Famous birthdays
Famous people born on October 22
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 22 include Doris Lessing (1919), Franz Liszt (1811), Ivan Bunin (1870) and Catherine Deneuve (1943). Our list below has 97 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 22 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1689 (John V of Portugal) and the most recent is 2004 (Stefan Bajcetic). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on October 22?
- Doris Lessing 1919 British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer
- Franz Liszt 1811 Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist
- Ivan Bunin 1870 Russian writer and poet
- Catherine Deneuve 1943 French actress
- Arsène Wenger 1949 French football manager
- Javier Milei 1970 Economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
- Clinton Davisson 1881 American physicist
- Joan Fontaine 1917 British actress
- Jeff Goldblum 1952 American actor and musician
- Isaac Shamir 1915 7th Prime Minister of Israel
- Robert Capa 1913 American photographer
- Christopher Lloyd 1938 American actor
- Timothy Leary 1920 American psychologist
- Carlos Mencia 1967 American stand-up comedian
- George Wells Beadle 1903 American geneticist
- Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle 1818 French poet
- Joaquim Chissano 1939 2nd President of Mozambique
- Dražen Petrović 1964 Croatian basketball player
- Bảo Đại 1913 Emperor of Vietnam from 1926 to 1945
- Ichiro Suzuki 1973 Japanese baseball player
- Georges Brassens 1921 French singer-songwriter and poet
- Parineeti Chopra 1988 Indian actress and singer
- Bob Odenkirk 1962 American actor, comedian and filmmaker
- Derek Jacobi 1938 English actor
- Spike Jonze 1969 American filmmaker
- Tomislav Erceg 1971 Croatian association football player
- Deepak Chopra 1946 Indian-born American author and alternative-medicine advocate, physician and public…
- John V of Portugal 1689 King of Portugal from 1707 to 1750
- Míchel Salgado 1975 Spanish footballer
- Mikkel Hansen 1987 Danish handball player
- Robert Rauschenberg 1925 American painter and graphic artist
- Evaristo Carvalho 1941 São Tomé and Príncipe politician
- Karl Guthe Jansky 1905 American physicist and radio engineer
- Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein 1858 German Empress and Queen of Prussia
- Shaggy 1968 Jamaican reggae musician
- Johannes Høsflot Klæbo 1996 Norwegian cross-country skier
- Luis Gómez 1956 Puerto Rican actor
- Brenden Aaronson 2000 American soccer player
- Saffron Burrows 1972 English actress, model and writer
- Ernst Öpik 1893 Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist
- Andrés Palop 1973 Spanish footballer
- Valeria Golino 1966 Italian model, actress and film director
- Johann Reinhold Forster 1729 German naturalist
- Kader Khan 1930 Indian-Canadian film actor, script and dialogue writer
- Aïssa Mandi 1991 Algerian association football player
- Doni 1979 Brazilian association football player
- Constantine Samuel Rafinesque 1783 French naturalist
- Amit Shah 1964 Indian politician and 32nd Union Minister of Home Affairs
- Jesse Tyler Ferguson 1975 American actor
- George Cohen 1939 English footballer
- Oleksandr Kucher 1982 Ukrainian footballer
- Jennifer Lee 1971 American film director
- Maria Amalia of Austria 1701 Queen of Bohemia
- Adolph Joffe 1883 Soviet diplomat
- Mason Holgate 1996 English association football player
- Bert Trautmann 1923 German association football player and coach
- Luigi Carlo Farini 1812 Italian historian and politician
- Johan Vázquez 1998 Mexican association football player
- Ștefan Radu 1986 Romanian footballer
- Harry Souttar 1998 Australian-Scottish association football player
- Carmen Ejogo 1973 British actress
- Zurab Noghaideli 1964 Prime Minister of Georgia (2.2005-11.2007)
- Joe Rodon 1997 Welsh association football player
- Corey Hawkins 1988 American actor
- Deontay Wilder 1985 American boxer
- Brewster Kahle 1960 American computer engineer and founder of the Internet Archive
- Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France 1781 Prince of France
- Todd Graff 1959 American actor, writer and director
- Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. 1900 American diplomat, ran Lend Lease
- Jan de Bont 1943 Dutch film director
- Johan Ludwig Mowinckel 1870 16th Prime Minister of Norway
- Kyle Gallner 1986 American actor
- Bill Condon 1955 American film director
- Estela Barnes de Carlotto 1930 Argentine human rights activist, leader of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo
- Winston Bogarde 1970 Dutch footballer
- Rolf Nevanlinna 1895 Finnish mathematician known for his research in complex analysis
- Donald Ramotar 1950 President of Guyana, economist
- Ianis Hagi 1998 Romanian association football player
- Amanda Coetzer 1971 South African tennis player
- Stefan Bajcetic 2004 Spanish association football player
- Brian Boitano 1963 United States figure skater
- Constance Bennett 1904 American actress
- Lord Alfred Douglas 1870 English poet and journalist
- Takuma Nishimura 1996 Japanese association football player
- Carl Jakob Sundevall 1801 Swedish zoologist
- Sofia Vassilieva 1992 American actress
- Annette Funicello 1942 American actress and singer
- Roddy Ricch 1998 American rapper
- Albert Sambi Lokonga 1999 Belgian association football player
- Mei Lanfang 1894 Peking opera artist
- Assim Madibo 1996 Qatari association football player
- Rubén Pardo 1992 Spanish soccer player
- Jonathan Lipnicki 1990 American actor
- Gaël Bigirimana 1993 Burundian footballer
- Melinda Czink 1982 Hungarian tennis player
- Lee Ho 1984 South Korean association football player
- Godfrey Chitalu 1947 Zambian footballer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 22 share the 22nd of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.