List of Famous people who born in 1923
Saif Ahmad Al Ghurair
Saif Ahmad Al Ghurair was an Emirati billionaire businessman, CEO of the Dubai-based Al-Ghurair Group, a large company in the UAE's real estate and manufacturing sectors. His Saif Al Ghurair family owns and leads the different business units of the group.
Robert Boscawen
Robert "Bob" Thomas Boscawen was a British Conservative politician. He was the last member of the House of Commons to hold a Military Cross for action during the Second World War.
Hanzade Sultan
Hanzade Sultan was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk, the son of last caliph of the Abdulmejid II and Şehsuvar Hanım. Her mother was Sabiha Sultan, daughter of Sultan Mehmed VI and Nazikeda Kadın.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Elizabeth Jane Howard, was an English novelist, author of 12 novels including the best-selling series The Cazalet Chronicles.
Menachem Elon
Menachem Elon was an Israeli jurist and Professor of Law specializing in Mishpat Ivri, an Orthodox rabbi, and a prolific author on traditional Jewish law (Halakha). He was the head of the Jewish Law Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Prince Nikita Romanov
Prince Nikita Nikitich Romanov was a British born, American historian and writer, author of a book about Ivan the Terrible. He was a member of the Romanov family, a son of Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia and a great nephew of Nicholas II of Russia, the last Tsar.
Captain Edward de Lérisson Cazenove
Lowell Thomas Jr.
Lowell Thomas Jr. was an American politician and film producer who collaborated with his father, the accomplished reporter and author Lowell Thomas, on several projects before becoming an Alaskan state senator in the early 1970s, and later the lieutenant governor of Alaska (1974–1978). In the 1980s, he owned and operated Talkeetna Air Taxi, an Alaska bush flying service.
Mitsuo Kagawa
Mitsuo Kagawa was a Japanese archaeologist and a professor at Beppu University in Ōita Prefecture, Japan. He committed suicide by hanging himself on March 9, 2001 as a result of the Japanese Paleolithic hoax.
Laurie Topp
Lawrence Robert Topp was an English footballer who represented Great Britain at the 1952 Summer Olympics and 1956 Summer Olympics. Topp played as an amateur for Hendon, and represented the England amateur national team. He made his debut for Hendon in 1944 and remained a regular in the side until his retirement at the end of the 1960–61 season. He won three Athenian league titles with the club and scored in the final of the 1960 FA Amateur Cup when Hendon beat Kingstonian 2–1 at Wembley.