Famous birthdays
Famous people born on May 23
Short answer
Well-known people born on May 23 include John Bardeen (1908), Pär Lagerkvist (1891), Anatoly Karpov (1951) and Lena Meyer-Landrut (1991). Our list below has 96 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 23 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1705 (Karim Khan zand) and the most recent is 2001 (Brennan Johnson). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, politician.
Who was born on May 23?
- John Bardeen 1908 American physicist and engineer
- Pär Lagerkvist 1891 Swedish writer
- Anatoly Karpov 1951 Russian chess player
- Lena Meyer-Landrut 1991 German singer
- Alan García 1949 President of Peru (1985–1990 and 2006–2011)
- Rubens Barrichello 1972 Brazilian racing driver
- Otto Lilienthal 1848 German aviation pioneer
- Douglas Fairbanks 1883 American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer
- Joan Collins 1933 English actress, author and columnist
- Maria Konopnicka 1842 Polish writer and activist
- Margaret Fuller 1810 American writer and women's activist
- Joshua Lederberg 1925 American molecular biologist
- Antonis Samaras 1951 Prime Minister of Greece
- Daniele Massaro 1961 Italian association football player
- ʻAbdu'l-Bahá 1844 Son of Bahá'u'lláh and leader of the Bahá'í Faith
- Jules Dumont d'Urville 1790 French Navy officer and explorer
- Robert Moog 1934 American electronic music pioneer and inventor
- Franz Anton Mesmer 1734 German physician
- Rosemary Clooney 1928 American singer and actress
- Hideaki Kitajima 1978 Japanese association football player
- Joe Gomez 1997 English association football player
- Drew Carey 1958 American comedian
- Tomoyuki Hirase 1977 Japanese association football player
- Hugo Almeida 1984 Portuguese footballer and manager
- Theofanis Gekas 1980 Greek footballer
- Stevica Ristić 1982 Macedonian association football player
- John Newcombe 1944 Australian tennis player
- Angelo Ogbonna 1988 Italian footballer
- Ryan Coogler 1986 American filmmaker
- Edward Norton Lorenz 1917 American mathematician and meteorologist
- Jewel 1974 American singer-songwriter
- George Osborne 1971 British politician (b. 1971)
- Bray Wyatt 1987 American professional wrestler
- Tom Tykwer 1965 German film director, screenwriter, film producer and film composer
- Michael Porter 1947 American engineer and economist
- Karim Khan zand 1705 Founder of the Zand Dynasty
- Anne-Marie David 1952 French singer
- Epitácio Pessoa 1865 Brazilian politician and judge
- Corrado Gini 1884 Italian statistician
- Melissa McBride 1965 American actress
- Artie Shaw 1910 American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader
- Felix Steiner 1896 German SS commander ; affiant in Pohl Trial (NMT 4)
- Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne 1735 Habsburg Austrian Field Marshal, writer and intellectual
- Martin McGuinness 1950 Sinn Féin politician and deputy First Minister
- Manuel Sanchís Hontiyuelo 1965 Spanish footballer
- Çağlar Söyüncü 1996 Turkish association football player
- Philip Selway 1967 English drummer
- Rafael Moreno Aranzadi 1892 Spanish footballer
- William Barr 1950 77th & 85th United States Attorney General
- H. Jon Benjamin 1966 American actor
- Ceija Stojka 1933 Austrian-Romani writer, painter, activist, and musician, and survivor of the Holocaust
- Thomas Hood 1799 British writer
- Manuela Schwesig 1974 German politician (SPD), Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- Agathe Uwilingiyimana 1953 Prime Minister of Rwanda
- Grigori Chukhrai 1921 Soviet film director and screenwriter
- Karlheinz Deschner 1924 German writer and activist
- Brennan Johnson 2001 Welsh-English association football player
- Barbara Barrie 1931 American actress and author
- Ambrose Burnside 1824 American general and politician
- James Blish 1921 American science fiction and fantasy author
- Josef Terboven 1898 German politician
- Răzvan Marin 1996 Romanian association football player
- Betty Garrett 1919 American actress, comedian, singer, and dancer
- Richard Ayoade 1977 British comedian and actor
- Giuseppe Parini 1729 Italian poet
- Krzysztof Mączyński 1987 Polish footballer
- Annemarie Schwarzenbach 1908 Swiss writer, journalist and photographer
- Sebastián Fernández 1985 Uruguayan footballer
- Mitch Albom 1958 American author
- Scatman Crothers 1910 American entertainer
- Salwa Eid Naser 1998 Bahraini sprinter
- Ricardinho 1976 Brazilian association football player and manager
- Martin Parr 1952 British photographer
- Thomas Reiter 1958 European astronaut
- Andy Selva 1976 Sammarinese footballer
- Barış Alper Yılmaz 2000 Turkish association football player
- Carl Bloch 1834 Danish painter
- Blanka 1999 Polish singer and model
- Linden Ashby 1960 American actor
- Alfred P. Sloan 1875 American businessman
- Ann Hui 1947 Hong Kong filmmaker
- Masanaga Kageyama 1967 Japanese association football player and manager
- Mansur Yavaş 1955 Mayor of Ankara
- Sinha 1976 Mexican footballer
- Lucian Mureșan 1931 Romanian Greek Catholic cardinal
- Serhii Plokhy 1957 Ukrainian-American historian
- Marvelous Marvin Hagler 1954 American boxer
- Ante Starčević 1823 Croatian politician, writer and "Father of Croatian homeland"
- Herbert Marshall 1890 English actor
- Luca de la Torre 1998 American soccer player
- Carlos Alberto de Oliveira 1972 Brazilian association football player
- Eka Tkeshelashvili 1977 Georgian politician
- Lorenzo De Silvestri 1988 Italian association football player
- Tomiko Itooka 1908 Japanese supercentenarian
- Ablai Khan 1711 Kazakh khan
- Pedro Chirivella 1997 Spanish association football player
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 23 share the 23rd of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.