List of Famous people who born in 1903

Cigerxwîn or Cegerxwîn was a renowned Kurdish author and poet. He is known to be one of the most influential Kurdish writers and poets in the Kurdistan region of the Middle East, and his work has been renewed for the creation of hundreds of songs and played a crucial role in the preservation of Kurdish cultural heritage.

Karl Streibel was the second and last commander of the Trawniki concentration camp – one of the subcamps of the KL Lublin system of Nazi concentration camps in occupied Poland during World War II.

Shikō Munakata was a woodblock printmaker active in Shōwa period Japan. He is associated with the sōsaku-hanga movement and the mingei movement. Munakata was awarded the "Prize of Excellence" at the Second International Print Exhibition in Lugano, Switzerland in 1952, and first prize at the São Paulo Bienal Exhibition in Brazil in 1955, followed by Grand Prix at the Venice Biennale in 1956, and the Order of Culture, the highest honor in the arts by the Japanese government in 1970.

Emilio Botín-Sanz de Sautuola López was a Spanish banker, the chairman of Santander Group from 1950 to 1986.

François Perroux was a French economist. He was named Professor at the Collège de France, after having taught at the University of Lyon and the University of Paris. He founded the Institut de Sciences Economiques Appliquées in 1944. He was an outspoken supporter of corporatism.

Soepomo was Indonesia's first Minister of Justice, serving in the Presidential Cabinet from 19 August to 14 November 1945 and from 20 December 1949 to 6 September 1950.

Tateo Katō was a Japanese ace army aviator, credited with at least 18 aerial victories and who was honored posthumously by an award of the Order of the Golden Kite.

Charlotte Ida Anna "Lotte" Stam-Beese was a German-Dutch architect and urban planner who helped with the reconstruction of Rotterdam after World War II.

Waldemar Hoven was a Nazi and a physician at Buchenwald concentration camp.

Aaron Siskind was an American photographer whose work focuses on the details of things, presented as flat surfaces to create a new image independent of the original subject. He was closely involved with, if not a part of, the abstract expressionist movement, and was close friends with painters Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, and Willem De Kooning.