List of Famous people born on May 22nd
Lina Ben Mhenni
Lina Ben Mhenni was a Tunisian Internet activist, blogger and lecturer in linguistics at Tunis University. She was internationally recognised for her work during the 2011 Tunisian revolution and in the following years.
Candide Thovex
Candide Thovex is a French professional skier, filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is notable for his creative freestyle skiing movies and professional accomplishments. He first caught the attention of the world of outdoor and action sports by jumping Chad's Gap, a massive transfer jump of 120 feet (37 m) from take-off to landing over a 40 feet (12 m) deep gully in Alta, Utah, US. His point of view videos routinely go viral on the internet and are viewed by millions. He is widely considered to be one of the best freeskiers in the history of the sport.
Daria Usacheva
Daria Romanovna Usacheva is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2021 Skate America silver medalist.
Fiona Gélin
Fiona Gélin is a French actress.
Santana Garrett
Santana Garrett is an American professional wrestler, valet and model, currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the NXT brand. During her career, Garrett has wrestled in many independent promotions. She also performed in Impact Wrestling under the ring name Brittany. She has won many titles, national and international, such as the SHINE Championship, the SHINE Tag Team Championship and the Wonder of Stardom Championship.
Bassel Khartabil
Bassel Khartabil, also known as Bassel Safadi, was a Palestinian Syrian open-source software developer. On 15 March 2012, the one-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising, he was detained by the Syrian government at Adra Prison in Damascus. Between then and 3 October 2015, he had been transferred to an unknown location, probably to be judged by a military court. On 7 October 2015, Human Rights Watch and 30 other human rights organizations issued a letter demanding that Khartabil's whereabouts be disclosed. On 11 November 2015, rumors surfaced that Khartabil had been secretly sentenced to death. In August 2017, his wife made public that Khartabil had been executed by the Syrian government shortly after his disappearance in 2015.
Annabel Chong
Grace Quek, stage name Annabel Chong, is a retired Singaporean-born American pornographic film actress who became famous after starring in an adult film that was promoted as The World's Biggest Gang Bang. The film was commercially successful and started a trend of "record-breaking" gang bang pornography. Four years later, Chong was the subject of the documentary Sex: The Annabel Chong Story, in which she was interviewed about her pornography career. Academically gifted, she majored in Fine Arts and subsequently qualified in web applications development, before retiring from the adult industry completely in 2003.
Tom Chambers
Thomas Stuart Chambers is an English actor, known for his role as Sam Strachan in the BBC medical dramas Holby City and Casualty and as Max Tyler in BBC drama series Waterloo Road. He also won the sixth season of Strictly Come Dancing with his partner Camilla Dallerup.
Samuel Chukwueze
Samuel Chimerenka Chukwueze is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays for Villarreal CF and the Nigeria national team as a winger.
Don Estelle
Don Estelle was a British actor and singer, best known as Gunner "Lofty" Sugden in It Ain't Half Hot Mum.