List of Famous people born on May 22nd
Salvo
Salvatore Mangione, known as Salvo, was an Italian artist who lived and worked in Turin.
Anique Poitras
Anique Poitras was an award-winning writer in Quebec, Canada, whose work was aimed mostly at adolescent readers.
Irina Kolpakova
Irina Alexandrovna Kolpakova is a Russian ballerina.
Georges Rol
Georges Rol was a Roman Catholic bishop.
Arthur Cravan
Arthur Cravan was a Swiss writer, poet, artist and boxer. He was the second son of Otho Holland Lloyd and Hélène Clara St. Clair. His brother Otho Lloyd was a painter and photographer married to the Russian émigré artist Olga Sacharoff. His father's sister, Constance Mary Lloyd, was married to Irish poet Oscar Wilde. He changed his name to Cravan in 1912 in honour of his fiancée Renée Bouchet, who was born in the small village of Cravans in the department of Charente-Maritime in western France.
Tranquillo Barnetta
Tranquillo Barnetta is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Ismet Akpinar
İsmet Akpınar is a Turkish-German professional basketball player for Fenerbahçe of the Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL) and the EuroLeague.
Pedro Diniz
Pedro Paulo Falleiros dos Santos Diniz is a Brazilian businessman and former racing driver.
Willie Chan
Willie Chan Chi-Keung was a Malaysian-born Hong Kong film producer and talent manager. He is best known for helping to establish the career of Jackie Chan, serving as his manager and later as the actor’s producing partner in both Asia and North America. He also managed the career of singer-rapper and actor Edison Chen.
Sheu Yuan-dong
Sheu Yuan-dong was a Taiwanese politician who served as the 15th governor of Taiwan's central bank from 1995 until his death in 1998. Born in then-Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Sheu attended Taipei City Success High School and graduated from the Department of Political Science at the National Taiwan University. He held senior positions in Taiwan's financial sector. On 16 February 1998, he was killed in the crash of China Airlines Flight 676 along with his wife, Huang Mian-mei, and three other officials of the central bank.