50+ Celebrities Born on July 11

Jules Burke
May 17, 2024 59 items

Stars align in more ways than one on July 11, marking the birthdays of various celebrities who have made significant marks in their respective fields. From silver screen legends, such as Sela Ward, to music maestros, like Lil' Kim, to sports, like Caroline Wozniacki, and everything in between, this day seems to have a little extra sparkle when it comes to birthing fame.

This list celebrates those well-known personalities born on this particular summer day. Whether it's for planning a themed trivia night or just fueling some fun facts for social media banter, knowing which celebrities and historical figures, like John Quincy Adams, both living and deceased share this birthday adds an interesting twist to pop culture knowledge. So, letā€™s see who gets to blow out candles together!

  • Tamiris Freitas
    Tamiris Freitas is a fashion model.
  • Shaun Robinson
    Shaun Robinson (born July 11, 1962) is an American television host.
  • Bridgette Andersen
    Bridgette Andersen (July 11, 1975 ā€“ 1997) was a California-based child actress and child model in American media. She starred in 1982's Savannah Smiles, for which she received her first of four Youth in Film Award nominations.
  • Hugo SĆ”nchez

    Hugo SƔnchez

    Hugo SƔnchez MƔrquez (born 11 July 1958) is a Mexican retired professional footballer and manager, who played as a forward. A prolific goalscorer known for his spectacular strikes and volleys, SƔnchez is widely regarded as the greatest Mexican footballer of all time, and one of the greatest players of his generation. In 1999, the International Federation of Football History and Statistics voted SƔnchez the 26th best footballer of the 20th century, and the best footballer from the CONCACAF region. In 2004 SƔnchez was named in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players. He is the fourth highest scorer in the history of La Liga, the third highest scoring foreign player after Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, and is the seventh highest goalscorer in Real Madrid's history. He scored over 540 senior career goals for both club and country. SƔnchez began his career playing for Club Universidad Nacional in 1976, and briefly went on loan to the San Diego Sockers of the North American Soccer League in 1979. In 1981, he moved to Spain to play for AtlƩtico Madrid, playing for the Colchoneros for four years before moving to cross-town rivals Real Madrid, where he would spend the best years of his career, winning numerous titles and accolades. From 1977 to 1994, SƔnchez was a member of the Mexico national team, gaining 58 caps and scoring 29 goals. He participated in three FIFA World Cup tournaments and was a part of the Mexico team that reached the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup. As a manager, he won two-consecutive league championships with UNAM. After managing Necaxa, he was announced as coach of the Mexico national football team in 2006, but was fired in March 2008 due to poor results. In 2009, SƔnchez was named manager of UD Almerƭa, and helped to save the club from relegation.
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  • Leon Spinks
    Leon Spinks (born July 11, 1953) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 1995. In only his eighth professional fight, he won the undisputed heavyweight championship in 1978 after defeating Muhammad Ali in a split decision, in what was considered one of the biggest upsets in boxing history. Spinks was later stripped of the WBC title for facing Ali in an unapproved rematch seven months later, which he lost by unanimous decision. Besides being heavyweight champion and his characteristic gap-toothed grin (due to losing two and later all four of his front teeth), Spinks gained notoriety for the disaster which befell his career following the loss to Ali. However, he did challenge once more for the WBC heavyweight title in 1981 (losing to Larry Holmes by TKO in the third round), and the WBA cruiserweight title in 1986 (losing to Dwight Muhammad Qawi by TKO in the sixth round). As an amateur, Spinks won numerous medals in the light heavyweight division. The first was bronze at the inaugural 1974 World Championships, followed by silver at the 1975 Pan American Games, and gold at the 1976 Summer Olympics; the latter alongside his brother Michael Spinks, who won middleweight gold. Leon served in the United States Marine Corps from 1973 to 1976. Spinks also had a brief career as a professional wrestler in the 1990s, working for Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) and holding the FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship in 1992.
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  • Peter Murphy

