List of Famous people born on August 22nd

Manolache Costache Epureanu (1823–1880) was twice the Prime Minister of Romania as a representative of the Conservative Party: in 1870 and in 1876.

Carl Richard Mann was an American rockabilly singer and pianist.

Horst Skoff was a professional tennis player from Austria, who won four tournaments at the top-level.

Ysaora Thibus is a French foil fencer. She won a silver medal in team foil at the 2012 European Fencing Championships in Legnano, Italy and a bronze medal in individual foil at the 2013 European Fencing Championships in Zagreb.

Malin Crépin, is a Swedish actress. She has starred in several movies. She became best known for her role in the Swedish film series A Case for Annika Bengtzon.

Valentin Nikolayevich Pluchek was a Russian theatre director. He is known as a stage director of the Physical Culture Day parade in Moscow during the Stalinist epoch. The Physical Culture Day took place each summer at central squares of major Soviet cities.

Sam Chan Yu-sum is a Hong Kong actor working for TVB. He made his acting career debut in TVB's Hearts Of Fencing in 2003. His father, Shek Sau, also works for TVB. Over the years he was mostly shadowed by his father's fame and only known as Shek Sau's son on screen. In 2005, they appeared in a cooking show together for a Father's Day promotion.

Takashi Uemoto is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.

Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan was a Turkish poet.

Jan Křen was a Czech historian, academic, dissident during Czechoslovakia's communist era, and a Charter 77 signatory. He specialized in the study of Czech-German relations.