May 11 is the birthday of 44 notable people we've found so far, including actors, athletes, creators and entrepreneurs, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Cyrus Soli Poonawalla is an Indian billionaire businessman, and the chairman and managing director of the Cyrus Poonawalla Group, which includes the Serum Institute of India, an Indian biotech company which is the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world, and Poonawalla Fincorp, a leading NBFC in India.
Donald Leroy Bren is an American billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and owner of the Irvine Company, a U.S. real estate development corporation. With a net worth of $19 billion, he ranks number 104 on the 2024 Forbes Billionaires List.
William Albert Ackman is an American billionaire hedge fund manager who is the founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, an investment management company. He has been described as an activist investor.
Senate Democrats, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 44 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors30% (13 people)
Athletes20% (9 people)
Creators20% (9 people)
Entrepreneurs18% (8 people)
Musicians16% (7 people)
Politicians16% (7 people)
Authors11% (5 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States12 (12 people)
Spain5 (5 people)
France3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Kingdom of the Netherlands2 (2 people)
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Sabrina Annlynn Carpenter is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She first gained prominence starring as Maya Hart on the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World (2014–2017).
Natasha Jane Richardson was an English actress. A member of the Redgrave family, she was a daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director-producer Tony Richardson and a granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. She was married to Liam Neeson.
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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí de Púbol, known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thibaut Nicolas Marc Courtois is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Belgium national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time and one of the greatest Belgian footballers of all time.
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia was a Spanish novelist, poet, story writer and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
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Founder · American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
1888–1989 · Russian Empire
Irving Berlin was a Russian-born American songwriter and composer. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook. Berlin received numerous honors including an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a Tony Award.
Pach Brothers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Angela Renée White, commonly known as Blac Chyna, is an American model, television personality, rapper, and socialite. She originally rose to prominence in 2010 as the stunt double for Nicki Minaj in the music video for the song "Monster" by Kanye West.
Igor Matovič is a Slovak politician and former businessman. He previously served as Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia and Minister of Finance from April 2021 to December 2022 and Prime Minister from March 2020 to March 2021.
European People's Party, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Anita Zucker is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She was the chair at the Hudson's Bay Company. Taking over after her husband's death in April 2008, she is the chairperson and former chief executive officer (CEO) of The Intertech Group.
Andrés Iniesta Luján is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the manager of UAE First Division League club Gulf United. He spent most of his career at La Liga club Barcelona.
Lana Therese Condor is an American actress. She made her acting debut starring as Jubilee in the superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and is mostly known for portraying Lara Jean Covey in the romantic comedy To All the Boys franchise (2018–2021).
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Cory Allan Michael Monteith was a Canadian actor and musician. He made his acting debut in the television series Stargate Atlantis (2004), and had other roles in shows including Smallville (2005), and Supernatural (2005).
Eric Victor Burdon is an English singer and songwriter. He was previously the lead vocalist of the original lineup of the R&B and rock band the Animals and the funk band War. He is currently the lead vocalist of the present day lineup of Eric Burdon & the Animals.
Shohreh Aghdashloo is an Iranian-American actress. She has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Satellite Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award.
Jeff Hitchcock from Seattle, WA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fermín López Marín, also known simply as Fermín, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team.
Giovani dos Santos Ramírez is a Mexican former professional footballer. A versatile forward, dos Santos played as an attacking midfielder, winger, and secondary striker.
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Jean-Léon Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880."
Coby Scott Bell is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Jesse Porter on the USA Network original series Burn Notice and professional football player Jason Pitts on The CW/BET comedy-drama The Game.
Pablo Sarabia García is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Qatar Stars League club Al-Arabi. Mainly an attacking midfielder, he can also play as a right winger.
Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Theodore von Kármán was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who worked in aeronautics and astronautics. He was responsible for crucial advances in aerodynamics characterizing supersonic and hypersonic airflow.
Carl Rudolph Gist, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach was a German medical doctor, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He is considered to be a main founder of zoology and anthropology as comparative, scientific disciplines. He has been called the "founder of racial classifications".
Attributed to Hugo Bürkner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Pridi Banomyong, also known by his noble title Luang Praditmanutham, was a Thai lawyer, professor, activist, politician, democratic socialist, and senior statesman. He served in multiple ministerial posts, as regent, and as prime minister in Thailand.
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1864–1960 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Ethel Lilian Voynich was an Irish-born novelist and musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes. She was born in Cork, but grew up in Lancashire, England.
National Book League (Great Britain), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Miguel Luís Pinto Veloso is a Portuguese former professional footballer. Mainly a defensive midfielder, he could also operate as an attacking left-back.
Илья Хохлов/Ilya Khokhlov/Ilja Chochłow, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Antony Hewish was a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1969.
Tomoaki Makino is a professional football manager and former Japanese footballer who played as a centre back. He has represented the Japan national team internationally until 2019. He is set to be manager of J2 League club, Fujieda MYFC from 2026.
Daisuke Matsui is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He previously played for the Japan national team. His former wife is Japanese actress Rosa Kato.
Dorothea Margaretha "Teddy" Scholten was a Dutch singer and television presenter. She is known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 with the song "Een beetje", representing the Netherlands.
Ottmar Mergenthaler was a German-American inventor who invented the linotype machine, the first device that could easily and quickly set complete lines of type for use in printing presses. This machine revolutionized the art of printing.
Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Manuel Monsour Tabib del Rosario III is a Filipino actor, martial artist, producer, businessman, and politician. He is popularly known as a Filipino taekwondo champion and actor who starred in several Filipino and international action films.
Philippine Consulate in Vancouver, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 44 people born on May 11, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 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 April 2026. 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 May 11. Read the full methodology.
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