November 15 is the birthday of 49 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, politicians and historical figures, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Yusuff Ali Musaliam Veettil Abdul Kader, popularly known as M. A. Yusuff Ali, is an Indian businessman and billionaire. He is the chairman and managing director of LuLu Group International, which owns the LuLu Hypermarket chain worldwide and LuLu International Shopping Mall.
Share of the 49 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors27% (13 people)
Entrepreneurs22% (11 people)
Politicians20% (10 people)
Athletes18% (9 people)
Actors16% (8 people)
Creators14% (7 people)
Musicians14% (7 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States12 (12 people)
France6 (6 people)
Italy4 (4 people)
India3 (3 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Egypt2 (2 people)
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Shailene Diann Woodley is an American actress. Woodley's breakthrough role came as Amy Juergens in the ABC Family teen drama series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013).
Colleen Sturtevant, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.
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Schack August Steenberg Krogh was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945. He contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of physiology, and is famous for developing Krogh's principle.
Bain News Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad, also known simply as Frida, is a Norwegian-born Swedish singer who is best known as one of the founding members and lead singers of the pop band ABBA.
Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paulo Exequiel Dybala is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Serie A club Roma and the Argentina national team. He is nicknamed "La Joya".
Olga Shcherbytska, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Earl Tywone Stevens, better known by his stage name E-40, is an American rapper. Stevens is a founding member of the rap group the Click and the founder of Sick Wid It Records.
Gamerscore Blog from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jimmy Choo Yeang Keat is a Malaysian fashion designer based in the United Kingdom. He co-founded Jimmy Choo Ltd, which became known for its handmade women's shoes.
Red Dot Design Award, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Roberto Cavalli was an Italian fashion designer and inventor. He was known for exotic prints and for creating the sand-blasted look for jeans. The Roberto Cavalli fashion house sells luxury clothing, perfume, and leather accessories.
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Eddie Asner was an American actor. He is most notable for portraying Lou Grant on the sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977) and drama Lou Grant (1977–1982), making him one of the few television actors to portray the same character in both a comedy and a drama.
Randy Mario Poffo, better known by his ring name "Macho Man" Randy Savage, was an American professional wrestler, rapper, and professional baseball player. He is best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling (WCW).
David Fitzgerald, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Peter Mark Andrew Phillips is a British businessman and member of the British royal family. He is the son of Anne, Princess Royal, and Mark Phillips, and a nephew of King Charles III.
Sally "Petula" Clark CBE is a British singer, actress, and songwriter. She started her professional career as a child performer and is still active more than 80 years later.
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Sania Mirza is an Indian former professional tennis player. A former doubles world No. 1, she won six major titles – three in women's doubles and three in mixed doubles.
James Graham Ballard was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media.
Frederick William Herschel was a German–British astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel.
Lemuel Francis Abbott, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
René Jean-Marie-Joseph Guénon, also known as Abdalwahid Yahia, was a French-Egyptian intellectual who wrote on topics ranging from esotericism, "sacred science" and "traditional studies" to symbolism and initiation.
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François Ozon is a French filmmaker, considered one of the most important contemporary French filmmakers, closely associated with the cinema du corps. His films are characterized by aesthetic beauty, sharp satirical humor and a free-wheeling view of human sexuality.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jacques René Hébert was a French journalist and a prominent figure of the French Revolution. The founder and editor of the radical newspaper Le Père Duchesne, he was the chief spokesman for the Parisian sans-culottes.
Edme Bovinet / After François Bonneville, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Fernando Verdasco Carmona is a Spanish tennis coach and a former professional player. He was ranked world No. 7 in men's singles by the ATP, achieved in April 2009, and world No. 8 in men's doubles, achieved in November 2013.
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Taha Hussein was among the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a leading figure of the Arab Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Arab world. His sobriquet was "The Dean of Arabic Literature".
Original uploader was Zerida at en.wikipedia (Original text: Zerida), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Henri Patrick Mboma Dem is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is the fourth all-time top goal-scorer for the Cameroon national team.
Marianne Craig Moore was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for its formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit.
Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bernard Mandeville, or Bernard de Mandeville, was an Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist, satirist, writer and physician. Born in Rotterdam, he lived most of his life in England and used English for most of his published works. He became famous for The Fable of the Bees.
unknown draughtsman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Herbert G. Chambers is an American billionaire businessman, owner and president of The Herb Chambers Companies, a group of 60 car dealerships in the greater Boston, Massachusetts area.
This page lists 49 people born on November 15, 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 October 2024. 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 15. Read the full methodology.
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