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Famous people born on February 23
Short answer
Well-known people born on February 23 include Naruhito (1960), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), Karl Jaspers (1883) and Emily Blunt (1983). Our list below has 95 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives February 23 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1646 (Tokugawa Tsunayoshi) and the most recent is 2012 (Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, writer.
Who was born on February 23?
- Naruhito 1960 Emperor of Japan
- Viktor Yushchenko 1954 3rd President of Ukraine
- Karl Jaspers 1883 German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher
- Emily Blunt 1983 British actress
- Dakota Fanning 1994 American actress and model
- Casemiro 1992 Brazilian association football player
- W. E. B. Du Bois 1868 American sociologist and activist
- Peter Fonda 1940 American actor and filmmaker
- Erich Kästner 1899 German children's writer
- Didier Queloz 1966 Swiss astronomer
- Allan McLeod Cormack 1924 American physicist
- Casimir Funk 1884 Polish-American biochemist
- Carl Menger 1840 Founder of the Austrian School of economics
- Rosalía de Castro 1837 Galician poet and writer
- Michael Dell 1965 American businessman and CEO
- Gareth Barry 1981 English association football player
- Patriarch Alexius II 1929 15th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church
- Victor Fleming 1889 American film director, cinematographer, and producer
- Julius Fučík 1903 Czech journalist and revolutionary
- Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland 2012 Daughter of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland
- Kristin Davis 1965 American actress
- Tsukasa Umesaki 1987 Japanese association football player
- Tetsuya Asano 1967 Japanese association football player and manager
- Jiří Menzel 1938 Czech film director, actor, director, scriptwriter, writer and university educator
- Kelly Macdonald 1976 Scottish actress
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1744 Jewish German banker
- Boris Kustodiev 1878 Russian painter and stage designer
- Skylar Grey 1986 American singer
- Josh Gad 1981 American actor
- Norman Taurog 1899 American film director
- Radosław Sikorski 1963 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
- Oleg Yankovsky 1944 Soviet and Russian actor
- Aziz Ansari 1983 American actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter and director
- William McMahon 1908 Australian politician, 20th Prime Minister of Australia
- Samara Weaving 1992 Australian actress and model
- Claude Sautet 1924 French film director and screenwriter
- Benjamin Henrichs 1997 German association football player
- Svetlana Gerasimenko 1945 Ukrainian soviet and Tajik astronomer
- William L. Shirer 1904 American journalist
- Anna Chapman 1982 Russian intelligence agent, media personality, and model
- Paul Tibbets 1915 United States Air Force pilot
- Majel Barrett 1932 American actress
- nisola gaitani 1988 Argentine footballer
- Helena Suková 1965 Czech tennis player and psychologist
- Álvaro Morte 1975 Spanish actor
- Johnny Winter 1944 American blues guitarist and singer
- Valarie Allman 1995 American discus thrower
- Agnes Arber 1879 British botanist
- Andrew Wiggins 1995 Canadian basketball player
- Ivica Barbarić 1962 Croatian association football player and manager
- Kyriakos Papadopoulos 1992 Greek footballer
- Tarik Elyounoussi 1988 Norwegian association football player
- Liang Chi-chao 1873 Chinese politician, activist and journalist
- Mido 1983 Egyptian association football player
- Senjūrō Hayashi 1876 Japanese politician and general
- Roberto Cherro 1907 Argentine footballer
- Marc Garneau 1949 Canadian astronaut and politician
- Jamal Murray 1997 Canadian basketball player
- Shigefumi Mori 1951 Japanese mathematician
- Bernard Cornwell 1944 British writer
- Nikoloz Basilashvili 1992 Georgian tennis player
- Dioncounda Traoré 1942 President of Mali
- Clayton Anderson 1959 American astronaut and engineer
- Bhagyashree Patwardhan 1969 Bollywood actress
- Emilia Jones 2002 British actress
- Kristina Šmigun-Vähi 1977 Estonian cross-country skier and politician
- Gustav Hermann Nachtigal 1834 German physician, consul-general and explorer of Central and West Africa
- Lars Klingbeil 1978 German politician (SPD), SPD Federal Chairman, Member of the Bundestag, Federal…
- Karan Singh Grover 1982 Indian model, television and film actor
- D'Angelo Russell 1996 American basketball player
- George Frederic Watts 1817 British painter and sculptor
- Marie-Josée Croze 1970 Canadian and French actress
- James Justin 1998 English association football player
- Vasily Lazarev 1928 Soviet cosmonaut
- Anatoly Banishevsky 1946 Soviet footballer
- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi 1646 The fifth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan
- Paul Morrissey 1938 American film director
- Little Simz 1994 British rapper
- Lucas Pouille 1994 French tennis player
- Tripti Dimri 1994 Indian actress
- Kazunori Iio 1982 Japanese association football player
- Susumu Oki 1976 Japanese association football player
- Gorō Shimura 1930 Japanese mathematician
- Satoru Nakajima 1953 Japanese racing driver
- Robert Lopez 1975 American songwriter of musicals
- César Aira 1949 Argentine writer and translator
- Simon Eder 1983 Austrian biathlonist
- Nicolas Raskin 2001 Belgian footballer
- Hendry Thomas 1985 Honduran footballer
- Henry Bergman 1868 American actor
- Niecy Nash 1970 American actress
- Richard Price 1723 British philosopher, preacher and mathematician
- Titus Brandsma 1881 Dutch Carmelite friar, Catholic priest, professor of philosophy and saint
- Hideyuki Ujiie 1979 Japanese association football player
- Ivar Lo-Johansson 1901 Swedish writer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on February 23 share the 23rd of February as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.