List of Famous people born on November 30th
Alyssa Nakken
Alyssa Nakken is an American professional baseball coach for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). She is the first full-time female coach in MLB history and the first to coach on the field during a major league game. She attended California State University, Sacramento, where she played college softball.
Helley de Abreu Silva Batista
Heley de Abreu Silva Batista was a Brazilian teacher. She gained notability after giving her own life in an act of courage to save children in the Tragedy of Janaúba. She saved at least 25 children, being considered a heroine.
Mehrdad Minavand
Mehrdad Minavand was an Iranian professional footballer and coach. He played mostly as a left midfielder but was also deployed as a left winger or left-back.
Andrew R. Wheeler
Andrew R. Wheeler is an American attorney who served as the 15th administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2019 to 2021. He served as the deputy administrator from April to July 2018, and served as the acting administrator from July 2018 to February 2019. He previously worked in the law firm Faegre Baker Daniels, representing coal magnate Robert E. Murray and lobbying against the Obama Administration's environmental regulations. Wheeler served as chief counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and to the chairman U.S. senator James Inhofe, prominent for his rejection of climate change. Wheeler is a critic of limits on greenhouse gas emissions and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Andrew Moray
Andrew Moray, also known as Andrew de Moray, Andrew of Moray, or Andrew Murray, an esquire, was prominent in the Scottish Wars of Independence. He led the rising in north Scotland in the summer of 1297 against the occupation by King Edward I of England, successfully regaining control of the area for King John Balliol. He subsequently merged his forces with those led by William Wallace and jointly led the combined army to victory at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Moray was mortally wounded in the fighting, dying at an unknown date and place later that year.
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Hidetaka Miyazaki is a Japanese video game director, designer, writer, and company president of FromSoftware. He originally joined the company in 2004 as a game designer for the Armored Core series, later becoming known for creating the Souls series, starting with Demon's Souls in 2009. Other games he has worked on include Bloodborne and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.
Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal
Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal served as the Under-Secretary-General for Public Information at the United Nations from August 2012 to January 2015, succeeding Kiyotaka Akasaka. He is also the United Nations Coordinator for Multilingualism, a position in which he coordinates the issue of multilingualism throughout the UN Secretariat.
Makio Inoue
Makio Inoue was a Japanese actor and voice actor. He began voice acting in the 1960s, landing small roles in Astroboy, and was the actor of choice for deep-voiced, serious males in the 1970s. He is most noted for his two longstanding roles, as the title character in Captain Harlock from 1978 though the 1980s and 1990s, and Goemon Ishikawa XIII of Lupin III from 1977 to 2011. He was succeeded in the role of Goemon by Daisuke Namikawa.
Empedocles
Empedocles was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is best known for originating the cosmogonic theory of the four classical elements. He also proposed forces he called Love and Strife which would mix and separate the elements, respectively.
Ignatius of Antioch
Ignatius of Antioch, also known as Ignatius Theophorus or Ignatius Nurono, was an early Christian writer and bishop of Antioch. While en route to Rome, where he met his martyrdom, Ignatius wrote a series of letters. This correspondence now forms a central part of a later collection of works known to be authored by the Apostolic Fathers. He is considered to be one of the three most important of these, together with Clement of Rome and Polycarp. His letters also serve as an example of early Christian theology. Important topics they address include ecclesiology, the sacraments, and the role of bishops.