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Famous people born on September 23
Short answer
Well-known people born on September 23 include Bruce Springsteen (1949), Ray Charles (1930), Jaroslav Seifert (1901) and Aldo Moro (1916). Our list below has 94 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives September 23 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1713 (Ferdinand VI of Spain) and the most recent is 2005 (Johan Bellingham). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, singer.
Who was born on September 23?
- Bruce Springsteen 1949 American rock singer
- Ray Charles 1930 American singer, pianist and songwriter
- Jaroslav Seifert 1901 Czechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate
- Aldo Moro 1916 Italian politician
- Julio Iglesias 1943 Spanish singer and lawyer
- Michel Temer 1940 24th Vice-President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 and 37th President of Brazil from 2016…
- Navanethem Pillay 1941 South African lawyer, judge, and human rights activist
- John Coltrane 1926 American jazz saxophonist
- Shehbaz Sharif 1951 Prime Minister of Pakistan (2022–2023; 2024–present)
- Paolo Rossi 1956 Italian footballer
- Mickey Rooney 1920 American actor
- Romy Schneider 1938 German-French actress
- Grigory Zinoviev 1883 Russian revolutionary
- Ferdinand VI of Spain 1713 King of Spain, lived
- Clifford Shull 1915 American physicist
- Juan Martín del Potro 1988 Argentine tennis player
- Lina Medina 1933 Peruvian woman, youngest confirmed mother in medical history
- Jason Alexander 1959 American actor, comedian, director and television host
- Hippolyte Fizeau 1819 French physicist
- Masashi Nakayama 1967 Japanese association football player and manager
- Anthony Mackie 1978 American actor
- Walter Lippmann 1889 American journalist and political commentator
- Victoria Woodhull 1838 American suffragist, editor
- Toshihiro Hattori 1973 Japanese association football player and manager
- Yerry Mina 1994 Colombian association football player
- Yu Kobayashi 1987 Japanese association football player
- Asima Chatterjee 1917 Indian chemist
- Tokutaro Ukon 1913 Japanese association football player
- Umaro Sissoco Embaló 1972 President of Guinea-Bissau from 2020 to 2025
- John Boyd Orr 1880 Scottish nutritionist, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture…
- Robert Bosch 1861 German industrialist, inventor, engineer
- Suzanne Valadon 1865 French painter (1865—1938)
- Emperor Kōkaku 1771 Emperor of Japan from 1780 to 1817
- Johann Franz Encke 1791 German astronomer
- Yorgos Lanthimos 1973 Greek filmmaker
- Typhoid Mary 1869 Infected houseworker in New York City
- Nahomi Kawasumi 1985 Japanese association football player
- Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf 1961 Iranian conservative politician, professor, and former air force pilot
- Quini 1949 Spanish footballer
- Matt Hardy 1974 American professional wrestler
- Ani DiFranco 1970 American singer-songwriter
- Paul Delvaux 1897 Belgian painter
- William C. McCool 1961 U.S. Navy Commander, NASA astronaut and the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia which was…
- František Kupka 1871 Czech painter and graphic artist
- Per Olov Enquist 1934 Swedish writer
- Go-Sakuramachi 1740 Empress regnant of Japan
- Walter Pidgeon 1897 Canadian actor
- Johan Bellingham 2005 English footballer
- Wendelin Werner 1968 Mathematician and Fields Medallist
- Valentín Paniagua 1936 Peruvian politician
- Mark Woodforde 1965 Australian tennis player
- Walid Regragui 1975 Moroccan association football manager and former player
- Igor Ivanov 1945 Russian diplomat
- Theodor Körner 1791 German poet
- Natalie Horler 1981 German singer
- Çağatay Ulusoy 1990 Turkish actor
- Ion Gheorghe Maurer 1902 49th Prime Minister of Romania
- Cherie Blair 1954 British barrister and wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
- Robert Doornbos 1981 Dutch racecar driver
- Aleqa Hammond 1965 Fifth Prime Minister of Greenland
- Melanie Oudin 1991 American tennis player
- Marcelo Melo 1983 Brazilian tennis player
- Tanuja 1943 Indian film actress
- Connor Roberts 1995 Welsh association football player
- Mary Kay Place 1947 American actress
- Rosalind Chao 1957 American actress
- Marie Clotilde of France 1759 Queen consort of Sardinia and Venerable
- Ignatius Kutu Acheampong 1931 Soldier and former military head of state of Ghana
- Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei 1914 Sultan of Brunei
- Chi McBride 1961 American actor
- Elizabeth Peña 1959 American actress
- Sean Spicer 1971 American political strategist and former White House Press Secretary and…
- Alex Proyas 1963 Australian film director
- Franc Rode 1934 Catholic cardinal
- Anneliese van der Pol 1984 Dutch actress
- Sergio Bertoni 1915 Italian footballer
- Oğuzhan Özyakup 1992 Turkish association football player
- Emily Warren Roebling 1843 US civil engineer, helped complete the Brooklyn Bridge
- Paul Petersen 1945 Actor, writer, activist
- Brandon Jennings 1989 American basketball player
- Jonathan Calleri 1993 Argentinan football player
- Jack Aitken 1995 British racing driver
- Leinier Domínguez 1983 Cuban-American chess player
- Prem Chopra 1935 Indian actor
- Radama II 1829 King of Madagascar
- Edvard Radzinsky 1936 Russian historian
- Lee Hi 1996 South Korean singer
- Key 1991 South Korean singer, dance, actor and model
- Henry Silva 1926 American actor
- Chris Wilder 1967 English association football manager and former player
- Imre Németh 1917 Hungarian hammer thrower
- Mohammad-Reza Shajarian 1940 Iranian singer and musician
- Peter von Cornelius 1783 Painter from Germany
- Juan Manuel Asensi 1949 Spanish footballer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on September 23 share the 23rd of September as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.