July 11 is the birthday of 46 notable people we've found so far, including authors, actors, creators and historical figures, and 4 of them are billionaires.
Maksymilian Rafailovych "Max" Levchin is a Ukrainian-American software engineer and entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of Affirm, a buy now, pay later financial services company, and co-founded PayPal as Confinity in 1998, leading the company as chief technology officer before its acquisition by eBay in 2002.
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Sunil Vaswani is an Indian-born Nigerian billionaire businessman, and the chairman of the Stallion Group; a Dubai-headquartered company with diversified interests in cars, commodities, food, steel manufacturing, plastics, packaging, petrochemicals, port operations and technology.
Rajesh Devarajan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 46 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors33% (15 people)
Actors24% (11 people)
Creators22% (10 people)
Athletes20% (9 people)
Entrepreneurs15% (7 people)
Politicians15% (7 people)
Scientists15% (7 people)
Countries
24 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States16 (16 people)
France4 (4 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
India2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Mexico2 (2 people)
Australia1 (1 people)
Life timeline
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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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~22Alessia CaraReceived the Grammy Award for Best New Artist (2018)
John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825; minister to Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia; and senator for Massachusetts.
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Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was an Australian-born Soviet physicist and researcher whose work focused on quantum electronics. His most famous and well-known works were on optics and electromagnetic research.
Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Stephen Lang is an American stage and screen actor. He gained fame for his role as Colonel Miles Quaritch in James Cameron's Avatar (2009), for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. Lang reprised the role in the sequels.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Amad Diallo, sometimes known mononymously as Amad, is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for Premier League club Manchester United and the Ivory Coast national team.
Sela Ann Ward is an American actress. Her breakthrough TV role was as Teddy Reed in the NBC drama series Sisters (1991–96), for which she received her first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1994.
Spencer James Cox is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2021 as the 18th governor of Utah. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2013 to 2021 as the eighth lieutenant governor of Utah.
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Patricia Verónica Núñez Reyes Spíndola is a Mexican actress, director, and producer. She has received four Ariel Awards, two for Best Actress, and two for Supporting Actress.
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Caroline Wozniacki is a Danish former professional tennis player. She has been ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the WTA, holding the position for a total of 71 weeks.
Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael Owen Rosenbaum is an American actor and podcaster. He is known for portraying Lex Luthor on the television series Smallville, a role that TV Guide included in their 2013 list of "The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time".
Richard Stephen Sambora is an American musician, songwriter and singer. He was the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and co-principal songwriter for the rock band Bon Jovi from 1983 to 2013.
Jafar Panâhi is an Iranian filmmaker and actor. He is known internationally for his artistic contributions to post-1979 Revolution Iranian cinema, and he has been associated with the Iranian New Wave.
Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Carl Schmitt was a German jurist and political philosopher. An authoritarian conservative, he was noted as a critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanism.
Justin Willman Chambers is an American actor and former model best known for his role as Dr. Alex Karev in Grey's Anatomy (2005–2020). Born in Ohio, he went to Southeastern High School, South Charleston, and later studied acting at New York's HB Studio.
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Elwyn Brooks White was an American writer, essayist, and a contributing editor for The New Yorker magazine. He was also the author of highly popular books for children: Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970).
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Lawrence Sheldon Strulović, commonly known as Lawrence Stroll, is a Canadian businessman who is part-owner and executive chairman of Aston Martin, as well as the owner of their Formula One team. According to Forbes, he has a net worth of US$3.9 billion, as of March 2024.
Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian.
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Thomas John Mitchell was an American character actor, writer, and theater director. He is considered one of the both greatest supporting and character actors of the Golden Age of Hollywood and a leading man on Broadway.
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Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world".
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Amitav Ghosh is an American writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia.
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mohamed Naser Elsayed Elneny is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for the Egypt national team. He is regarded as one of the best Egyptian players in history.
Yoann Miguel Gourcuff is a French former professional footballer who played mainly as an attacking midfielder. He could also be utilized as a withdrawn striker; he was described as a "playmaker of real quality", "an accomplished passer of the ball".
Léon Bloy was a French Catholic novelist, essayist, pamphleteer, and satirist, known additionally for his eventual and passionate defense of Catholicism and for his influence within French Catholic circles.
Émerson Leão is a Brazilian former football goalkeeper and manager. He is regarded by pundits as one of the best Brazilian goalkeepers of all time. A documentary video produced by FIFA, FIFA Fever, called him the third-most impressive defense player of all time.
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Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande was a French astronomer, freemason and writer. He is known for having estimated a precise value of the astronomical unit using measurements of the transit of Venus in 1769.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino was an Florentine sculptor and architect of the Italian Renaissance. He was active in Florence, in Rome and in the Republic of Venice, where he worked particularly around Piazza San Marco.
Jacopo Tintoretto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1811–1896 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir William Robert Grove, FRS FRSE was a Welsh judge and physical scientist. He anticipated the general theory of the conservation of energy, and was a pioneer of fuel cell technology. He invented the Grove voltaic cell.
Lock & Whitfield (active 1856-1894), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Johann Matthäus Bechstein was a German naturalist, forester, ornithologist, entomologist, and herpetologist. In Great Britain, he was known for his treatise on singing birds.
Emil Eugen Sachse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 46 people born on July 11, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 4 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 2025. 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 July 11. Read the full methodology.
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