List of Famous people who born in 1923

Ziba Pasha qizi Ganiyeva was sniper in the Red Army during World War II credited with 21 kills. After the war she became a philologist.

Raden Ayu Siti Hartinah was the wife of the second Indonesian president, Suharto and former First Lady of Indonesia from 1967 until 1996. She is usually known as Ibu Tien to Indonesians, but is also known as Siti Hartinah Soeharto.

Serafima Kholina was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. She graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1949. She made her film debut in the 1950 film Dream of a Cossack. She is most known as host of the fashion show in the film The Diamond Arm. Kholina received several awards.

Eva Maria Meineke was a German actress. She appeared in more than one hundred films from 1942 to 2008, including Yesterday Girl and Something for Everyone.

Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov was a Soviet/Russian Army general and politician, best known for being one of the planners and leaders of the Soviet–Afghan War, as well as one of the instigators of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.

Pierre Barillet was a French playwright.

Joel Franklin LeBaron was a Mormon fundamentalist leader in northern Mexico. He was murdered by a member or members of a rival church which was headed by his brother Ervil LeBaron.

Calvin Forrest Quate was one of the inventors of the atomic force microscope. He was a professor emeritus of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

Samuel Willenberg, nom de guerre Igo, was a Polish Holocaust survivor, artist, and writer. He was a Sonderkommando at the Treblinka extermination camp and participated in the unit's planned revolt in August 1943. While 300 escaped, about 79 were known to survive the war. Willenberg reached Warsaw where, before war's end, he took part in the Warsaw Uprising. At his death, Willenberg was the last survivor of the August 1943 Treblinka prisoners' revolt.

Gerhard Wimberger was an Austrian composer and conductor.