List of Famous people born on November 23rd

Galina Karelina is a former pair skater who competed for the Soviet Union. With partner Georgi Proskurin, she is the 1971 European bronze medalist.

Saint Ambrose of Optina was a starets and a hieroschemamonk in Optina Monastery, canonized in the 1988 convention of the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Yu Kimura is a retired Japanese professional boxer. He is the former World Boxing Council Light Flyweight champion.

Ali Shariati Mazinani was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been called the "ideologue of the Iranian Revolution", although his ideas ended up not forming the basis of the Islamic Republic.

Marisabel Rodríguez Oropeza is a Venezuelan journalist, publicist and radio announcer. She is best known for having been the second wife of former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.

Khalid Massad Al-Muwalid is a retired Saudi Arabian footballer. He played most of his career for Al Ahli and Al Ittihad.

Masanori Ota , better known by his pen name Masamune Shirow , is a Japanese manga artist. Shirow is best known for the manga Ghost in the Shell, which has since been turned into three theatrical anime movies, two anime television series, an anime television movie, an anime OVA series, a theatrical live action movie, and several video games.

Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray was a German neoclassical architect. From 1804 to 1816 he worked as court architect in Fulda and from 1816 until his death as Chief Director of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, producing several significant buildings in the town of Weimar itself. The asteroid 27712 Coudray is named after him.

Antonio Ramírez Martínez, commonly known as Toño, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Cypriot club AEK Larnaca FC as a goalkeeper.

Rao Ching-ling is a Taiwanese politician.