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Authors33% (14 people)
Entrepreneurs26% (11 people)
Politicians26% (11 people)
Athletes24% (10 people)
Scientists21% (9 people)
Actors14% (6 people)
Creators12% (5 people)
Countries
22 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States9 (9 people)
United Kingdom6 (6 people)
Germany4 (4 people)
France2 (2 people)
India2 (2 people)
Australia1 (1 people)
Austria1 (1 people)
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Alexander Hamilton was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 under the presidency of George Washington. He also founded America's first political party, the Federalist Party, in 1791.
John Trumbull, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Amanda Peet is an American actress. She began her career with small parts on television before making her feature film debut in Animal Room (1995). Her portrayal of Jill St. Claire in The Whole Nine Yards (2000) brought her wider recognition.
Mingle Media TV, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian social reformer who campaigned against child labor in India and advocated for the universal right to education and right to life for children.
Benjamin List is a German chemist who is one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cologne.
Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Roger Charles Louis Guillemin was a French-American neuroscientist. He received the National Medal of Science in 1976, and the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones, sharing the prize that year with Andrew Schally and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yolanda Hadid is a Dutch-born American television personality and former model. She is best known as a star of the American reality-television show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She is the mother of IMG models Gigi and Bella Hadid.
Angela George, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Siti Nurhaliza binti Tarudin is a Malaysian singer, composer, lyricist, songwriter, and actress. Referred to as the "Voice of Asia", she is regarded as one of the most influential artists in the Malay world.
Ezra Cornell was an American businessman, politician, academic, and philanthropist. He was involved in the founding of Western Union and a co-founder of Cornell University. He also served as president of the New York Agriculture Society and as a New York State Senator.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dwight Whitney Morrow was an American businessman, diplomat, and politician, best known as the U.S. ambassador to Mexico from 1927 to 1930 who improved bilateral relations, mediating the religious conflict in Mexico known as the Cristero rebellion (1926–29), but also…
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Eduard Kučera is a Czech software engineer and entrepreneur, best known as a co-founder of the cybersecurity company Avast with Pavel Baudiš. He studied physical electronics at Charles University and later worked at the Research Institute of Mathematical Machines.
Daniel Carvajal Ramos is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right-back. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest right-backs of his generation. He is currently a free agent.
Son Eon-jin, better known by her stage name, Son Ye-jin (손예진), is a South Korean actress who rose to fame in 2003 in The Classic and Summer Scent, which were followed by the commercially successful A Moment to Remember (2004) and April Snow (2005).
Karl von Habsburg is an Austrian politician and the head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, the former royal house of the defunct Austro-Hungarian thrones. As a citizen of the Republic of Austria, his legal name is Karl Habsburg-Lothringen.
Emile William Ivanhoe Heskey is an English former professional footballer who currently serves as head of football development of Leicester City Women.
Ilya Khokhlov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003. He served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 2003 and as leader of the Official Opposition from 1990 to 1993.
Michael Ignatieff, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rodney Sturt Taylor was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including Young Cassidy (1965), Nobody Runs Forever (1968), The Train Robbers (1973), and A Matter of Wife. and Death (1975).
movie studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Albert Hofmann was a Swiss chemist known for being the first to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann's team also isolated, named and synthesized the principal psychedelic mushroom compounds psilocybin and psilocin.
1859–1925 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, known as Lord Curzon, was a British statesman, Conservative politician, explorer and writer who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and Foreign Secretary from 1919 to 1924.
George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christine Maria Kaufmann was a German-Austrian actress, author, and businesswoman. The daughter of a German father and a French mother, she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress for Town Without Pity in 1961, the first German to be so honoured.
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, known as Sir Tony Hoare or C. A. R. Hoare, was a British computer scientist who made foundational contributions to programming languages, algorithms, operating systems, formal verification, and concurrent computing.
Gérson de Oliveira Nunes, generally known as Gérson, is a Brazilian former association footballer who played as a midfielder. He won numerous national trophies with the club sides of Flamengo, Botafogo, São Paulo and Fluminense.
Rolls Press / Popperfoto / Getty Images, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Shamsheer Vayalil Parambath is an Indian radiologist and businessman based in UAE. He is the founder and chairman of Burjeel Holdings. As of April 2023, Vayalil has a net worth of US$2.4 billion.
Alan Stewart Paton was a South African writer, anti-apartheid activist, and educator. His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), Too Late the Phalarope (1953), and the short story The Waste Land.
Crown Studios The original uploader was Perijove at Swahili Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Niels Steensen was a Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years. He has been beatified by the Catholic Church.
Niels_stensen.jpg: J. P. Trap 1868 derivative work: nagualdesign (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bessarion was a Byzantine Greek Renaissance humanist, theologian, Catholic cardinal and one of the famed Greek scholars who contributed to the revival of letters in the 15th century.
Theodor de Bry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Piero di Cosimo, also known as Piero di Lorenzo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, who continued to use an essentially Early Renaissance style into the 16th century.
Giorgio Vasari, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jens Daniel Nowotny is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or sweeper. He played in nearly 300 official games with Bayer Leverkusen in one full decade, helping them reach the 2002 Champions League final.
Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ányos István Jedlik was a Hungarian inventor, engineer, physicist, and Benedictine priest. He was also a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and author of several books. He is considered by Hungarians and Slovaks to be the unsung father of the dynamo and electric motor.
Fausto Veranzio was a Croatian polymath, diplomat and bishop from Šibenik, then part of the Republic of Venice. He is a scientist recognised for his genius as both a Croatian and as a Croatian-Hungarian.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Tonye Patrick Cole is a Nigerian billionaire businessman, he is the co-founder and former Group Executive Director of Sahara Group an energy conglomerate with operations spanning the entire energy chain in Nigeria and neighbouring West African countries to East Africa and beyond.
François de La Rochefoucauld, 7th Duke of La Rochefoucauld
Entrepreneur
1747–1827 · France
François Alexandre Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld, 7th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, 1st Duke of Liancourt, 2nd Duke of Estissac was a French social reformer.
Achille Devéria, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Clayton Lee Mathile was an American billionaire businessman best known for leading Iams to nearly $1 billion in sales before selling it to Procter & Gamble (P&G) for $2.3 billion in 1999 in what was, at the time, the largest cash-only deal in P&G's history.
This page lists 42 people born on January 11, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. 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 January 11. Read the full methodology.
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