List of Famous people born on March 11st
Pilar Nores de García
María del Pilar Nores Bodereau de García is an Argentine-born Peruvian economist and the widow of former President of Peru Alan García, she was that nation's First Lady on two occasions.
Urbain Le Verrier
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier FRS (FOR) HFRSE was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics. The calculations were made to explain discrepancies with Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton. Le Verrier sent the coordinates to Johann Gottfried Galle in Berlin, asking him to verify. Galle found Neptune in the same night he received Le Verrier's letter, within 1° of the predicted position. The discovery of Neptune is widely regarded as a dramatic validation of celestial mechanics, and is one of the most remarkable moments of 19th-century science.
Guy Laporte
Guy Laporte was a French actor.
Dario Cologna
Dario Cologna is a Swiss cross-country skier. He has four overall World Cup victories, four Olympic gold medals, one World Championships gold medal and four Tour de Ski victories in his career.
Yaung Chih-liang
Yaung Chih-liang is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Minister of the Department of Health of the Executive Yuan from 2009 to 2011.
Jesse Jackson Jr.
Jesse Louis Jackson Jr. is a former American politician who served as a Democratic Congressman representing Illinois's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 until his resignation in 2012. He is the son of activist and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson and, prior to his career in elected office, worked for his father in both the elder Jackson's 1984 presidential campaign and his social justice, civil rights and political activism organization, Operation PUSH. Jackson's wife, Sandi Jackson, served on the Chicago City Council. He served as a national co-chairman of the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign. Jackson established a consistent liberal record on both social and fiscal issues, and he has co-authored books on civil rights and personal finance.
Bruno Podalydès
Bruno Podalydès is a French writer, film director, producer and actor. His brother Denis Podalydès is also an actor.
Georgia Simmerling
Georgia Simmerling is a Canadian road and track cyclist, who currently competes for UCI Women's Team Twenty20 Pro Cycling. Simmerling has also previously competed in alpine skiing and skicross, and is the first Canadian to compete in three different sports in three different Olympic Games.
Wataru Sakata
Wataru Sakata is a Japanese professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist.
Christophe Gans
Christophe Gans is a French film director, producer and screenwriter, who specializes in horror and fantasy movies.