November 23 is the birthday of 41 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, authors, actors and historical figures, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Daniel Marc Snyder is an American businessman and former owner of the Washington Commanders, an American football franchise belonging to the National Football League (NFL).
John Hampton "Papa John" Schnatter is an American entrepreneur who founded the Papa John's pizza restaurant chain in 1984. Schnatter started the business in the back of his father's tavern after selling his car and using the proceeds to purchase used restaurant equipment.
Share of the 41 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors24% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs24% (10 people)
Actors22% (9 people)
Creators20% (8 people)
Musicians17% (7 people)
Politicians15% (6 people)
Scientists12% (5 people)
Countries
20 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States13 (13 people)
France4 (4 people)
Estonia2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Soviet Union2 (2 people)
Spain2 (2 people)
United Kingdom2 (2 people)
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Nicolás Maduro Moros is a Venezuelan politician and former union leader who served as the 53rd president of Venezuela from 2013 until his capture during the United States intervention in Venezuela in 2026 for alleged drug trafficking to which he pleaded not guilty.
Ricardo Stuckert, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Miley Ray Cyrus is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. An influential figure in popular music, Cyrus is known for her evolving artistry and image reinventions. She was an established child actress before developing a successful entertainment career as an adult.
Raphael Pour-Hashemi, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kelly Brook is an English model, actress, and media personality. She began her career modelling for a range of advertising campaigns, which led to her discovery by the editorial team of the Daily Star tabloid, where they featured her as a Page 3 girl.
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1910 "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids."
Nobel foundation ?, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
William G. Kaelin Jr. is an American Nobel laureate physician-scientist. He is a professor of medicine at Harvard University and the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute where his laboratory studies tumor suppressor proteins.
Gwynne Shotwell is an American business executive and engineer. She is the president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, an American space transportation company, where she is responsible for day-to-day operations and company growth.
Kim Shiflett, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Heinrich Detlef Rabe was a German diplomat and businessman best known for his efforts to stop Japanese war crimes and protect Chinese civilians during the Nanjing Massacre.
Vincent Cassel is a French actor. He has earned a César Award and a Canadian Screen Award as well as nominations for a European Film Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Arthur "Harpo" Marx was an American comedian, actor and harpist, and the second-oldest of the Marx Brothers. In contrast to the mainly verbal comedy of his brothers Groucho and Chico, Harpo's comic style was visual, being an example of vaudeville, clown and pantomime traditions.
Yousuf Karsh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi OMRI is an Italian pianist and composer. Trained at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, Einaudi began his career as a classical composer, later incorporating other styles and genres such as pop, rock, folk, and world music.
Robert Towne was an American screenwriter and director. He started writing films for Roger Corman, including The Tomb of Ligeia in 1964, and was later part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking.
Ali Shariati Mazinani was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who specialised in the sociology of religion. He is regarded as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century.
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Paul Celan was a German-speaking Romanian poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator. He adopted his pen name following the war and resided in France from 1949, becoming a naturalized French citizen in 1955.
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1887–1915 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was an English physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics was the justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical concept of the atomic number. This stemmed from his development of Moseley's law in X-ray spectra.
AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives, W. F. Meggers Gallery of Nobel Laureates, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki was a Polish composer and conductor. His best-known works include Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Symphony No. 3, his St Luke Passion, Polish Requiem, Anaklasis and Utrenja.
José Clemente Orozco was a Mexican painter. He specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance, together with fellow artists Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, among others.
Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Francisco Tárrega, and Enrique Granados, he was one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century.
Archivo Manuel de Falla, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nihat Kahveci, better known mononymously as Nihat, is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a forward and right winger for Beşiktaş, Real Sociedad and Villarreal. He works as a football commentator for TRT. He has a UEFA Pro Licence.
Steindy (talk) 23:56, 10 April 2016 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John Alfred Mandel was an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. The musicians he worked with include Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Diane Schuur and Shirley Horn.
Marie Bashkirtseff, born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva, was an émigré artist who was born into a noble family on their estate near the city of Poltava. She lived and worked in Paris, and died at the age of 25.
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Joan Fuster i Ortells was an influential Catalan writer. He is considered a major writer in the Valencian language, and his work contributed to reinvigorate left-wing, pro-Catalan nationalism in Valencia during the Spanish transition to democracy.
Alfredo M. Yao is a Filipino businessman who is the founder of Zest-O, Macay Holdings, Inc. and Philippine Business Bank. He served as the Special Envoy to China for Tourism and Cooperation in 2009.
Elisabet "Betti" Alver, was one of Estonia's most notable poets. She was among the first generation to be educated in schools of an independent Estonia. She went to grammar school in Tartu.
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Aavo Pikkuus is a retired Estonian cyclist. He was part of the Soviet Union cycling team that won the 100 km team time trial at the 1976 Summer Olympics and 1977 UCI Road World Championships and finished second at the world championships in 1975 and 1978.
Henry Ong was an internationally produced playwright whose works have been produced at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego; Singapore Repertory Theatre; Latchmere Theatre, London; Queens Theatre in the Park, NY; Bailiwick Theatre, Chicago;, Whitefire Theatre, Los Angeles; Grove…
This page lists 41 people born on November 23, 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 2025. 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 23. Read the full methodology.
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