November 7 is the birthday of 37 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, athletes and scientists, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Henry Ross Perot Jr. is an American real estate developer and businessman best known for his development of Alliance, Texas, an inland port near Fort Worth, and for making the first circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter, at age 23.
Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su is a Taiwanese and American business executive, computer scientist, and electrical engineer who has been the president and CEO of the American semiconductor company AMD since 2014.
Dani Reiss is a Canadian businessman. He is best known for his role as CEO of Canadian clothing company Canada Goose. As of April 2021, his net worth was estimated at US$1.2 billion.
Canada Goose Holdings Inc., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 37 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors35% (13 people)
Athletes22% (8 people)
Creators22% (8 people)
Entrepreneurs22% (8 people)
Scientists22% (8 people)
Actors16% (6 people)
Musicians14% (5 people)
Countries
16 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States10 (10 people)
India4 (4 people)
France3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Spain2 (2 people)
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Captain James Cook was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer who led three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans between 1768 and 1779.
Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, known professionally as Lorde, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. She is known for her unconventional style of pop music and introspective songwriting.
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S.
Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu, better known by his stage name Tinie Tempah, is an English rapper, singer and television presenter. Born and raised in London, he created his own entertainment company Disturbing London in 2006, alongside Dumi Oburota.
Amy Martin Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development · entertainment
1927–2013 · Japan
Hiroshi Yamauchi was a Japanese businessman and the third president of Nintendo, serving in the role from 25 April 1949 to 24 May 2002, and principal owner of the Seattle Mariners from 1992 until his death.
Paul T. Buchheit is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur who created the email service Gmail. He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail.
Robert Scoble from Half Moon Bay, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kamal Haasan is an Indian actor, filmmaker and politician, currently serving as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha for Tamil Nadu. He is an actor, director, producer, screenwriter, playback singer and lyricist who works primarily in Tamil cinema.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rio Gavin Ferdinand is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-back, and was a television pundit for TNT Sports, for ten years. He played 81 times for the England national team between 1997 and 2011, and was a member of three FIFA World Cup squads.
David de Gea Quintana is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for and captains Serie A club Fiorentina. He is regarded as one of the best goalkeepers of his generation.
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Yunjin Kim is a South Korean-American actress. She is best known for her role as North Korean spy Bang-Hee in the South Korean film Shiri (1999) and Sun-Hwa Kwon on the American television series Lost (2004–2010).
Nestor Ivanovych Makhno, also known as Bat'ko Makhno, was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of Independence.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dean Jagger was an American actor of film, stage, and television. He was known as one of the most "dependable character actors" of the Golden Age of Hollywood, though he also played leading roles.
Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nandita Das is an Indian actress and director. She has acted in over 40 feature films in ten different languages. Das appeared in the films Fire (1996), Earth (1998), Bawandar (2000), Kannathil Muthamittal (2002), Azhagi (2002), Kamli (2006), and Before The Rains (2007).
Francisco de Zurbarán was a Spanish Baroque painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname "Spanish Caravaggio", owing to the forceful use of chiaroscuro, in which he excelled.
Francisco de Zurbarán, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz was an American screenwriter who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). Both Mankiewicz and Welles went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film.
International News, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior.
Max Planck Gesellschaft (Eurobas), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
International property developer and art collector
1962 · Sweden
Vladislav Yurievich Doronin is a Russian businessman, real estate developer, and art collector. He is the owner and chairman of Aman Resorts, chairman and CEO of OKO Group and is a co-founder of Moscow-based Capital Group.
Gesi Schilling, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Eric Richard Kandel is an Austrian-born American medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry. He was also a neuroscientist and a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić was a Serbian philologist, anthropologist and linguist. He was one of the most important reformers of the modern Serbian language.
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Aron Nimzowitsch was a Russian-born Danish chess player and writer. In the late 1920s, Nimzowitsch was one of the best chess players in the world. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns and wrote a very influential book on chess theory: My System (1925–1927).
Not mentioned, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sergei Yevgenyevich Aleinikov is a Belarusian and Soviet former professional footballer, and currently a coach. He primarily played as a defensive midfielder and was known for his stamina, intelligence, solid technique, tactical sense, and passing ability.
Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was a French symbolist writer. His family called him Mathias while his friends called him Villiers; he would also use the name Auguste when publishing some of his books.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 37 people born on November 7, 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 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 7. Read the full methodology.
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