Birthday twins

People Born on November 1

November 1 is the birthday of 54 notable people we've found so far, including politicians, entrepreneurs, actors and historical figures, and 3 of them are billionaires.

3
billionaires
joint #81 of 366 birthdays
12
founders & entrepreneurs
joint #105 of 366 birthdays
54
notable people
joint #82 of 366 birthdays
$76.9B
combined wealth
#22 of 366 birthdays

What the data says

Your birthday has some company.

  • The people we list for this date were born across 1957 years, from 39 to 1996.
  • People born on this day come from 27 countries, most often United States (18 of 53).
  • Charles Koch is the wealthiest person we list for November 1, with an estimated $71B reported as of May 2025.
  • Charles Koch accounts for more than half of the documented wealth among people born on this day.
  • November 1 birthdays span at least four well-represented fields, including billionaires, entrepreneurs, CEOs and executives.
  • 44% of the people we list for this date are historical figures who are no longer living.
  • Together, the 4 people with sourced estimates born on November 1 hold a reported $77B, the #22 total among all 366 birthdays.
  • 3 Nobel laureates were born on November 1, including Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker and Robert B. Laughlin.

💰 Richest person born on November 1

Charles Koch
Gavin Peters, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
billionaire

Charles Koch

Entrepreneur · Koch, Inc. · energy

1935 · United States

$71.4Breported estimate as of May 2025 · Bloomberg

Charles de Ganahl Koch is an American businessman and engineer. As of May 2025, he is ranked as the 22nd richest man in the world on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with an estimated net worth of US$71.4 billion.

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Reported estimate as of May 2025: $71.4B. Wealth changes; this is not a live figure.

Against the other 365

How November 1 ranks

Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every November birthday · battle November 1 against another date · all rankings

The November 1 wealth profile

Billionaires born on November 1

$76.9B
combined wealth
low-bound sum, newest as of August 2026
4
sourced estimates
3
billionaires
joint #81 of 366
#22
of 366 for wealth

Ranked by the low end of each reported estimate; bars use a log scale.

Tim Cook
billionaire

Tim Cook

Entrepreneur · Apple Inc. · technology

1960 · United States

$3Breported estimate as of August 2026 · Forbes

Timothy Donald Cook is an American business executive who served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc. from 2011 to 2026, and has been the company's executive chairman since September 2026.

Tessa Bury, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Othman Benjelloun
billionaire

Othman Benjelloun

Entrepreneur

1932 · Morocco

$1.5Bolder estimate, as of July 2024 · Forbes

Othman Benjelloun is a Moroccan billionaire financier. As chairman and chief executive officer of Bank of Africa, he has led its expansion and internationalization across the African continent.

Richard Martineau, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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How they made their money

Industries of the companies the 4 wealthy people born on November 1 founded or led.

  • energy50% (1 people)
  • technology50% (1 people)

Who shares November 1

What kind of people are born on November 1?

Share of the 54 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.

  • Politicians24% (13 people)
  • Actors22% (12 people)
  • Entrepreneurs22% (12 people)
  • Authors19% (10 people)
  • Creators17% (9 people)
  • Musicians17% (9 people)
  • Athletes9% (5 people)

Countries

27 countries, most often United States

Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.

  • United States18 (18 people)
  • Germany4 (4 people)
  • Canada2 (2 people)
  • France2 (2 people)
  • India2 (2 people)
  • Portugal2 (2 people)
  • Serbia2 (2 people)

Life timeline

What were people born on November 1 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.

By 25

  1. ~17Mark HughesJoined Manchester United F.C. (1980)
  2. ~22Filip KostićJoined VfB Stuttgart (2014)
  3. ~17Miloš KrasićJoined FK Vojvodina (2001)
  4. ~19Igor CvitanovićJoined GNK Dinamo Zagreb (1989)

26 to 30

  1. ~27Toni ColletteNotable work: The Sixth Sense (1999)
  2. ~26Aishwarya RaiReceived the Filmfare Award for Best Actress (1999)
  3. ~27Ileana D'CruzReceived the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut (2013)
  4. ~26Filip KostićJoined Eintracht Frankfurt (2018)

31 to 40

  1. ~32Charles KochBecame CEO of Koch, Inc. (1967)
  2. 40Pál TelekiBecame Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary (1920)
  3. 33Toni ColletteNotable work: Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
  4. ~33Jenny McCarthyReceived the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress (2005)

41 to 50

  1. ~42David FosterReceived the Grammy Award for Album of the Year (1991)
  2. 46Charlie KaufmanReceived the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay (2005)
  3. 50Brenda ChapmanReceived the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature (2013)
  4. ~48Robert B. LaughlinReceived the Nobel Prize in Physics (1998)

After 50

  1. ~70Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-BakerReceived the Nobel Peace Prize (1959)
  2. ~58Carlos Saavedra LamasReceived the Nobel Peace Prize (1936)
  3. 61Marcel OphulsReceived the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film (1989)
  4. 53Petr PavelBecame Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (2015)

The standouts

The most successful people born on November 1

Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.

