List of Famous people born on December 11st
Jean-Pierre Kahane
Jean-Pierre Kahane was a French mathematician with contributions to harmonic analysis.
David Joy
David Joy is an American novelist and short-story writer.
Ruth Fischer
Ruth Fischer was an Austrian and German Communist and a co-founder of the Austrian Communist Party in 1918. She later became a staunch anti-Stalinist activist and, according to secret information declassified in 2010, was a key agent of the American intelligence service known as "The Pond".
Francesco Algarotti
Count Francesco Algarotti was a Venetian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector. He was a man of broad knowledge, an expert in Newtonianism, architecture and opera. He was a friend of Frederick the Great and leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheist Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Lord Chesterfield, Thomas Gray, George Lyttelton, Thomas Hollis, Metastasio, Benedict XIV and Heinrich von Brühl were among his correspondents.
Liêm Hoang-Ngoc
Liêm Hoang-Ngoc is a Vietnamese-born French economist and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the East France constituency as a member of the French Socialist Party. During his time as a Socialist, he was known to sympathise with the left of the party, and was close to Henri Emmanuelli. He is also a member of the alter-globalization collective Attac.
Christian Hadinata
Christian Hadinata is a former Chinese Indonesian badminton player.
Ikuma Horishima
Ikuma Horishima is a Japanese freestyle skier who competes internationally. He competed for Japan at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 in Sierra Nevada, Spain, where he won a gold medal in Moguls, and another gold medal in Dual moguls.
Joe Masteroff
Joe Masteroff was an American playwright.
Stein Eriksen
Stein Eriksen was an alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Norway. Following his racing career, he was a ski school director and ambassador at various resorts in the United States.
Richard Sipe
Aquinas Walter Richard Sipe was an American Benedictine monk-priest for 18 years, a psychotherapist and the author of six books about Catholicism, the clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, and clerical celibacy.