July 23 is the birthday of 54 notable people we've found so far, including actors, historical figures, entrepreneurs and scientists, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Juan Carlos Escotet Rodríguez is a Spanish-Venezuelan billionaire banker and the founder of Banesco, the largest private financial institution in Venezuela. He is also CEO and shareholder of Spanish bank Abanca, as well as president of Spanish football club Deportivo de A Coruña.
Alexandra Gamlemshaug Andresen is a Norwegian heiress and equestrian. She became the world's youngest billionaire at age 19 in 2016 and held the position of youngest billionaire on the Forbes list for three consecutive years.
Gavril A. Yushvaev is a Russian-born Israeli businessman and investor. He is best known as a co-founder of Wimm Bill Dann and as an investor in Polyus Gold.
Share of the 54 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors22% (12 people)
Entrepreneurs19% (10 people)
Scientists19% (10 people)
Authors17% (9 people)
Creators17% (9 people)
Artists15% (8 people)
Athletes15% (8 people)
Countries
29 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States18 (18 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland3 (3 people)
France2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Kingdom of England2 (2 people)
Argentina1 (1 people)
Life timeline
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Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor. He was known for his distinctive supporting character roles and his memorable leading roles in many films and theatrical productions from the early 1990s until his death in 2014.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Woodrow Tracy Harrelson is an American actor. He first became known for his role as charmingly naive bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1985–1993), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from five nominations.
Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Justin R. Pacheco, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Monica Samille Lewinsky is an American activist. She became internationally known in the late 1990s after U.S. president Bill Clinton admitted to having had an affair with her during her days as a White House intern between 1995 and 1997.
PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Haile Selassie I was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as the Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia under Empress Zewditu between 1916 and 1930.
unknown; according to [1] and [2] an official portrait of which b/w copies were distributed by the Ethiopian government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Saul Hudson, known professionally as Slash, is a British and American musician, best known as the lead guitarist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success beginning in the late 1980s.
Paweł Tomasz Wasilewski, better known by his stage name Paul Wesley, is an American actor and film director. He is known for starring as Stefan Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017) and James T. Kirk in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022–present).
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Daniel Saul Goldin served as the 9th and longest-tenured administrator of NASA from April 1, 1992, to November 17, 2001. He was appointed by US President George H. W. Bush and also served under presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He is an entrepreneur and technologist.
Frank Mill was a German professional footballer who was a member of the 1990 FIFA World Cup winning squad of West Germany. Further, he participated at the 1984 and at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where he won the bronze medal with the West German team.
Tomy Winata is an Indonesian businessman with interests in banking, property, and infrastructure, whose wealth comes from his business deals for the Indonesian Military.
Serhii Olexiiovych Taruta is a Ukrainian politician and current member of the Ukrainian parliament, former businessman and founder of Industrial Union of Donbas, former President of FC Metalurh Donetsk, and the former governor of Donetsk Oblast.
Shawn Adam Levy is a Canadian and American filmmaker and actor. He is the founder of 21 Laps Entertainment. His work has spanned numerous genres, and his films as a director have grossed a collective $3.5 billion worldwide.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Francis Drake was an English explorer and privateer best known for making the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580.
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Julian Nagelsmann is a German professional football coach who was most recently the manager of the Germany national team. He previously managed TSG Hoffenheim, RB Leipzig and Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga.
Sergio Mattarella is an Italian politician who has been serving as the president of Italy since 2015. He is the longest-serving president in the history of the Italian Republic. Since Giorgio Napolitano died in 2023, Mattarella is the only living Italian president.
Charisma Carpenter is an American actress. She played Cordelia Chase in the supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–1999) and its spin-off series Angel (1999–2004).
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alison Maria Krauss is an American singer, fiddler, and music producer. She entered the American music industry at an early age, competing in local contests by the age of eight and recording for the first time at 14.
Original photo by Forrest L. Smith, III. Cropped by Sven Manguard at en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age 44, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression.
Photographer uncredited. Published by Alfred A. Knopf., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gary Dwayne Payton Sr. is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 17 seasons. Nicknamed "the Glove" for his defensive abilities, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest point guards of all time.
Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John Dee was an English mathematician, astronomer, teacher, astrologer, occultist, and alchemist. He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of his time on alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy.
Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, was an Indian nationalist and self-rule activist in the Indian independence movement. He was one third of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate. The honorific "Lokmanya" was applied to him by his supporters.
Edie McClurg is an American retired actress and comedian. She has played supporting roles in the films Carrie (1976), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), and Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988), and bit parts in Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980), Mr.
Theodoor "Theo" van Gogh was a Dutch film director. He directed Submission: Part 1, a short film written by Somali writer and politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, which criticised the treatment of women in Islam in strong terms.
Emil Jannings was a Swiss-born German actor who was popular in Hollywood films in the 1920s. He was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actor for starring in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. Jannings remains the only German ever to win in that category.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside was a British and Italian architect noted for his modernist and constructivist designs in high-tech architecture. He was the founder of RSHP, previously known as the Richard Rogers Partnership, until June 2020.
Luiz Gustavo Dias is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Athletico Paranaense.
Amália da Piedade Rodrigues was a Portuguese fado singer (fadista). Dubbed Rainha do Fado, she was instrumental in popularising fado worldwide and travelled internationally throughout her career.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Agnolo Ambrogini, commonly known as Angelo Poliziano or simply Poliziano, anglicized as Politian, was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance.
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Arata Isozaki was a Japanese architect, urban designer, and architectural theorist from Ōita. He was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1986 and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019. He taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and Yale University.
Manel Armengol / Archivo, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer, best known for publishing nearly 600 East Slavic and Russian fairy and folk tales, one of the largest collections of folklore in the world.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Philipp Otto Runge was a German artist, draftsman, painter, and color theorist. Runge and Caspar David Friedrich are often regarded as the leading painters of the German Romantic movement.
Philipp Otto Runge, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Vladimir Prelog was a Croatian-Swiss organic chemist who received the 1975 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions. Prelog was born, and spent his infancy, in Sarajevo, and youth in Zagreb, Osijek and Prague.
Pierre Agostini is a French experimental physicist and Emeritus professor at the Ohio State University in the United States, known for his pioneering work in strong-field laser physics and attosecond science.
US Embassy Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Walter Schottky was a German physicist and electrical engineer who played a major early role in developing the theory of thermionic emission, invented the screen-grid vacuum tube in 1915, co-invented the ribbon microphone and ribbon loudspeaker along with Erwin Gerlach in 1924…
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 54 people born on July 23, 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 July 2025. 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 23. Read the full methodology.
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