    Peter Murphy

    Peter John Joseph Murphy (born 11 July 1957) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He was the vocalist of the goth rock band Bauhaus and later went on to release a number of solo albums, such as Love Hysteria, Deep, and Holy Smoke. Thin with prominent cheekbones, a baritone voice, and a penchant for gloomy poetics, he is often called the "Godfather of Goth".
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  • Suzanne Vega
    Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer, best known for her folk-inspired music.Vega's music career spans more than 30 years. She came to prominence in the mid 1980s, releasing four singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, including "Marlene on the Wall", "Left of Center", "Luka" and "No Cheap Thrill". "Tom's Diner," which was originally released as an a cappella recording on Vega's second album, Solitude Standing, was remixed in 1990 as a dance track by English electronic duo DNA with Vega as featured artist, and it became a Top 10 hit in over five countries. The song was used as a test during the creation of the MP3 format.Vega has released nine studio albums to date, the latest of which is Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers, released in 2016.
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  • Thomas Mitchell
    Thomas John Mitchell (July 11, 1892 ā€“ December 17, 1962) was an American actor. Among his most famous roles in a long career are those of Gerald O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, Doc Boone in Stagecoach, Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life and Mayor Jonas Henderson in High Noon. Mitchell was the first male actor to win an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony Award. Nominated twice for an Oscar, first for The Hurricane (1938), he won the Best Supporting Actor award for Stagecoach (1939); later, he would be nominated three times for an Emmy Award. He was nominated twice, in 1952 and 1953, for his role in the medical drama The Doctor, winning the Lead Actor Drama award in 1953. Nominated again in 1955, for an appearance on a weekly anthology series, he did not win. Mitchell won the Tony for Best Actor in a Musical, in 1953, for his role as Dr Downer in the musical comedy Hazel Flagg, based on the 1937 Paramount comedy film Nothing Sacred, rounding out the Triple Crown of Acting. In addition to being an actor, he was also a director, playwright, and screenwriter.
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  • Jeff Corwin
    Jeffrey Corwin (born July 11, 1967) is an American biologist and wildlife conservationist, known for hosting Disney Channel's Going Wild with Jeff Corwin, The Jeff Corwin Experience on Animal Planet, and ABC's Ocean Treks with Jeff Corwin.
  • James Abbott McNeill Whistler
    James Abbott McNeill Whistler (; July 11, 1834 ā€“ July 17, 1903) was an American artist, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He was averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger for a tail. The symbol was apt, for it combined both aspects of his personality: his art is characterized by a subtle delicacy, while his public persona was combative. He found a parallel between painting and music and entitled many of his paintings "arrangements", "harmonies", and "nocturnes", emphasizing the primacy of tonal harmony. His most famous painting is Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (1871), commonly known as Whistler's Mother, the revered and often parodied portrait of motherhood. Whistler influenced the art world and the broader culture of his time with his artistic theories and his friendships with leading artists and writers.
  • Vito Russo
    Vito Russo (July 11, 1946 ā€“ November 7, 1990) was an American LGBT activist, film historian and author. He is best remembered as the author of the book The Celluloid Closet (1981, revised edition 1987), described in The New York Times as "an essential reference book" on homosexuality in the US film industry. In 1985 he co-founded the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, a media watchdog organization that strives to end anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and advocates for LGBTQ inclusion in popular media.
  • Pedro Carrasco
