List of Famous people born in July

Deysi Estela Cori Tello is a Peruvian chess player, who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and a three-time American Continental women's champion. At junior level, she was twice world champion and six-time Pan American champion in her age girls category. Cori is the top ranked female player of Peru and has played for the national team of her country in the Women's Chess Olympiad since 2004. She competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013 and 2015, and in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2017.

Karen Hassan is an Northern Irish actress, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. From 2010 until 2013 she played Lynsey Nolan in the main series of Hollyoaks. Her work includes roles in Hollyoaks Later and Hunger.

Angela Denise Trimbur is an American actress, writer, dancer, and choreographer.

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist in the English language. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first sub-Saharan African to be honoured in that category. Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family in Abeokuta. In 1954, he attended Government College in Ibadan, and subsequently University College Ibadan and the University of Leeds in England. After studying in Nigeria and the UK, he worked with the Royal Court Theatre in London. He went on to write plays that were produced in both countries, in theatres and on radio. He took an active role in Nigeria's political history and its struggle for independence from Great Britain. In 1965, he seized the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service studio and broadcast a demand for the cancellation of the Western Nigeria Regional Elections. In 1967, during the Nigerian Civil War, he was arrested by the federal government of General Yakubu Gowon and put in solitary confinement for two years.

Luis Enrique "Neco" Martínez Rodríguez, is a retired Colombian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is nicknamed "Neco" for the town of his birth.

Campbell Scott is an American actor, director, producer, and voice artist. His roles include George Tunner in The Sheltering Sky, Steve Dunne in Singles, Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz in Royal Pains, Mark Usher in House of Cards, Joseph Tobin in Damages, and Richard Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, as well as numerous stage appearances.

Helmut Kämpfe was a highly decorated Waffen SS Sturmbannführer who was murdered by the French Resistance just before the Oradour massacre in occupied France on 10 June 1944. In total 642 men, women and children were killed in Oradour-sur-Glane by troops from the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. The SS commander who ordered the massacre said the death of Kämpfe was the reason for the killings.

Kate Dickie is a Scottish actress who has appeared in television series, stage plays and films. She is known for her television roles as Lex in the BBC series Tinsel Town (2000–2001) and Lysa Arryn in the HBO series Game of Thrones. She supports the theatre company Solar Bear, which is known for its collaborations with deaf people, in part through her role as a patron.

Dominic Keating is a British television, film and theatre actor, known for his portrayals of Tony in the Channel 4 sitcom Desmond's and Lieutenant Malcolm Reed on Star Trek: Enterprise.

Vaughn Dale Armstrong is an American actor. He is noted for portraying many characters in the Star Trek franchise, across all Star Trek television series except the original, Star Trek: Discovery, and Star Trek: Picard. He is perhaps best known as the recurring character Admiral Maxwell Forrest in Star Trek: Enterprise. At the time of a 2003 interview, he had played eleven Star Trek characters.