$18.9Breported estimate as of June 2026 · Bloomberg
John Robert Menard Jr. is an American billionaire businessman who is the founder and owner of Menards, a Midwestern chain of home improvement stores. He is a former IndyCar racing team owner, and the father of former NASCAR Cup Series driver Paul Menard.
Aloys Wobben was a German billionaire businessman, engineer, and the founder and owner of the wind turbine company Enercon. He was one of the 50 richest people in Germany, with a fortune estimated at €4.78 billion, as of November 2020.
$4.4Bolder estimate, as of September 2020 · Forbes
Radovan Vítek is a Czech billionaire real estate investor, and majority shareholder in CPI Property Group, which owns a €9.8 billion property portfolio of 418 properties including offices, retail, 12,306 residential units and 10,488 hotel beds.
Share of the 43 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors23% (10 people)
Athletes23% (10 people)
Authors23% (10 people)
Creators23% (10 people)
Politicians21% (9 people)
Entrepreneurs16% (7 people)
Musicians9% (4 people)
Countries
23 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States12 (12 people)
France3 (3 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Soviet Union2 (2 people)
Ancient Rome1 (1 people)
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George Noel Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets.
Thomas Phillips, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Diane Lane is an American actress. She has starred in numerous leading lady and supporting roles in a huge variety of films ranging from independent film features to major film studio blockbuster productions.
Lev Davidovich Landau was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. He was considered as one of the last scientists who were universally well-versed and made seminal contributions to all branches of physics.
Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Pau Cubarsí Paredes is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team. He is considered one of the best young defenders in the world.
Sir John Vincent Hurt was an English actor. Regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation and described as having the "most distinctive voice in Britain", he was referred to by David Lynch as "simply the greatest actor in the world".
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David Wark Griffith was an American film director. Considered one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture, he pioneered many aspects of film editing and expanded the art of the narrative film.
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Marcel Dassault was a French engineer and industrialist who spent his career in aircraft manufacturing. He was also involved in politics, serving intermittently over more than three decades in both houses of the French Parliament from 1951 until his death in 1986.
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Lyndon Robert Rive is a South African-American businessman known as the co-founder of SolarCity, and its CEO until 2016. SolarCity was a provider of photovoltaic systems and related services.
Emmanuel Faber is a French businessman. He was formerly the chief executive officer of Danone, and the chairman of the board of directors. He was subsequently appointed Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board.
Samuel Cooke was an American soul singer and songwriter. Considered one of the most influential soul artists of all time, Cooke is commonly referred to as the "King of Soul" for his distinctive vocals, pioneering contributions to the genre, and significance in popular music.
RCA Victor Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Linda Denise Blair is an American actress and activist. She is known for playing Regan MacNeil in the horror film The Exorcist (1973), which established her as a prominent figure in horror popular culture.
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Piper Laurie was an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and Children of a Lesser God (1986), and the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).
Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht was a German economist, banker, politician, and co-founder of the German Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank during the Weimar Republic.
Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Ervin Howard was an American author, known for writing pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.
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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. Considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, he was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.
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Vincent Paté Aboubakar is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as striker for TFF 1. Lig club Bodrum and captains the Cameroon national team.
Thant, known honorifically as U Thant, was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first Asian to hold the position. He held the office for a record 10 years and one month.
Netta Barzilai, also known mononymously as Netta, is an Israeli singer. After winning the fifth season of HaKokhav HaBa, she went on to represent her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.
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Hans Walter Conrad Veidt was a German and British character actor. He attracted early attention for his roles in the films Different from the Others (1919), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), and The Man Who Laughs (1928).
MGM-photo by Clarence Bull., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
George Balanchine was a Russian-American ballet choreographer of Georgian descent, recognized as one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th century.
Fabricio Tomás Coloccini is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is the current assistant coach of Fernando Gago for Universidad de Chile.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic. He was a representative of the Enlightenment. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature.
Bruno Kreisky was an Austrian social democratic politician who served as foreign minister from 1959 to 1966 and as chancellor from 1970 to 1983. Aged 72, he was the oldest chancellor after World War II.
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Joseph Muscat is a Maltese politician who served as the 13th prime minister of Malta from 2013 to 2020 and leader of the Labour Party from 2008 to 2020.
Pierre Gassendi was a French philosopher, Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church position in south-east France, he also spent much time in Paris, where he was a leader of a group of free-thinking intellectuals.
Claude Mellan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Stephen Salupeza Paduano, also known by his nom de guerre Carapali Lualhati, is a Filipino politician and previously the national commander of the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPA-ABB), an armed communist revolutionary group.
House of Representatives of the Philippines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yerkin Tatishev is a Kazakhstani businessman. He is the founder and chairman of the diversified industrial holding company Kusto Group, and is one of the richest businessmen in Kazakhstan with a fortune of $335 million.
This page lists 43 people born on January 22, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of June 2026. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on January 22. Read the full methodology.
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