierre Bocuse was a French chef based in Lyon known for the quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul.
Armas Clifford "Mike" Markkula Jr. is an American electrical engineer, businessman and investor. He was the original angel investor, long-time chairman, and briefly CEO for Apple Computer, Inc., providing critical early funding and managerial support.
Arkady Yuryevich Volozh is a Russian billionaire businessman, technology entrepreneur, computer scientist, investor and philanthropist. His work includes developing search and navigation technology as well as intelligent products and services powered by machine learning.
Семён Кац (для журнала Forbes), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Brandy Rayana Norwood known mononymously as Brandy, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her intricate vocal riffs, and is regarded as an influential figure in contemporary R&B.
Daniil Sergeyevich Medvedev is a Russian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the ATP. Medvedev has won 23 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including the 2021 US Open and 2020 ATP Finals.
Michael Kenji Shinoda is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and graphic designer. He co-founded the rock band Linkin Park in 1996 as the band's co-lead vocalist, as well as rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, primary songwriter and producer.
Warner Records, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter, producer, actress, and guitarist. She is noted for her idealistic and optimistic lyrics, and incorporation of various genres into her rock-oriented sound, including blues, country, folk, and pop.
Office of Representative Clark, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kelendria Trene "Kelly" Rowland is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups.
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an American filmmaker. A four-time Academy Award winner, he is best known for his witty and literate dialogue and his preference for voice-over narration and narrative flashbacks.
Photographer unknown; work-for-hire on behalf of 20th Century Fox., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Khalid Donnel Robinson is an American singer and songwriter from El Paso, Texas. He signed with Courtney Stewart's Right Hand Music Group, an imprint of RCA Records to release his 2016 debut single, "Location" and its 2017 follow-up, "Young Dumb & Broke".
Sidney Sheldon was an American writer. He was prominent in the 1940s and 50s, first working on Broadway plays, and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), which earned him an Oscar in 1948.
Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-born American physicist, biologist and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea in 1936.
U.S. Department of Energy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Adèle Haenel is a French actress and political activist. She is the recipient of several accolades, including two César Awards from seven nominations and one Lumière Award from two nominations.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Milan Škriniar is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for and captains the Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe and the Slovakia national team.
John Napier of Merchiston, nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird of Merchiston. Napier is best known as the discoverer of logarithms.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hans-Georg Gadamer was a German philosopher of the continental tradition best known for his work on hermeneutics, including Truth and Method, which argues that understanding is shaped by history, language, and dialogue rather than by the application of objective method.
Oto Vega Ponce, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Josiah Willard Gibbs was an American mechanical engineer and scientist who made fundamental theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics.
Unknown. Uploaded by Serge Lachinov (обработка для wiki), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
William Henry Fox Talbot was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.
Antoine Claudet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Francesco Hayez was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is known for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and portraits, in an Italian version of 19th-century Academic style.
Francesco Hayez, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Irène Némirovsky was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin who was born in Kiev, then in the Russian Empire. She lived more than half her life in France and wrote in French, but was denied French nationality.
unknown, this is a scan of a family photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Arne Emil Jacobsen, Hon. FAIA was a Danish architect and furniture designer. He is remembered for his contribution to architectural functionalism and for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple well-designed chairs.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Maryse Condé was a French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas department and region of Guadeloupe. She was also an academic, whose teaching career took her to West Africa and North America, as well as the Caribbean and Europe.
Andrew Levine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 59 people born on February 11, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of September 2021. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on February 11. Read the full methodology.
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