List of Famous people born on February 22nd

Lionel James Sanders is a Canadian professional triathlete and the winner of the 2017 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships. In 2017 he also placed second at the Ironman World Championship. In 2014 he placed fourth in the 2014 Ironman 70.3 World Championship held in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. Sanders's first professional race was in September 2013 at the Muskoka Ironman 70.3, where he took 1st place over Andreas Raelert.

Yuri Danilochkin is a Belarusian alpine skier. He has competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Carl Gröpler was Royal Prussian executioner from 1906 to 1937. Responsible for carrying out capital punishment in the Prussian provinces, he executed a total of at least 144 people, primarily by beheading with an axe, but also with guillotines. Gröpler was one of the most famous executioners in Germany.

Işıl Alben is a Turkish professional basketball player for Botaş SK, who is often considered to be among the top Turkish female athletes. She was the captain of the team that won the EuroLeague title in 2014.

Euclid Kiriakovich Kyurdzidis, Euclid Gurdjiev is a Russian actor, best known for his role as Ruslan Shamayev in Voyna. He was born to ethnic Greek parents in Yessentuki, Stavropol Krai. He has two brothers and an older sister.

Ernst Huberty is a German sports journalist.

Carlos Ángel Peguero D'Oleo is a Dominican professional baseball left fielder who is currently a free agent. He signed with the Seattle Mariners as an international free agent on January 20, 2005, with whom he made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut in 2011, and has played in MLB for the Kansas City Royals, Texas Rangers and Boston Red Sox. He has also played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) for the LG Twins.

Masaharu Nakagawa is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Meguro, Tokyo and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he worked at the Ministry of Finance from 1969 until 2001. He was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2004.

Fele Martínez is a Goya Award-winning Spanish actor.

Kei Tani was a Japanese comedian, actor and musician. Born in Tokyo, he learned to play the trombone and, while a student at Chuo University, began playing in jazz bands performing for American soldiers during the Occupation of Japan. He quit university and joined the City Slickers with Frankie Sakai in 1953. In 1956, he joined the comic-jazz band The Crazy Cats with Hajime Hana and Hitoshi Ueki. He came to fame when the Crazy Cats started appearing on television, especially through their variety show "Shabondama Holiday," and in movies, through comedy series such as the "Irresponsible" (Musekinin) series at Toho. Some of his nonsense one-word gags such as "gachon" became buzzwords imitated throughout the nation. He also appeared alone in dramatic roles on film and television, was a regular in the "Tsuribaka Nisshi" film series, and continued to be a popular figure on variety TV.