List of Famous people who born in 1923

George Basil Hume, OSB was an English Roman Catholic bishop. He was a monk and priest of the English Benedictine monastery of Ampleforth Abbey and its abbot for 13 years until his appointment as Archbishop of Westminster in 1976. His elevation to cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church followed during the same year. From 1979, Hume served also as President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales. He held these appointments until his death from cancer in 1999. His final resting place is at Westminster Cathedral in the Chapel of St Gregory and St Augustine.

Madeline Lee Gilford was an American film and stage actress and social activist, who later enjoyed a career as a theatrical producer. Gilford was married, secondly, to actor Jack Gilford from 1949 until his death in 1990.

Catherine Gide was a French writer and editor. She was the daughter of André Gide and Elisabeth van Rysselberghe, daughter of Théo van Rysselberghe.

Sulamith Goldhaber (Hebrew: שולמית גולדהבר‎; November 4, 1923 – December 11, 1965) was a high-energy physicist and molecular spectroscopist. Goldhaber was a world expert on the interactions of K⁺ mesons with nucleons and made numerous discoveries relating to it.

Vladimir Gelfand was a diarist and Soviet soldier in World War II.

Judith Josephine Grossman, who took the pen-name Judith Merril around 1945, was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist, and one of the first women to be widely influential in those roles.