July 22 is the birthday of 55 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, actors, athletes and musicians, and 6 of them are billionaires.
Drayton McLane Jr. is an American billionaire businessman. He is chairman of the McLane Group, a holding company with a portfolio of various diverse enterprises.
Stein Erik Hagen was a Norwegian businessman. He was chairman of Orkla, where he was a major shareholder, and held large stakes in Steen & Strøm, Jernia and Komplett through his family company Canica. As of May 2026, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$2.8 billion.
The Orkla Group/Guri Dahl /Guri Dahl, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 55 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors25% (14 people)
Entrepreneurs25% (14 people)
Athletes24% (13 people)
Musicians20% (11 people)
Authors16% (9 people)
Creators13% (7 people)
Politicians11% (6 people)
Countries
23 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States19 (19 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
France3 (3 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Norway2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on July 22 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
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16Selena GomezNotable work: Another Cinderella Story (2008)
Marc Cucurella Saseta is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back or left wing-back for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Spain national team. He is considered to be one of the best left-backs in the world.
Selman Abraham Waksman was a Russian-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist, whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics.
New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Higgins, Roger, photographer., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German experimental physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Franck "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom."
Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Donald Hugh Henley is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He is a founding member of the Eagles, serving as a songwriter, drummer, and vocalist for the band.
Entrepreneur · Colt's Manufacturing Company · manufacturing
1814–1862 · United States
Samuel Colt was an American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company and made the mass production of revolvers commercially viable.
Matthew Brady, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kay Bailey Hutchison is an American attorney, television correspondent, politician, and diplomat who served as the 22nd U.S. permanent representative to NATO from 2017 until 2021. A member of the Republican Party, she was a United States senator from Texas from 1993 to 2013.
US Dept. of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
James Jebbia is an American-British businessman, fashion designer and former child actor. He is known for being the founder of the skateboarding shop and clothing brand Supreme.
Daniel Marchand, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Timothy Mellon is an American businessman, the grandson of Andrew Mellon, and an heir to the Mellon banking fortune. He is a major donor to the Republican Party.
Lasse Artturi Virén is a Finnish former long-distance runner, winner of four gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics. Virén recaptured the image of the "Flying Finns" promoted by runners like Hannes Kolehmainen, Paavo Nurmi and Ville Ritola in the 1920s.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
David Wayne Spade is an American stand-up comedian, actor and podcaster. His comedic style, in both his stand-up material and acting roles, relies heavily on sarcasm and self-deprecation.
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Federico Santiago Valverde Dipetta is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Uruguay national team.
Terence Henry Stamp was an English actor. His filmography included a mix of cult and mainstream performances, particularly sophisticated villain roles.
Franz Richter (User:FRZ), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Shawn Michaels is an American retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he is the Senior Vice President of Talent Development, Creative, and oversees the creative aspects of the NXT brand, the promotion's developmental territory.
David Seto from Brooksville, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Franka Potente is a German actress. She first appeared in the comedy film After Five in the Forest Primeval (1995), for which she won a Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Actress.
George Alexander Trebek was a Canadian and American game show host and television personality. Regarded as a pop culture icon, he was best known for hosting the syndicated quiz show Jeopardy! for 37 seasons from its revival in 1984 until his death in 2020.
The Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Canadian and American singer, songwriter, and composer. He has recorded eleven studio albums and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks.
George Edward Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and bandleader. His Parliament-Funkadelic collective developed an influential and eclectic form of funk music during the 1970s that drew on Afrofuturism, outlandish fashion, psychedelia, and surreal humor.
Edward Hopper was an American realist painter and printmaker. He is one of America's most renowned artists and known for his skill in depicting modern American life and landscapes.
Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alan Irwin Menken is an American composer and conductor. Over his career he has received numerous accolades including winning eight Academy Awards, a Tony Award, eleven Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Daytime Emmy Award.
Dirk Kuijt, anglicised to Kuyt, is a Dutch former professional footballer and manager who currently serves as an assistant manager of Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe. Originally starting out as a forward, he played much of his career as a right-winger.
Alexander Calder was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures.
Mikheil Kavelashvili is a Georgian politician and former professional footballer who was sworn in as the sixth president of Georgia on 29 December 2024.
Giorgi Abdaladze, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ante Budimir is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for La Liga club Osasuna. Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he plays for the Croatia national team.
Stewart Downing is an English former professional footballer. He played most of his career as a winger or left-back. He is currently the assistant coach for Leeds United's U21 squad.
Apolinario Mabini y Maranán was a Filipino revolutionary leader, educator, lawyer, and statesman who served first as a legal and constitutional adviser to the Revolutionary Government, and then as the first Prime Minister of the Philippines upon the establishment of the First Philippine Republic.
National Historical Commission, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Toyohiro Akiyama was a Japanese television journalist and academic who was a professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design. In December 1990, he spent seven days aboard the Mir space station.
Dennis Rommedahl is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a right winger. During his 19-year professional career, he won four Eredivisie titles with PSV Eindhoven, and also played for several other Dutch clubs in between stints in England and Greece.
Johan Martin Ferner was a Norwegian sailor and Olympic medalist. He won a silver medal in the 6 metre class with the boat Elisabeth X at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, together with Finn Ferner, Erik Heiberg, Tor Arneberg and Carl Mortensen.
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the Sun to another star by the method of parallax.
Christian Albrecht Jensen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Elaine Tettemer Marshall is an American billionaire heiress. Trusts for the benefit of Marshall and her two sons own the 16% beneficial interest in Koch Industries that were formerly owned by her husband, E.
Lucien Paul Victor Febvre was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. He was the initial editor of the Encyclopédie française together with Anatole de Monzie.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Georg Wilhelm Richmann was a Russian physicist of Baltic German origin who did pioneering work on electricity, atmospheric electricity, and calorimetry. He died by electrocution in St.
Гравюра И. Штенглина и Е. Федосеева, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 55 people born on July 22, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 6 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 July 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 July 22. Read the full methodology.
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