Famous birthdays
Famous people born on August 23
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 23 include Louis XVI of France (1754), Kobe Bryant (1978), Gene Kelly (1912) and Roza Otunbayeva (1950). Our list below has 97 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 23 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1659 (Henry Every) and the most recent is 1997 (Lil Yachty). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, actress.
Who was born on August 23?
- Louis XVI of France 1754 King of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1791, then King of the French from 1791 to 1792
- Kobe Bryant 1978 American basketball player
- Gene Kelly 1912 American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer
- Roza Otunbayeva 1950 President of Kyrgyzstan
- Halimah Yacob 1954 8th President of Singapore
- Kenneth Arrow 1921 American economist
- Konstantin Novoselov 1974 Russian-British physicist known for graphene work
- Giuseppe Meazza 1910 Italian association football player and manager
- Eleftherios Venizelos 1864 Greek politician, former Prime Minister of Greece
- Robert Solow 1924 American economist
- Hajime Moriyasu 1968 Japanese association football player and coach
- River Phoenix 1970 American actor and musician (1970–2026
- Robert Curl 1933 American chemist
- Akhmad Kadyrov 1951 Chechen politician and Islamic religious leader
- Thomas A. Steitz 1940 American biochemist
- Glen Johnson 1984 English association football player
- Osborne Reynolds 1842 Anglo-Irish innovator
- Alexandre Desplat 1961 French film composer
- Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse 1741 French Navy officer and explorer
- Clifford Geertz 1926 American anthropologist
- Hamilton Smith 1931 American microbiologist
- Michel Rocard 1930 French politician
- Demetrio Albertini 1971 Italian association football player
- Queen Noor of Jordan 1951 Queen and Queen Dowager of Jordan; philanthropist and activist
- Park Chan-wook 1963 South Korean filmmaker
- Shoya Nakajima 1994 Japanese footballer
- Jeremy Lin 1988 Taiwanese-American basketball player
- Alberto Acosta 1966 Argentine association football player
- Yōsuke Ideguchi 1996 Japanese association football player
- Arthur Adamov 1908 Playwright
- Vera Miles 1930 American actress
- Serhiy Zhadan 1974 Ukrainian poet
- Ashley Williams 1984 Welsh association football player
- Jorginho Putinatti 1959 Brazilian association football player
- Keith Moon 1946 English rock musician, drummer of The Who
- Gretchen Whitmer 1971 American politician and attorney
- Barbara Eden 1931 American actress and singer
- Marie Henriette of Austria 1836 Queen consort of Belgium
- Scott Caan 1976 American actor
- Yurii Yekhanurov 1948 11th prime minister of Ukraine
- Henry Every 1659 English captain and pirate
- Zoltán Czibor 1929 Hungarian footballer
- Jay Mohr 1970 American actor and comedian
- Shelley Long 1949 American actress and comedian
- Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen 1978 American singer
- Alois Jirásek 1851 Czech writer
- Vaani Kapoor 1988 Indian actress
- James Collins 1983 Welsh association football player
- Auguste Bravais 1811 French physicist
- Friedrich Zander 1887 Russian and Soviet engineer, rocket designer
- Santillana 1952 Spanish footballer
- Lil Yachty 1997 American rapper and singer
- Edgar Lee Masters 1868 American writer
- Christophe Galtier 1966 French football manager
- Artūras Paulauskas 1953 Lithuanian politician
- Robert Mulligan 1925 American director
- Olga Govortsova 1988 Belarusian female tennis player
- Dick Bruna 1927 Dutch graphic designer
- Roberto Bellarosa 1994 Belgian singer
- Jusuf Nurkić 1994 Bosnian basketball player
- Glória Pires 1963 Brazilian actress
- Fabián Balbuena 1991 Paraguayan association football player
- Carlos Cuéllar 1981 Spanish footballer
- Souad Massi 1972 Algerian singer and actress
- William Lane Craig 1949 American Christian apologist and theologian
- Natalie Coughlin 1982 American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, world record-holder
- William Ernest Henley 1849 English poet, critic and editor
- Surita Narain 1961 Indian environmentalist
- Rita Pavone 1945 Italian actress and singer
- Bah Ndaw 1950 President of Mali
- Anna Mani 1918 Indian meteorologist
- Reita Faria 1943 Indian physician and beauty contest titleholder
- Marcel Schwob 1867 French writer
- Yusuke Minoguchi 1965 Japanese association football player
- Ray Park 1974 Scottish actor and stuntman
- Andoni Goikoetxea 1956 Spanish footballer
- Betty Robinson 1911 Athletics competitor
- Paul Otlet 1868 Belgian author, librarian and anti-colonial thinker
- Moritz Cantor 1829 German historian of mathematics
- Nazik Al-Malaika 1922 Iraqi poet
- Murielle Ahouré 1987 Ivorian sprinter
- Michael Randrianirina 1973 Malagasy military officer and president of Madagascar since 2025
- Harilal Gandhi 1888 Son of Mahatma Gandhi
- Trixie Mattel 1989 American drag queen
- Stephen Miller 1985 American political advisor and Trump administration official
- Arnold Toynbee 1852 British economic historian
- Saira Banu 1944 Indian film actress
- Luigi Delneri 1950 Italian footballer and manager
- Raúl Cubas Grau 1943 45.° President of Paraguay
- Chelsi Smith 1973 Actress, singer, Miss USA 1995 and Miss Universe 1995
- Marian Seldes 1928 American stage, film, radio, and television actress
- Dominic A. Antonelli 1967 Astronaut, Test Pilot
- Rick Springfield 1949 Australian-American musician, singer-songwriter, and actor
- Ernst Krenek 1900 Austrian/American composer
- Cameron Norrie 1995 British tennis player
- Zofia Posmysz 1923 Polish journalist and writer
- Ovidiu Cernăuțeanu 1974 Romanian-Norwegian singer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 23 share the 23rd of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.