List of Famous people who born in 1903

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Caspar John GCB was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as First Sea Lord from 1960 to 1963. He was a pioneer in the Fleet Air Arm and fought in the Second World War in a cruiser taking part in the Atlantic convoys, participating in the Norwegian campaign and transporting arms around the Cape of Good Hope to Egypt for use in the western desert campaign. His war service continued as Director-General of Naval Aircraft Production, as naval air attaché at the British embassy in Washington D.C. and then as Commanding Officer of two aircraft carriers. He went on to serve as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in the early 1960s. In that capacity he was primarily concerned with plans for the building of the new CVA-01 aircraft-carriers.

Rudolf Albert Hamburger was a German Bauhaus-inspired architect. Many of his most important commissions were undertaken in Shanghai where he lived and worked between 1930 and 1936. Late in 1930 his wife was recruited to work for Soviet intelligence: he supported her espionage related activities in various practical ways till their divorce in 1939, after which he became involved with spying for the Soviets on his own account.

Mykola Filaretovich Kolessa was a Ukrainian composer and conductor, born in Sambir near Lviv.

Roger Kemble Furse was an English painter who worked as a costume designer and production designer for both stage and film.

Trudi Schoop was a Swiss dancer who pioneered the treatment of mental illness with dance therapy.

Pierre-Henri Simon was a French intellectual, literary historian, essayist, novelist, poet, and literary critic. He won the Prix Ève Delacroix in 1963