List of Famous people born on November 30th
Helena Rizzo
Helena Rizzo is a Brazilian chef and restaurateur. She runs the restaurant Maní in São Paulo. Rizzo was elected Best Female Chef of the Year by Restaurant Magazine in 2014.
David McGreavy
David Anthony McGreavy is an English convicted murderer who in a drunken rage killed three children, aged four, two and nine months, in the United Kingdom in 1973. He was in the news in 2013 when an anonymity order imposed in 2009 was lifted based on findings that there was a public interest in his application for parole and that there was no immediate danger to his life. He was held in a vulnerable prisoners' unit, where he spent most of his 40 years in prison until he was released on parole in December 2018.
Gerald Knaus
Gerald Knaus is an Austrian social scientist. He is a co-founder of the think tank European Stability Initiative (ESI).
Tim Hecker
Tim Hecker is a Canadian electronic musician and sound artist. Hecker initially recorded under the techno moniker Jetone, but has become known internationally for experimental ambient recordings released under his own name, such as Harmony in Ultraviolet (2006) and Ravedeath, 1972 (2011). He has released nine albums and a number of EPs in addition to collaborations with artists such as Ben Frost, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Daniel Lopatin, and Aidan Baker. His latest album Anoyo was released on Kranky on 10 May 2019.
John Durham
John Henry Durham is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut from 2018 to 2021. In April 2019 he was assigned to investigate the origins of the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, and in October 2020 he was appointed Special Counsel for the Department of Justice on those matters, a position he still holds.
Perkin Warbeck
Perkin Warbeck was a pretender to the English throne. Warbeck claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, who was the second son of Edward IV and one of the so-called "Princes in the Tower". Richard, were he alive, would have been the rightful claimant to the throne, assuming that his elder brother Edward V was dead, and that he was legitimate – a contentious point.
Greg Abel
Gregory Edward Abel is a Canadian businessman, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Energy, and vice-chairman of non-insurance operations of Berkshire Hathaway since January 2018.
Princess Tarakanoff
Princess Tarakanova was a pretender to the Russian throne. She styled herself, among other names, Knyazhna Yelizaveta Vladimirskaya, Fräulein Frank, and Madame Trémouille. Tarakanova is a later name, used only in entertainment, apparently on the basis of how she lived her last months and died. In her own time, she was not known by that name.
Monica of Hippo
Saint Monica was an early African Christian saint and the mother of St. Augustine of Hippo. She is remembered and honored in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, albeit on different feast days, for her outstanding Christian virtues, particularly the suffering caused by her husband's adultery, and her prayerful life dedicated to the reformation of her son, who wrote extensively of her pious acts and life with her in his Confessions. Popular Christian legends recall Saint Monica weeping every night for her son Augustine.
Erin Hoffman
Erin Hoffman is an American game developer, blogger and fantasy writer. She has published three fantasy novels, and been lead designer on multiple games such as Kung Fu Panda World, GoPets: Vacation Island, and Frontierville. Her anonymous post as a disgruntled "EA Spouse" in 2004, based on the working conditions of her husband who was an Electronic Arts developer, led to industry-wide awareness of the frequent use of "crunch time" overtime work to complete games in the video game industry.