March 22 is the birthday of 48 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, actors, creators and authors, and 4 of them are billionaires.
Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth was a Thai billionaire businessman of Chinese descent, surgeon, and the founder and owner of Bangkok Dusit Medical Services, Thailand's largest private healthcare group, and a regional airline, Bangkok Airways.
Horst Paulmann Kemna was a German-Chilean billionaire businessman. He was the founder and chairman of Cencosud, the largest retail chain in Chile and the third largest in Latin America.
$2.1Bolder estimate, as of September 2015 · Forbes
Forrest Lee Preston is an American billionaire businessman. He is the founder, owner, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Life Care Centers of America, a long-term elderly care company that he founded in 1970.
Dmitry Aleksandrovich Pumpyansky is a Russian billionaire businessman. He was the owner and chairman of OAO TMK, a Russian global manufacturer of steel pipes for the oil and gas industry. As of August 2022, his net worth was estimated at US$2.0 billion.
Share of the 48 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs33% (16 people)
Actors31% (15 people)
Creators31% (15 people)
Authors27% (13 people)
Musicians23% (11 people)
Scientists17% (8 people)
Politicians13% (6 people)
Countries
22 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States18 (18 people)
France3 (3 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
India2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Turkey2 (2 people)
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Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon is an American actress and producer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.
Keegan-Michael Key is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. He and Jordan Peele co-created and co-starred in the sketch series Key & Peele (2012–2015) for which he received one Primetime Emmy Award from ten nominations.
Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson was an American media mogul, televangelist, political commentator, presidential candidate, and charismatic movement-affiliated minister.
Paparazzo Presents, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Andrews Millikan was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect."
Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Burton Richter was an American physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by Samuel Ting for which they won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976.
Burton_Richter_NSF.jpg: NSF derivative work: Materialscientist (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Anthony Michael Fadell is an American engineer, designer, entrepreneur, and investor. He was senior vice president of the iPod division at Apple Inc. and founder and former CEO of Nest Labs.
OFFICIAL LEWEB PHOTOS, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Karl Christian Friedrich Pfizer, known as Charles Pfizer, was a German-American businessman and chemist who co-founded the Pfizer pharmaceutical company with his cousin, Charles F. Erhart, in 1849, as Chas. Pfizer & Co. Inc.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Øystein Aarseth, better known by his stage name Euronymous, was a Norwegian musician and a founder of and central figure in the early Norwegian black metal scene.
Jessie Andrews is an American actress, fashion designer, and model. Starting out as a pornographic film actress, she received an AVN Award for Best Actress for her performance in Portrait of a Call Girl (2011).
Ferruccio Novo was an Italian association football player, coach, and sports manager, who played as a defender. He was the president of the Grande Torino.
RamblerBiondo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kirill Nikolayevich Shamalov is a Russian businessman, the ex-husband of Katerina Tikhonova and the ex-son-in-law of the Russian president Vladimir Putin. He was the former economic advisor to the Russian government.
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway.
PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Yayoi Kusama was a Japanese contemporary artist who worked primarily in sculpture and installation. She was also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts.
Stephen Joshua Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th-century theater, he is credited with reinventing the American musical.
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
James Brendan Patterson is an American author. Among his works are the Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Women's Murder Club, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, NYPD Red, Witch & Wizard, Private and Middle School series, as well as many stand-alone thrillers, non-fiction, and romance novels.
Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lena Maria Jonna Olin is a Swedish actress. She has received nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Karl Malden was an American stage, movie and television actor who first achieved acclaim in the original Broadway productions of Arthur Miller's All My Sons and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire in 1946 and 1947.
Karl's friend Barry Iddon, Variety Club of Great Britain, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George Washington Benson is an American jazz fusion guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He began his professional career at the age of 19 as a jazz guitarist.
Abolhassan Banisadr was an Iranian politician, writer, and political dissident who served as the first president of Iran following the Iranian Revolution, holding office from 1980 until his impeachment in 1981.
Marcel Marceau was a French mime artist and actor most famous for his stage persona, "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence", performing professionally worldwide for more than 60 years.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels, though he called his work "frontier stories". His most widely known Western fiction works include Last of the Breed, Hondo, Shalako, and the Sackett series.
Thomas J. Kravitz, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Angelo Daniel Badalamenti was an American composer and arranger best known for his film music, notably the scores for his collaborations with director David Lynch, including Blue Velvet (1986), Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), The Straight Story (1999), and Mulholland Drive (2001).
Lafayette High School, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant is a French actress and film director. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two César Awards and a Lumière Award.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pilar Juliana "Pia" Schramm Cayetano, also known as Pia Compañera Cayetano, is a Filipino politician, lawyer, economist, and television host serving as a senator since 2019, a position she previously held from 2004 to 2016.
Office of Senator Pia Cayetano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Teuku Zakaria bin Teuku Nyak Puteh, better known by his stage name P. Ramlee, was a Malaysian actor, filmmaker, musician, and composer. Born in Penang, Malaya, he is regarded as a prominent icon in Southeast Asia.
Uncredited; likely a studio photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Schildkraut was an Austrian-American actor. He won an Oscar for his performance as Captain Alfred Dreyfus in the film The Life of Emile Zola (1937).
Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Fatih Birol is a Turkish economist and energy expert, who has served as the executive director of the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) since 1 September 2015.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), on behalf of the International Energy Agency (IEA); photo, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi was an Italian actor, voice actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, radio personality and television presenter.
Gorup de Besanez, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Piotr Artur Trochowski is a German former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. According to his 2010 FIFA World Cup profile he is a playmaker known for "his speed, agility, tricky dribbling and refined technique."
Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor, and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period.
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Solomon Lew is an Australian businessman. His principal commercial activities involve importing apparel, toys and other goods into Australia from China and investments, mainly in retail companies.
Mubariz Mansimov is an Azerbaijani businessperson who is the founder of Palmali Group of Companies, a shipping company, as well of the Azerbaijani football club Khazar Lankaran. He became a naturalized Turkish citizen in 2006.
This page lists 48 people born on March 22, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 4 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 April 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 March 22. Read the full methodology.
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