List of Famous people born on September 23rd

Kensei Nakashima is a Japanese football player who plays as a midfielder for FC Gifu in J3 League having previously represented Yokohama F. Marinos.

Joseph Jonathan Riggs is an American professional mixed martial artist. A professional competitor since 2001, Riggs formerly competed for the UFC, WEC, Strikeforce, Bellator, ProElite, M-1 Global, and King of the Cage. Riggs is the former WEC Middleweight Champion.

Dessie Ellis is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-West constituency since the 2011 general election. He was a member of Dublin City Council from 1999 to 2011.

Alexander Valeryevich "Sasha" Kharlamov a Russian former ice hockey player. Kharlamov was selected in the first round of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft by the Washington Capitals, though he never played in the National Hockey League. He instead spent his career between Russia and the minor leagues of North America, and ultimately retired in 2004. Internationally he played for the Russian national junior team at the 1994 and 1995 World Junior Championships. Kharlamov was also the son of Soviet player Valeri Kharlamov.

Hicham Boudaoui is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for OGC Nice in the Ligue 1 and the Algeria national football team.

Mohamed Hassanein Heikal was an Egyptian journalist. For 17 years (1957–1974), he was editor-in-chief of the Cairo newspaper Al-Ahram and was a commentator on Arab affairs for more than 50 years.

Suzanne Tamim was a Lebanese singer who rose to fame in the Arab world after winning the top prize in the popular Studio El Fan television show in 1996. She was murdered in Dubai in July 2008. She was born and raised in a Sunni Lebanese family.

Herta-Maria Perschy was an Austrian actress whose career included performances on screen with actor Rock Hudson and on American television in both daytime and prime time.

Junichi Okayama , better known as Jin Shirosaki , is a Japanese entertainer and radio personality who is represented by the talent agency, Sun Music.

Paul Ryan was an American comic artist. Ryan worked extensively for Marvel Comics and DC Comics on a number of super-hero comic book titles. He is best known for his 1991 to 1996 run as penciler on Fantastic Four, which represents his longest association with an individual comic book series. From 2005 until his death in 2016, Ryan penciled and inked the daily newspaper comic strip The Phantom for King Features Syndicate.