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Famous people born on July 22
Short answer
Well-known people born on July 22 include Selena Gomez (1992), Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), Willem Dafoe (1955) and Prince George of Wales (2013). Our list below has 90 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives July 22 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1647 (Margaret Mary Alacoque) and the most recent is 2013 (Prince George of Wales). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, writer.
Who was born on July 22?
- Selena Gomez 1992 American singer and actress
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz 1887 German physicist
- Willem Dafoe 1955 American actor
- Prince George of Wales 2013 British prince; eldest child of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales
- Friedrich Bessel 1784 German astronomer and mathematician
- Selman Abraham Waksman 1888 American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many…
- Samuel Colt 1814 19th-century American industrialist and inventor
- Louise Fletcher 1934 American actress
- Dirk Kuyt 1980 Dutch association football player
- Mireille Mathieu 1946 French singer
- Federico Valverde 1998 Uruguayan professional footballer
- Bob Dole 1923 American politician
- Marc Hagit Cucurella 1998 Spanish association football player
- Danny Glover 1946 American actor
- Alexander Calder 1898 American artist
- Franka Potente 1974 German actress
- David Spade 1964 American stand-up comedian and actor
- Rufus Wainwright 1973 American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer
- Kate Ryan 1980 Belgian singer and songwriter
- Emperor Kōmei 1831 Emperor of Japan from 1846 to 1867
- Emilio Butragueño 1963 Spanish footballer
- Rhys Ifans 1967 Welsh actor
- Shawn Michaels 1965 American professional wrestler
- Terence Stamp 1938 British actor
- Stewart Downing 1984 English association football player
- Lucien Febvre 1878 French historian
- Yuzo Tashiro 1982 Japanese association football player
- Margaret Mary Alacoque 1647 Catholic Saint and Mystic
- Scott Dixon 1980 New Zealand race car driver
- Paulo Jamelli 1974 Brazilian association football player
- Sobhuza II 1899 King of Swaziland
- Alan Menken 1949 American composer
- Ante Budimir 1991 Croatian footballer
- Albert Brooks 1947 American actor and comedian
- Dennis Rommedahl 1978 Danish footballer
- Lasse Virén 1949 Finnish long-distance runner
- Mikheil Kavelashvili 1971 Georgian politician and former footballer, sixth President of Georgia since 2024
- Don Henley 1947 American rock musician
- Leandro Damião 1989 Brazilian association football player
- Daryl Janmaat 1989 Dutch association football player
- George Clinton 1941 American funk musician, singer, songwriter and music producer
- Toyohiro Akiyama 1942 First Japanese astronaut
- Apolinario Mabini 1864 Prime Minister of the Philippines in 1899
- Emma Lazarus 1849 American poet
- A. J. Cook 1978 Canadian actress
- Alex Trebek 1940 Canadian and American game show host and TV personality
- Gabriel Lamé 1795 French mathematician and physicist
- Andrew Holness 1972 Jamaican politician; 9th Prime Minister of Jamaica
- Anna Chicherova 1982 Russian high jumper
- Donald O. Hebb 1904 Canadian neuroscientist
- Yuriko Mizuma 1970 Japanese association football player
- Guido de Marco 1931 Maltese politician
- Al Di Meola 1954 American guitarist
- Paul Schrader 1946 American screenwriter and film director
- Óscar de la Renta 1932 Dominican clothing designer
- Mukesh 1923 Indian singer
- Petre Roman 1946 53rd Prime Minister of Romania
- Kristine Lilly 1971 American soccer player
- Theodor Morell 1886 Personal physician to Adolf Hitler
- Charlotte Kalla 1987 Swedish cross-country skier
- Tomi Juric 1991 Australian soccer player
- Jakob Hurt 1839 Estonian ethnologist, folklorist and linguist
- Raniero Cantalamessa 1934 Italian Capuchin, priest, theologian and preacher to the Papal Household since 1980…
- Israel Adesanya 1989 Nigerian mixed martial artist
- Johnson Toribiong 1946 Palauan politician and diplomat, president from 2009 to 2013
- Adam Malik 1917 3rd Vice President of Indonesia
- Kay Bailey Hutchison 1943 American politician
- Tom Robbins 1932 American writer
- Warda El- Djazairia 1939 Algerian singer
- Jason Becker 1969 American guitarist and composer
- Madison Pettis 1998 American actress
- Steve Albini 1962 American musician and audio engineer
- Despina Vandi 1969 Greek singer and musician
- Ryan Dolan 1985 Irish pop singer
- Ivan Okhlobystin 1966 Russian actor and writer
- Porfirije Perić 1961 46th patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church
- William Thiego de Jesus 1986 Brazilian association football player
- Count Felix of Monpezat 2002 Danish former prince; younger son of Prince Joachim and Alexandra, Countess of…
- Thomas Kraft 1988 German footballer
- Masaru Emoto 1943 Japanese writer
- Patriarch Daniel of Romania 1951 Orthodox Patriarch of Romania
- Riane Eisler 1931 Austrian-American sociologist
- Wu Bangguo 1941 Former Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China
- Jacques-Germain Soufflot 1713 French architect
- Oskar Maria Graf 1894 German writer and activist
- Marco Marchionni 1980 Italian football player and manager
- Azmi Bishara 1956 Palestinian intellectual, academic, politician, and writer; founder of the Balad Party
- Nelsinho Baptista 1950 Brazilian association football player and manager
- Marília Mendonça 1995 Brazilian singer, songwriter and instrumentalist
- Oleg Gazmanov 1951 Russian singer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on July 22 share the 22nd of July as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.