List of Famous people born on June 23rd
Homiyu Tesfaye
Homiyu Tesfaye Heyi is an Ethiopian-German middle- and long-distance runner.
Katsuhiro Maeda
Katsuhiro Maeda is a former Japanese professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
DJ Antoine
Antoine Konrad, better known as DJ Antoine, is a Swiss House DJ, record producer and lifestyle entrepreneur from Basel, Switzerland. He has a number of successful single and album releases in Western Europe, in particular Switzerland, Germany and France.
Hannes Wader
Hannes Wader is a German singer-songwriter ("Liedermacher"). He has been an important figure in German leftist circles since the 1970s, with his songs covering such themes as socialist and communist resistance to oppression in Europe and other places like Latin America. He both wrote new songs and played versions of older historical works.
Urs Jaeggi
Urs Jaeggi is a Swiss sociologist, painter, and author. From 1964 to 1993, he was a Professor of Sociology and Social Philosophy in Bern, Bochum, New York, and Berlin. He published numerous novels, short stories, essays as well as scientific books. He won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1981. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions since 1985. Presently he lives in Berlin and Mexico City.
Yann Tiersen
Yann Tiersen is a French musician and composer. His musical career is split between studio albums, collaborations and film soundtracks. His music involves a large variety of instruments; primarily the guitar, piano, synthesizer or violin together with instruments like the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, accordion and typewriter.
Carmona Rodrigues
António Pedro Nobre Carmona Rodrigues, grand-nephew of Óscar Carmona, is a university professor and a Portuguese politician. He was mayor of Lisbon, and Minister of Public Works, Transportation and Habitation and the Minister of Cities in the 15th Constitutional Government of Portugal.
Alvin Cheng
Alvin Cheng Kam-mun, also known as "Brother Four Eyes", is a Hong Kong political activist, a member of Civic Passion, and founder of student activist organization Student Front. In 2014, he led a rally in support of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement during the G20 Brisbane summit.
Inna Shevchenko
Inna Shevchenko is a feminist activist and the leader of international women's movement FEMEN, which often demonstrates topless against what they perceive as manifestations of patriarchy, especially dictatorship, religion, and the sex industry. Shevchenko has a higher profile than the other members of the group. She was the leader of the three FEMEN activists reputedly kidnapped and threatened by the Belarus KGB in 2011. She achieved attention in Ukraine by cutting with a chainsaw and then bringing down a 4-metre high Christian cross in central Kyiv in 2012.
Midori Ishii
Midori Ishii is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A graduate of Tsurumi University, she was elected for the first time in 2007.