List of Famous people born on February 23rd

Gorō Shimura was a Japanese mathematician and Michael Henry Strater Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University who worked in number theory, automorphic forms, and arithmetic geometry. He was known for developing the theory of complex multiplication of abelian varieties and Shimura varieties, as well as posing the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture which ultimately led to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

Christopher Dennis Dingell is an American former politician and current judge.

Sidney Dorsey is an American former law enforcement officer who served as Sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia from 1996 to 2000. Dorsey was the first African-American to serve as sheriff of DeKalb County. When he was defeated in a 2000 runoff election by challenger Derwin Brown, he arranged the murder of Brown.

Benjamin Henrichs is a German professional footballer who plays as a full-back or midfielder for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig.

Charles Anthony Tillman, nicknamed Peanut, is a former American football cornerback, who is currently a United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent. He played college football at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the second round of the 2003 NFL Draft.

Adnan Polat was born in Erzurum, in 1953. He graduated from Işık High School in 1971 and Long Island University Business Management department in 1976.

Sergey Rabchenko is a Belarusian professional boxer. He currently fights in the light middleweight division.

Cillian Sheridan is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Wisła Płock.

John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III was an American singer and guitarist. Winter was known for his high-energy blues rock albums and live performances in the late 1960s and 1970s. He also produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. After his time with Waters, Winter recorded several Grammy-nominated blues albums. In 1988, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and in 2003, he was ranked 63rd in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

Bernd Wiegand is a German independent politician. Until 2011, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He is the mayor of Halle (Saale) since 1 December 2012 after gaining 19.88% of the votes in the first round and 52.92% in the second round. On 27 October 2019, Wiegand was reelected after gaining 61.42% of the votes in the second round.