List of Famous people who born in 1922

Joshua Itzhak Feldman, known professionally as Jerry Fielding, was an American jazz musician, arranger, band leader, and film composer who emerged in the 1960s after a decade on the blacklist to create boldly diverse and evocative Oscar-nominated scores, primarily for gritty, often brutally savage, films in western and crime action genres, including the Sam Peckinpah movies The Wild Bunch (1969) and Straw Dogs (1971).

Luiz Floriano Bonfá was a Brazilian guitarist and composer. He was best known for the compositions he penned for the film Black Orpheus.

Riccardo Fellini was an Italian film actor. He also worked as a director on documentaries for RAI. He was the brother of the director Federico Fellini and starred in his 1953 film I Vitelloni. His younger sister was the actress Maddalena Fellini.

Marcello Ciorciolini was an Italian screenwriter, director, playwright, television and radio author and lyricist.

Federico O. Escaler, S.J. was a Filipino Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

John Lawrence May was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Mobile (1969–1980) and Archbishop of St. Louis (1980–1992).

Paulo Nogueira Neto was a Brazilian environmentalist. He headed the first federal environmental agency in Brazil, the forerunner of today's Ministry of the Environment, and was a member of the United Nations Brundtland Commission on the Environment and Development. He had a major influence on Brazil's environmental legislation.