October 11 is the birthday of 47 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, actors and creators, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Peter Andreas Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003), and Founders Fund (2005), he was also the first outside investor in Facebook (2004).
Zong Qinghou was a Chinese billionaire businessman, and the founder, chairman and CEO of the Hangzhou Wahaha Group, China's leading beverage company. As of March 2022, his net worth was estimated at US$8.7 billion.
Share of the 47 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors32% (15 people)
Actors28% (13 people)
Creators28% (13 people)
Entrepreneurs28% (13 people)
Politicians19% (9 people)
Musicians17% (8 people)
Scientists15% (7 people)
Countries
22 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States20 (20 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
France2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Ireland2 (2 people)
United Kingdom2 (2 people)
Brazil1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on October 11 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
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~18Fred TrumpFounded The Trump Organization (1923)
~25Henry J. HeinzFounded H. J. Heinz Company (1869)
Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian actor, playback singer, and producer who primarily works in Hindi cinema. Widely considered one of the greatest, most accomplished and commercially successful actors in the history of Indian cinema, he has starred in over 200 films.
File:Amitabh Bacchan and Shrinivas Kulkarni.jpg: Shrinivaskulkarni1388 derivative work: Junior Jumper, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Frederick Christ Trump was an American real estate developer and businessman. He was the father of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, along with four other children.
Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms as president from 1933 to 1945.
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Joan Mary Cusack is an American actress. She is known for her distinctive voice and offbeat comedic timing, and her portrayals of neurotic, endearing characters have earned her numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award.
Anthony Quintano from Hillsborough, NJ, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Coy Luther "Luke" Perry III was an American actor. He became a teen idol for playing Dylan McKay on the Fox television series Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1990 to 1995, and again from 1998 to 2000. Perry also starred as Fred Andrews on the CW series Riverdale.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Salman Amin "Sal" Khan is a Bangladeshi-American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science.
Halla Tómasdóttir is an Icelandic businesswoman and politician who has served as president of Iceland since 2024. She is Iceland's second female president, after Vigdís Finnbogadóttir.
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Amr Abdel Basset Abdel Azeez Diab is an Egyptian singer, composer and actor. He has established himself as a globally acclaimed recording artist and author.
Muhammed Rafaat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · H. J. Heinz Company · food and beverage
1844–1919 · United States
Henry John Heinz was an American entrepreneur who co-founded the H. J. Heinz Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was involved in the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. Many of his descendants are known for philanthropy and involvement in politics and public affairs.
William James Perry is an American mathematician, engineer, businessman, and civil servant who was the United States Secretary of Defense from February 3, 1994, to January 23, 1997, under President Bill Clinton.
HELENE C. STIKKEL, CIV, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Matthew Staton Bomer is an American actor. His works have earned him accolades including a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, and a Peabody Award, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jane Krakowski is an American actress and singer. She starred as Jenna Maroney in the NBC satirical comedy series 30 Rock (2006–2013), for which she received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
watchwithkristin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Arthur Steven Lange Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and radio personality, best known for his work on Mad TV (1995–1997) and The Howard Stern Show (2001–2009).
dearsomeone at https://www.flickr.com/photos/dearsomeone/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Thích Nhất Hạnh was a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet, and teacher, who founded the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism.
Duc (pixiduc) from Paris, France., CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story author and screenwriter. He was, according to British journalist Anthony Lane, "hailed as one of the best crime writers in the land".
Nathaniel Wales Faxon is an American actor and comedian. A frequent presence on comedic films and TV series, he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing The Descendants (2011).
Jerome Robbins was an American dancer, choreographer, film director, theatre director and producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television.
Jerome_Robbins_ca._1968.jpg: studio publicity still. The original uploader was Wikiwatcher1 at English Wikipedia. deriva, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Arthur Blakey was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s.
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François Charles Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française, and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958.
Studio Harcourt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, was a Japanese essayist, philosopher, religious scholar, and translator. He was an authority on Buddhism, especially Zen and Shin, and was instrumental in spreading interest in these to the West.
Shigeru Tamura, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hans Kelsen was an Austrian and later American jurist, legal philosopher and political philosopher. He is known principally for his theory of law, which he named the "pure theory of law ", and for his writings on international law and theory of democracy.
Volker Bertelmann is a German composer, pianist and former rapper who mainly performs and records under the name Hauschka. He is best known for his compositions for prepared piano. He won an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his score for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022).
Maria Esther Andion Bueno was a Brazilian professional tennis player. During her 11-year career in the 1950s and 1960s, she won 19 major titles, making her the most successful South American tennis player in history and the only one ever to win Wimbledon in singles.
Agência Brasil Fotografias, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lucas Demetrios Papademos is a Greek economist and academic who served as Prime Minister of Greece from November 2011 to May 2012, leading a national unity government in the wake of the Greek debt crisis.
Λουκάς Παπαδήμος Πρωθυπουργός της Ελλάδας from Greece, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nadežda Petrović was a Serbian painter and one of the women war photography pioneers in the region. Considered Serbia's most famous expressionist and fauvist, she was the most important Serbian female painter of the period.
AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers was a German astronomer. He found a convenient method of calculating the orbit of comets, and in 1802 and 1807, discovered the second and the fourth asteroids Pallas and Vesta.
Rudolph Suhrlandt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, often simply called Vignola, was one of the great Italian architects of 16th-century Mannerism. His two great masterpieces are the Villa Farnese at Caprarola and the Jesuits' Church of the Gesù in Rome.
Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods.
Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kim Seong-su, art name Inchon, was a Korean educator, independence activist, journalist, entrepreneur, politician, and calligrapher. He served as the second Vice President of South Korea from 1951 to 1952. Kim Seong-su founded Korea University and The Dong-A Ilbo.
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Conrad Ferdinand Meyer was a Swiss poet and historical novelist, a master of literary realism who is mainly remembered for stirring narrative ballads like "Die Füße im Feuer".
Karl Stauffer-Bern, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alan Peter Pascoe is a British former athlete who gained success in hurdles and competed at three Olympic Games. After his athletics career, he has been successful in events marketing and consulting.
Christof Sonderegger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sawao Katō is a Japanese former gymnast and one of the most successful Olympic athletes of all time. Between 1968 and 1976 he won twelve Olympic medals, including eight gold medals, making him the most successful Japanese Olympian by number of gold medals won.
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Adolf Bernhard Meyer was a German anthropologist, ornithologist, entomologist, and herpetologist. He served for nearly thirty years as director of the Königlich Zoologisches und Anthropologisch-Ethnographisches Museum in Dresden.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 47 people born on October 11, 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 August 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 October 11. Read the full methodology.
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