List of Famous people born on November 12nd

Kim Hunter was an American film, theatre, and television actress. She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire. Decades later, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her work on the soap opera The Edge of Night. She also portrayed the character of chimpanzee Zira in the first three installments of the original film adaptation Planet of the Apes.

Alina María Hernández, better known in the entertainment world as Cachita, was a Cuban transgender television actress.

Dietrich H. W. Grönemeyer is a German professor of medicine and one of the inventors of Microtherapy. He grew up in Bochum with his two brothers. One of them, Herbert Grönemeyer, is a popular musician.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Men is a Russian politician and former music producer. He was Minister of Construction Industry, Housing and Utilities Sector from 2013 to 2018. Previously Men worked as a deputy governor of Moscow Oblast from 1999 to 2002, a deputy mayor of Moscow from 2002 to 2005, and a governor of Ivanovo Oblast from 2005 to 2013. He is a son of Alexander Men.

Aya Terakawa is a retired Japanese backstroke swimmer; she announced her retirement from competitions in early December 2013.

Olena Lukash is a Ukrainian jurist and politician and former Minister of Justice of Ukraine, member of the Party of Regions. She is a Merited Jurist of Ukraine (2010).

Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of many schools of theory, including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, design theory, anthropology, and post-structuralism. He was particularly known for developing and extending the field of semiotics through the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture.

Edvaldo Jizídio Neto, commonly known as Vavá, was a Brazilian footballer who is widely considered one of the best strikers of his generation. His nickname was "Peito de Aço". He played as a main striker for Sport Club do Recife, C.R. Vasco da Gama, S.E. Palmeiras and the Brazil national football team.

Adlène Guedioura is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Qatari club Al-Gharafa and the Algeria national team.

Pierre de Barrigue de Montvallon, known professionally as Piem, was a French designer.