Famous birthdays
Famous people born on December 24
Short answer
Well-known people born on December 24 include James Prescott Joule (1818), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Ilham Aliyev (1961) and Hamid Karzai (1957). Our list below has 88 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 24 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1588 (Constance of Austria) and the most recent is 1998 (Alexis Mac Allister). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, singer.
Who was born on December 24?
- James Prescott Joule 1818 English physicist and brewer
- Adam Mickiewicz 1798 Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, and political activist
- Ilham Aliyev 1961 President of Azerbaijan since 2003
- Hamid Karzai 1957 President of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014
- Tarja Halonen 1943 President of Finland from 2000 to 2012
- Ava Gardner 1922 American actress
- Emanuel Lasker 1868 Greman chess player, World Chess champion
- Empress Elisabeth of Austria 1837 Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from 1854 to 1898
- Dima Bilan 1981 Russian pop singer
- Stephenie Meyer 1973 American author
- Selim III 1761 28th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Matthew Arnold 1822 British poet and cultural critic
- Stjepan Mesić 1934 2nd President of the Republic of Croatia
- Lemmy 1945 British rock musician
- George I of Greece 1845 King of Greece (r. 1863–1913)
- Anthony Fauci 1940 5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to…
- Louis Tomlinson 1991 English singer and songwriter
- Ed Miliband 1969 British politician
- Alexis Mac Allister 1998 Argentine association football player
- Maria Zakharova 1975 Russian foreign ministry spokesperson since 2015
- Neeraj Chopra 1997 Indian male javelin thrower
- Charles Hermite 1822 French mathematician
- Mohammed Rafi 1924 Indian playback singer
- Yuya Kubo 1993 Japanese association football player
- Jeff Sessions 1946 American politician and lawyer
- James Hadley Chase 1906 British writer
- Mary Barra 1961 Chief Executive Officer of General Motors
- Marcelo Salas 1974 Chilean footballer
- Stephen Appiah 1980 Ghanaian footballer
- Burak Özçivit 1984 Turkish actor and fashion model
- Alexander Fadeyev 1901 Soviet writer and politician
- Eugène Scribe 1791 French dramatist and librettist
- Amaury Nolasco 1970 Puerto Rican actor
- Fritz Leiber 1910 American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction
- Louis Jouvet 1887 French actor
- Serge Aurier 1992 Ivorian association football player
- Kim Jong-suk 1917 First wife of North Korean President Kim Il Sung
- Theodor Gebre Selassie 1986 Czech footballer
- Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1879 Queen consort of King Christian X of Denmark
- Riyo Mori 1986 Japanese beauty pageant contestant
- Michael Flynn 1958 U.S. Army general and former U.S. National Security Advisor
- Wade Williams 1961 American actor
- Kit Carson 1809 American frontiersman and Union Army general
- Ryan Seacrest 1974 American television and radio presenter
- Cosima Wagner 1837 Daughter of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt and wife of Hans von Bülow…
- Pierre Soulages 1919 French painter and engraver
- Viacheslav Chornovil 1937 Ukrainian activist and politician
- Oswald Gracias 1944 Catholic cardinal
- Jonas Mekas 1922 Lithuanian filmmaker
- Ruth Chatterton 1892 American actress
- George Crabbe 1754 English poet, surgeon, and clergyman
- Manfred Rommel 1928 German politician
- Diafra Sakho 1989 Senegalese and French association football player
- Lee Daniels 1959 American director, producer, and screenwriter
- Félix 1937 Brazilian footballer
- Anett Kontaveit 1995 Estonian tennis player
- Krishna Prasad Bhattarai 1924 Nepalese politician
- Constance of Austria 1588 Queen consort of Poland and Sweden
- Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia 1784 Russian grand duchess
- Diedrich Bader 1966 American actor
- Yıldıray Baştürk 1978 Turkish association football player
- Fabrice Ondoa 1995 Cameroonian footballer
- Stefan Airapetjan 1997 Estonian singer-songwriter
- Peter Cornelius 1824 German composer
- Clarence Gilyard 1955 American actor
- Kate Spade 1962 American fashion designer
- Fernand Cormon 1845 French painter
- Steve Johnson 1989 American tennis player
- Andrew Yao 1946 Computer scientist and computational theorist
- Nikola Mektić 1988 Croatian tennis player
- Christina Schwanitz 1985 German shot putter
- Gabriel García Moreno 1821 President of Ecuador (1860-1865; 1869; 1869-1875)
- Lennart Skoglund 1929 Swedish association football player
- José María Figueres Olsen 1954 42nd President of Costa Rica
- Eddie Pope 1973 American soccer player
- Mauricio Kagel 1931 Argentine-German composer
- John Morley 1838 British statesman, writer and journalist
- Franz Waxman 1906 German film composer
- Giorgos Alkaios 1971 Greek recording artist
- Ana Brenda Contreras 1986 Mexican actress and singer
- Wilhelm Marstrand 1810 Painter and illustrator
- Wallace Spearmon 1984 American sprinter
- Léo Silva 1985 Brazilian association football player
- Maarja-Liis Ilus 1980 Estonian singer
- Taro Goto 1969 Japanese association football player
- Anders Johan Lexell 1740 Russian mathematician
- Souleymane Diawara 1978 Senegalese and French footballer
- Choi Jin-sil 1968 South Korean actress
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on December 24 share the 24th of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.