List of Famous people who born in 1903
Hidesaburō Shōda
Hidesaburō Shōda was a Japanese businessman. He served as the president and later honorary chairman of Nisshin Seifun Group, the country's largest flour milling company. He was the father of the Empress Michiko and the maternal grandfather of the Emperor of Japan Naruhito. He was the third son of Teiichiro Shōda, the founder of the Nisshin Seifun Group. The Shōda family is prominent in both industrial and academic circles.
Lennox Berkeley
Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley was an English composer.
Sir Robert Cotts, 3rd Baronet
Louis Leakey
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow paleontologist Mary Leakey. Having established a program of palaeoanthropological inquiry in eastern Africa, he also motivated many future generations to continue this scholarly work. Several members of Leakey's family became prominent scholars themselves.
David Dawnay
Major-General Sir David Dawnay was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was also a British polo player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Claude Arrieu
Claude Arrieu was a prolific French composer. Claude Arrieu was the pseudonym used by Louise-Marie Simon.
Luther Adler
Luther Adler was an American actor best known for his work in theatre, but who also worked in film and television. He also directed plays on Broadway.
Robin Turton, Baron Tranmire
Robert Hugh Turton, Baron Tranmire, was a British Conservative Party politician.
John Davis Lodge
John Davis Lodge was an American lawyer, actor, politician, and diplomat. He was the 79th governor of Connecticut from 1951 to 1955, and later served as U.S. ambassador to Spain, Argentina, and Switzerland. As an actor, he often was credited simply as John Lodge. He had roles in four Hollywood films between 1933 and 1935, including playing Marlene Dietrich's lover in The Scarlet Empress and Shirley Temple's father in The Little Colonel. He starred or co-starred in many British and European films between 1935 and 1940.