List of Famous people born on August 11st

Pascale Trinquet is a French fencer and Olympic champion in foil competition.

Young Timothy Hutchinson is an American Republican politician, lobbyist, and former United States senator from the state of Arkansas.

Charles Cecil is a British video game designer and co-founder of Revolution Software. His family lived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo when he was still very young, but was evacuated two years after Mobutu Sese Seko's coup d'état. He studied at Bedales School in Hampshire, England. In 1980 he began his studies in Engineering Manufacture and Management at Manchester University, where he met student Richard Turner who invited him to write text adventures for Artic Computing. After completing his degree in 1985 he decided to continue his career in game development and became director of Artic. The following year he established Paragon Programming, a game development company working with British publisher U.S. Gold. In 1987 he moved into publishing as a software development manager for U.S. Gold. A year later he was approached by Activision and was offered the position of manager of their European development studio.

Francesco Giavazzi is an Italian economist who is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, and a regular visiting professor at MIT.