March 23 is the birthday of 60 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, scientists and creators, and 2 of them are billionaires.
James Henry Clark is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist. He founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Netscape, myCFO, and Healtheon.
Share of the 60 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors27% (16 people)
Entrepreneurs25% (15 people)
Scientists22% (13 people)
Athletes20% (12 people)
Creators20% (12 people)
Actors18% (11 people)
Politicians13% (8 people)
Countries
26 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States19 (19 people)
Nigeria4 (4 people)
France3 (3 people)
Russia3 (3 people)
Spain3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Austria–Hungary2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on March 23 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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~20Kyrie IrvingReceived the NBA Rookie of the Year Award (2012)
Keri Lynn Russell is an American actress. Working mainly in dramatic television since the 1990s, she has received eight nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series.
Michelle Lynn Monaghan is an American actress. She has starred in the films Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), Gone Baby Gone (2007), Made of Honor (2008), Eagle Eye (2008), Trucker (2008), Source Code (2011), Pixels (2015) and Patriots Day (2016).
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Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was a German American aerospace engineer and space architect. He led the development of German rocket technology in World War II, during which time he became a member of the Nazi Party and later the Allgemeine SS.
Joan Crawford was an American actress. She began her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway. Crawford was signed to a motion-picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925.
George Hurrell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Rex Wayne Tillerson is an American energy executive and former diplomat who served as the 69th United States secretary of state from 2017 to 2018 in the first administration of Donald Trump. From 2006 to 2016, he was chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of ExxonMobil.
United States Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur. She is the executive chairperson and founder of Biocon Limited and Biocon Biologics Limited, a biotechnology company based in Bangalore, India and the former chairperson of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian was an Armenian-British businessman. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development and is credited with being the first person to exploit Iraqi oil.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Knyaz Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston was a Russian aristocrat from the House of Yusupov who is best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin and for marrying Princess Irina Alexandrovna, a niece of Emperor Nicholas II.
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Bette Nesmith Graham was an American inventor, entrepreneur, businesswoman, and philanthropist from the state of Texas. While working as a secretary in the 1950s, she developed the correction fluid known as Liquid Paper.
Kyrie Andrew Irving is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was named the Rookie of the Year after being selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the first overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft.
Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank, is a member of the British royal family. She is the younger daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson, and a niece of King Charles III.
Yvette Marie Stevens, known professionally as Chaka Khan, is an American singer and songwriter. Known as the "Queen of Funk", her career has spanned more than five decades beginning in the early 1970s as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus.
The Heart Truth, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jason Frederick Kidd is an American professional basketball coach and former player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest point guards of all time, Kidd was a 10-time NBA All-Star, a six-time All-NBA Team member, and a nine-time NBA All-Defensive Team member.
Keith Allison from Owings Mills, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Moses Eugene Malone Sr. was an American professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1974 through 1995.
Basketball_Legends.jpg: Cpl. Lameen Witter derivative work: JoeJohnson2 (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael Haneke is a German-born Austrian retired film director and screenwriter. His work often examines social issues and depicts the feelings of estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has been instrumental in the fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics, engineering, statistics, and philosophy.
Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States.
Jean-Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Major League Soccer club New York Red Bulls. Born in Germany, he plays for the Cameroon national team.
Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer best known for his Mars trilogy of novels. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes, featuring scientists as heroes.
Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi was a Soviet and later Swiss chess grandmaster and chess writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion.
Bart Molendijk / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
José Miguel González Martín del Campo, known as Míchel, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a right midfielder, currently a manager.
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José Victoriano González-Pérez, better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement's most distinctive.
Austin Cedric Gibbons was an American art director for the film industry. He also made a significant contribution to motion picture theater architecture from the 1930s to 1950s.
Macfadden Publications, Inc.; no photographer credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bethanie Mattek-Sands is an American inactive professional tennis player. She has won nine Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal, and is a former world No. 1 in doubles. She held the top ranking for 32 consecutive weeks.
Mehmet Ziya Gökalp was a Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and politician. After the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that reinstated constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire, he adopted the pen name Gökalp, which he retained for the rest of his life.
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Ama Ata Aidoo was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academician. She was the Secretary for Education in Ghana from 1982 to 1983 under Jerry Rawlings's PNDC administration.
RUTV Journalism Rhodes University, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lale Andersen was a German chanson singer-songwriter born in Lehe. She is best known for her interpretation of the song "Lili Marleen" in 1939, which by 1942 transcended the conflict to become World War II's biggest international hit.
Adrian Michael, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz was a Polish pharmacist, engineer, businessman, inventor, and philanthropist. He was one of the most prominent philanthropists in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, crown land of Austria-Hungary.
Andrzej Grabowski, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Josef Čapek was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and poet. He invented the word 'robot', which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek.
AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 60 people born on March 23, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 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 March 23. Read the full methodology.
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