List of Famous people born on July 23rd

Marianne Gordon is an American actress and ex-wife of Kenny Rogers. Gordon and Rogers had one son together, Christopher Cody Rogers. Rogers and Gordon were married for 16 years, and during this time she took his name and thus is known as Marianne Rogers. Gordon's first husband was Playboy producer Michael Trikilis.

Raphaël Personnaz is a French actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films since 1998. He was awarded the Prix Patrick Dewaere in 2013.

Michael Mackintosh Foot was a British Labour Party politician who served as Labour Leader from 1980 to 1983. Foot began his career as a journalist on Tribune and the Evening Standard. He co-wrote the 1940 polemic against appeasement of Adolf Hitler, Guilty Men, under a pseudonym.

Ahmed Ezz Eldine Ali Ezzat, known professionally as Ahmed Ezz, is an Egyptian actor.

Donald Oliver Young Jr. is an American professional tennis player. As a junior he was ranked #1 in the world in 2005. As an adult, Young had a career-high ATP ranking of #38. His best performance in the Grand Slams was reaching the fourth round of the 2011 US Open, as well as the 2015 US Open.

Charles Voyde Harrelson was an American hitman and organized crime figure who was convicted of assassinating federal judge John H. Wood Jr., the first federal judge to be killed in the 20th century. Charles Harrelson was the father of actor Woody Harrelson.

Erik Ki La Salle, professionally known as Eriq La Salle, is an American actor, director, writer and producer known for his performances in the films Coming to America (1988) and especially as Dr. Peter Benton in the NBC medical drama ER which earned him three NAACP Image Awards and nominations for a Golden Globe Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards.

Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess player. She is generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time. Since September 2015, she has been inactive as a tournament player. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer. She was the youngest ever player to break into the FIDE top 100 players rating list, ranking No. 55 in the January 1989 rating list, at the age of 12. She is the only woman to be a serious candidate for the World Chess Championship, which she did in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005; she had previously participated in large, 100+ player knockout tournaments for the world championship. She is the first, and to date only, woman to have surpassed 2700 Elo, reaching a career peak rating of 2735 and peak world ranking of No. 8 in 2005. She is the only woman to be ranked in the top ten of all chess players, first reaching that ranking in 1996. She was the No. 1 rated woman in the world from January 1989 until her retirement on 13 August 2014.

Kōju Meguro , better known by his stage name Hiroki Matsukata , was a Japanese actor. He was the son of jidaigeki actor Jūshirō Konoe and actress Yaeko Mizukawa and has a younger brother, Yūki Meguro, who is also an actor. With ex-wife actress Akiko Nishina he had two children; son Masaki Nishina and daughter Hitomi Nishina are both in the entertainment industry.

Paweł Tomasz Wasilewski, known professionally as Paul Wesley and formerly as Paul Wasilewski, is an American actor and director. He is known for his lead role as Stefan Salvatore on the drama series The Vampire Diaries as well as his multiple film and television roles, including the anthology series Tell Me a Story.