Anthony Kiedis
musician

Anthony Kiedis

Top tier

Musician

1962 · United States

Anthony Kiedis is an American musician who is the lead vocalist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis and his fellow band members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.

Hel Davies from United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Toni Collette
actor

Toni Collette

Top tier

Actor

1972 · Australia

Toni Collette is an Australian actress. Primarily known for her portrayals of troubled and multi-faceted women, she is known for starring in primetime television, independent films and blockbusters.

Desmond Herzfelder, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Jenny McCarthy
actor

Jenny McCarthy

Top tier

Actor

1972 · United States

Jennifer Ann McCarthy-Wahlberg is an American actress, model, television personality, and anti-vaccine activist. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year.

Gamerscoreblog, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Robert B. Laughlin
scientist

Robert B. Laughlin

Top tier

Scientist

1950 · United States

Robert Betts Laughlin is an American physicist. He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Along with Horst L. Störmer of Columbia University and Daniel C.

Linda A. Cicero / Stanford News Service, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Carlos Saavedra Lamas
politician

Carlos Saavedra Lamas

Top tier

Politician

1878–1959 · Argentina

Carlos Saavedra Lamas was an Argentine academic and politician who served as Argentina's foreign minister from 1932 to 1938. A legal scholar specializing in labor legislation and international law, he also served as rector of the University of Buenos Aires.

Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Builders

Entrepreneurs born on November 1

Rafiq Hariri
entrepreneur

Rafiq Hariri

Entrepreneur

1944–2005 · Lebanon

Rafic Bahaa El Deen al-Hariri was a Lebanese businessman and politician who served as prime minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 to 2004.

Helene C. Stikkel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources (2)
Darrell Issa
entrepreneur

Darrell Issa

Entrepreneur

1953 · United States

Darrell Edward Issa is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 48th congressional district. He represented the 50th congressional district from 2021 to 2023.

House Creative Services, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources (2)
Ryan Zinke
entrepreneur

Ryan Zinke

Entrepreneur

1961 · United States

Ryan Keith Zinke is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative for Montana's 1st congressional district since 2023.

United States Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Larry Flynt
entrepreneur

Larry Flynt

Entrepreneur

1942–2021 · United States

Larry Claxton Flynt Jr. was an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP). LFP mainly produces pornographic magazines, such as Hustler, pornographic videos, and three pornographic television channels named Hustler TV.

Toglenn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Umberto Agnelli
entrepreneur

Umberto Agnelli

Entrepreneur

1934–2004 · Italy

Umberto Agnelli was an Italian industrialist and politician. He was the third son of Virginia and Edoardo Agnelli, and the youngest brother of Gianni Agnelli.

Original: Eric Koch for Anefo / Derivative work: Danyele, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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entrepreneur

Harald Quandt

Entrepreneur

1921–1967 · Germany

Harald Friedrich Ludwig Quandt was a German industrialist, the son of Günther Quandt and Magda Behrend Ritschel.

Sources (2)

November 1 in history

What else happened on November 1

  1. 365Roman Emperor Valentinian I learns the Alemanni have crossed the Rhine and invaded Gaul.
  2. 1790Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
  3. 1914World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
  4. 1950Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
  5. 1976Burundian president Michel Micombero is deposed in a bloodless military coup d'état by deputy Jean-Baptiste Bagaza.

Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

More birthday twins

Famous people born on November 1

Aishwarya Rai
actor

Aishwarya Rai

Actor

1973 · India

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian actress who is primarily known for her work in Hindi and Tamil films. Rai won the Miss World 1994 pageant and later established herself as one of the most-popular and influential celebrities in India.

Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Penn Badgley
actor

Penn Badgley

Actor

1986 · United States

Penn Dayton Badgley is an American actor and producer. He is known for his roles as Dan Humphrey in The CW teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007–2012) and as Joe Goldberg in the Netflix psychological thriller series You (2018–2025).

Gordon Correll, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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David Foster
actor

David Foster

Actor

1949 · Canada

David Walter Foster is a Canadian and American record producer, composer, arranger, and musician. He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 45 nominations across four decades.

Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Lil Peep
musician

Lil Peep

Musician

1996–2017 · United States

Gustav Elijah Åhr, known professionally as Lil Peep, was an American rapper and singer-songwriter. He was a member of the hip-hop collective GothBoiClique, and is credited as being a leading figure of the emo rap sub-genre and an inspiration in alternative youth subcultures.

Photograph: Miller Rodríguez (Pretty Puke), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Daniela Melchior
actor

Daniela Melchior

Actor

1996 · Portugal

Daniela Melchior dos Reis Lopes Pereira is a Portuguese actress. She started her career in 2014 with a recurring role in telenovela Mulheres, followed by the teen drama Massa Fresca (2016). In 2017, she was cast in a leading role in the award-winning telenovela Ouro Verde.

Web Summit - Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Web Summit via Sportsfile, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Ileana D'Cruz
actor

Ileana D'Cruz

Actor

1986 · Portugal

Ileana D'Cruz is an Indian-born Portuguese actress who primarily appears in Hindi and Telugu films. She is the recipient of several accolades including a Filmfare Award and a Filmfare Awards South.

Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources (2)
Charlie Kaufman
author

Charlie Kaufman

Creator

1958 · United States

Charles Stuart Kaufman is an American filmmaker and novelist. His work is distinguished by postmodernist and surrealist storytelling, with many critics considering him an auteur.

anna Hanks from Austin, Texas, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Edward Said
scientist

Edward Said

Musician

1935–2003 · United States

Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian and American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies.

Barenboim-Said Akademie gGmbH, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Natalia Tena
actor

Natalia Tena

Actor

1984 · Spain

Natalia Gastiain Tena is an English-Spanish actress and musician. She is best known for playing Nymphadora Tonks in the Harry Potter film series (2007–2011), and the wildling Osha in the HBO series Game of Thrones.

Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Petr Pavel
politician

Petr Pavel

Politician

1961 · Czech Republic

Petr Pavel is a Czech politician and retired army general, currently serving as the fourth president of the Czech Republic, in office since March 2023.

Jana Jabůrková, Jiří Turek (J3T), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Marcia Wallace Peams
actor

Marcia Wallace Peams

Actor

1942–2013 · United States

Marcia Karen Wallace was an American actress and comedian, primarily known for her roles on sitcoms.

Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Alfred Wegener
scientist

Alfred Wegener

Scientist

1880–1930 · Germany

Alfred Lothar Wegener was a German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher.

Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources (2)
Stephen Crane
athlete

Stephen Crane

Athlete

1871–1900 · United States

Stephen Crane was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism.

Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources (2)
Filip Kostić
athlete

Filip Kostić

Athlete

1992 · Serbia

Filip Kostić is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a left midfielder or left wing-back for Eredivisie club PSV and the Serbia national team.

Sven Mandel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Antonio Canova
artist

Antonio Canova

Artist

1757–1822 · Republic of Venice

Antonio Canova was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures.

Antonio Canova, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources (2)
Faisal bin Farhan
entrepreneur

Faisal bin Farhan

Entrepreneur

1974 · Saudi Arabia

Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah bin Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud is a Saudi Arabian diplomat and politician who has been serving as the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia since 2019.

Österreichisches Außenministerium, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Lucan
author

Lucan

Author

0039–0065 · Ancient Rome

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, born in Corduba, Hispania Baetica. He is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period, known in particular for his epic Pharsalia.

Cruccone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Salvatore Adamo
musician

Salvatore Adamo

Musician

1943 · Belgium

Salvatore Adamo is a Belgian-Italian musician, singer, and composer, who is known for his romantic ballads. Adamo was born in Comiso, Sicily, Italy, and has lived in Belgium since the age of three, which is why he has dual citizenship.

Dirk Annemans, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Brenda Chapman
actor

Brenda Chapman

Actor

1962 · United States

Brenda Chapman is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, and director. In 1998, she became the first woman to direct an animated feature from a major studio, DreamWorks Animation's The Prince of Egypt.

Dublin International Film Festival, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Jacques Attali
scientist

Jacques Attali

Politician

1943 · France

Jacques José Mardoché Attali is a French economic and social theorist, writer, political adviser and senior civil servant.

Mymychoko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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entrepreneur

M P Ahammed

Entrepreneur

1957 · India

M. P. Ahammed is an Indian businessman and the chairman of the Malabar Group of Companies. He is the founder of Malabar Gold & Diamonds, one of the world's largest retail jewellery groups.

Sources (2)
Miloš Krasić
athlete

Miloš Krasić

Athlete

1984 · Serbia

Miloš Krasić is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a winger. He played for the Serbia national team at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and at one point in his career, he was named by FourFourTwo as one of the 100 best players in the world.

Yulia Novikova for Soccer.ru, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Pál Teleki
politician

Pál Teleki

Politician

1879–1941 · Hungary

Count Pál János Ede Teleki de Szék was a Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1920 to 1921 and from 1939 to 1941.

Kraków-Warschau Press Publishing House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Hermann Broch
author

Hermann Broch

Author

1886–1951 · United States

Hermann Broch was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil.

Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Sylvan Adams

Canadian-Israeli Philanthropist

1958 · Canada

Sylvan Adams is an Israeli-Canadian billionaire businessman.

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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
author

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

Author

1636–1711 · France

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose. He was greatly influenced by Horace.

Jean-Baptiste Santerre, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources (2)
Pietro da Cortona
artist

Pietro da Cortona

Artist

1596–1669

Pietro da Cortona was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.

Pietro da Cortona, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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actor

Marcel Ophuls

Actor

1927–2025 · United States

Marcel Ophuls was a German-French and American documentary filmmaker and actor, renowned for his notable works such as The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) and Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988).

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Nordahl Grieg
author

Nordahl Grieg

Author

1902–1943 · Norway

Johan Nordahl Brun Grieg was a Norwegian poet, novelist, dramatist, journalist and political activist. He was a popular author and a controversial public figure. He served in World War II as a war correspondent and was killed while covering a bombing mission to Berlin.

Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Sources and method for this page

This page lists 54 people born on November 1, 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 August 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 November 1. Read the full methodology.

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