Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : May 23

Check all the award winners born on May 23.
BirthDate
Winner
23-May-1991

Lena Meyer-Landrut (Germany)

Lena Johanna Therese Meyer-Landrut, known professionally as Lena, is a German singer-songwriter...
23-May-1988

Bhama (India)

Bhama is an Indian film actress, who has mainly appeared in Malayalam and Kannada language...
23-May-1986

Ryan Coogler (United States of America)

Ryan Coogler is a screenwriter and a film director.
23-May-1974

Mellow Mark (Germany)

Mellow Mark, real name Mark Schlumberger, is a rap, reggae and soul musician.
23-May-1974

Mónica Naranjo (Spain)

Mónica Naranjo is a Spanish singer born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain of Andalusian parents. She...
23-May-1973

Maxwell (United States of America)

Gerald Maxwell Rivera, known as Maxwell is a Grammy award-winning American singer-songwriter,...
23-May-1972

Victor Espinoza (United States of America, Mexico)

Victor Espinoza is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. He began riding in his native...
23-May-1971

Laurel Holloman (United States of America)

Laurel Lisa Holloman is an American painter and actress. As an actress, Holloman is best known...
23-May-1970

Nanette Burstein (United States of America)

Nanette Burstein is an American film and television director. Burstein has produced, directed,...
23-May-1970

Simone Massi (Italy)

Simone Massi is a film director, film producer, screenwriter, animator and illustrator.
23-May-1970

John Solomon (United States of America)

John Solomon is an American comedian and writer. Solomon was born in Omaha, Nebraska, but grew...
23-May-1969

Jungmin Hwang (South Korea)

Jungmin Hwang is an actress.
23-May-1968

Guinevere Turner (United States of America)

Guinevere Turner is an actress, screenwriter, film director and film producer.
23-May-1968

John Ortiz (United States of America)

John Ortiz is an American actor and artistic director/co-founder of LAByrinth Theater Company.
23-May-1967

Rahman (India)

Rahman is an Indian film actor who has acted in Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu films. He made his...
23-May-1967

Sean Williams (Australia)

Sean Llewellyn Williams is a New York Times best selling science fiction author who lives in...
23-May-1966

Gordian Maugg (Germany)

Gordian Maugg is a film director, screenwriter and film producer.
23-May-1965

Tom Tykwer (Germany)

Tom Tykwer is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known...
23-May-1965

Paul Sironen (Australia)

Paul Sironen is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who was a prominent...
23-May-1963

Matthew Allwork (United Kingdom)

Matthew Allwork was a television camera operator.
23-May-1961

Sergio George (United States of America)

Sergio George is an American pianist arranger and record producer, known for working with many...
23-May-1960

Robert Hudson (United States of America)

Robert Hudson is a documentary filmmaker, born May 23, 1960 in Seattle, Washington. He won an...
23-May-1959

Krishna Das (India)

Krishna Das is a former Indian archer. Das represented India in the Asian Games in 1978 in...
23-May-1959

Bob Mortimer (United Kingdom)

Robert Renwick Mortimer is an English comedian and actor, who is best known for his double act...
23-May-1958

Lea DeLaria (United States of America)

Lea DeLaria is an American comedian, actress, and jazz musician. The "famously controversial"...
23-May-1958

Shelly West (United States of America)

Shelly West is an American country music singer. Her mother was the country music star Dottie...
23-May-1958

Drew Carey (United States of America)

Drew Allison Carey is an American actor, comedian, sports executive, and game show host. After...
23-May-1957

Dana Priest (United States of America)

Dana Louise Priest is an American journalist and writer. She has worked almost 20 years for The...
23-May-1957

Ursula M. Molter (Argentina)

Ursula M. Molter is a 2003 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
23-May-1956

Patricia McCormick (United States of America)

Patricia McCormick is an American journalist and writer of realistic fiction for young adults...
23-May-1956

Clare Cavanagh (United States of America)

Clare Cavanagh is a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
23-May-1955

Allen Barnett (United States of America)

Allen Barnett is a writer.
23-May-1955

Randy Graff (United States of America)

Randy Graff is an American actress.
23-May-1952

Chris Parry (United Kingdom)

Chris Parry was a theatrical lighting designer. He worked on several Broadway and West End...
23-May-1952

John Quiñones (United States of America)

Juan Manuel "John" Quiñones is an ABC News correspondent, and currently the host of Primetime:...
23-May-1951

Anatoly Karpov (Soviet Union, Russia)

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov, PhD is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He...
23-May-1951

Jim Ward (United States of America)

James M. Ward, is an American game designer and fantasy author. He is most well-known for his...
23-May-1950

