List of Famous people born on November 9th

Thomas Bragg was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 34th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1855 through 1859. During the Civil War, he served in the Confederate States Cabinet. He was the older brother of General Braxton Bragg. They were direct descendants of Thomas Bragg (1579–1665) who was born in England and settled in the Virginia Colony.

Marcus Lawrence Ward was an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 21st Governor of New Jersey from 1866 to 1869 and represented Essex County for one term from 1873 to 1875.

Richard Ernst Wilhelm Otto was a German physician and bacteriologist, who served as director of the Paul Ehrlich Institute until 1948.

Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster was an English astronomer, physician, naturalist and philosopher. An early animal rights activist, he promoted vegetarianism and founded the Animals' Friend Society with Lewis Gompertz. He published pamphlets on a wide variety of subjects, including morality, Pythagorean philosophy, bird migration, Sati, and "phrenology", a term that he coined in 1815.

Théodore Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin or Wekerlin was a French composer and music publisher from Alsace.