List of Famous people born on November 22nd
Taha Akgül
Taha Akgül is an Olympic, World and European champion Turkish freestyle wrestler competing in the 125 kg division. He is a student of physical education and sports at the Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University in Karaman.
Maria do Rosário
Maria do Rosário Nunes is a Brazilian teacher and politician. She graduated in pedagogy from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and took a postgraduate degree at the University of São Paulo. As of 2012 she has served as the Secretary for Human Rights under the Rousseff administration.
Charlotte von Lengefeld
Charlotte Luise Antoinette von Schiller was the wife of German poet Friedrich Schiller.
Yasser Al-Masri
Yasser Al-Masri was a Kuwaiti-born Jordanian-Palestinian actor.
Milan Bandić
Milan Bandić is a Croatian politician who is serving his sixth term as mayor of the Croatian capital, Zagreb, since 2005. Between 2000 and 2009, he was a prominent member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). In 2007, he unsuccessfully ran for party president. However, he remained one of the main rivals of the former party president Zoran Milanović. On 5 November 2009, he announced his intention to run for a president, in violation of the party's bylaws which led to his expulsion from the party. On 10 January 2010, he lost the Croatian presidential election to the official SDP candidate Ivo Josipović in the runoff elections.
Wiley Post
Wiley Hardeman Post was a famed American aviator during the interwar period and the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Also known for his work in high-altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the first pressure suits and discovered the jet stream. On August 15, 1935, Post and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when Post's aircraft crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska.
Maria Toorpakay
Maria Toorpakai Wazir is a professional Pakistani squash player. She dressed like a boy for the first 16 years of her life in order to participate in competitive sports as a Muslim girl, using the name Genghis Khan, fully supported by her Muslim parents.
Fusajiro Yamauchi
Fusajirō Yamauchi was a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the company that is now known as Nintendo. Yamauchi lived in Kyoto, Japan and had a wife and a daughter, Tei Yamauchi, who later married Sekiryo Kaneda.
Chase Carey
Chase Carey is an Irish-born American executive. He is the chief executive officer and executive chairman of the Formula One Group. He has previously worked for News Corp, DIRECTV, 21st Century Fox and Sky plc.
Dwight McNeil
Dwight James Matthew McNeil is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for Premier League club Burnley.