Famous birthdays
Famous people born on December 22
Short answer
Well-known people born on December 22 include Basshunter (1984), Giacomo Puccini (1858), Jean Racine (1639) and Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887). Our list below has 95 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 22 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1597 (Frederick III, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp) and the most recent is 2000 (Maxim De Cuyper). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, politician.
Who was born on December 22?
- Basshunter 1984 Swedish singer, record producer, and DJ
- Giacomo Puccini 1858 Italian opera composer
- Jean Racine 1639 French dramatist
- Srinivasa Ramanujan 1887 Indian mathematician
- Joshua Bassett 2000 American actor and singer-songwriter
- Ralph Fiennes 1962 English actor, director and producer
- Vanessa Paradis 1972 French singer, model and actress
- Guru Gobind Singh 1666 Tenth Sikh guru
- Ted Cruz 1970 American politician
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 1876 Italian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement
- Fermín IV 1974 Mexican rapper and pastor
- Nicolae Timofti 1948 4th President of Moldova (r. 2012–2016)
- Lady Bird Johnson 1912 First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969
- Jean-Michel Basquiat 1960 American artist
- Frank B. Kellogg 1856 American politician
- Meghan Trainor 1993 American singer-songwriter
- Thomas C. Südhof 1955 German biochemist
- M. Stanley Whittingham 1941 Nobel laureate in chemistry & American chemist
- Raphaël Guerreiro 1993 French-Portuguese footballer
- Giuseppe Bergomi 1963 Italian association football player
- Jordin Sparks 1989 American singer
- Yasuyuki Kuwahara 1942 Japanese association football player
- Haldan Keffer Hartline 1903 American neuroscientist
- Robin Gibb 1949 British singer
- Eduard Uspensky 1937 Russian writer
- Paul Wolfowitz 1943 American politician and diplomat
- Naotake Hanyu 1979 Japanese association football player
- Bernd Schuster 1959 German association football manager and former player
- Masaaki Kato 1958 Japanese association football player
- Porfirio Lobo Sosa 1947 37th President of Honduras
- Edgard Varèse 1883 French composer
- Éder 1987 Portuguese footballer
- Karin Keller-Sutter 1963 Swiss politician
- Borys Liatoshynsky 1894 Ukrainian composer, conductor, teacher
- Zalman Shazar 1889 3rd President of Israel
- Maurice Gibb 1949 British musician
- José Fonte 1983 Portuguese association football player
- Hiromi Ikeda 1975 Japanese association football player
- Vladimir Markovnikov 1838 Russian chemist
- G Hannelius 1998 American actress and singer
- DaBaby 1991 American rapper
- Carl Friedrich Abel 1723 German composer
- Casper Ruud 1998 Norwegian tennis player
- Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff 1848 German classical philologist
- Sandra Kalniete 1952 Latvian politician, writer, art scientist and diplomat
- Abel Pacheco 1933 President of Costa Rica
- Héctor Elizondo 1936 American actor
- David S. Goyer 1965 American filmmaker, novelist, and comic book writer
- Grote Reber 1911 American pioneer of radio astronomy
- Jaan Tõnisson 1868 Estonian politician and lawyer
- Georges Couthon 1755 French politician and lawyer
- Agbani Darego 1982 Miss World 2001, Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2001 and Top 10 at Miss Universe 2001
- Dan Petrescu 1967 Romanian football manager
- Yuri Malenchenko 1961 Russian cosmonaut
- Vladimir Fock 1898 Russian physicist
- Jennifer Hawkins 1983 Australian model, television presenter and beauty queen
- Miki Yamane 1993 Japanese footballer
- Johann Jakob Bachofen 1815 Swiss jurist and philologist
- Maxim De Cuyper 2000 Belgian association football player
- Eiji Ueda 1953 Japanese association football player and manager
- Edurne 1985 Spanish singer, songwriter, actress and model
- Diane Sawyer 1945 American journalist
- Guus Til 1997 Dutch association football player
- Jean-Étienne Liotard 1702 Genevan painter
- Gustaf Gründgens 1899 German actor, director, intendant
- Charles II, Duke of Parma 1799 King of Etruria
- Sergi López 1965 Spanish actor
- Jean-Baptiste Maunier 1990 French singer and actor
- Alberts Kviesis 1881 Latvian politician, president of Latvia
- Kassim Majaliwa 1960 Prime Minister of Tanzania from 2015 to 2025
- Sarada Devi 1853 Spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
- Chris Carmack 1980 American actor and model
- Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 American poet
- Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine 1617 Elector palatine of the Rhine
- Místico 1982 Mexican professional wrestler
- Teko Modise 1982 South African footballer
- Drew Hankinson 1983 American professional wrestler
- Myer Prinstein 1878 American track athlete
- Franz Schmidt 1874 Austrian composer, cellist and pianist
- Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah 1940 Former Prime Minister of Kuwait 2006-2011
- Luis Hernández 1968 Mexican footballer
- Mutiu Adepoju 1970 Nigerian footballer
- Fredrik Barth 1928 Norwegian social anthropologist
- Petra Majdič 1979 Slovenian cross-country skier
- Herman Potočnik 1892 Slovenian inventor
- Moonbyul 1992 South Korean singer and rapper
- Sergi Darder 1993 Spanish footballer
- Ruth Roman 1922 American actress
- Luis Islas 1965 Argentine footballer and manager
- Frederick III, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp 1597 Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp
- Britta Heidemann 1982 German fencer
- Johann Friedrich Pfaff 1765 German mathematician
- Otto Hölder 1859 German mathematician
- Hermann Samuel Reimarus 1694 German philosopher
- Jean-Pierre Kutwa 1945 Ivorian catholic priest, archbishop and cardinal
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on December 22 share the 22nd of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.