List of Famous people who born in 1922

Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov was a Soviet linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer, who is particularly renowned for the pivotal role his research played in the decipherment of the Maya script, the writing system used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.

Agnes Nixon was an American television writer and producer, and the creator of the ABC soap operas One Life to Live, All My Children, and Loving.

Boris Mikhailovich Sichkin was a Soviet film actor, dancer, choreographer, master conversational genre, composer.

Donald Lawrence Keene was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature. Keene was University Professor emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years. Soon after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, he retired from Columbia, moved to Japan permanently, and acquired citizenship under the name Kīn Donarudo . This was also his poetic nom de plume and occasional nickname, spelled in the ateji form 鬼怒鳴門.

Shin Kyuk-ho, known in Japan as Takeo Shigemitsu, was a Korean businessman known for being the founder of the South Korean conglomerate Lotte Corporation.

Kiyoshi Yamashita was a Japanese artist. He is famous for his wanderings throughout Japan, during which he often wore a sleeveless undershirt, garnering the nickname "The Naked General."

Martin Gray was a Holocaust survivor who emigrated to the West, and published books in French about his experiences during World War II, in which his family was killed in Poland.

Manolis Glezos was a Greek left-wing politician and folk hero, best known for his participation in the World War II resistance.

Margaret Field was an American film actress usually billed as Maggie Mahoney. The mother of actress Sally Field, she was best known for her work in two science-fiction films, The Man from Planet X (1951) and Captive Women (1952).

Sutoyo Siswomiharjo was an Indonesian general who was kidnapped and later murdered during the attempted coup by the 30 September Movement.