List of people born at sea

This is a list of notable people born at sea.

Name	Description	Year
Louis Aldrich [ citation needed ]	American actor	1843
Charles George James Arbuthnot [ citation needed ]	British general	1801
Asmahan [1]	Syrian singer	1912
Charles Barbier de Meynard	French historian and orientalist	1826
Watson Cheyne, 1st Baronet [2]	British surgeon	1852
Westmoreland Davis [3]	Governor of Virginia	1859
Fausto Bordalo Dias	Portuguese singer	1947
Boyle Finniss [4]	First Premier of South Australia	1807
Itamar Franco [5]	Former President of Brazil	1930
John Paul Getty Jr.	British oil heir	1932
E. T. Hooley [6]	Australian explorer	1842
Oceanus Hopkins	Only child born on Mayflower voyage 1620	1620
Tommy Hughes [7]	Australian footballer	1886
Mary Jemison [8]	American frontierswoman	1743
Augustus D. Juilliard [9]	Founder of the Juilliard School	1836
Ivan Kelic [10]	Australian soccer player	1968
Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace	French navigator	1793
Francis Lathrop [11]	American artist	1849
Wyndham Lewis [12]	British painter	1882
René Maran	French poet	1887
Rio Antonio Mavuba [13]	French footballer	1984
James McGowen	Australian politician	1855
Sir Charles Monro, 1st Baronet	British Army officer	1860
Roy William Neill [14]	Film director	1887
Henry Orth [ citation needed ]	Architect	1866
John L. O'Sullivan	Irish-American columnist	1813
Reino Paasilinna [15]	Finnish politician	1939
Ed Porray [16]	American baseball player	1888
Stamford Raffles [17]	Founder of Singapore	1781
Charles E. de M. Sajous [18]	American endocrinologist and laryngologist	1852
Ignatius Sancho [19]	British abolitionist	c. 1729
Jack Soo	American actor	1917
Jane Maria Strachey	British suffragist	1840
Ralph Webb [ citation needed ]	Canadian politician	1886
William Wentworth [20]	Australian explorer and politician	1790
Moses O. Williamson [21]	American politician	1850
Arthur Windsor [22]	Australian journalist	1833
Simon van der Stel	First Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony	1639

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