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Famous people born on August 24
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 24 include Jorge Luis Borges (1899), Paulo Coelho (1947), Sauli Niinistö (1948) and Rupert Grint (1988). Our list below has 100 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 24 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1591 (Robert Herrick) and the most recent is 2001 (Seiji Kimura). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on August 24?
- Jorge Luis Borges 1899 Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator
- Paulo Coelho 1947 Brazilian lyricist and novelist
- Sauli Niinistö 1948 Finnish politician and the 12th President of Finland
- Rupert Grint 1988 English actor
- Jean-Michel Jarre 1948 French composer, performer and record producer
- Fernand Braudel 1902 French historian and leader of the Annales School
- Marlee Matlin 1965 American actress
- Stephen Fry 1957 British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
- John Green 1977 American author and vlogger
- Maya Yoshida 1988 Japanese association football player
- William I of the Netherlands 1772 King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg 1815-1840
- A. S. Byatt 1936 British writer
- Ferdinand I of Romania 1865 King of Romania (1865–1927; ruled 1914–1927)
- Howard Zinn 1922 American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker
- Karen Uhlenbeck 1942 American mathematician
- Orson Scott Card 1951 American science fiction novelist
- William Wilberforce 1759 English politician and abolitionist
- Ferhat Abbas 1899 Algerian politician, President of Provisional Government of Algeria, president of the…
- Ahmadou Ahidjo 1924 President of Cameroon
- Chad Michael Murray 1981 American actor
- Vince McMahon 1945 American professional wrestling promoter
- Robert Enke 1977 German footballer
- Tsutomu Hata 1935 80th Prime Minister of Japan
- Harry Markowitz 1927 American economist
- Mike Huckabee 1955 Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007
- Takuya Yamada 1974 Japanese association football player
- Hideo Kojima 1963 Japanese video game designer
- Maria-Letizia Bonaparte 1750 Mother of Napoleon
- Dave Chappelle 1973 American comedian and actor
- Elizabeth Debicki 1990 Australian actress
- Reggie Miller 1965 American basketball player
- Kim Källström 1982 Swedish association football player
- José Bosingwa 1982 Portuguese association football player
- Jared Harris 1961 British actor
- Jean Rhys 1890 British novelist
- Anne Archer 1947 American actress
- Marsha P. Johnson 1945 Black American queer liberation activist
- Matías Vecino 1991 Uruguayan footballer
- Hans Vanaken 1992 Belgian footballer
- Guido Alvarenga 1970 Paraguayan association football player
- Anna Lee Fisher 1949 American astronaut
- Denílson de Oliveira 1977 Brazilian footballer
- Steve Guttenberg 1958 American actor
- Léo Ferré 1916 French-born Monégasque poet and singer
- Ali Smith 1962 British author and journalist
- David Koechner 1962 American actor and comedian
- Ava DuVernay 1972 American film director
- Max Beerbohm 1872 English writer
- Grey DeLisle 1973 American voice actress and singer-songwriter
- Georg Nagel 1953 German biophysicist, botanist, university teacher and Nobel laureate
- Mary Ellen Weber 1962 American astronaut
- Gregory Jarvis 1944 American astronaut
- Joe Manchin 1947 American politician and businessman
- Alex O'Loughlin 1976 Australian film and television actor
- Ken Hensley 1945 British singer and guitarist
- Dana Gould 1964 American stand-up comedian
- Duke Kahanamoku 1890 American swimmer, surfer and actor
- Takashi Miike 1960 Japanese film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor
- Tina Trstenjak 1990 Slovenian judoka
- Karoline Leavitt 1997 American writer and political aide
- Kenny Baker 1934 British actor and musician
- Graham Sutherland 1903 English artist
- Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur 1603 Khan of Khiva from 1643 to 1663
- Michael Redd 1979 American basketball player
- Robert Herrick 1591 English poet and cleric
- Prince Philippe, Count of Paris 1838 Prince of France
- Salizhan Sharipov 1964 Russian cosmonaut
- James Weddell 1787 British Antarctic explorer
- Erik Pontoppidan 1698 Danish author, bishop, historian and antiquary
- Siaka Stevens 1905 Prime Minister of Sierra Leone
- Tugay Kerimoğlu 1970 Turkish association football player and manager
- Ronee Blakley 1945 Actress, singer
- James D'Arcy 1975 British actor
- Alexander McCall Smith 1948 British writer
- Jennifer Lien 1974 American actress
- Alice Bradley Sheldon 1915 American science fiction writer
- Christine Chubbuck 1944 American television news reporter
- Orlando Engelaar 1979 Dutch footballer
- Inge de Bruijn 1973 Dutch swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder
- Anders Bardal 1982 Norwegian ski jumper
- Lewis Ferguson 1999 Scottish association football player
- Steven Lindsey 1960 American astronaut
- Leandro Domingues 1983 Brazilian association football player
- Jemerson 1992 Brazilian footballer
- Kevin Dunn 1956 American actor
- Roger De Vlaeminck 1947 Belgian cyclist
- Cormac Murphy-O'Connor 1932 Catholic cardinal
- Yan Lianke 1958 Chinese novelist and satirist
- Karl Hanke 1903 German general and last Reichsführer-SS
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir 1963 Icelandic writer
- Fabio Pecchia 1973 Italian association football player and manager
- Seiji Kimura 2001 Japanese association football player
- Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan 1895 1st Yang Di-Pertuan Agong
- Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal 1855 Austrian and Portuguese royal
- Jürgen Macho 1977 Austrian association football player
- Pierfrancesco Favino 1969 Italian actor
- Alessandro Marcello 1673 Italian composer
- René Lévesque 1922 Québécois politician and journalist
- Marc Hirschi 1998 Swiss cyclist
- Todd Young 1972 United States Senator from Indiana
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 24 share the 24th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.