List of Famous people born on May 11st
Cheng Yen
Cheng Yen (Chinese: 證嚴法師; pinyin: Zhèngyán Fǎshī; Wade–Giles: Chêng4 Yen2 Fa3-shih1; born Chin-Yun Wong; 14 May 1937) is a Taiwanese Buddhist nun (bhikkhuni), teacher, and philanthropist. She is the founder of the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation, ordinarily referred to as Tzu Chi, a Buddhist humanitarian organization based in Taiwan. In the West, she is sometimes referred to as the "Mother Theresa of Asia".
Plume Latraverse
Plume Latraverse is a prolific singer, musician, songwriter and author from Quebec. At the end of the 1960s he formed a band named La Sainte Trinité with Pierrot le fou and Pierre Landry. Then he formed a duo with Steve Faulkner (1972-1975). They performed for the last time at the Chant'Août in Quebec City. In 1976, Plume started a solo career and became one of the most influential names in Quebec counterculture. During a European tour (1979-1980) he staged a show during Le Printemps de Bourges and won the Prime Minister of France's Prize and the Pop-Rock prize for the best songwriter from Quebec. In 1982 he worked with Offenbach and produced the album À fond d'train. After his filmed biography, Ô rage électrique, Plume presented his show Show d'à diable in 1984, after which he brought his singing career to a close. He then focused on painting and writing. He published many of his songs, texts and a storybook.
Christiane Arp
Christiane Arp is a German journalist and has served as the editor-in-chief of the German edition of the magazine Vogue since March 2003. She is influential in the popularization and dissemination of German fashion sensibilities in Europe and around the globe. Christiane Arp's work with German Vogue magazine and within fashion has helped make Berlin a global fashion hot spot.
Humberto Soto
Armando Humberto Soto Ochoa, best known as Humberto Soto, is a Mexican professional boxer. A veteran of the sport for over 20 years, he is a former world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBC super featherweight title from 2008 to 2009, and the WBC lightweight title from 2010 to 2011. He also held the WBC interim featherweight title from 2005 to 2006.
Luis Caicedo Medina
Luis Alberto "Kunty" Caicedo Medina is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays as a central defender for club L.D.U. Quito.
Raúl Rodríguez Navas
Raúl Rodríguez Navas is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central defender for FC Cartagena.
Carlos Tramontina
Carlos Alberto Tramontina and commonly known simply as Carlos Tramontina is a Brazilian journalist.
Elisabeth Gehrer
Elisabeth Gehrer is an Austrian politician for the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). From May 1995 until January 2007, Gehrer was Federal Minister of Education, Science and Culture, at first in grand coalition governments headed by Franz Vranitzky and Viktor Klima, and from 2000 onwards in Wolfgang Schüssel's coalition government. From 1999 to 2007, she also served as vice party chairperson of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP).
Taiki Mitsumata
Taiki Mitsumata is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
Jadyn Wong
Jadyn Wong is a Canadian actress, born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, best known for playing Happy Quinn on the CBS show Scorpion. She has a black belt in karate and is also a classical pianist.