Famous birthdays
Famous people born on January 22
Short answer
Well-known people born on January 22 include Lord Byron (1788), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Lev Landau (1908) and U Thant (1909). Our list below has 99 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 22 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1588 (John Winthrop) and the most recent is 2007 (Pau Cubarsí). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on January 22?
- Lord Byron 1788 English Romantic poet and lyricist
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic
- Lev Landau 1908 Soviet theoretical physicist
- U Thant 1909 UN Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971
- D. W. Griffith 1875 American filmmaker
- Hidetoshi Nakata 1977 Japanese association football player
- John Hurt 1940 British actor
- Jim Jarmusch 1953 American film director, screenwriter and actor
- Diane Lane 1965 American actress
- Netta Barzilai 1993 Israeli singer
- Robert E. Howard 1906 American author
- Pierre Gassendi 1592 French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and scientist (*1592 – †1655)
- Alan J. Heeger 1936 American chemist, physicist
- Sam Cooke 1931 American singer and songwriter
- Hjalmar Schacht 1877 German politician and economist
- Bruno Kreisky 1911 Austrian diplomat and chancellor
- Piper Laurie 1932 American actress
- Vincent Aboubakar 1992 Cameroonian association football player
- Pau Cubarsí 2007 Spanish footballer
- Linda Blair 1959 American actress
- Christoph Schönborn 1945 Austrian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna and Cardinal of the roman catholic church
- George Balanchine 1904 American choreographer, dancer and ballet master
- Joseph Muscat 1974 Former Prime Minister of Malta
- Marcel Schmelzer 1988 German footballer
- Tharman Shanmugaratnam 1957 President of Singapore since 2023
- Maria Leopoldina of Austria 1797 Queen consort of Portugal and Empress consort of Brazil
- Rogério Ceni 1973 Brazilian professional football manager and former player
- Alf Ramsey 1920 English association football player and manager
- Gabriel Macht 1972 American actor
- Fabricio Coloccini 1982 Argentine association football player
- Alfredo Palacio 1939 Ecuadorian physician
- Mitsuo Kato 1953 Japanese association football player
- Frank Leboeuf 1968 French footballer and actor
- Shane Long 1987 Irish association football player
- Chiara Lubich 1920 Italian founder of the Focolare Movement
- Mohamed Sissoko 1985 Malian-French footballer
- Dmitri Kombarov 1987 Russian footballer
- Adrián Ramos 1986 Colombian footballer
- Conrad Veidt 1893 German actor
- Dixie Dean 1907 English footballer
- Beatrice Webb 1858 English sociologist, economist, socialist, and social reformer
- Paul Vidal de La Blache 1845 French geographer
- Alizé Cornet 1990 French tennis player
- Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu 1962 Sultan of Terengganu
- Morris Swadesh 1909 American linguist
- Logic 1990 American rapper from Maryland
- Jonathan Woodgate 1980 English footballer and manager
- Jaan Kaplinski 1941 Estonian poet, philosopher, translator, politician and culture critic
- Steven Adler 1965 American drummer
- Amine Gemayel 1942 Former Lebanese president
- Naoko Nishigai 1969 Japanese association football player
- Jang Sung-taek 1946 North Korean government official
- Michael Hutchence 1960 Australian singer
- Arkady Gaidar 1904 Soviet children's writer
- Bill Bixby 1934 American actor and director
- Caitlin Clark 2002 American basketball player
- Henri Dutilleux 1916 French composer
- Greg Oden 1988 American basketball player
- Wilbur Scoville 1865 American pharmacist
- Marcel Dassault 1892 French aircraft industrialist
- John Winthrop 1588 Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and Author of "City upon a Hill"
- Rio Haryanto 1993 Indonesian racing driver
- Angus Gunn 1996 Scottish association football player
- Ben Moody 1981 American guitarist
- Orianthi 1985 Australian musician and singer-songwriter
- Justin Bijlow 1998 Dutch association football player
- Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark 1872 Prince of Greece and Denmark
- Seymour Cassel 1935 American actor
- Ann Sothern 1909 American actress
- Hannah Mancini 1980 American singer
- Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard 1858 British colonial administrator
- Malcolm McLaren 1946 English fashion designer and music manager
- Friedrich Paschen 1865 German physicist
- Galina Zybina 1931 Russian shot-putter, javelin thrower, and coach
- Ong Teng Cheong 1936 5th President of Singapore
- Arno Babajanian 1921 Armenian composer and pianist
- Étienne Bacrot 1983 French chess player
- Frigyes Riesz 1880 Hungarian mathematician who made fundamental contributions to functional analysis
- Ondrej Nepela 1951 Slovak figure skater
- Justin Hurwitz 1985 American composer and screenwriter
- Louis Pergaud 1882 French writer
- Ernst Busch 1900 German actor
- Jörg Böhme 1974 German footballer
- Eduard Zeller 1814 German philosopher and theologian
- Ecaterina Szabo 1968 Romanian artistic gymnast and coach
- Beverley Mitchell 1981 American actress
- Daniel Johnston 1961 American musician
- Fan Zhendong 1997 Chinese table tennis player
- Gusztáv Sebes 1906 Hungarian footballer
- Rodrigo Muñoz 1982 Uruguayan footballer
- Christopher Masterson 1980 American actor
- J. J. Johnson 1924 American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger
- Steve Perry 1949 American singer
- Fred M. Vinson 1890 Chief justice of the United States from 1946 to 1953
- Kadri Simson 1977 Estonian politician
- Juliette Mayniel 1936 French actress
- Henri Pélissier 1889 French racing cyclist
- Franka Dietzsch 1968 German discus thrower
- Abraham Olano 1970 Spanish cyclist
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 22 share the 22nd of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.