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Famous people born on May 22

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Well-known people born on May 22 include Richard Wagner (1813), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Laurence Olivier (1907) and Mary Cassatt (1844). Our list below has 79 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 22 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1733 (Hubert Robert) and the most recent is 2002 (Paulina Chávez). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actress.

Who was born on May 22?

  1. Richard Wagner 1813 German composer
  2. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 British writer and physician
  3. Laurence Olivier 1907 English actor and director
  4. Mary Cassatt 1844 American painter and printmaker (1844—1926)
  5. George Best 1946 Northern Irish footballer
  6. Naomi Campbell 1970 British model
  7. Betty Williams 1943 Northern Irish peace activist
  8. Arturo Vidal 1987 Chilean association football player
  9. Shuji Nakamura 1954 Japanese doctor of Engineering, inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
  10. Harvey Milk 1930 American politician and gay rights activist
  11. Hergé 1907 Belgian comics writer
  12. Ram Mohan Roy 1772 Indian religious, social, and educational reformer, and humanitarian
  13. Symon Petliura 1879 Ukrainian military leader
  14. Morrissey 1959 British singer and songwriter
  15. Arsenii Yatseniuk 1974 Ukrainian lawyer, economist and politician
  16. George Andrew Olah 1927 Hungarian chemist
  17. Ginnifer Goodwin 1978 American actress
  18. Herbert C. Brown 1912 American chemist
  19. Maggie Q 1979 American actress
  20. Igor Lediakhov 1968 Russian association football player
  21. Johannes R. Becher 1891 German politician, novelist and poet
  22. Michio Ashikaga 1950 Japanese association football player
  23. Lisa Murkowski 1957 United States Senator from Alaska since 2002
  24. Giacomo Matteotti 1885 Italian politician
  25. Tranquillo Barnetta 1985 Swiss footballer
  26. Sun Ra 1914 American jazz composer and bandleader
  27. Joshua Zirkzee 2001 Dutch association football player
  28. Bryan Danielson 1981 American professional wrestler
  29. Samuel Chukwueze 1999 Nigerian association football player
  30. Paulina Chávez 2002 American actress
  31. Dustin Moskovitz 1984 American computer/Internet entrepreneur
  32. Suho 1991 South Korean singer and EXO group leader
  33. Philip H. Dybvig 1955 American economist
  34. Hideaki Anno 1960 Japanese animator, film director, businessman
  35. Vladimir Granat 1987 Russian footballer
  36. Michael Kelly 1969 American actor
  37. Paul Winfield 1939 American actor
  38. Facundo Cabral 1937 Argentine singer and songwriter
  39. Jürgen Melzer 1981 Austrian tennis player
  40. Daniel François Malan 1874 South African Prime Minister
  41. Sean Gunn 1974 American actor
  42. Tavo Burat 1932 Italian journalist and writer
  43. Cha Bum-kun 1953 South Korean association football player
  44. Joel Obi 1991 Nigerian footballer
  45. Viktor Ponedelnik 1937 Soviet and Russian footballer
  46. Susan Strasberg 1938 American film and stage actress
  47. Nazanin Boniadi 1980 British-Iranian actress
  48. Roland Sallai 1997 Hungarian association football player
  49. Abd al-Malik al-Houthi 1979 Leader of the Ansar Allah since 2004
  50. Richard Benjamin 1938 American actor and film director
  51. Bernie Taupin 1950 British songwriter
  52. Lauri Markkanen 1997 Finnish basketball player
  53. Karoline Herfurth 1984 German actress
  54. Hong Yong-jo 1982 North Korean footballer
  55. Eleanor Patterson 1996 Australian athletics competitor
  56. Thomas Gold 1920 Austrian astrophysicist
  57. Pedro Diniz 1970 Brazilian racing driver
  58. William Sturgeon 1783 British inventor
  59. Katie Price 1978 British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer
  60. Robin Knoche 1992 German association football player
  61. Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom 1770 Member of the British Royal Family
  62. Garba Lawal 1974 Nigerian footballer
  63. Odise Roshi 1991 Albanian association football player
  64. Peter Matthiessen 1927 American novelist
  65. MC Eiht 1971 American rapper
  66. Matt Jarvis 1986 English association football player
  67. Hubert Robert 1733 French painter
  68. Athena Manoukian 1994 Greek singer
  69. Stefan Mitrović 1990 Serbian footballer
  70. Lyudmila Zhuravlyova 1946 Ukrainian astronomer
  71. Valentin Inzko 1949 Austrian diplomat
  72. Paul Mariner 1953 English footballer
  73. David H. Levy 1948 Canadian astronomer
  74. Soemu Toyoda 1885 Japanese admiral
  75. Miho Takagi 1994 Japanese speed skater
  76. Apolo Ohno 1982 American short track speed skater, writer, and motivational speaker
  77. Paul Vanden Boeynants 1919 Belgian politician
  78. Chen Jingrun 1933 Chinese mathematician
  79. Thekla Resvoll 1871 Norwegian botanist

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 22 share the 22nd of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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