List of Famous people born in November
Andru Donalds
Andru Donalds is a Jamaican musician and vocalist, who also worked in collaboration with the Enigma project. Donalds had a hit single in America in 1995 with "Mishale", which reached No. 38 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Dacia Maraini
Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. Maraini's work focuses on women’s issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels. She has won awards for her work, including the Formentor Prize for L'età del malessere (1963); the Premio Fregene for Isolina (1985); the Premio Campiello and Book of the Year Award for La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (1990); and the Premio Strega for Buio (1999). In 2013, Irish Braschi's biographical documentary I Was Born Travelling told the story of her life, focusing in particular on her imprisonment in a concentration camp in Japan during World War II and the journeys she made around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia and close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas.
Zheng Zhihua
Zheng Zhihua is a Taiwanese singer. When he was two, he contracted polio and became permanently paralyzed from the waist down. He started his career in the late 1980s and enjoyed great success and popularity during the early 1990s in both Taiwan and mainland China. He announced his retirement in January 1999, but in 2005 he reemerged.
Jacob Heidtmann
Jacob Heidtmann is a German swimmer. He competed in the men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay and the 400 metere medley event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Lee Yong-jin
Lee Yong-jin is a South Korean comedian and singer. He is most known for his work on the tvN sketch comedy show Comedy Big League. Lee owns a famous sashimi restaurant, under the name "960", in Sokcho, Gangwon-do province, which opened August 2014.
Alexia Runggaldier
Alexia Runggaldier is an Italian former biathlete. She competed at the Biathlon World Championships 2012 and 2013. She represented Italy at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.
Lai Chi Wai
Lai Chi Wai is a rock climber, sport climber, and motivational speaker from Hong Kong. He is a four-time champion of the Asian Rock Climbing Championships and the world's first Chinese winner of the X-Game's extreme sports. In 2011, he got into a serious traffic accident that left him paraplegic. On December 9, 2016, upon the 5th anniversary of the car accident, Lai climbed up Lion Rock in a wheelchair, and became the first Chinese athlete to be nominated for the Laureus World's Best Sporting Moment of the month, which he lost to a viral video which showed a packed sports stadium of 70,000 people in Iowa turning and waving to children in an adjacent hospital. Netizens, touched by Lai's achievement, said he embodied the “spirit of Lion Rock”, which has come to symbolize Hong Kong's can-do spirit in the midst of adversities.
Mohamed al-Menfi
Mohamed Yunus al-Menfi is a Libyan diplomat and politician from Tobruk. On 5 February 2021, he was chosen as the Libyan president at the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum. Previously, he had served as the Libyan Ambassador to Greece.
Jim Ka To
Jim Ka To is a race car driver who competed in the 2001 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup and currently competes in the China Touring Car Championship.