List of Famous people born on January 23rd

Kjell Norwood Lindgren is an American astronaut currently in the employ of NASA. Lindgren was selected in June 2009 as a member of the NASA Astronaut Group 20. He launched to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of Expedition 44/45 on 22 July 2015.

Lanei Chapman is an American actress. She has appeared primarily in guest appearances on episodes of various television series, and may be best known for the leading role as Lt. Vanessa Damphousse in the single 1995–96 season of the series Space: Above and Beyond.

Lester Horton was an American dancer, choreographer, and teacher.

Martin Mareš is a retired Czech cyclist.

Zoltán Gál is a Hungarian politician, who served as Interior Minister for a short time in 1990 before the first parliamentary elections. He was the Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary between 1994 and 1998. His son is Zoltán J. Gál former spokesman of the Hungarian Socialist Party government.

Robert N. Carson is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball for the New York Mets.

Lasse Lehtinen is a Finnish politician, former Member of the Finnish Parliament and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

José Arnoldo Alemán Lacayo is a Nicaraguan politician who served as the 81st President of Nicaragua from 10 January 1997 to 10 January 2002. In 2003, he was convicted of corruption and sentenced to a 20-year prison term, and Transparency International named him the ninth most corrupt leader in recent history. In 2009, those convictions were overturned, though these decisions remain controversial.

General Édouard Corniglion-Molinier was an aviator and member of the French Resistance, a member of the French government during the French Fourth Republic, and, in the 1930-1940s, a movie producer. He was a friend of Marcel Dassault and a cousin of Fred Vidal.