List of Famous people born on July 15th
Michaela Polleres
Michaela Polleres is an Austrian judoka. In 2021, she won the silver medal in the women's 70 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She is also a bronze medalist at the 2021 World Judo Championships and the 2018 European Judo Championships.
Anas Urbaningrum
Anas Urbaningrum, is a former Indonesian politician who was the chairman of the Democratic Party, the party who won Indonesia's general election in 2009. Elected at the age of 40, he was one of the youngest party leaders in Indonesia. Before this, he was the head of the Democratic Party's national division on Political and Regional Autonomy, and also the head of the Democratic fraction in House of Representatives (DPR) of the Republic of Indonesia.
Enriqueta Basilio
Norma Enriqueta Basilio Sotelo, also known as Queta Basilio, was a Mexican track and field athlete. She was born in Mexicali, capital of Baja California. She came from an athletic family; her father was a cotton farmer. Her Polish coach, Vladimir Puzio, moved her from high jumping to hurdling. She made history by becoming the first woman to light the Olympic Cauldron. She was the last torch-bearer of the 19th Summer Olympics in Mexico City on 12 October 1968.
Chris Barnard
Christian Johan Barnard, known as Chris Barnard, was a South African author and movie scriptwriter. He was known for writing Afrikaans novels, novellas, columns, youth novels, short stories, plays, radio dramas, film scripts and television dramas.
Jasper Pääkkönen
Joona Jasper Pääkkönen is a Finnish film actor and entrepreneur.
Max von Oppenheim
Max (Freiherr) von Oppenheim was a German lawyer, diplomat, ancient historian, and archaeologist. He was a member of the Oppenheim banking dynasty. Abandoning his career in diplomacy, he discovered the site of Tell Halaf in 1899 and conducted excavations there in 1911-13 and again in 1927-1929. Bringing many of his finds to Berlin, he exhibited them in a private museum in 1931. This was destroyed by Allied bombing in World War II. However, most of the findings were recently restored and have been exhibited again at Berlin and Bonn.
Miho Karasawa
Miho Karasawa is a Japanese singer and lyricist from Tokyo who was previously signed to Horipro and is currently signed to Lantis. Since 2014, she has performed under the stage name True. She has performed theme songs for Violet Evergarden, Buddy Complex, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, Maria the Virgin Witch, and Sound! Euphonium, among others. Karasawa made her debut in 2000 with the release of the song "Anytime, Anywhere".
Ajla Del Ponte
Ajla Del Ponte is a Swiss sprinter. She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 2016 Summer Olympics and at the 2017 World Championships in London. She won the women's 60 metres at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships, doing so in a world leading time and equaling the Swiss record of 7.03 seconds. At the 2020 Summer Olympics she set a new national record for the 100 metres running 10.91 in the heats. On 14 August, she shaved a hundredth of a second off of her record, achieving a time of 10.90 at the 2021 Resisprint International.
Charbel Wehbe
Charbel Wehbe is a Lebanese politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants in the Cabinet of Hassan Diab from August 3, 2020 up to his resignation on May 19, 2021. He was appointed after the resignation of Nassif Hitti.
Vickiana
Ana Victoria García Pérez, known as Vickiana is a singer, vedette and television presenter. The producer and host of the television program "Vickiana, the forbidden" became very popular in music since 1980. A diabetic, she suffered a myocardial infarction in 1999 and a diabetic coma in 2011.