List of Famous people born on April 15th

Chen Kuan-jen is a Taiwanese professional baseball player who is currently a free agent.

Fulgence Fresnel was a French Orientalist. He was brother to physicist Augustin Fresnel (1788–1827) and is noted as an Orientalist scholar who led one of the first archaeological teams to excavate in Mesopotamia.

Herbert Alfred Henry Vaughan was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1892 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1893. He was the founder in 1866 of St Joseph's Foreign Missionary College, known best as the Mill Hill Missionaries. He also founded the Catholic Truth Society and St. Bede's College, Manchester. As Archbishop of Westminster, he led the capital campaign and construction of Westminster Cathedral.

John Munro Longyear, Sr. was an American businessman and noted developer of timber and mineral lands in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan who became the central figure behind the Arctic Coal Company, which surveyed and mined coalfields on Spitsbergen, now Svalbard, from 1905 to 1916. This company developed a settlement on Spitsbergen able to accommodate up to around 500 people which became known as Longyear City, now Longyearbyen, adjacent Advent Bay.

Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798–1852) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.

Charles Herbert Allen was an American politician and businessman. After serving in state and federal elected positions, he was appointed as the first United States-appointed civilian governor of Puerto Rico when the U.S. acquired it after the Spanish–American War. He previously had served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President William McKinley.

Heinrich Kley was a German illustrator, editorial illustrator and painter.