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Authors35% (18 people)
Actors27% (14 people)
Creators25% (13 people)
Musicians18% (9 people)
Scientists16% (8 people)
Athletes14% (7 people)
Entrepreneurs14% (7 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States16 (16 people)
France6 (6 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
Iran2 (2 people)
Kingdom of Prussia2 (2 people)
Nigeria2 (2 people)
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Kristoffer Kristofferson was an American musician, songwriter, and actor. He was a pioneering figure in the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, moving away from the polished Nashville sound and toward a more raw, introspective style.
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Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Lauper is known for her distinctive image, which features eccentric clothing and a variety of hair colors. She is also known for her powerful four-octave vocal range.
Philip Romano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Erin Brockovich is an American paralegal, consumer advocate, and environmental activist who was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) involving groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California, for attorney Ed Masry in 1993.
John Michael Kosterlitz is a British-American physicist. He is a professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics along with David Thouless and Duncan Haldane for work on condensed matter physics.
US Embassy Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941.
Wolfgang Hunscher, Dortmund, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell is a Jamaican-British former record producer and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels".
Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice is a member of the House of Savoy. He is the son of Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy and male-line grandson of Umberto II, the last King of Italy.
ARALDICA MONDADORI, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hendrikus "Hendrik" Colijn was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party. He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 4 August 1925 until 8 March 1926, and from 26 May 1933 until 10 August 1939.
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Ali Farzat is a Syrian political cartoonist. He has published more than 15,000 caricatures in Syrian, Arab and international newspapers. He served as the head of the Arab Cartoonists Association. In 2011, he received the Sakharov Prize for peace.
MichaelNetzer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lee Hae-jin is a South Korean businessman known for founding Naver Corporation. He is among the richest people in South Korea; in December 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$1.3 billion and ranked him 25th richest in the country.
Mikel Merino Zazón is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or striker for Premier League club Arsenal and the Spain national team.
Daniel Gerhard Brown is an American writer best known for his thriller novels, particularly the Robert Langdon series Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013), Origin (2017) and The Secret of Secrets (2025).
Zuzana Homolka Fedorová, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Graham Greene was a Canadian First Nations (Oneida) actor and recording artist, active in film, television and theatre in a career spanning over 50 years.
Jared Purdy at https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaredpurdy/, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American politician and former law professor serving as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts, a seat she has held since 2013.
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lee Min-ho is a South Korean actor and singer. He gained widespread fame with his role as Gu Jun-pyo in the television series Boys Over Flowers (2009), which also earned him the Baeksang Arts Award for Best New Actor.
Billy Wilder was an Austrian and American film director and screenwriter. His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of America's most versatile filmmakers. He received seven Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award and the Palme d'Or.
Amrish Puri was an Indian actor, who predominantly worked in Hindi cinema. He was one of the most notable and important figures in Indian cinema and theatre. Puri was known for his acting versatility.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Stephen Chow Sing-chi is a Hong Kong filmmaker and former actor, known for his mo lei tau comedy, which has a significant influence on Chinese popular culture. His career began in television, where he gained recognition through variety shows and TV dramas.
Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction and speculative fiction author who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
Amy Frederica Brenneman is an American actress and producer. She first gained prominence as Detective Janice Licalsi in the ABC police drama series NYPD Blue (1993–1994).
Kristin Dos Santos, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Emmanuelle Seigner is a French actress and singer. She is known for her roles in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), The Ninth Gate (1999) and Frantic (1988).
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary was the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Queen of Iran from 1951 to 1958. Their marriage suffered many pressures, particularly when it became clear that she was infertile. In March 1958, their divorce was announced.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mary Lynn Rajskub is an American actress and comedian who is best known for portraying Chloe O'Brian in the action thriller series 24 and Gail the Snail in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. She was a regular cast member on HBO's Mr.
Mary_Lynn_Rajskub_at_24_finale_2009.jpg: Kristin Dos Santos from Los Angeles, California, United States derivative work:, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ralph Waite was an American actor, best known for his lead role as John Walton Sr. on The Waltons (1972–1981), which he occasionally directed. He later had recurring roles in NCIS as Jackson Gibbs, the father of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, and in Bones, as Seeley Booth's grandfather.
Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries.
Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician, lawyer, journalist, philosopher, and political activist who worked for the unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and was a major leader of the Italian revolutionary movement.
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Sébastien Romain Teddy Haller is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Sanfrecce Hiroshima of the J1 League. Born in France, he plays for the Ivory Coast national team.
Ľubomír Moravčík is a Slovak football manager and former player. A creative midfielder renowned for his technical ability, he was capable of unleashing powerful, accurate shots, and pinpoint crosses with both feet.
Captain George Vancouver was a Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for leading the Vancouver Expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what became the Canadian province of British Columbia and the…
1856–1925 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was also involved in land reform throughout the British Empire.
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century modern synthesis.
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Hermann Minkowski was a mathematician and professor at the University of Königsberg, ETH Zürich, and the University of Göttingen, described variously as German, Polish, Lithuanian-German, or Russian.
Hermann Minkowski, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt was a Prussian philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Lithographie von Friedrich Oldermann nach einem Gemälde von Franz Krüger (http://www.sammlungen.hu-berlin.de/dokumente/6, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bruno Latour was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist. He was especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS).
Don Miguel López de Legazpi, also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo, was a Spanish conquistador who financed and led an expedition to conquer the Philippine islands in the mid-16th century.
Celestí Sadurní i Deop, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alexander Britton Hume, known professionally as Brit Hume, is an American journalist and political commentator. He had a 23-year career with ABC News, where he contributed to World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Nightline, and This Week.
Credit: George Bush Presidential Library Foundation; Chandler Arden, Photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Norbert Elias was a German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes.
This page lists 51 people born on June 22, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. 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 June 22. Read the full methodology.
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