List of Famous people born on April 22nd

Surendra Mohan Ghose was a member of Jugantar party during Indian independence and close associate of Sarat Chandra Basu,Maharaj Trailokyanath Chakraborty and an Indian Politician. He was elected to the lower House of Parliament the Lok Sabha from Malda, West Bengal as a member of the Indian National Congress. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India representing West Bengal.

Eleazar Wheelock was an American Congregational minister, orator, and educator in Lebanon, Connecticut, for 35 years before founding Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He had tutored Samson Occom, a Mohegan who became a Presbyterian minister and the first Native American to publish writings in English. Before founding Dartmouth, Wheelock had founded and run the Moor's Charity School in Connecticut to educate Native Americans. The college was primarily for the sons of American colonists.

Yuriy Ivanovich Venelin was a Rusyn slavist, folklorist, ethnographer and philologist best known for his research on the language, history and culture of Bulgaria and its people.

William King, was an Anglo-Irish geologist at Queen's College Galway. He was the first to propose that the bones found in the German valley of Neanderthal in 1856 were not of Homo sapiens, but of a distinct species: Homo neanderthalensis. He proposed the name of this new species at a meeting of the British Association in 1863, with the written version published in 1864.

Hieronymus Dungersheim or Dungersheym von Ochsenfart(1465, Ochsenfurt – 1540) was a German Catholic theologian and controversialist (skeptic). A professor of the University of Leipzig, he was an early opponent of the Lutherans there.

Alexander von Winiwarter was an Austrian-Belgian surgeon who was a native of Vienna. He was the brother of physician Felix von Winiwarter (1852-1931).