    Pedro Juan Carrasco GarcĆ­a (11 July 1943 ā€“ 27 January 2001) was a Spanish boxer whose fame transcended the boxing ring. During the 1970s, he was a media darling in Spain. Carrasco was crowned European Lightweight champion in 1967. This triumph was followed four years later, in 1971, with a victory over Mando Ramos in Madrid by disqualification in 11 rounds for the WBC's world Lightweight title. The victory was marred by controversy because Carrasco won the title while lying on the canvas: he had been hit in the head by Ramos. The fight's referee expressed confusion as to whether the blow was legal, but he decided to call it an illegal blow and raised Carrasco's hand in signal of victory. Carrasco immediately became a national hero in Spain, as Spain's second-ever world boxing champion.Carrasco, who was a culturally educated fighter, became a sensation with the media, especially with tabloid magazines, and he started to be seen with Spanish show business stars. His picture appeared on the covers of such magazines as Ā”Hola! many times. He married the singer RocĆ­o Jurado, with whom he had a daughter, RocĆ­o Carrasco. He was also married to Raquel Mosquera for five years. In 1971, and because of the controversial nature of his world championship win over Ramos, the WBC ordered a rematch, and it was fought in Los Angeles. There, Ramos beat Carrasco and retook title. They had another rematch, and Ramos beat Carrasco again.Carrasco's career boxing record was 106ā€“3ā€“2 (66 KOs). After beginning his career 12ā€“1ā€“1, Carrasco had a streak on which he went 92ā€“0ā€“1. The draw came after Carrasco had won 83 consecutive fights. This undefeated streak was longer than Julio CĆ©sar ChĆ”vez's (90ā€“0ā€“1). ChĆ”vez's streak, however, was from the beginning of the career, and he was 87ā€“0 before the draw.In 1983, the WBC selected Carrasco in their list of 40 greatest boxers of the last 40 years. Carrasco's death of a heart attack in 2001 caused shock in Spain, particularly because of his relatively young age, just 57.
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  • Craig Charles
    Craig Joseph Charles (born 11 July 1964) is a British actor, television presenter and DJ. He played Dave Lister in the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf and Lloyd Mullaney in the soap opera Coronation Street, as a funk and soul DJ on BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Radio 2, and as the presenter of the gladiator-style game show Robot Wars from 1998 to 2004. Charles first appeared on television as a performance poet, which led to minor presenting roles. After finding fame in Red Dwarf, he regularly featured on national television with celebrity appearances on many popular shows while he continued to host a wide variety of programmes. Charles also narrated the comedy endurance show Takeshi's Castle. From 2017, he has hosted The Gadget Show for Channel 5. His acting credits include playing inmate Eugene Buffy in the ITV drama The Governor, and leading roles in the British films Fated and Clubbing to Death. He has toured the UK extensively as a stand-up comedian. Charles has hosted The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show on BBC radio since 2002, and performs DJ sets at numerous clubs and festivals, nationally and internationally. In September 2015, he left Coronation Street after ten years, to film new episodes of Red Dwarf.
  • Andre Johnson
    Andre Lamont Johnson (born July 11, 1981) is a former American football wide receiver who played the majority of his 14-year career with the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He's currently working with the Texans organization as "Special Advisor" to the teamā€™s Head coach Bill O'Brien. He played college football at Miami, and was drafted by the Texans third overall in the 2003 NFL Draft. He is eleventh all-time in NFL career receptions, and 10th all-time in NFL receiving yards. Johnson holds nearly every Texans receiving record. He was also a member of the Indianapolis Colts and Tennessee Titans.
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  • Javier LĆ³pez
    Javier LĆ³pez may refer to: Arturo LĆ³pez (Javier Arturo LĆ³pez, born 1983), Mexican-American baseball pitcher Javier LĆ³pez (baseball) (born 1977), Puerto Rican-American baseball player Javier LĆ³pez (general) (1792ā€“1836), Argentine soldier and several times governor of TucumĆ”n Province Javier LĆ³pez (sport shooter) (born 1989), Spanish sports shooter Javier LĆ³pez (born 1949), Spanish theologian and a priest of the Catholic Church Javi LĆ³pez (Francisco Javier LĆ³pez Castro, born 1964), Spanish retired footballer and manager Javi LĆ³pez (Francisco Javier LĆ³pez DĆ­az, born 1988), Spanish footballer Javi LĆ³pez (Javier LĆ³pez MuƱoz, born 1990), Spanish footballer Javier LĆ³pez FernĆ”ndez, Spanish member of the European Parliament Javi LĆ³pez (Javier LĆ³pez RodrĆ­guez, born 1986), Spanish footballer Javy LĆ³pez (Javier LĆ³pez Torres, born 1970), Puerto Rican former catcher in Major League Baseball Javier LĆ³pez Vallejo (born 1975), retired Spanish footballer Javier LĆ³pez Zavala (born 1969), Mexican politician Javier VĆ”zquez LĆ³pez (born 2000), Spanish footballer
  • Betsy Aardsma
