ADAM RIPPON is an American figure skater born on this date. He won the 2010 Four Continents Championships and the 2016 U.S. National Championships. Earlier in his career, he won the 2008 and 2009 World Junior Championships, the 2007–2008 Junior Grand Prix Final, and the 2008 U.S junior national title. Rippon was selected to represent the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics, Rippon won a bronze medal as part of the figure skating team event. Later that year, he won season 26 of Dancing with the Stars with professional dancer Jenna Johnson. Rippon announced his retirement from competitive figure skating in November 2018. He was included in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2018.

In October 2015, Rippon publicly came out as gay. In March 2018, Rippon appeared at the 90th Academy Awards red carpet wearing a harness designed by Moschino.

In his memoir Beautiful on the Outside, Rippon revealed that, before coming out as gay, he briefly dated South Korean Olympic champion Yuna Kim while both were training in Toronto. Rippon and his husband, Jussi-Pekka Kajaala, were married in December 2021. The two met on Tinder in 2018.