Richard Randall Rollins was an American billionaire businessman and the chairman of Rollins Inc., the US's largest pest control conglomerate, which includes the Orkin Exterminating Company. Rollins was a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Kim Byung-hoon is a South Korean entrepreneur. He is founder and chief executive officer of APR Corp, a beauty tech company. Forbes estimated his net worth at US$2.7 billion in April 2026, ranking him 21st among Korea’s Richest 50 list.
Eliodoro Matte Larraín is a Chilean billionaire businessman, president of the Chilean forestry and paper company CMPC, that he inherited from his father.
Share of the 58 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors34% (20 people)
Authors29% (17 people)
Athletes22% (13 people)
Creators19% (11 people)
Entrepreneurs17% (10 people)
Musicians17% (10 people)
Politicians14% (8 people)
Countries
23 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States19 (19 people)
United Kingdom7 (7 people)
France4 (4 people)
Argentina2 (2 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Israel2 (2 people)
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10Tatum O'NealReceived the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (1974)
Bryan Guy Adams is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and photographer. He is estimated to have sold between 75 million and more than 100 million records and singles worldwide, placing him among the best-selling music artists.
Famke Beumer Janssen is a Dutch actress and former model acting in Hollywood. She played Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye (1995), Jean Grey / Phoenix in the X-Men film series (2000–2014), and Lenore Mills in the Taken film trilogy (2008–2014).
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Shepard Rogers III was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, author and musician whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays and several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs.
Bernard-Henri Georges Lévy is a French public intellectual. Often referred to in France simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the "Nouveaux Philosophes" movement in 1976.
Uwe Seeler was a German footballer and football official. As a striker, he was a prolific scorer for Hamburger SV and also made 72 appearances for the West Germany national team.
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Alexa Chung is an English model and television personality. Chung pursued a modelling career as a teenager after being scouted by a modeling agency at the Reading Festival.
Alphonso Taft was an American jurist, diplomat, and politician who served as United States attorney general and secretary of war under President Ulysses S. Grant.
Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Rolf Theiler is a Swiss businessman. He is the founder and co-owner of Mercedes CSI and chairman and president of Laureus Foundation Switzerland. Theiler is the former co-owner and chairman of BVG Management.
Robert Hammond Patrick is an American actor. Known for portraying villains and authority figures, Patrick is a Saturn Award winner with four other nominations.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tatum Beatrice O'Neal is an American actress. At age ten, she became the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award, for her performance as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon co-starring her father, Ryan O'Neal.
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Arthur Ira Garfunkel is an American singer, actor and poet who is best known for his partnership with Paul Simon in the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel.
Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and public policy analyst. He is a professor at Columbia University, at which he was formerly director of The Earth Institute and currently director of the Center for Sustainable Development.
Bundesministerium für Europa, Integration und Äußeres, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Kevin Jonas Jr. is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor. He rose to fame as the lead guitarist of the pop rock band Jonas Brothers alongside his younger brothers, singer-songwriters Joe and Nick Jonas.
Yair Lapid is an Israeli politician and former journalist who has been the Leader of the Opposition since January 2023, having previously served in that role from 2020 to 2021.
Izear Luster "Ike" Turner Jr. was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, record producer, and talent scout. An early pioneer of 1950s rock and roll, he is best known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with his wife Tina Turner as the leader of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue.
Masahiro Sumori, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood is an English musician who is the lead guitarist of the rock band Radiohead. He has also composed numerous film scores. He has been named one of the greatest guitarists by multiple publications.
Takehiro Tomiyasu is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or full-back for Premier League club Crystal Palace and the Japan national team.
Jean-Pierre Roger Guillaume Papin is a French football manager and former professional player who played as a forward. He was most recently the head coach of the reserve team of Olympique de Marseille. He won the Ballon d'Or in 1991.
Leo Medvedev/Лев Леонидович Медведев, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Elke Sommer is a German actress. She appeared in numerous films throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including roles in The Pink Panther sequel A Shot in the Dark (1964), the Bob Hope comedy Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Abedi Ayew, known professionally as Abedi Pele, is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and served as captain of the Ghana national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest African footballers of all time.
Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalization author. Based in Delhi, Shiva has written more than 20 books.
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Joseph Ira Dassin was an American singer-songwriter. He sang in multiple languages but found his greatest successes in France and the French-speaking world. In total, he sold nearly 25 million records worldwide.
Agenzia Pitre, published in Bolero Teletutto Magazine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
William James Durant was an American historian and philosopher, best known for his eleven-volume work, The Story of Civilization, which contains and details the history of Eastern and Western civilizations.
Bill Murphy, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin or Oleg Vladimirovich Blokhin, is a Ukrainian former football player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest footballers of his generation, Blokhin was a standout striker for Dynamo Kyiv and the Soviet Union.
Charles Margrave Taylor is a Canadian philosopher and professor emeritus at McGill University best known for his contributions to political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, the history of philosophy, and intellectual history.
Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-born scientist and polymath, and a foundational figure in the modern synthesis of evolutionary biology. He worked in the fields of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics.
http://students.washington.edu/gw0/modernsynthesis/images/haldane.png and converted to JPG., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
César Luis Menotti, known as El Flaco ("Slim"), was an Argentine football player and manager who won the 1978 FIFA World Cup as the head coach of the Argentina national team.
"Photos: RICARDO ALFIERI (son), ANTONIO CARRERA/TAO (Madrid) and "EL GRAFICO" ARCHIVE", Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alejandro Javier Sabella was an Argentine football player and manager. Born in Buenos Aires, he began his playing career with River Plate in his home country before moving to England in 1978 to play for Sheffield United.
This page lists 58 people born on November 5, 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 April 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 5. Read the full methodology.
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