Famous birthdays
Famous people born on April 22
Short answer
Well-known people born on April 22 include Vladimir Lenin (1870), Immanuel Kant (1724), Jack Nicholson (1937) and J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904). Our list below has 97 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives April 22 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1592 (Wilhelm Schickard) and the most recent is 1999 (Cucho Hernández). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, politician.
Who was born on April 22?
- Vladimir Lenin 1870 Founding leader of the Soviet Union
- Immanuel Kant 1724 German philosopher
- Jack Nicholson 1937 American actor and filmmaker
- J. Robert Oppenheimer 1904 American theoretical physicist
- Donald Tusk 1957 Prime Minister of Poland (2007–2014; since 2023)
- Rita Levi-Montalcini 1909 Italian neurologist
- Louise Glück 1943 U.S. poet and Nobel laureate
- Kaká 1982 Brazilian association football player
- Germaine de Staël 1766 Genevan-French author
- Amber Heard 1986 American actress
- Henry Fielding 1707 English novelist and dramatist
- Alexander VIII 1610 Pope of the Catholic Church from 1689 to 1691
- David Luiz 1987 Brazilian association football player
- Sam Altman 1985 American entrepreneur and investor
- Robert Bárány 1876 Austri-Hungarian otologist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Mikel John Obi 1987 Nigerian association football player
- Mark van Bommel 1977 Dutch association football player and manager
- Yehudi Menuhin 1916 American violinist and conductor
- Henri La Fontaine 1854 Belgian lawyer, politician and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- Estelle Harris 1928 American actress
- Jasper Cillessen 1989 Dutch association football player
- Michael Atiyah 1929 British mathematician
- Donald J. Cram 1919 American chemist
- Kenichi Uemura 1974 Japanese association football player and manager
- Giorgio Agamben 1942 Italian philosopher (b. 1942)
- George Abela 1948 Maltese politician
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan 1966 American actor
- Charles Mingus 1922 American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
- Carlos Sastre 1975 Road bicycle racer
- Shavo Odadjian 1974 Armenian-American bassist (b. 1974)
- Machine Gun Kelly 1990 American musician
- Kamla Persad-Bissessar 1952 Politician from Trinidad and Tobago
- Glen Campbell 1936 American musician
- Pavel Horváth 1975 Czech association football player
- Hans von Seeckt 1866 German general
- John Waters 1946 American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
- Giuseppe Torelli 1658 Italian violist, violinist, teacher and composer
- Zoltán Gera 1979 Hungarian footballer
- Eddie Albert 1906 American actor
- Vladimír Špidla 1951 Czech politician
- Mart Laar 1960 Estonian politician and historian
- Aron Gunnarsson 1989 Icelandic professional footballer
- María Zambrano 1904 Spanish philosopher
- Michael Wittmann 1914 German Waffen-SS tank commander
- William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg 1852 Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1905 to 1912
- Yelena Serova 1976 Russian cosmonaut
- Harald Bohr 1887 Danish mathematician and footballer
- James Stirling 1926 English architect
- David Raum 1998 German association football player
- Indro Montanelli 1909 Italian journalist, essayist and writer
- Jørgen Moe 1813 Norwegian folklorist, poet and bishop
- Steve Fossett 1944 American businessman, record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer
- Akbar Shah II 1760 17th Mughal Emperor from 1806 to 1837
- Jerry Fodor 1935 American philosopher
- Paul Davies 1946 British physicist
- James McClean 1989 Irish association football player
- Misaki Amano 1985 Japanese association football player
- Eric Mabius 1971 American actor
- Aaron Spelling 1923 American film and television producer
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1929 Cuban writer
- Ethel Smyth 1858 English composer and suffragette
- Kathleen Ferrier 1912 English contralto singer
- Wilhelm Schickard 1592 German astronomer, mathematician
- István Tisza 1861 Hungarian politician
- Chetan Bhagat 1974 Indian writer
- Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria 1868 Austrian archduchess
- Peter Frampton 1950 British musician
- Regine Velasquez 1970 Filipina singer and actress
- Michał Żewłakow 1976 Polish association football player
- Filip Helander 1993 Swedish footballer
- Issey Miyake 1938 Japanese fashion designer (1938−2022)
- Cucho Hernández 1999 Colombian footballer
- Nicole Garcia 1946 French actress, film director and screenwriter
- Han Zheng 1954 Vice President of the People's Republic of China
- Max Weinreich 1894 American/Latvian linguist
- Harold Jeffreys 1891 British geophysicist and statistician
- Wilhelm Peters 1815 German naturalist, zoologist and explorer
- Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia 1847 Russian grand duke; fourth child and third son of Alexander II of Russia and Maria…
- Anna Falchi 1972 Finnish-Italian model and actress
- François Berléand 1952 French actor
- Marie-José Nat 1940 French actress
- Amir Pnueli 1941 Israeli computer scientist researching temporal logic, model checking, and concurrent…
- Tatsuya Masushima 1985 Japanese association football player
- Natsagiin Bagabandi 1950 Mongolian politician
- Sheryl Lee 1967 American actress
- Carlo Fontana 1638 Italian architect (1634/1638–1714)
- Sidney Nolan 1917 Australian artist
- Jill Roord 1997 Dutch association football player
- Princess Margaret of Prussia 1872 German imperial princess, Prussian princess; youngest child of Frederick III, German…
- James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie 1812 Scottish politician and civil servant
- Srđan Babić 1996 Serbian association football player
- Ryan Stiles 1959 American-Canadian actor and comedian
- Michelle Ryan 1984 British actress
- Roman Coppola 1965 Filmmaker, son of Francis Ford Coppola
- Nicolas Douchez 1980 French footballer
- Viktor Fayzulin 1986 Russian association football player
- David Mateos 1987 Spanish association football player
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on April 22 share the 22nd of April as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.