    Betsy Ruth Aardsma (; July 11, 1947 ā€“ November 28, 1969) was a 22-year-old American graduate student who was murdered in the "Stacks" area of Pattee Library at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania in November, 1969. Her murder remains officially unsolved.
  • Wesley Johnson
    Wesley JaMarr Johnson (born July 11, 1987) is an American professional basketball player for Panathinaikos of the Greek Basket League and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for Syracuse University and Iowa State University. He was selected with the fourth overall pick in the 2010 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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  • Esera Tuaolo
    Esera Tavai Tuaolo (born July 11, 1968), nicknamed "Mr. Aloha," is a former American professional football player. He was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for 10 years.
  • Dina Eastwood
    Dina Eastwood (born Dina Marie Ruiz; July 11, 1965) is an American reporter, TV news anchor, and actress. She is the former wife of actor and film director Clint Eastwood. In 2012, she starred in a reality television series about her life, Mrs. Eastwood & Company, on the E! network.
  • E. B. White
    Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 ā€“ October 1, 1985) was an American writer. For more than fifty years, he was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine. He was also a co-author of the English language style guide The Elements of Style. In addition, he wrote books for children, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). In a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, Charlotte's Web came in first in their poll of the top one hundred children's novels.
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  • Geoff Cameron
    Geoffrey Scott "Geoff" Cameron (born July 11, 1985) is an American professional soccer player who plays for Major League Soccer side FC Cincinnati, and the United States national team. Cameron began playing college soccer with the West Virginia Mountaineers and the Rhode Island Rams, as well as USL Premier Development League side Rhode Island Stingrays, before being drafted by Major League Soccer club Houston Dynamo in 2008. After an impressive second season in professional soccer Cameron was named as MLS Best XI in 2009 and helped Houston reach the final of the MLS Cup in 2011 as they lost 1ā€“0 to the Los Angeles Galaxy. In July 2012 he joined English Premier League side Stoke City. Cameron spent six seasons with the Potters making 186 appearances before joining Queens Park Rangers in June 2018. Cameron spent 3 years at QPR before moving to FC Cincinnati in May 2021.
  • Frank Abbandando
    Frank Abbandando (July 11, 1910 ā€“ February 19, 1942), nicknamed "The Dasher", was a New York City contract killer who committed many murders as part of the infamous Murder, Inc. gang. His preferred killing method was to stab his victims through the heart with an ice pick. After a trial and conviction for murdering a Brooklyn loan shark, he was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing on February 19, 1942.
  • Max Levchin
    Maksymilian Rafailovych "Max" Levchin (Ukrainian: ŠœŠ°ŠŗсŠøŠ¼Ń–Š»Ń–Š°Š½ Š Š°Ń„Š°Ń—Š»Š¾Š²Šøч Š›ŠµŠ²Ń‡ŠøŠ½; born July 11, 1975) is a Ukrainian-born American computer scientist. In 1998, soon after graduating from college, he co-founded (with Peter Thiel) the company that eventually became PayPal. Levchin notably made contributions to PayPal's anti-fraud efforts and is also the co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA challenge response human test. He has also founded or co-founded the companies Slide.com, HVF and Affirm. He was an early investor in Yelp and was their largest shareholder as of 2012.
  • Jacoby Jones
    Jacoby Rashi'd Jones (born July 11, 1984) is a former American football wide receiver and return specialist. He played college football at Lane College, and was drafted by the Houston Texans in the third round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played for the Texans from 2007 to 2011. Jones then played for the Baltimore Ravens from 2012 to 2014, and was selected for the Pro Bowl in 2012. He is known for two of the most memorable plays in the 2012 NFL playoffs as a member of the Ravens: catching a 70-yard game-tying touchdown pass in the final seconds of regulation in the AFC Divisional playoff game against the Denver Broncos, which helped lead the Ravens to an eventual 38ā€“35 double overtime victory; and a 108-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in Super Bowl XLVII against the San Francisco 49ers, the longest play in Super Bowl history. He also played for the San Diego Chargers and Pittsburgh Steelers in 2015 and the Monterrey Steel of the National Arena League in 2017.
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  • Mindy Sterling

