Famous birthdays
Famous people born on January 24
Short answer
Well-known people born on January 24 include Frederick II of Prussia (1712), Luis Suárez (1987), Moon Jae-in (1953) and Joachim Gauck (1940). Our list below has 106 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 24 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1631 (Henry Morgan) and the most recent is 2012 (Athena of Monpezat). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, writer.
Who was born on January 24?
- Frederick II of Prussia 1712 King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786
- Luis Suárez 1987 Uruguayan association football player
- Moon Jae-in 1953 12th President of the Republic of Korea
- Joachim Gauck 1940 German Protestant pastor and politician, Federal President of Germnay 2012–2017
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 French playwright, diplomat and polymath
- E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 German writer
- Edith Wharton 1862 American writer and designer
- Ernest Borgnine 1917 American actor
- Michio Kaku 1947 U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author
- Dan Shechtman 1941 Israeli scientist
- Sharon Tate 1943 American actress and model
- Nastassja Kinski 1961 German actress
- Neil Diamond 1941 American singer-songwriter
- Gustav III of Sweden 1746 King of Sweden from 1771 to 1792
- John Belushi 1949 American actor
- Daniel Auteuil 1950 French actor and director
- Henry Morgan 1631 Welsh pirate
- Walter Model 1891 German field marshal
- Guido Buchwald 1961 German association football player and manager
- Maria Elena Boschi 1981 Italian lawyer and politician
- Matthew Lillard 1970 American actor
- Vicki Baum 1888 Austrian writer
- Mischa Barton 1986 British-American actress and model
- Hermann Ebbinghaus 1850 German psychologist
- Tomokazu Myōjin 1978 Japanese association football player
- Patrik Schick 1996 Czech footballer
- Viktor Shklovsky 1893 Soviet Jewish writer
- William Congreve 1670 British writer
- Raymond Domenech 1952 French football manager
- Phil LaMarr 1967 American actor
- Rafael Caldera 1916 President of Venezuela from 1969 to 1974 kai from 1994 to 1999
- Ki Sung-yueng 1989 South Korean association football player
- Wayne Hennessey 1987 Welsh association football player
- Ferdinand Cohn 1828 German biologist
- Farinelli 1705 Italian singer
- Kristen Schaal 1978 American actress
- Michel Serrault 1928 French actor
- Tatyana Ali 1979 American actress and singer
- Elizabeth Alexeievna 1779 Empress consort of Russia; wife of Alexander I of Russia
- Vieirinha 1986 Portuguese footballer
- Pape Gueye 1999 Senegalese and French footballer
- Maria Tallchief 1925 American ballerina
- John Vanbrugh 1664 English architect and dramatist
- Marko Dmitrović 1992 Serbian association football player
- Maurice Couve de Murville 1907 81st Prime Minister of France
- Carrie Coon 1981 American actress
- Chad Hurley 1977 American businessman, co-founder of YouTube
- Asano Nagasato 1989 Japanese association football player
- Ed Helms 1974 American actor and comedian
- Henry King 1886 American film director
- Michel Preud'homme 1959 Belgian footballer
- Fridolin Ambongo Besungu 1960 Congolese Roman Catholic priest theologian and cardinal
- Lars Hörmander 1931 Swedish mathematician
- Gong Lijiao 1989 Chinese shot putter
- Ibrahim Mbaye 2008 French-Senegalese footballer
- John Myung 1967 American bassist
- Beth Hart 1972 American blues rock musician
- Oskar Morgenstern 1902 Austrian economist
- Giorgio Chinaglia 1947 Italian footballer
- Shaun Maloney 1983 Scottish association football player and coach
- Michelle Hunziker 1977 Swiss and Italian television presenter and former model
- Ernst Heinkel 1888 Aircraft designer and manufacturer
- Mary Lou Retton 1968 American gymnast
- Scott Speed 1983 American racing driver
- Hovik Abrahamyan 1958 Armenian politician
- Ermin Bičakčić 1990 Bosnian association football player
- Martin Erlić 1998 Croatian association football player
- Christian Ludwig Brehm 1787 German pastor and ornithologist
- Alan Sokal 1955 American physicist and mathematician
- Marguerite Durand 1864 French actress and journalist, editor
- Miklós Németh 1948 Hungarian economist and politician
- Georges Lautner 1926 French film director and screenwriter
- Laura Kelly 1950 Governor of Kansas since 2019
- Radomir Putnik 1847 Serbian field marshal
- Vito Acconci 1940 American designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist
- Yuriy Vashchuk 1983 Belarusian singer
- Morris Travers 1872 English chemist
- Michael Kiske 1968 German singer
- Riya Sen 1981 Indian actress
- Riccardo Orsolini 1997 Italian association football player
- Heungseon Daewongun 1821 Korean regent
- Mario Eggimann 1981 Swiss footballer
- Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg 1684 Duke of Württemberg from 1733 to 1737
- Karin Viard 1966 French actress
- Emerse Faé 1984 Ivorian-French association football manager
- Yury Bashmet 1953 Russian conductor, violinist and violist
- Yeray Álvarez 1995 Spanish football player
- Callan McAuliffe 1995 Actor
- Robert Motherwell 1915 American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker
- Daveed Diggs 1982 American actor and rapper
- Mark Eaton 1957 American basketball player
- John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer 1924 British peer; father of Diana, Princess of Wales
- Athena of Monpezat 2012 Danish former princess; daughter of Prince Joachim and Princess Marie of Denmark
- Jade Ewen 1988 English singer and actress
- Gianluca Basile 1975 Italian basketball player
- Rokia Traoré 1974 Malian-born singer, songwriter and guitarist
- Johan Wiland 1981 Swedish footballer
- Zhan Beleniuk 1991 Ukrainian wrestler and politician
- Warren Zevon 1947 American rock musician
- Rónald Gómez 1975 Costa Rican footballer
- Henri Nouwen 1932 Dutch priest and writer
- Julie Dreyfus 1966 French actress
- Frank Ullrich 1958 German biathlete
- Subhash Ghai 1945 Indian film director
- Daniel-André Tande 1994 Norwegian ski jumper
- Belén Cuesta 1984 Spanish actress
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 24 share the 24th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.