November 20 is the birthday of 47 notable people we've found so far, including authors, actors, creators and historical figures, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Thomas M. Siebel is an American businessman, technologist, and author. He founded the enterprise software company Siebel Systems and was the founder, chairman, and former CEO of C3.ai, an artificial intelligence software platform and applications company.
Bernard Grosse Broermann was a German billionaire businessman who was the founder of Asklepios Kliniken, one of Germany's three largest operators of private hospitals. It employs more than 68,000 people, and owns 170 healthcare facilities worldwide.
Viktor Kharitonin is a Russian billionaire. He is known to be close to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova and her husband Viktor Khristenko.
Share of the 47 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors36% (17 people)
Actors23% (11 people)
Creators23% (11 people)
Politicians21% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs15% (7 people)
Scientists15% (7 people)
Athletes13% (6 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States18 (18 people)
France3 (3 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
Kingdom of Prussia2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Spain2 (2 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.
Erika Lane Kirk is an American businesswoman, nonprofit executive, and podcaster. She serves as chairwoman and CEO of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a conservative organization co-founded and led by her late husband, Charlie Kirk, until his assassination in September 2025.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has. been of very great benefit to humanity".
Boberger. Photo: Bengt Oberger, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish writer. She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1909/lagerlof-facts.html, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Karl Ritter von Frisch was a German-Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz.
Stefanie Ludwig, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Douglas Robert Ford Jr. is a Canadian politician and businessman who has served as the 26th premier of Ontario and as leader of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party of Ontario since 2018.
Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Raymond "Ray" Ozzie is an American software industry entrepreneur who held the positions of Chief Technical Officer and Chief Software Architect at Microsoft between 2005 and 2010. Before Microsoft, he was best known for his role in creating Lotus Notes.
Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bo Derek is an American actress and model. She began her career as a child model before deciding to pursue acting on the advice of a talent agent she met through actress Ann-Margret, who was familiar with her parents.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joel Edward McHale is an American actor, comedian, and television presenter. He is best known for hosting The Soup (2004–2015) and his role as Jeffrey "Jeff" Winger on the NBC sitcom Community (2009–2015).
Ming-Na Wen is an American actress and model. She has won multiple awards throughout her career, including an Annie Award and a Saturn Award, in addition to a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mary Sean Lujan is an American actress. She is known for starring in science-fiction and comedy films throughout the 1980s and 1990s, although she has performed in many genres.
John Robert Bolton is an American attorney, diplomat, Republican consultant, and political commentator. He served as the 25th United States ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006, and as the 26th United States national security advisor from 2018 to 2019.
Stewart Robert Einstein was an American actor, comedy writer, and producer. He created and performed the satirical stuntman character Super Dave Osborne, and was also known for his roles as Marty Funkhouser in Curb Your Enthusiasm and Larry Middleman on Arrested Development.
ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Edwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology.
Johan Hagemeyer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Denis Lemi Zakaria Lako Lado is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Ligue 1 club Monaco, whom he captains, and the Switzerland national team. He has also represented Switzerland internationally at youth level.
Bartolomé de las Casas, OP; 11 November 1484 – 18 July 1566) was a Spanish lawyer, clergyman, writer, and activist best known for his work as a historian and social reformer. He arrived in Hispaniola as a layman, then became a Dominican friar.
anonymous / Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gerardo Daniel "Tata" Martino is an Argentine professional football coach and former player who is the head coach of Major League Soccer club Atlanta United.
https://www.youtube.com/c/miseleccionmx, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Benoit B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life".
Louis-Alexandre Berthier, prince de Neuchâtel et Valangin, prince de Wagram was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was twice Minister of War of France and was made a Marshal of the Empire in 1804.
Jacques Augustin Catherine Pajou, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress. In post-Soviet times, she held both Lithuanian and Spanish citizenship.
Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Chatterton was an English poet who committed suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Engraved by William Ridgway after a picture by W.B. Morris, published in The Art Journal, 1875, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Judy Carline Woodruff is an American broadcast journalist who has worked in local, network, cable, and public television news since 1970. She was the anchor and managing editor of the PBS NewsHour through the end of 2022.
Maryland GovPics, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Avvakum Petrov was a Russian Old Believer and protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church.
AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Aleksey Vladimirovich Batalov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter, and pedagogue acclaimed for his portrayal of noble and positive characters. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1989.
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius was a Russian poet, playwright, novelist, editor and religious thinker. She is considered one of the major figures in Russian symbolism.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov was a Soviet and Russian actor who was one of the most recognized persons of the post-World War II Soviet theatre and cinema.
Leo Medvedev/Лев Леонидович Медведев, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 47 people born on November 20, 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 February 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 20. Read the full methodology.
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