List of Famous people who born in 1923

Lindsay Gordon Anderson was a British feature-film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading-light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave. He is most widely remembered for his 1968 film if...., which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival in 1969 and marked Malcolm McDowell's cinematic debut. He is also notable, though not a professional actor, for playing a minor role in the Academy Award-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. McDowell produced a 2007 documentary about his experiences with Anderson, Never Apologize.

General Zulkifli Lubis was Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Army from 8 May 1955 to 26 June 1955 and founder and first Chairman of the first Intelligence Agency in Indonesia.

Booth Colman was an American film, television and stage actor. In his later years he played older authority figures, such as doctors and lawyers. Colman appeared in films since 1952, when he debuted (uncredited) in The Big Sky directed by Howard Hawks.

Clorindo Manuel José Testa was an Italian-Argentine architect and artist.

Carmen Filpi was an American actor who starred in films and on television.

Terry Haass (1923-2016) was a Czechoslovak-born French artist known for her printmaking, painting, and sculpture.

Dame Jean Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott, DCVO was the Laird and Chatelaine of Abbotsford which she and her elder sister, Patricia Maxwell-Scott, opened to the public, restored to its former glory, and ran for nearly five decades. She was the great-great-great-granddaughter of the novelist Sir Walter Scott, and on her death was his last direct descendant to live in Abbotsford. She was lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, from 1959 to 2004.

Waldyr Calheiros Novaes, was a Brazilian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.