List of Famous people who born in 1922

Simon Li Fook-sean was a Hong Kong senior judge and politician.

Liu Huang A-tao was a Taiwanese activist. She was one of thousands of women from Japanese occupied Taiwan who were forced into sexual slavery as comfort women by the Japanese military during World War II. Liu Huang became the first Taiwanese woman to sue the Japanese government for compensation and a public apology in 1999, a move which united her with eight other comfort women survivors. Her public campaign and push for compensation earned her the nickname, Grandma A-tao.

Necdet Calp was a Turkish civil servant and politician.

Yvonne, Lady Cochrane was a Lebanese philanthropist, advocate of the arts and member of the Sursock family. She died on 31 August 2020 from injuries sustained in the Beirut explosion on 4 August 2020.

Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri was an Iranian Shia Islamic theologian, Islamic democracy advocate, writer and human rights activist. He was one of the leaders of the Iranian Revolution and one the highest-ranking authorities in Shīʿite Islam. In 1979, he became a former designated successor to the revolution's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, with whom he had a falling-out in 1989 over government policies that Montazeri claimed infringed on people's freedom and denied them their rights. Montazeri spent his later years in Qom and remained politically influential in Iran, but was placed in house arrest in 1997 for questioning "the unaccountable rule exercised by the supreme leader." He was known as the most knowledgeable senior Islamic scholar in Iran and a grand marja of Shia Islam.

Bi Pu, born Zhou Sunshan (Chinese:周素珊) was a Chinese writer and translator, who was born in Guangzhou and later based in Taiwan.

Sir Oswald Victor Cheung was a barrister in Hong Kong, known as the "doyen of the bar".

Fateh al-Moudarres (1922–1999) was a Syrian painter and one of the leaders of the modern art movement in Syria. Moudarres studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, where he was influenced by Surrealism. After he completed his studies, he returned to Syria where he grew and honed his skills under the auspices of long-time friend, mentor, and tutor Wahbi Al-Hariri.