List of Famous people born on August 22nd

Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction.

Colm Joseph Feore is an American-Canadian actor. A 13-year veteran of the Stratford Festival, he is best known for his Gemini-winning turn as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the television miniseries Trudeau, and his performance as Glenn Gould in Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, as well as roles such as Detective Martin Ward in Bon Cop, Bad Cop, Lord Marshal Zhylaw in The Chronicles of Riddick, Pope Julius II on The Borgias, Laufey in Thor, First Gentleman Henry Taylor on 24, General Ted Brockhart on House of Cards, Declan Gallard on 21 Thunder, Sir Reginald Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy, and Wernher von Braun in For All Mankind. He is a Prix Iris and Screen Actors Guild Award winner and a Genie Award nominee.

Theodor Detmers was the commanding officer of the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.

Benoît Violier was a French-Swiss chef.

Olga Constantinovna of Russia was Queen of the Hellenes as the wife of King George I. She was briefly the regent of Greece in 1920.

Jonathan Morris is an American author, actor, commentator on religious matters in the media who has been a Fox News contributor and analyst since 2005. He is a founding partner of Morris and Larson Advisors (www.morrisandlarson.com) where he advises some of the most influential business leaders in America. He formerly served in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York as a priest. In 2019, he requested dispensation from the clerical state.

James Curtis DeBarge is an American R&B/soul singer. DeBarge was one of the members of the singing family vocal group DeBarge, who became famous with their mid-1980s songs "All This Love", "Love Me in a Special Way", "Rhythm of the Night", and "Who's Holding Donna Now".

Tyler Gerald Burrell is an American actor and comedian. He originally rose to prominence in several roles on Broadway including Macbeth, and the off-Broadway plays Corners, The Blue Demon, Burn This, and Show People. Burrell is best known for his role as Phil Dunphy in the ABC sitcom Modern Family, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2011 and 2014 and five Screen Actors Guild Awards: one for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series in 2013 and four consecutive awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series shared with the cast from 2011 to 2014.

Stephen James Ireland is an Irish former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

Gorch Fock was the pseudonym of the German author Johann Wilhelm Kinau. Other pseudonyms he used were Jakob Holst and Giorgio Focco.