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Famous people born on January 23
Short answer
Well-known people born on January 23 include David Hilbert (1862), Stendhal (1783), Megawati Soekarnoputri (1947) and Derek Walcott (1930). Our list below has 97 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 23 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1598 (François Mansart) and the most recent is 2004 (Julio César Enciso). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, politician.
Who was born on January 23?
- David Hilbert 1862 German mathematician
- Stendhal 1783 French writer
- Megawati Soekarnoputri 1947 5th President of Indonesia (2001—2004) and 8th Vice President of Indonesia (1999—2001)
- Derek Walcott 1930 Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright
- Arjen Robben 1984 Dutch association football player
- Gertrude B. Elion 1918 American biochemist and pharmacologist
- Jeanne Moreau 1928 French actress, singer, screenwriter and director
- Subhas Chandra Bose 1897 Indian nationalist leader
- Magdalena Andersson 1967 Prime Minister of Sweden from 2021 to 2022, Swedish politician and economist
- Otto Diels 1876 German chemist
- Rutger Hauer 1944 Dutch actor
- XXXTentacion 1998 American rapper
- Ernst Abbe 1840 German physicist
- Django Reinhardt 1910 Romani-Belgian /French jazz musician
- Marija Gimbutas 1921 Lithuanian-American archaeologist
- Paul Langevin 1872 French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue
- John Polanyi 1929 Hungarian-Canadian chemist
- Boris Berezovsky 1946 Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician
- Robert Golob 1967 Slovenian businessman and politician
- Arthur Lewis 1915 Saint Lucian economist
- Doutzen Kroes 1985 Dutch fashion model
- Ryōta Ōshima 1993 Japanese association football player
- Ulrika Eleonora I of Sweden 1688 Queen regnant of Sweden from 1718 to 1720
- Mariska Hargitay 1964 American actress
- François Mansart 1598 French architect
- Georg Baselitz 1938 German artist
- Saigō Takamori 1828 Samurai of the Satsuma domain, supreme commander of Japanese army, one of the three…
- Richard Dean Anderson 1950 American actor
- John Browning 1855 Firearms designer of the United States
- Elvira Lindo 1962 Spanish writer
- Randolph Scott 1898 American actor
- Joško Gvardiol 2002 Croatian footballer
- Princess Caroline of Monaco 1957 Eldest child of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and Grace Kelly
- Kazumi Tsubota 1956 Japanese association football player
- Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg 1896 Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1919 to 1964
- Bob Paisley 1919 English footballer and manager
- Ruben Loftus-Cheek 1996 English association football player
- Dragan Mrđa 1984 Serbian footballer
- José Enrique 1986 Spanish association football player
- Alexander Cunningham 1814 British army engineer and amateur archaeologist
- Shinobu Ono 1984 Japanese footballer
- Tiffani Thiessen 1974 American actress
- Jože Plečnik 1872 Slovenian architect
- William G. Morgan 1870 Inventor of volleyball
- Bharrat Jagdeo 1964 President and Prime Minister of Guyana
- Sergei Belov 1944 Soviet professional basketball player
- Naim Süleymanoğlu 1967 Turkish weightlifter
- Rob Garrison 1960 American actor
- Chan Vathanaka 1994 Cambodian association football player
- Andrija Mohorovičić 1857 Croatian seismologist
- Julio César Enciso 2004 Paraguayan association football player
- Andrei Kanchelskis 1969 Russian association football player and manager
- Grigori Aleksandrov 1903 Soviet film director
- Dong Fangzhuo 1985 Chinese footballer
- Petr Korda 1968 Czech tennis player
- Carl Adolph Agardh 1785 Swedish cleric and botanist
- Nicola Zalewski 2002 Polish association football player
- Chesley Sullenberger 1951 American commercial airline pilot
- James Chester 1989 Association football player
- Malang Sarr 1999 French footballer
- Stephen Keshi 1962 Nigerian football defender and manager
- William R. Pogue 1930 American astronaut
- Ramadan Sobhi 1997 Egyptian association football player
- Gudaf Tsegay 1997 Ethiopian middle-distance runner
- Alban Lafont 1999 French-Ivorian footballer
- Karol Świderski 1997 Polish association football player
- Michael Stevens 1986 American YouTuber and Internet personality
- Wolfgang von Kempelen 1734 Austrian dramatic, graphic, constructer, linguist, painter, writer, inventor and nobleman
- Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat 1942 Mongolian politician, president of Mongolia
- Irving Saladino 1983 Panamanian long jumper
- Horst Mahler 1936 German political activist
- Bal Thackeray 1926 Indian politician
- Moreno Torricelli 1970 Italian footballer and manager
- Camilla Collett 1813 Norwegian author and women's rights activist
- Tanya Savicheva 1930 Russian diarist
- Philaret 1929 The Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus’-Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church…
- Chita Rivera 1933 American actress, dancer and singer
- Tom Carper 1947 American politician
- Steven Taylor 1986 English footballer
- Thomas Brdarić 1975 German footballer
- Ariadna Gil 1969 Spanish actress
- Frank Lautenberg 1924 U.S. Senator from New Jersey
- Louisa Necib Cadamuro 1987 French footballer
- Bernard Diomède 1974 French football manager
- Carlo Sforza 1872 Italian politician
- Constantina Diță 1970 Romanian athletics competitor
- Jack Reynor 1992 Irish actor
- Arnoldo Alemán 1946 Nicaraguan lawyer, agricultural businessman and politician; mayor of Managua,…
- Abdullah Al-Mayouf 1987 Saudi Arabian association football player
- Julia Jones 1981 American actress
- Walter M. Miller 1923 American fiction writer
- Mark Boal 1973 American journalist, screenwriter and film producer
- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky 1897 Austrian architect
- Paul Gallagher 1954 British Catholic prelate
- Wos 1998 Freestyler Argentine
- Sergey Litvinov 1958 Russian athletics competitor
- Oton Župančič 1878 Slovenian poet, writer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 23 share the 23rd of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.