Linda Thompson (United States of America)

Linda Diane Thompson is an American actress, lyricist and beauty pageant winner who rose to...
23-May-1947

Ann Hui (Hong Kong, Republic of China)

Ann Hui On-Wah, MBE is a Hong Kong actress, film director, film producer and occasional...
23-May-1947

Jane Kenyon (United States of America)

Jane Kenyon was an American poet and translator. Her work is often characterized as simple,...
23-May-1946

Padmarajan (India)

P. Padmarajan was an Indian author, screenwriter, and film director who was known for his...
23-May-1946

Gary Barnett (United States of America)

Gary Barnett is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Fort...
23-May-1945

Chandra Mohan (India)

Chandra Mohan is an actor.
23-May-1945

Roger Evans Howe (United States of America)

Roger Evans Howe is Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. He is well known for his...
23-May-1944

Ronald L. Schwary (United States of America)

Ronald L. Schwary is a film and television producer, an actor and a tv director.
23-May-1943

Lee Stanley (United States of America)

Lee Stanley is an actor, screenwriter, film producer and director.
23-May-1943

Romulus Whitaker (India)

Romulus Earl Whitaker is a herpetologist, wildlife conservationist and founder of the Madras...
23-May-1943

Manuel Antonio Garreton (Chile)

Manuel Antonio Garreton is a 1983 Guggenheim Fellow in Social Sciences.
23-May-1942

János Komlós (Hungary)

János Komlós is a Hungarian-American mathematician, working in probability theory and discrete...
23-May-1942

William A. Lundberg (United States of America)

William A. Lundberg is a 1981 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
23-May-1942

Robert G. Bergman (United States of America)

Robert G. Bergman is a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
23-May-1941

Martin Puryear (United States of America)

Martin Puryear is an African-American sculptor. He works in media including wood, stone, tar,...
23-May-1941

Rod Thorn (United States of America)

Rodney King "Rod" Thorn is an American basketball executive and a former player and coach.
23-May-1941

General Norman Johnson (United States of America)

General Norman Johnson was the frontman of Chairmen of the Board and an American rhythm and...
23-May-1939

Reinhard Hauff (Germany)

Reinhard Hauff is a German film director. His works, which were mostly carried out in the late...
23-May-1939

Robert Folkenflik (United States of America)

Robert Folkenflik is a 1979 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
23-May-1939

Michel Colombier (France)

Michel Colombier was a French composer, songwriter, arranger, and conductor. He wrote the scores...
23-May-1939

Stanley Plumly (United States of America)

Stanley Plumly is an American poet, who is professor of English and director of University of...
23-May-1938

Robert Watts (United Kingdom)

Robert Watts is a British film producer who is best known for his involvement with the Star Wars...
23-May-1938

Edem Kodjo (Togo)

Édouard Kodjovi Kodjo, better known as Edem Kodjo, is a Togolese politician and diplomat. He was...
23-May-1937

Toby Orenstein (United States of America)

Toby Orenstein is a theater director.
23-May-1936

Charles Kimbrough (United States of America)

Charles Kimbrough is an American actor known for having played the straight-faced anchorman Jim...
23-May-1936

Peter Parnall (United States of America)

Peter Parnall is an author and artist/illustrator, best known for his work on books for younger...
23-May-1935

Susan Cooper (United States of America, United Kingdom)

Susan Mary Cooper is an English-born American author of children's books. She is best known for...
23-May-1934

Robert Moog (United States of America)

Robert Arthur "Bob" Moog, founder of Moog Music, was an American pioneer of electronic music,...
23-May-1933

Joan Collins (United Kingdom)

Joan Henrietta Collins OBE, is an English actress, author and columnist. Born in Paddington,...
23-May-1933

Shin Bong-seung (South Korea)

Shin Bong-seung is a PaekSang Arts Award winning screenwriter.
23-May-1933

John Browning (United States of America)

John Browning was an American pianist known for his reserved, elegant style and sophisticated...
23-May-1933

John T. Kirk (United States of America)

John T. Kirk is a 1986 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
23-May-1931

Barbara Barrie (United States of America)

Barbara Barrie is an American actress and author of children's books.
23-May-1930

Charles Kelman (United States of America)

Charles D. Kelman was an ophthalmologist and a pioneer in cataract surgery. Kelman was born in...
23-May-1930

Miguel Ondetti (Argentina, United States of America)

Miguel Angel Ondetti was an Argentine-born American chemist who first synthesized captopril, the...
23-May-1929

Ulla Jacobsson (Sweden)

