Black Celebrity Birthdays This Week: Nov. 11-17

Some black celebrities born this week are:

Nov. 11: Comedian Lavell Crawford is 44. NFL player Victor Cruz is 26. Bodybuilder Lee Haney is 53. Soccer player Arouna Koné is 29. Model Kristal Marshall is 29. Former NFL player Willie Parker is 32. Entrepreneur Eugene Profit is 48. Stylist Marcellas Reynolds is 43.

Nov. 12: NFL player Lance Briggs is 32. Singer Errol Brown is 64. Singer Tevin Campbell is 36. Actress Tamala Jones (“Castle”,”The Brothers”) is 38. Musician Baaba Maal is 59. NBA player Corey Maggette. Soccer player Benni McCarthy is 35. Former boxer Michael Moorer is 45. Singer Omarion (B2K) is 28. Former baseball player Sammy Sosa is 44.

Nov. 13: Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali is 43. Rapper Jovan Campbell is 22. Actor Michael “Boogalo Shrimp” Chambers (“Breakin’”). NFL player Marquice Cole is 29. Actress Monique Coleman (“High School Musical”, “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody”) is 32. Actress Cathy Doe (“Passions”) is 32. Actress Sheila Frazier (“Superfly”) is 64. Actress Whoopi Goldberg is 57. Actress Aisha Hinds (“True Blood”) is 37. Former NBA player Ray Jackson is 39. NBA player Metta World Peace (formerly Ron Artest) is 33.

Nov. 14: Hip-hop artist B.o.B. is 24. R&B singer Adina Howard is 38. Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett is 56. Former Miss Universe Mpule Kwelagobe is 33. Jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis is 78. Journalist Roland S. Martin is 44. Former NFL player Lawyer Milloy is 39. Actress Regine Nehy (“Boot Camp”, “Lakeview Terrace”) is 25. Condoleeza Rice is 58. Joseph “Rev Run” Simmons of Run-DMC is 48. Rapper Shyheim is 35. Rapper Obie Trice is 35.

Nov. 15: Model Yaya DaCosta is 30.  Rapper E-40 is 45. Musician Kevin Eubanks is 55. Actor Yaphet Kotto (“Homicide: Life on the Street”) is 73. Former soccer player Patrick M’Boma is 42. R&B singer Alexander O’Neal is 59. Actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier (“Joan of Arcadia”, “Veronica Mars”) is 39. Singer Shanell is 28. Former NFL player Devin Thomas is 26. Actress Rachel True (Half & Half) is 46. R&B singer Keith Washington is 52.

Nov. 16: Author Chinua Achebe is 82. Actress Lisa Bonet is 45. Former WBC heavyweight Frank Bruno is 51. Former MLB player Dwight Gooden is 48. Actor Harry Lennix (“The Five Heartbeats”) is 48. Actor Noah Gray-Cabey (“Heroes,” “My Wife and Kids”) is 17. Actress-photographer Chenoa Maxwell is 43. Singer Trevor Penick (O-Town) is 33. NBA player Amar’e Stoudemire is 30. NFL player Osi Umenyiora is 31. Former NBA player Joseph Henry “Jo Jo” White.

Nov. 17: Singer Kat DeLuna is 25. Singer Ronnie DeVoe of New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe is 45. TV host Rocsi Diaz is 29. Former NBA player Elvin Hayes is 67. NFL player Israel Idonije is 32. Actress Shanica Knowles (“Hanna Montana”) is 22. NFL player Darnell McDonald is 34. Soccer player Luís Nani is 26. Actor David Ramsey (“Dexter”,”Mother and Child”) is 41. Actor Leonard Roberts (“Heroes”) is 40. Entertainer RuPaul is 52. NFL player Reggie Wayne is 34.