List of Famous people born on November 26th
Vreni Schneider
Verena "Vreni" Schneider is a retired ski racer from Switzerland. She is the most successful alpine ski racer of her country, the fourth most successful female ski racer ever and was voted "Swiss Sportswoman of the Century".
Robeilys Peinado
Robeilys Mariley Peinado Méndez is a Venezuelan athlete whose specialty is pole vaulting. She won the bronze medal at the 2017 World Championships in London. In addition, she won multiple medals in several age categories.
Sheron Menezzes
Sheron Mancilha Menezes is a Brazilian actress.
Georges Sarre
Georges Sarre was a French politician and leader of the Citizen and Republican Movement.
Maialen Lujanbio
Maialen Lujanbio is a Basque poet and bertsolari winner. She composes her oral poetry in the Basque language and she is the only woman to ever reach her level.
Rafael Carrascal
Rafael ledes Carrascal Ávilez is a Colombian footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for CSKA Moscow in the Russian Premier League.
Gerrit van der Veen
Gerrit van der Veen was a Dutch sculptor. He was a member of the Dutch underground, which resisted the German occupation of Amsterdam during World War II. The historian Robert-Jan van Pelt wrote:
In 1940, after the German occupation, van der Veen was one of the few who re-fused to sign the so-called “Arierverklaring,” the Declaration of Aryan Ancestry. In the years that followed, he tried to help Jews both in practical and symbolic ways. Together with the musician Jan van Gilse and the artist, art historian, and critic Willem Arondeus, van der Veen established the underground organization De Vrije Kunstenaar. Van der Veen and the other artists published a newsletter calling for resistance against the occupation. When the Germans introduced identity documents (Persoonsbewijzen) that distinguished between Jews and non-Jews, van der Veen, Arondeus and the printer Frans Duwaer produced some 80,000 false identity papers.
Olexandr Kolchenko
Olexandr Olexandrovych Kolchenko is a Ukrainian left-wing and trade union activist, antifascist, anarchist, ecologist, and archaeologist, who was convicted of terrorism by the Russian administration of Crimea in 2014.
Roland Lescure
Roland Lescure is a French banker and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since the 2017 elections. He represents the First constituency for French residents overseas.
tofubeats
Yūsuke Kawai , known professionally as Tofubeats, is a Japanese singer, record producer, and DJ.