Famous People Born on May 23

• Carey, Drew (1958)

  The star of TV's The Drew Carey Show

• Clooney, Rosemary (1928)

  Co-star of the 1954 movie White Christmas

• Collins, Joan (1933)

  Ageless star of TV's Dynasty

• Fuller, Margaret (1810)

  The feminist who wrote 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century'

• Jennings, Ken (1974)

  The man who won 74 straight times on Jeopardy! and then became its host

• Jewel (1974)

  The singer of the hit "You Were Meant For Me"

• Linnaeus, Carl (1707)

  The botanist who was the "father of taxonomy"

• Mesmer, Franz Anton (1734)

  18th century healer and showman

• Monaco, Kelly (1976)

  Samantha "Sam" McCall on General Hospital

• Moog, Robert (1934)

  The guy who invented the Moog synthesizer

• Shaw, Artie (1910)

  The clarinet-playing big band leader who recorded Begin the Beguine

See also: Died on May 23