Ulla Jacobsson was a Swedish actress who is perhaps best known for playing the only female...
23-May-1929

Marvin J. Chomsky (United States of America)

Marvin J. Chomsky is an American television and film director. He has also worked as a producer.
23-May-1928

Howard Hibbard (United States of America)

Howard Hibbard is a 1965 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
23-May-1928

Rosemary Clooney (United States of America)

Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s...
23-May-1928

Mary Fickett (United States of America)

Mary Fickett was an American actress, best known for her roles in the American television...
23-May-1927

Gerald Hiken (United States of America)

Gerald Hiken is an actor.
23-May-1926

James Jack Gindin (United States of America)

James J. Gindin is a 1980 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
23-May-1926

James S. Kouvel (United States of America)

James S. Kouvel is a 1967 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences
23-May-1926

John Raymond Rowley (United States of America)

John Raymond Rowley was a 1965 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
23-May-1925

Warner R. Schilling (United States of America)

Warner Roller Schilling was an American political scientist and international relations scholar...
23-May-1925

Joshua Lederberg (United States of America)

Joshua Lederberg, ForMemRS was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial...
23-May-1924

Seymour Jonathan Singer (United States of America)

Seymour Jonathan Singer is a cell biologist and professor at the University of California, San...
23-May-1924

Bill McCutcheon (United States of America)

James William McCutcheon was an American character actor known for his roles in film,...
23-May-1924

Bette Henritze (United States of America)

Bette Henritze is an actress.
23-May-1923

Alicia de Larrocha (Spain)

Alicia de Larrocha i de la Calle was a Spanish pianist from Catalonia. One of the great piano...
23-May-1922

Gerald Holton (United States of America)

Gerald James Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of the...
23-May-1922

Esther M. Conwell (United States of America)

Esther Marley Conwell is a physicist who studied properties of semiconductors and organic...
23-May-1921

Grigory Chukhray (Soviet Union, Russia)

Grigori Naumovich Chukhrai was a prominent Soviet film director and screenwriter of Jewish and...
23-May-1921

James Blish (United States of America)

James Benjamin Blish was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote...
23-May-1919

Betty Garrett (United States of America)

Betty Garrett was an American actress, comedienne, singer and dancer who originally performed on...
23-May-1918

Walter Jackson Bate (United States of America)

Walter Jackson Bate was an American literary critic and biographer. He is known for Pulitzer...
23-May-1915

S. Donald Stookey (United States of America)

Stanley Donald Stookey is an American inventor. He has 60 patents in his name related to glass...
23-May-1912

Arnold M. Auerbach

Arnold M. Auerbach was an American comedy writer, especially for radio, television and...
23-May-1910

Artie Shaw (United States of America)

Artie Shaw was an American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. Also an author, Shaw wrote...
23-May-1910

Scatman Crothers (United States of America)

Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers was an American actor, singer, dancer and musician known for...
23-May-1909

William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle (United Kingdom)

William Philip Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, VC, KG, GCMG, GCVO, KStJ, PC, known as The Lord...
23-May-1908

John Bardeen (United States of America)

John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, the only person to have won the...
23-May-1905

Myra Keen (United States of America)

Myra Keen was an American malacologist and invertebrate paleontologist. She was an expert on the...
23-May-1903

Walter Reisch (Austria)

Walter Reisch was an Austrian-born director and screenwriter. He also wrote lyrics to several...
23-May-1898

Scott O'Dell (United States of America)

Scott O'Dell was an American author of 26 novels for young people, along with three novels for...
23-May-1891

Pär Lagerkvist (Sweden)

Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in...
23-May-1889

Mabel Walker Willebrandt (United States of America)

Mabel Walker Willebrandt, popularly known to her contemporaries as the First Lady of Law, was...
23-May-1883

Douglas Fairbanks (United States of America)

Douglas Fairbanks was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. He was best known...
23-May-1869

Hamilton Reed (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland)

Major General Hamilton Lyster Reed VC CB CMG, was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the...
23-May-1864

Arthur Smith Woodward (England)

Sir Arthur Smith Woodward FRS was an English palaeontologist.
23-May-1862

David George Hogarth (United Kingdom)

David George Hogarth was a British archaeologist and scholar associated with T. E. Lawrence and...
23-May-1856

Hermann Sahli (Switzerland)

Hermann Sahli was a Swiss internist who was a native of Bern. In 1878 he earned his doctorate...
23-May-1854

Edgar Fahs Smith (United States of America)

Edgar Fahs Smith was an American scientist who is best known today for his interests in the...
23-May-1847

Robert Etheridge, Junior

Robert Etheridge was a British palaeontologist who made important contributions to the...