November 29 is the birthday of 50 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, actors, authors and historical figures, and 4 of them are billionaires.
$25.5Breported estimate as of July 2026 · Bloomberg
Gregory Brockman is an American entrepreneur and software engineer. He is co-founder and president of OpenAI. He began his career at Stripe in 2010, upon leaving MIT, and became CTO in 2013. He left Stripe in 2015 to co-found OpenAI, where he also served as CTO.
$13.2Breported estimate as of January 2026 · Forbes
Kenneth Lawrence Fisher is an American billionaire investment analyst, author, and the founder and executive chairman of Fisher Investments, a fee-only financial adviser.
Robert Earl Holding was an American businessman who owned Sinclair Oil Corporation, the Grand America Hotels & Resorts, the Grand America Hotel, the Westgate Hotel in San Diego, California, and two ski resorts, Sun Valley in central Idaho since 1977, and Snowbasin near Ogden, Utah, since 1984.
Petter Anker Stordalen Bjorvand is a Norwegian businessman. With an estimated net worth of US$1.6 billion as of 2025, he is the owner of the Strawberry Group, a conglomerate of ten companies with holdings in hotels, shopping centers, real estate, finance, and art.
Kenneth.hultgren, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors32% (16 people)
Entrepreneurs32% (16 people)
Authors26% (13 people)
Creators16% (8 people)
Politicians14% (7 people)
Athletes12% (6 people)
Scientists12% (6 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States24 (24 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
Austria1 (1 people)
Austrian Empire1 (1 people)
Brazil1 (1 people)
France1 (1 people)
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Anna Kay Faris is an American actress, comedian, producer, writer, podcaster, and author. She rose to prominence for her comedic roles, particularly the lead part of Cindy Campbell in the Scary Movie films (2000–present).
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Clive Staples Lewis was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963).
John S. Murray, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gemma Chan is a British actress and model. A graduate of Worcester College, Oxford, Chan began acting during the late 2000s, making her film debut in 2009.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rahm Israel Emanuel is an American politician and diplomat. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms.
U.S. Embassy in Japan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Charles Layfield, better known by the ring name John "Bradshaw" Layfield, is an American professional wrestling color commentator, retired professional wrestler and former football player. He is signed to WWE, where he is an ambassador and commentator for the company.
U.S. Department of Defense, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Howard Michael Mandel is a Canadian comedian, television personality, actor, and producer. Mandel is known for voicing Gizmo in the 1984 film Gremlins and the 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch; playing rowdy emergency room resident Dr.
Josef Weider was a Canadian publisher and entrepreneur who co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB) alongside his brother Ben Weider. He was also the creator of Mr. Olympia, Ms. Olympia, and the Masters Olympia bodybuilding contests.
Sir John Marks Templeton was an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist. In 1954, he entered the mutual fund market and created the Templeton Growth Fund, which averaged growth over 15% per year for 38 years.
Thomas Edward Sizemore Jr. was an American actor. Born in Detroit, he started his career with supporting appearances in Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Lock Up (1989), and Blue Steel (1990).
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Empress Dowager Cixi was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who periodically controlled the government of the late Qing dynasty as empress dowager and regent from 1861 until her death in 1908.
John Yu Shuinling, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886).
Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lucas York Black is an American actor. He plays Sean Boswell in the Fast & Furious films The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), Furious 7 (2015), and F9 (2021).
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Jayceon Terrell Taylor, better known by his stage name The Game or simply Game, is an American rapper and actor. Born in Compton, California, he initially released a series of mixtapes under the wing of fellow West Coast rapper JT the Bigga Figga.
Laura Marie Marano is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Ally Dawson in the Disney Channel series Austin & Ally. Marano was one of the five original classmates in Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?.
John Dramani Mahama is a Ghanaian politician who has been the president of the Republic of Ghana since January 2025. A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), he previously served as president from 2012 to 2017.
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Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. L'Engle received the Newbery Medal for her 1962 children's book, A Wrinkle in Time. She also received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1998.
Ernst Franz Hermann Happel was an Austrian football player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, he won both league and domestic cup titles in the Netherlands, Belgium, West Germany, and Austria.
Beji Caid Essebsi was a Tunisian politician who served as the fourth president of Tunisia from 2014 until his death in 2019. Previously, he served as minister of foreign affairs from 1981 to 1986 and prime minister from February to December 2011.
U.S. Department of State from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christian Andreas Doppler was an Austrian mathematician and physicist. He formulated the principle – now known as the Doppler effect – that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observer.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Enos Edward "Yakima" Canutt was an American rodeo rider, stuntman, and actor. Sometimes called "the King of the Stuntmen," he is considered one of the influential figures in the history of motion picture stuntcraft.
Lone Star Productions, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Tsongkhapa was an influential Tibetan Buddhist monk, philosopher, and tantric yogi, whose activities led to the formation of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Agustín Héctor Castro Rodríguez was a Uruguayan football player and coach. He scored Uruguay's first ever goal in a World Cup against Peru at the inaugural 1930 FIFA World Cup, which they would go on to win.
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John Ray was an English Christian naturalist and one of the earliest English parson-naturalists. Until 1670 he wrote his name as John Wray; from then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him".
Chun Jung-myung is a South Korean actor. Chun made his break into the entertainment industry in the KBS teen drama School 2 (1999). He is best known for his leading roles in TV dramas such as Fashion 70's (2005), Goodbye Solo (2006), What's Up Fox?
Sir John Ambrose Fleming was an English electrical engineer and physicist. He is known for inventing the vacuum tube radio transmitter—with which the first transatlantic radio transmission was made—and establishing the right-hand rule used in physics.
Wilhelm Hauff was a German poet and novelist known for his stories and novels. Raised in Stuttgart and educated in Tübingen, he wrote fairy tales such as Der kleine Muck and Das kalte Herz, the historical romance Lichtenstein, and the parody Der Mann im Mond.
Eugene Joseph Polley was an electrical engineer and engineering manager for Zenith Electronics who invented the first wireless remote control for television.
Famille d'Eugene Polley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 50 people born on November 29, 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 July 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 29. Read the full methodology.
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