    Mindy Sterling

    Mindy Lee Sterling (born July 11, 1953) is an American actress and voice actress. She is best known for her roles as Frau Farbissina in the Austin Powers series of comedy films, Principal Susan Skidmore on the Disney Channel series A.N.T. Farm, Ms. Endive in the Cartoon Network series Chowder, and on Nickelodeon as Lin Beifong in The Legend of Korra, and Miss Francine Briggs on iCarly.
  • Nicolai Gedda
    Harry Gustaf Nikolai GƤdda, known professionally as Nicolai Gedda (11 July 1925 ā€“ 8 January 2017), was a Swedish operatic tenor. Debuting in 1951, Gedda had a long and successful career in opera until the age of 77 in June 2003, when he made his final operatic recording. Skilled at languages, he performed operas in French, Russian, German, Italian, English, Czech, and Swedish, as well as one in Latin. In January 1958, he created the part of Anatol in the world premiere of the American opera Vanessa at the Metropolitan Opera. Having made some two hundred recordings, Gedda is one of the most widely recorded opera singers in history. His singing is best known for its beauty of tone, vocal control, and musical perception.
  • Harry Kellar
    Harry Kellar (July 11, 1849 ā€“ March 10, 1922) was an American magician who presented large stage shows during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Kellar was a predecessor of Harry Houdini and a successor of Robert Heller and Isaiah Hughes, under whom he apprenticed. He was often referred to as the "Dean of American Magicians" and performed extensively on five continents. One of his most memorable stage illusions was the levitation of a girl advertised as the "Levitation of Princess Karnac", copied from an illusion invented by John Nevil Maskelyne, which was later bought by Harry Blackstone, Sr. He was a longtime customer of the Martinka Magic Company, which built many of his illusions and sets, including the "Blue Room".
  • William A. Spinks
    William Alexander Spinks Jr. (1865ā€“1933) was an American professional player of carom billiards in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was often referred to as W. A. Spinks, and occasionally Billy Spinks. In addition to being amateur Pacific Coast Billiards Champion several times, a world champion contender in more than one cue sports discipline, and an exhibition player in Europe, he became the co-inventor (with William Hoskins) in 1897 of modern billiard cue chalk.He was originally (and again in retirement from the billiards circuit) a Californian, but spent much of his professional career in Chicago, Illinois. At his peak, his was a household name in American billiards; The New York Times ranked Spinks as one of "the most brilliant players among the veterans of the game", and he still holds the world record for points scored in a row (1,010) using a particular shot type. Aside from his billiards-playing career, he founded a lucrative sporting goods manufacturing business. He was both an oil company investor and director, and a flower- and fruit-farm operator and horticulturist, originator of the eponymous Spinks cultivar of avocado.
  • Irene Hervey
    Irene Hervey (born Beulah Irene Herwick; July 11, 1909 ā€“ December 20, 1998) was an American film, stage, and television actress who appeared in over fifty films and numerous television series spanning her five-decade career.A native of Los Angeles, Hervey was trained in her youth by British stage and film actress Emma Dunn, a friend of her mother. She signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1933, appearing in several films for the studioā€“including The Stranger's Return (1933), opposite Lionel Barrymoreā€“before landing a supporting role as Valentine de Villefort in United Artists' The Count of Monte Cristo (1934). She would subsequently sign a contract with Universal Pictures, appearing in numerous films for the studio, including the Western Destry Rides Again (1939) opposite Jimmy Stewart and Marlene Dietrich, the mystery The House of Fear (1939), and the musical The Boys from Syracuse (1940), the latter of which she appeared opposite her then-husband, Allan Jones. She would continue to frequently appear in films throughout the 1940s into the 1950s, with roles in the horror film Night Monster (1942) opposite Bela Lugosi, the fantasy Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948), and the film noir A Cry in the Night (1956). Beginning in the mid-1950s, Hervey transitioned to television, appearing as a guest star on Perry Mason, Honey West, and My Three Sons, the latter of which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role. Hervey appeared in occasional minor film roles in her later career, such as Gene Saks's Cactus Flower (1969) and Clint Eastwood's thriller Play Misty for Me (1971). Hervey died on December 20, 1998 of heart failure in Los Angeles. She had two children, one of whom is pop singer Jack Jones.