List of Famous people born on March 22nd

Adam Sedgwick was a British geologist and priest, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Cambrian and Devonian period of the geological timescale. Based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata, he proposed the Cambrian period in 1835, in a joint publication in which Roderick Murchison also proposed the Silurian period. Later in 1840, to resolve what later became known as the Great Devonian Controversy about rocks near the boundary between the Silurian and Carboniferous periods, he and Murchison proposed the Devonian period.

Egan Chambers was a Canadian politician.

George Byrd was an American conductor. During the 1980s he performed mainly in Germany.

Robert Henry Halfon is a British Conservative Party politician, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Harlow since 2010.

Roger Blin was a French actor and director notable for staging world premieres of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1953 and Endgame in 1957.