List of Famous people who born in 1922

Ivry Gitlis was an Israeli virtuoso violinist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. He performed with the world's top orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

Bennie Jean Porter was an American film and television actress. She was notable for her roles in The Youngest Profession (1943), Bathing Beauty (1944), Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945), Till the End of Time (1946), Cry Danger (1951), and The Left Hand of God (1955).

Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham was the American maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. She and her husband Stanley Armour Dunham raised Obama from age ten in their Honolulu apartment, where on November 2, 2008, she died two days before her grandson was elected President.

Yumeji Tsukioka was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in more than 150 films between 1940 and 1994. She starred in the film The Temptress and the Monk, which was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival. Her husband was the director Umetsugu Inoue.

Michel Auclair was an actor of Serbian and French ancestry, known best for his roles in French cinema.

Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi, known professionally as Maila Nurmi, was a Finnish-American actress and television personality who created the campy 1950s character Vampira.

Sheila Beryl Grant Attenborough, Lady Attenborough, known professionally by her maiden name Sheila Sim, was an English film and theatre actress. She was the wife of the actor, director and peer Richard Attenborough.

Katharina Focke was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth from 1972 to 1976.

Selma Engel-Wijnberg was one of only two Dutch Jewish Holocaust survivors of the Sobibor extermination camp. She escaped during the 1943 uprising, hid in Poland, and survived the war. Engel-Wijnberg immigrated to the United States from Israel with her family in 1957, settling in Branford, Connecticut. She returned to Europe again only to testify against the war criminals of Sobibor. In 2010 she was in the Netherlands to receive the governmental honor of Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau.

Robert Henry De Niro, better known as Robert De Niro Sr., was an American abstract expressionist painter and the father of actor Robert De Niro.