List of Famous people born on August 22nd
Demet Mutlu
Demet Mutlu is a Turkish tech entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Trendyol group, based in Turkey. She is an investor and co-founder in Peak Games, a gaming platform co-founded by Sidar Şahin that has more than 30 million monthly users. She has been a speaker at conferences including TechCrunch, Davos World Economic Forum, Financial Times Summit, Noah and Fortune.
Zheng Shuang
Zheng Shuang is a Chinese actress. She rose to fame with her role as Chu Yuxun in Meteor Shower (2009–2010), becoming the youngest actress to be nominated for Best Actress at the China TV Golden Eagle Award. In 2016, she starred in the hit romance comedy drama Love O2O.
Tamori
Kazuyoshi Morita , known by his stage name Tamori (タモリ), is a Japanese television celebrity. Known for his trademark dark sunglasses, Tamori is one of the "big three" television comedians in Japan along with Takeshi Kitano and Sanma Akashiya. For more than 30 years he hosted Waratte Iitomo!, a nationally televised live show broadcast every weekday at noon from October 1982 until March 2014. His likeness is the basis for the Piranha Plant in All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is an English actor, director, and former fashion model known for his roles as Simon Adebisi in Oz, Nykwana Wombosi in The Bourne Identity, Kurse in Thor: The Dark World, Killer Croc in Suicide Squad, Mr. Eko in Lost, Malko in the fifth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones, and Dave Duerson in the NFL biopic drama Concussion.
Pavitra Punia
Neha Singh, better known by her stage name Pavitra Punia, is an Indian television actress. She is known for portraying Geet Dhillon in Love u Zindagi. She participated in Splitsvilla 3. She also played Simran Ahluwalia in Sawaare Sabke Sapne... Preeto and Paulomi Roy in Naagin 3. She has also worked in Honge Judaa Naa Hum as Anushka. Kavach... Kaali Shaktiyon Se as Ritu, Chandrika in Daayan. She is best known for playing an evil queen named Timnasa in the popular Sony SAB sitcom Baalveer Returns. She was a contestant of Bigg Boss Season 14.
Chiranjeevi
Chiranjeevi is an Indian film actor and former politician. He served as the Minister of State with independent charge for the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India from 27 October 2012 to 15 May 2014. Known for his breakdancing skills, Chiranjeevi starred in over 150 feature films, primarily in Telugu, in addition to Tamil, Kannada, and Hindi languages. In a film career spanning thirty-nine years, he won three Andhra Pradesh State Nandi Awards, a Raghupathi Venkaiah Award, and nine Filmfare Awards South. In 2006, he was honored with the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award, for his contributions to Indian cinema and was presented with an honorary doctorate from Andhra University.
David Reimer
David Reimer was a Canadian man born male but reassigned female and raised as a girl following medical advice and intervention after his penis was severely injured during a botched circumcision in infancy.
Monta Mino
Monta Mino , born Norio Minorikawa , is a Japanese television presenter. Mino is recognized by the Guinness World Records as being the TV host with the most hours of live TV appearances in a week, as of April 2008. This breaks his earlier 2006 record of 21 hours, 42 minutes.
David Dellinger
David T. Dellinger was an American radical pacifist and an activist for nonviolent social change. He achieved peak prominence as one of the Chicago Seven, who were put on trial in 1969.
Adam Thielen
Adam John Thielen is an American football wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Minnesota State and signed with the Vikings as an undrafted free agent in 2013. Thielen holds several NFL records, including eight straight games over 100+ yards receiving, and 74 receptions in the first half of a season.