List of Famous people who born in 1923

Giulia Maria Crespi was an Italian media proprietor. She was a non-profit executive and environmentalist, founder of Fondo Ambiente Italiano. She became Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Alina Janowska was a Polish actress. She appeared in more than 35 films and television shows between 1946 and 2017.

Kornél Pajor was a Hungarian speed skating World Champion. He was born in Budapest.

Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet was a British writer and politician, notably concerned with planning and conservation. As a Labour minister, he was responsible for setting up the Department of the Environment and the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. Later he joined the SDP. He lost his seat in the Lords, following the House of Lords Act 1999.

Devan Nair Chengara Veetil, also known as C. V. Devan Nair, was a Malaysian–Singaporean politician. He served as the third President of Singapore and the commander-in-chief of the Singapore Armed Forces serving a three-year term from 23 October 1981 to 28 March 1985.

Albert Florent Augustin Decourtray S.T.D. was a French Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon.

Joe Hyams was an American Hollywood columnist and author of bestselling biographies of Hollywood stars.

Gerhard Albert Baum, better known as Gregory Baum, was a German-born Canadian priest and theologian in the Roman Catholic Church. He became known in North America and Europe in the 1960s for his work on ecumenism, interfaith dialogue, and the relationship between the Catholic Church and Jews. In the later 1960s, he went to the New School for Social Theory in New York and became a sociologist, which led to his work on creating a dialogue between classical sociology and Christian theology.