Famous People Born on April 23
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- Sven Kramer (1986) — Dutch speed skater (born 1986)
- Guy Simonds (1903) — Canadian general (1903–1974)
- Stephen A. Douglas (1813) — American politician and lawyer (1813–1861)
- Gail Goodrich (1943) — American basketball player (born 1943)
- Avram Davidson (1923) — American writer (1923–1993)
- Wei Yuan (1794) — Chinese philosopher and major reformist thinker
- Oleg Penkovsky (1919) — British spy in the USSR (1919–1963)
- Ivo Lola Ribar (1916) — Yugoslav communist politician and military leader
- Unity Dow (1959) — Motswana politician, writer, and human rights activist (born 1959)
- Alexandra Kosteniuk (1984) — Russian-Swiss chess grandmaster (born 1984)
- Claude Julien (ice hockey) (1960) — Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- William Shakespeare (1564) — English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
- Andruw Jones (1977) — Curaçaoan baseball player (born 1977)
- Matt Freeman (1966) — American bassist (born 1966)
- Judy Davis (1955) — Australian film, television, and stage actress (born 1955)
- E. B. Ford (1901) — British ecological geneticist (1901–1988)
- Blair Brown (1946) — American actress (born 1946)
- Alistair Brownlee (1988) — English triathlete (born 1988)
- J. P. Donleavy (1926) — Novelist, playwright, essayist
- Neville Brody (1957) — British graphic designer
- Michael Copps (1940) — U.S. Federal Communications Commission
- George Lopez (1961) — American comedian, actor (born 1961)
- Paavo Lipponen (1941) — Prime minister of Finland from 1995 to 2003
- Jan Hooks (1957) — American actress and comedian (1957–2014)
- Barry Hawkins (1979) — English snooker player (born 1979)
- James Anthony Froude (1818) — English historian, novelist and biographer (1818–1894)
- Joan of France, Duchess of Berry (1464) — Queen of France in 1498
- Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (1947) — Irish socialist and republican political activist (born 1947)
- Aaron Dessner (1976) — American musician (born 1976)
- Bertil Ohlin (1899) — Swedish economist, politician, and Nobel Laureate (1899–1979)