List of Famous people born on August 11st
Billy Long
William Hollis Long II is an American auctioneer and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Missouri's 7th congressional district since 2011. The district includes much of the southwestern quadrant of the state and is anchored in Springfield. The district also includes Joplin and Branson.
Kunihiro Shimizu
Kunihiro Shimizu is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Panasonic Panthers. Shimizu was crowned the Most Valuable Player in Asian Championship 2015.
Julio César la Cruz
Julio César La Cruz Peraza is a Cuban amateur boxer. He won the light heavyweight world title in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017, Gold at the Pan American Games in 2011, 2015, and 2019, as well as the Olympic gold medal in 2016.
Brad Binder
Brad Binder is a South African Grand Prix motorcycle racer. He was also known for winning the 2016 Moto3 World Championship. In November 2019 he was confirmed as a factory KTM rider in MotoGP class for the 2020 season, replacing Johann Zarco who had abandoned his factory ride earlier in the year.
Kristen Pazik
Kristen Pazik is an American model of Polish descent.
Joe Jackson
David Ian "Joe" Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter. Having spent years studying music and playing clubs, Jackson scored a hit with his first release, "Is She Really Going Out with Him?", in 1979. This was followed by a number of new wave singles before he moved to more jazz-inflected pop music and had a Top 10 hit in 1982 with "Steppin' Out". He is associated with the 1980s Second British Invasion of the US. He has also composed classical music. He has recorded 19 studio albums and received 5 Grammy Award nominations.
Austin Tice
Austin Bennett Tice is a freelance journalist and a veteran U.S. Marine Corps officer who was kidnapped while reporting in Syria on August 14, 2012.
Lisca
Luiz Carlos Cirne Lima de Lorenzi, commonly known as Lisca, is a Brazilian football manager, currently in charge of América Mineiro.
Ahmet Hakan
Ahmet Hakan Coşkun is a Turkish columnist, currently working at Hürriyet, CNN Türk and Kanal D. He studied at Bursa Religious High School and then Bursa Divinity Faculty. He used to be anchor-man for the television channel Kanal 7 founded by Necmettin Erbakan the founder/leader of Welfare Party. He was appointed editor of Hürriyet in 2019.
Kohei Arihara
Kohei Arihara is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).