List of Famous people born on November 8th

John Aden Gillett is a British actor best known for playing the role of Jack Maddox on the BBC series The House of Eliott.

Nancy Jane Kopell is an American mathematician and professor at Boston University. She is co-director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology (CompNet). She organized and directs the Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative (CRC). Kopell received her B.A. from Cornell University in 1963 and her Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1967. She held visiting positions at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France (1970), MIT, and the California Institute of Technology (1976).

John Mackintosh Foot is an English academic historian specialising in Italy.

Éric Bocquet is a French politician and member of the French Communist Party.

Jayne Marie Mansfield is an American actress and model. She is the first child and eldest daughter of 1950s Hollywood sex symbol and Playboy Playmate Jayne Mansfield and Mansfield's ex-husband Paul. Mansfield is also the elder half-sister of actress Mariska Hargitay. In July 1976, Mansfield became the first daughter of a Playmate to be a featured model. To date, only one other daughter of a Playmate has been featured in the magazine. Additionally, Mansfield is the only model who was featured as 100 Beautiful Women along with her mother in the magazine's 1988 special issue. She has acted in the film Olly, Olly, Oxen Free (1978) and TV production Blond in Hollywood (2003).

Jean-Marc de La Sablière has been the Ambassador of France in Italy between 2007 and 2011. Prior to this, he was the Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations from 2002 to 2007.

Sonsoles Espinosa Díaz is a Spanish classical singer and music teacher. She is married to José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, former President of the Government of Spain.