November 2 is the birthday of 48 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, authors, historical figures and actors, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Amar Gopal Bose was an American entrepreneur and academic. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years. He was also the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation.
Share of the 48 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors25% (12 people)
Entrepreneurs25% (12 people)
Actors21% (10 people)
Artists15% (7 people)
Creators15% (7 people)
Politicians15% (7 people)
Scientists15% (7 people)
Countries
18 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States18 (18 people)
France6 (6 people)
India4 (4 people)
Australia3 (3 people)
Canada3 (3 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Ecuador1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on November 2 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
~18Edward ColstonBecame apprentice (1654)
~22Esha DeolReceived the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut (2003)
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular presidents at the time of his death.
Copyright by Moffett, Chicago. J241772 U.S. Copyright Office., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
James Knox Polk was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. A protégé of Andrew Jackson and a member of the Democratic Party, he was an advocate of American expansionism and Jacksonian democracy.
George Peter Alexander Healy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Odysseas Elytis was a Greek poet, man of letters, essayist and translator, regarded as the definitive exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world.
Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Laurence Douglas Fink is an American billionaire businessman. He is a co-founder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, an American multinational investment management corporation.
Kena Betancur/European Commission, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Patrick Joseph Buchanan is an American retired writer, political commentator, and political advisor. He was an assistant and special consultant to U.S. presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan.
Albert Johnson, known professionally as Prodigy, was an American rapper and record producer. He was best known for being one half of the rap duo Mobb Deep along with Havoc, yet Prodigy still had a solo career, regularly collaborating with producer The Alchemist.
Giovanni Battista Pininfarina was an Italian automobile designer and the founder of the Carrozzeria Pininfarina coachbuilding company, a name associated with many well known postwar cars.
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Burton Stephen Lancaster was an American actor. Initially known for playing tough characters with tender hearts, he went on to achieve success with more complex and challenging roles over a 45-year career in films and television series.
Hal Wallis Productions, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alphonso Boyle Davies is a professional soccer player who plays as a left-back, winger, or wing-back for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and captains the Canada national team.
Esha Deol is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. The daughter of actors Dharmendra and Hema Malini, Deol made her acting debut in the romantic thriller Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe (2002), which won her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Moisés Isaac Caicedo Corozo is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Chelsea and captains the Ecuador national team.
Daniel Boone was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose adventures made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies.
Chester Harding, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kathryn Dawn Lang, known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Lang has won Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical performances. Her hits include the songs "Constant Craving" and "Miss Chatelaine".
Keith Noel Emerson was an English keyboardist, songwriter, composer and record producer. He played keyboards in a number of bands before finding his first commercial success with the Nice in the late 1960s.
Mari Kawaguchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Stephen John Ditko was an American comic book artist best known for being the co-creator of Marvel superheroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. He also made notable contributions to the character of Iron Man, introducing the character's signature red and yellow design.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mehmed V Reşâd was the penultimate sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1918. Mehmed V reigned as a constitutional monarch. He had little influence over government affairs and his ministries showed little regard for the Ottoman constitution.
P. S. Rogers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, known as Aga Khan III, was the 48th imam of the Nizari Ism'aili branch of Shia Islam. He is considered one of the founding fathers of Pakistan, and also served as the first permanent president of the All-India Muslim League (AIML).
Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0004613. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Stevan Jovetić is a Montenegrin professional footballer who plays as a striker for Cypriot First Division club AEL Limassol and captains the Montenegro national team.
Kenneth Robert Rosewall is an Australian former world No. 1 professional tennis player. Rosewall won 147 singles titles, including 23 majors: a record 15 Pro Majors and eight Grand Slam tournaments. He also won 15 Pro Majors in doubles and nine Grand Slam doubles titles.
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Stéphane Audran was a French film actress. She was known for her performances in the films of her husband Claude Chabrol, including Les Biches (1968) and Le Boucher (1970), Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), and Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast (1987).
Studio Harcourt., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alan Stanley Jones is an Australian former racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One between 1975 and 1986. Jones won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1980 with Williams, and won 12 Grands Prix across ten seasons.
Original: NL-HaNA, ANEFO / neg. stroken, 1945-1989, 2.24.01.05, item number 930-9867 / Derivative work: Danyele, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Georges Eugène Sorel was a French social thinker, political theorist, historian, and later journalist. He has inspired theories and movements grouped under the name of Sorelianism.
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Lois McMaster Bujold is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record.
Richard Serra was an American artist known for his large-scale abstract sculptures made for site-specific landscape, urban, and architectural settings, and whose work has been primarily associated with postminimalism.
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky was a Russian mathematician and geometer, known primarily for his work on hyperbolic geometry, otherwise known as Lobachevskian geometry, and also for his fundamental study on Dirichlet integrals, known as the Lobachevsky integral formula.
Carmen Amaya Amaya, nicknamed La Capitana was a Spanish Romani flamenco dancer and singer, born in the Somorrostro district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
James Howard Dunn, billed as Jimmy Dunn in his early career, was an American actor and vaudeville performer. The son of a New York stockbroker, he initially worked in his father's firm but was more interested in theater.
eBay front back, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alice Brady was an American actress of stage and film. She began her career in the theatre in 1911, and her first important success came on Broadway in 1912 when she created the role of Meg March in the original production of Marian de Forest's Little Women.
Jean Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Harlow Shapley was an American astronomer, who served as head of the Harvard College Observatory from 1921–1952, and political activist during the New Deal and Fair Deal.
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Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly was a French novelist, poet, short story writer, and literary critic. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with anything supernatural.
Trishneet Arora is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of TAC Security, a global cybersecurity company. He is listed among Top 10 youngest Indian billionaires in Hurun Rich List of India 2024 and 2025, with a net worth of $215 million.
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Sergey Alekseyevich Lebedev was a Soviet scientist in the fields of electrical engineering and computer science, and designer of the first Soviet computers.
This page lists 48 people born on November 2, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 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 2007. 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 2. Read the full methodology.
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