With 14 founders and entrepreneurs, this birthday is among the top 19% of all dates for entrepreneurial representation.
The people we list for this date were born across 486 years, from 1508 to 1994.
People born on this day come from 22 countries, most often United States (20 of 54).
Founders born on November 30 started companies including Scott Free Productions, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited and Winchester Repeating Arms Company.
November 30 birthdays span at least four well-represented fields, including authors, politicians, actors and creators.
47% of the people we list for this date are historical figures who are no longer living.
7 Nobel laureates were born on November 30, including Winston Churchill and Theodor Mommsen.
3 of them had founded a company, won a major award or taken a top job before turning 30.
Share of the 55 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors25% (14 people)
Entrepreneurs25% (14 people)
Authors24% (13 people)
Creators24% (13 people)
Scientists18% (10 people)
Musicians15% (8 people)
Politicians15% (8 people)
Countries
22 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States20 (20 people)
United Kingdom6 (6 people)
Sweden4 (4 people)
Canada3 (3 people)
France2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.
Yousuf Karsh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kaley Christine Cuoco is an American actress. She starred as Bridget Hennessy on the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules (2002–2005), Penny on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019), and as the title character in the HBO Max comedic thriller The Flight Attendant (2020–2022).
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. Known for his blend of slapstick humor and sharp wit, Stiller rose to fame in the late 1990s with a group of comedic actors colloquially known as the Frat Pack.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature".
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Ridley Scott is an English filmmaker. His work includes science fiction, crime, and historical epic films, with an atmospheric and highly concentrated visual style.
Elisha Ann Cuthbert is a Canadian actress. As a child actress, she made her first televised appearance as an extra on Are You Afraid of the Dark? and co-hosted Popular Mechanics for Kids. She made her feature-film debut in the 1997 Canadian family drama Dancing on the Moon.
Brand Technologies / Celebrity-Gossip.net, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited · media
1950 · India
Subhash Chandra Goenka is an Indian media entrepreneur. He is the chairman of the Essel Group, an Indian media conglomerate that owns Zee Media and the chairman emeritus of Zee Entertainment. He founded Zee TV in 1992 and Zee News in 1999.
Ameyakhandekar11, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
William Henry Gates II, better known as Bill Gates Sr., was an American attorney, philanthropist, and civic leader. He was the founder of the law firm Shidler McBroom & Gates, and also served as president of both the Seattle King County and Washington State Bar associations.
Gates Foundation / Prashant Panjiar., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher John Weitz is an American filmmaker and actor. He is best known for his work with his brother Paul on the comedy films American Pie and About a Boy; the latter earned the Weitz brothers a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Twilight_20091110_Crillon_Hotel_Paris_004.jpg: nicolas genin derivative work: Scarce (talk), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mandel Bruce Patinkin is an American actor and singer in musical theatre, television, and film. As a Broadway performer, he has collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Jeffhardywhyx (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
William Michael Albert Broad, known professionally as Billy Idol, is an English rock singer. He achieved fame in the 1970s on the London punk rock scene as the lead singer of Generation X.
GenerationSex, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Marina Abramović is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind.
Francesco Pierantoni from Bologna, Italy, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fumihito, Crown Prince Akishino is the heir presumptive to the Japanese throne. He is the younger brother of Emperor Naruhito, and the younger son of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko.
Foto: Isaac Castillo / Presidencia de la República del Ecuador, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput.
Charles Jervas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Steven Hiroyuki Aoki is an American DJ and record producer. In 2012, Pollstar designated Aoki as the highest-grossing electronic dance music artist in North America from tours. In 2024, Gold House recognized him as one of the Most Impactful Asians.
Jalil Arfaoui from Orgeval, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, author, and filmmaker. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross (1983) and Speed-the-Plow (1988).
David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lucy Maud Montgomery, published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was an American actor and theatre producer.
United States Steel Corporation (The company sponsored television programs, the U. S. Steel Hour was among them.), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Guillaume was an American actor and singer. He played Benson DuBois in the ABC television series Soap and its spin-off, Benson. He also voiced the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King, and played Isaac Jaffe in Aaron Sorkin's dramedy Sports Night.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.
Unknown photographerUnknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Roger David Glover is a Welsh musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as a bass guitarist and member of the hard rock band Deep Purple and formerly Rainbow. As a member of Deep Purple, Glover was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2016.
Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Emmanuel Lubezki Morgenstern is a Mexican cinematographer. Lubezki is known for uses of natural lighting and continuous uninterrupted shots in cinematography, often utilizing a Steadicam, a 3-axis gimbal, or hand-held camera.
Nigel de Jong is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He is currently the technical director of the KNVB, the national Dutch football federation.
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Andrea Palladio was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one of the most influential individuals in the history of architecture.
Alessandro Maganza, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nyjah Imani Huston is an American professional skateboarder. With numerous sponsorships and competition prize winnings, Huston is one of the highest paid skateboarders in the world.
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th century.
Louis Jacoby, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Aldair Nascimento dos Santos, known simply as Aldair, is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a centre back, and who was part of the Brazil national team that won the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni was a German physicist and musician. His most important work, for which he is sometimes labeled the father of acoustics, included research on vibrating plates and the calculation of the speed of sound for different gases.
Ludwig Albert von Montmorillon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sheikh Sulaiman bin Abdulaziz Al Rajhi is a Saudi Arabian businessperson. As of 2011, his wealth was estimated by Forbes to be $7.7 billion, making him the 120th richest person in the world.
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David Edward Card is a Canadian-American labour economist and the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been since 1997.
Roxanne Makasdjian and Alan Toth for the University of California, Berkeley, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Cyrus West Field was an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858.
Napoleon Sarony, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nils Gustaf Dalén was a Swedish engineer and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912 "for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys."
Atelier Jaeger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 55 people born on November 30, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. 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 30. Read the full methodology.
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