List of Famous people born on August 22nd
Adrien Regattin
Adrien Daniel Karoly Regattin is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays for Turkish club Altay. He made one appearance for the Morocco national team in 2012.
Ihor Voronchenko
Ihor Oleksandrovych Voronchenko is a Ukrainian Vice Admiral and a former commander of the Ukrainian Navy.
Aleksandr Dvornikov
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Dvornikov is a Russian Ground Forces army general and a Hero of the Russian Federation.
Thomas E. Lovejoy
Thomas E. Lovejoy, "the Godfather of Biodiversity", is President of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and university professor in the Environmental Science and Policy department at George Mason University. Lovejoy was the World Bank's chief biodiversity advisor and the lead specialist for environment for Latin America and the Caribbean as well as senior advisor to the president of the United Nations Foundation. In 2008, he also was the first Biodiversity Chair of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment to 2013. Previously he served as president of the Heinz Center since May 2002. Lovejoy introduced the term biological diversity to the scientific community in 1980. He formerly was chair of the Scientific Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) for the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the multibillion-dollar funding mechanism for developing countries in support of their obligations under international environmental conventions.
Jack Dunphy
John Paul Dunphy was an American novelist and playwright, and partner of American author Truman Capote.
Jorma Sarvanto
Jorma Kalevi Sarvanto was a Finnish Air Force pilot and the foremost Finnish fighter ace of the Winter War.
Ivan Isakov
Ivan Stepanovich Isakov (Armenian: Հովհաննես Իսակով, Russian: Иван Степанович Исаков;, born Hovhannes Ter-Isahakyan, was a Soviet Armenian military commander, Chief of Staff of the Soviet Navy, Deputy USSR Navy Minister, and held the rank of Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union. He played a crucial role in shaping the Soviet Navy, particularly the Baltic and Black Sea flotillas during the Second World War. Aside from his military career, Isakov became a member and writer of the oceanographic committee of the Soviet Union Academy of Sciences in 1958 and in 1967, became an honorary member of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic's Academy of Sciences.
Sophia Tolstaya
Countess Sophia Andreyevna Tolstaya, was a Russian diarist, and the wife of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.
Ary Toledo
Ary Christoni de Toledo Piza, commonly known as Ary Toledo, is a Brazilian humorist, singer, lyricist and actor.
Gaile Lok
Gaile Lai, born Lai Ga Yi on 22 August 1980, better known as Gaile Lok, is a Hong Kong actress and model. She was born in Macau to a Chinese father and a Vietnamese mother. Gaile studied in the United States.