Famous birthdays
Famous people born on March 23
Short answer
Well-known people born on March 23 include Akira Kurosawa (1910), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Wernher von Braun (1912) and Erich Fromm (1900). Our list below has 94 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives March 23 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1643 (Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado) and the most recent is 2003 (Álvaro Fernández). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, writer.
Who was born on March 23?
- Akira Kurosawa 1910 Japanese filmmaker
- Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 French mathematician and astronomer
- Wernher von Braun 1912 German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect
- Erich Fromm 1900 German-American sociologist and psychoanalyst
- Roger Martin du Gard 1881 French writer
- Emmy Noether 1882 German Jewish mathematician
- Hermann Staudinger 1881 German chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Michael Haneke 1942 Austrian film director and screenwriter
- Rex Tillerson 1952 69th United States Secretary of State
- Daniel Bovet 1907 Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist and Esperantist
- Juan Gris 1887 Spanish artist
- Michelle Monaghan 1976 American actress
- Viktor Korchnoi 1931 Soviet-Swiss chess grandmaster
- Walter Samuel 1978 Argentine association football player
- Kyrie Irving 1992 American basketball player
- Éric Maxim Choupo-Moting 1989 Cameroonian association football player
- Vasily Zaytsev 1915 Soviet sniper
- Fernando Hierro 1968 Spanish football player and manager
- Mo Farah 1983 British track and field athlete
- Ludwig Quidde 1858 German politician
- Kangana Ranaut 1986 Indian actress
- Roger Bannister 1929 English physician and athlete
- Jerzy Dudek 1973 Polish association football player
- Schuyler Colfax 1823 Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873
- Chaka Khan 1953 American singer
- Philip Zimbardo 1933 American social psychologist, author of Stanford Prison Experiment
- Alexander Albon 1996 Thai-British motorsports racing driver
- Moses Malone 1955 American basketball player
- Ama Ata Aidoo 1942 Ghanaian author, writer, politician, and academic
- Francis Halzen 1944 Belgian-American astrophysicist
- Kazu Naoki 1918 Japanese association football player
- Keri Russell 1976 American actress
- Kim Stanley Robinson 1952 American science fiction writer
- Ester Ledecká 1995 Czech snowboarder and skier
- Jason Kidd 1973 American basketball player and coach
- Ugo Tognazzi 1922 Italian film and theatre actor, director and screenwriter
- Míchel 1963 Spanish association football player and manager
- Princess Eugenie of York 1990 Younger daughter of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and Sarah Ferguson
- Antônio Benedito da Silva 1965 Brazilian association football player
- Tomoya Ugajin 1988 Japanese association football player
- Bethanie Mattek-Sands 1985 US tennis player
- Hope Davis 1964 American actress
- Lale Andersen 1905 German singer and actress
- Franco Battiato 1945 Italian singer-songwriter and musician
- Álvaro Fernández 2003 Spanish footballer
- Ziya Gökalp 1876 Turkish sociologist and writer
- Chris Hoy 1976 British racing driver and former track cyclist
- Amanda Plummer 1957 American actress
- William Smith 1769 English geologist
- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw 1953 Indian entrepreneur and founder of Biocon
- Hakan Balta 1983 Turkish association football player
- Ozan Tufan 1995 Turkish association football player
- Steven Strait 1986 American actor and singer
- Pekka Haavisto 1958 Finnish politician and minister for foreign affairs
- Jaime Alguersuari 1990 Spanish racing driver
- Steve Redgrave 1962 British rower
- Jonas Björkman 1972 Swedish tennis coach and retired tennis player
- Ricardo Zonta 1976 Brazilian racing driver
- Vanessa Morgan 1992 Canadian actress, singer and model
- Michael Nyman 1944 English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist
- Jaume Collet-Serra 1974 Spanish-American film director
- Dietrich Eckart 1868 German journalist and politician
- Milorad Mažić 1973 Serbian association football referee
- Randall Park 1974 American actor
- Robert Gallo 1937 American biomedical researcher
- Winston Groom 1943 American writer
- Jason Kenny 1988 British cyclist
- Nick Powell 1994 English association football player
- Zergio Roquet 1993 Jugador uruguaio
- Bassel al-Assad 1962 Syrian engineer, soldier, politician, and eldest son of former Syrian President Hafez…
- Amee 2000 Vietnamese singer and actress
- Marin Hinkle 1966 American actress
- Judith Godrèche 1972 French actress
- Andrea Dovizioso 1986 Italian motorcycle racer
- Jurij Vega 1754 Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer
- Yevgeny Khaldei 1916 Soviet photographer
- Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado 1643 Spanish Dominican lay sister and mystic
- Victoria Pedretti 1995 American actress
- Cedric Gibbons 1893 American art director
- Gordon Hayward 1990 American basketball player
- Ludwig Minkus 1826 Austrian composer and violinist
- Eyong Enoh 1986 Cameroonian footballer
- Lucio Gutiérrez 1957 President of Ecuador
- Nicholle Tom 1978 American actress
- Émile Derlin Zinsou 1918 Beninese politician
- N. R. Pogson 1829 British astronomer
- Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner 1854 British statesman and colonial administrator
- Yannis Kounellis 1936 Greek painter, sculptor and professor of arts
- Yoko Tawada 1960 Japanese writer
- Mohammad Hossein Kanaanizadegan 1994 Lranian football player
- Marcos Gomes de Araujo 1976 Brazilian association football player
- Yevgeny Grishin 1931 Soviet Speed skater and track cyclist
- Heinz Linge 1913 SS officer; valet for German dictator Adolf Hitler
- Daniel Espinosa 1977 Swedish film director, producer and screenwriter
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on March 23 share the 23rd of March as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.