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Famous people born on December 23

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Well-known people born on December 23 include Akihito (1933), Helmut Schmidt (1918), Alexander I of Russia (1777) and Joseph Smith (1805). Our list below has 84 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 23 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1597 (Martin Opitz) and the most recent is 2005 (Paul Wanner). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, writer.

Who was born on December 23?

  1. Akihito 1933 Emperor of Japan from 1989 to 2019
  2. Helmut Schmidt 1918 Chancellor of West Germany
  3. Alexander I of Russia 1777 The tenth Emperor of Russia
  4. Joseph Smith 1805 American religious leader and founder of the Latter Day Saint movement
  5. Mamnoon Hussain 1940 12th president of Pakistan from 2013 to 2018
  6. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 1896 Sicilian Prince and writer
  7. Vicente del Bosque 1950 Spanish footballer and manager
  8. Donna Tartt 1963 American writer
  9. Charan Singh 1902 Prime Minister of India
  10. Queen Silvia of Sweden 1943 Queen consort of Sweden
  11. Eddie Vedder 1964 American singer and guitarist
  12. Niels Kaj Jerne 1911 Danish immunologist
  13. Chet Baker 1929 American jazz trumpeter and vocalist
  14. Luka Jović 1997 Serbian association football player
  15. Samuel Smiles 1812 Scottish writer and journalist
  16. Dino Risi 1916 Italian film director
  17. Adly Mansour 1945 Egyptian judge and statesman; former interim President of Egypt
  18. Madam C. J. Walker 1867 American entrepreneur
  19. Dost Mohammad Khan 1793 First Emir of Afghanistan
  20. Richard Arkwright 1732 Textile entrepreneur; developer of the spinning frame (known as the water frame)
  21. Friedrich August I of Saxony 1750 King of Saxony from 1806 to 1827
  22. Paula-Mae Weekes 1958 President of Trinidad and Tobago
  23. Yousuf Karsh 1908 Armenian-Canadian photographer
  24. Henri Pirenne 1862 Belgian historian
  25. Dave Murray 1956 English guitarist
  26. Wesley Clark 1944 United States Army general and 2004 Democratic Party presidential candidate
  27. Balázs Dzsudzsák 1986 Hungarian association football player
  28. Mikhail Gromov 1943 Russian and French mathematician and academic
  29. Bob Kahn 1938 American Internet pioneer, computer scientist
  30. Giba 1976 Brazilian volleyball player
  31. Victoire Dogbé Tomegah 1959 Prime Minister of Togo
  32. Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko 1858 Russian theatre director
  33. Quentin Bryce 1942 25th Governor-General of Australia
  34. Pierre Bérégovoy 1925 90th Prime Minister of France
  35. Manuel Rivera-Ortiz 1968 American photographer
  36. Edward Blyth 1810 English zoologist and pharmacist
  37. Karl Richard Lepsius 1810 German archaeologist, egyptologist and librarian
  38. Carol Ann Duffy 1955 Scottish poet and playwright
  39. Tianqi Emperor 1605 Emperor of the Ming Dynasty
  40. Ildefons Cerdà 1815 Urban planner, noted for the extension plan of Barcelona
  41. Ahmad Shah Bahadur 1725 13th Mughal Emperor from 1748 to 1754
  42. Elizabeth Hartman 1943 American actress
  43. Holly Madison 1979 American television personality
  44. Michele Alboreto 1956 Italian racecar driver
  45. Frederic Forrest 1936 American actor
  46. Corey Haim 1971 Canadian actor
  47. Martin Opitz 1597 German poet
  48. Victor Boniface 2000 Nigerian association football player
  49. Harry Shearer 1943 American actor
  50. David Davis 1948 British Conservative Party politician
  51. Kurt Meyer 1910 German general
  52. Jeffrey Schlupp 1992 Ghanaian association football player
  53. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia 1953 Head of the House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
  54. Sandra Roelofs 1968 First Lady of Georgia
  55. Bartosz Kapustka 1996 Polish association football player
  56. Infanta María de las Mercedes, Countess of Barcelona 1910 Spanish and Two Sicilian royal
  57. Axel Fredrik Cronstedt 1722 Swedish mineralogist and chemist
  58. James Buchanan Duke 1856 American businessman
  59. Agustín Delgado 1974 Ecuadorian footballer and politician
  60. Yasmin Levy 1975 Ladino singer-songwriter
  61. Butler Lampson 1943 American computer scientist
  62. Paul Wanner 2005 Austrian association football player
  63. Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg 1865 German Generalfeldmarschall
  64. Anna Maria Perez de Tagle 1990 American actress, singer and model
  65. Robert Bly 1926 American poet, author, and activist
  66. Adrian Belew 1949 American rock musician
  67. Wilhelm von Tegetthoff 1827 Austro-Hungarian admiral
  68. Estella Warren 1978 Canadian actress, model, and synchronized swimmer
  69. Pietro Grasso 1944 Italian magistrate and politician
  70. Zindzi Mandela 1960 South African diplomat and poet
  71. Jeff Landry 1970 American politician
  72. Matthäus Hetzenauer 1924 Austrian sniper
  73. Hubert Pierlot 1883 Belgian politician and 32nd Prime Minister of Belgium, serving between 1939 and 1945
  74. Kyren Wilson 1991 English snooker player
  75. Kenny Miller 1979 Scottish association football player
  76. Jesús Huerta de Soto 1956 Spanish economist, professor, and author
  77. Samuel Lino 1999 Brazilian footballer
  78. Luis Fernando Suárez 1959 Colombian soccer coach
  79. Wael Ghonim 1980 Egyptian activist and engineer
  80. Carl Gustaf Wrangel 1613 Field Marshal of Sweden
  81. Micheline Ostermeyer 1922 French athlete and piano concertist
  82. Olga Shishigina 1968 Kazakh hurdler
  83. Princess Zorka of Montenegro 1864 Princess of Montenegro; mother of Alexander I of Yugoslavia
  84. Mbwana Samatta 1992 Tanzanian 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 December 23 share the 23rd of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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