List of Famous people born on August 22nd
Taurean Prince
Taurean Waller-Prince is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Baylor Bears. He was drafted by the Utah Jazz with the 12th pick in the 2016 NBA draft but was traded to the Atlanta Hawks where he played for three seasons before being traded to the Brooklyn Nets in the 2019 off-season. In January 2021, he was traded to the Cavaliers.
Raúl Lavié
Raúl Lavié nickname El Negro, is an Argentine entertainer prominent in the Tango genre.
Tommy Norman
Tommy Norman is a longtime patrolman/officer who has worked for the North Little Rock Police Department since 1998. Norman has received national attention for his actions concerning the people of his community, most notably his charitable actions toward the youth within his jurisdiction.
Margaret Chan
Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, is a Chinese-Canadian physician, who served as the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) delegating the People's Republic of China for 2006–2017. Chan has previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government (1994–2003), representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza and WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases (2003–2006). In 2014, Forbes ranked her as the 30th most powerful woman in the world. In early 2018 she joined the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
Denis Papin
Denis Papin FRS was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.
Darla K. Anderson
Darla Kay Anderson is an American film producer who formerly worked at Pixar Animation Studios. She sits on the national board of directors for the Producers Guild of America.
Mitchell Langerak
Mitchell James Langerak is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for J1 League club Nagoya Grampus.
Raymonde de Laroche
Raymonde de Laroche, is thought to be the first woman to pilot a plane. She did become the world's first licensed female pilot on 8 March 1910.
Huang Chao-shun
Huang Chao-shun is a member of the Kuomintang (KMT) who is in the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan.
Ilkka Laitinen
Ilkka Pertti Juhani Laitinen was a Finnish military officer, who served as the lieutenant general and the Chief of the Finnish Border Guard from 2018 to 2019. He was the first Executive Director of Frontex, the European Union’s border protection agency, from 2005 until 2014.