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Famous people born on February 22

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Well-known people born on February 22 include George Washington (1732), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Heinrich Hertz (1857) and Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857). Our list below has 108 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives February 22 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1732 (George Washington) and the most recent is 2008 (Lennart Karl). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, writer.

Who was born on February 22?

  1. George Washington 1732 Founding Father and first U.S. president
  2. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 German philosopher
  3. Heinrich Hertz 1857 German physicist
  4. Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell 1857 Lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout…
  5. Drew Barrymore 1975 American actress
  6. Horst Köhler 1943 German politician (CDU); president of Germany, 2004–2010
  7. Luis Buñuel 1900 Spanish-Mexican filmmaker
  8. Steve Irwin 1962 Australian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personality
  9. Niki Lauda 1949 Austrian former Formula 1 driver
  10. Jules Renard 1864 French author
  11. Ted Kennedy 1932 United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1962 to 2009
  12. August Bebel 1840 German social democrat politician
  13. James Blunt 1974 English singer-songwriter
  14. Jonathan Demme 1944 American filmmaker
  15. Branislav Ivanović 1984 Serbian association football player
  16. Sergio Romero 1987 Argentine association football player
  17. Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 American poet
  18. Renato Dulbecco 1914 Italian-born American virologist
  19. K. P. Sharma Oli 1952 Prime Minister of Nepal (2015–2016; 2018–2021; 2024–2025)
  20. Robert Wadlow 1918 American who was the tallest recorded person in history
  21. Kyle MacLachlan 1959 American actor
  22. Julie Walters 1950 British actress
  23. Kais Saied 1958 Tunisian politician, academic and jurist
  24. Toshihiro Aoyama 1986 Japanese association football player
  25. Haris Seferovic 1992 Swiss association football player
  26. Danilo Kiš 1935 Serbian and Yugoslav novelist
  27. Julius Erving 1950 American basketball player
  28. Adolphe Quetelet 1796 Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist
  29. Pierre Janssen 1824 French astronomer
  30. Giulietta Masina 1921 Italian actress
  31. Leonid Govorov 1897 Soviet marshal
  32. James Russell Lowell 1819 American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
  33. Brian Laudrup 1969 Danish footballer
  34. Michael Chang 1972 American tennis player
  35. Timothy Weah 2000 American soccer player
  36. Enzo Nicolás Pérez 1986 Argentine association football player
  37. Fritz Strassmann 1902 German chemist
  38. John Mills 1908 British actor
  39. Lea Salonga 1971 Filipino actress and singer
  40. Hugo Ball 1886 German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists
  41. Savielly Tartakower 1887 Polish and French chess player
  42. Rómulo Betancourt 1908 President of Venezuela
  43. Jeri Ryan 1968 American actress
  44. Thomas Jane 1969 American actor
  45. Rajon Rondo 1986 American basketball player
  46. Débora Falabella 1979 Brazilian actress, director and producer
  47. Terry Eagleton 1943 British writer, academic and educator
  48. Hakan Yakın 1977 Turkish-Swiss association football player
  49. Brett Emerton 1979 Australian association football player
  50. Marc Wilmots 1969 Belgian football manager
  51. Frank P. Ramsey 1903 British mathematician, philosopher, and economist
  52. Han Hyo-joo 1987 South Korean actress
  53. Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted 1879 Danish physical chemist
  54. Shota Arveladze 1973 Georgian association football player and manager
  55. James Hong 1929 American actor
  56. Lenny Kuhr 1950 Dutch singer-songwriter
  57. Katharine, Duchess of Kent 1933 Member of the British royal family
  58. R. G. Collingwood 1889 British historian and philosopher
  59. Miou-Miou 1950 French actress
  60. Ximena Navarrete 1988 Mexican model and actress
  61. Robin Stjernberg 1991 Swedish pop singer
  62. Joanna Russ 1937 American author
  63. Karim Findi 1946 Author, writer, journalist
  64. Zach Roerig 1985 American actor
  65. Dichen Lachman 1982 Australian actress
  66. Karin Dor 1938 German actress
  67. Édouard Ngirente 1973 Prime Minister of the Republic of Rwanda, 2017–2025
  68. Gigi Fernández 1964 Puerto Rican professional tennis player
  69. Pablo Fornals 1996 Spanish association football player
  70. Olave Baden-Powell 1889 World Chief Guide
  71. Robert Kardashian 1944 American attorney and businessman
  72. Niels Gade 1817 Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher
  73. Mark Allen 1986 Northern Irish snooker player
  74. Wojciech Nowicki 1989 Polish hammer thrower
  75. Ben Sasse 1972 American politician and college president
  76. Franco Vázquez 1989 Argentine association football player
  77. Ryan Christie 1995 Scottish association football player
  78. Nam Joo-hyuk 1994 South Korean actor and model
  79. Jean Charles Athanase Peltier 1785 French physicist
  80. Efraín Juárez 1988 Mexican former footballer and coach
  81. Rebecca Cheptegei 1991 Ugandan athlete
  82. Zitkala-Sa 1876 Yankton Dakota writer
  83. Connor Storrie 2000 American actor
  84. Edward Gorey 1925 American writer, artist, and illustrator
  85. Christine Keeler 1942 English model and showgirl
  86. Élodie Yung 1981 French actress
  87. Lennart Karl 2008 German association football player
  88. Shaka Hislop 1969 Trinidad and Tobago footballer
  89. Robert Young 1907 American actor
  90. Paul Dooley 1928 American actor, writer, and comedian
  91. Sarah Fuller Flower Adams 1805 English poet, hymnwriter
  92. Eric Gill 1882 English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker
  93. Kota Mizunuma 1990 Japanese association football player
  94. Alexander Merkel 1992 Kazakh-German professional footballer, born 1992
  95. Mahbub ul Haq 1934 Pakistani economist
  96. Isra Hirsi 2003 American environmental activist
  97. Bill Frist 1952 American physician, businessman, and politician
  98. Vijay Singh 1963 Fijian-Indian professional golfer
  99. Luca Marchegiani 1966 Italian footballer
  100. Yasunori Takada 1979 Japanese association football player
  101. Larissa Riquelme 1984 Paraguayan model and actress
  102. Joaquín Cortés 1969 Spanish dancer
  103. Philip Kerr 1956 British novelist
  104. José Pedro Fuenzalida 1985 Chilean association football player
  105. Arnon Grunberg 1971 Dutch writer
  106. Taha Yassin Ramadan 1938 Iraqi politician
  107. Siaka Tiéné 1982 Ivorian footballer
  108. Magnus Wislander 1964 Swedish team handball player and coach

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on February 22 share the 22nd of February as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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