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Famous people born on October 24

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Well-known people born on October 24 include Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632), Wayne Rooney (1985), Drake (1986) and PewDiePie (1989). Our list below has 96 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 24 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1632 (Antonie van Leeuwenhoek) and the most recent is 2003 (Zeno Debast). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, politician.

Who was born on October 24?

  1. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists
  2. Wayne Rooney 1985 English footballer and manager
  3. Drake 1986 Canadian-American rapper, singer-songwriter, and actor
  4. PewDiePie 1989 Swedish YouTuber
  5. Malcolm Turnbull 1954 Prime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018
  6. Bahadur Shah Zafar 1775 18th and last Mughal Emperor from 1837 to 1857
  7. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes 1932 French physicist
  8. F. Murray Abraham 1939 American actor
  9. Kevin Kline 1947 American actor
  10. İlkay Gündoğan 1990 German footballer
  11. Ding Liren 1992 Chinese grandmaster and former World Chess Champion
  12. Roman Abramovich 1966 Russian-Israeli-Portuguese oligarch and former politician
  13. Mallika Sherawat 1976 Indian actress
  14. Rafael Trujillo 1891 President of the Dominican Republic
  15. Stephen Covey 1932 American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
  16. Robert Mundell 1932 Canadian economist
  17. Sergo Ordzhonikidze 1886 Soviet politician
  18. Iliana Iotova 1964 President of Bulgaria since 2026, vice-president of Bulgaria from 2017 to 2026,…
  19. Alexandra David-Néel 1868 French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, Taoist, anarchist and writer
  20. Sofia Gubaidulina 1931 Soviet and Russian composer
  21. James S. Sherman 1855 American politician and Vice President of the United States from 1909 to 1912
  22. Naomichi Ueda 1994 Japanese association football player
  23. Toshio Iwatani 1925 Japanese association football player
  24. Jhilmar Lora 2000 Peruvian association football player
  25. Luciano Berio 1925 Italian composer
  26. Kozo Arai 1950 Japanese association football player
  27. Vincent Candela 1973 French footballer
  28. Bob Kane 1915 American comic book artist, the co-creator of Batman
  29. Johan Galtung 1930 Norwegian sociologist and peace scholar
  30. Peng Dehuai 1898 Chinese military leader, Marshal of the People's Republic of China
  31. Edson Álvarez 1997 Mexican association football player
  32. Raye 1997 British singer-songwriter
  33. Gilbert Bécaud 1927 French singer, composer, pianist and actor
  34. Osmar Donizete Cândido 1968 Brazilian association football player
  35. Bill Wyman 1936 British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
  36. Emmerich Kálmán 1882 Hungarian-born composer of operettas
  37. Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg 1887 Queen consort of Spain
  38. Adela 1969 Mexican actress
  39. August von Platen-Hallermünde 1796 German poet
  40. Jean-Claude Pascal 1927 French comedian and singer
  41. Eliza Taylor 1989 Australian actress
  42. Cristian Gamboa 1989 Costa Rican footballer
  43. Michelle Lujan Grisham 1959 Governor of New Mexico since 2019
  44. Delmira Agustini 1886 Uruguayan modernist poet
  45. Merian C. Cooper 1893 American aviator, actor, director and producer
  46. Martin Campbell 1943 New Zealand film and television director
  47. Lakshmi Sahgal 1914 Officer in the Indian National Army (INA) and former presidential candidate of India
  48. Krystal Jung 1994 South Korean-American singer, actress and model
  49. Ieng Sary 1925 Cambodian politician
  50. Tito Gobbi 1913 Italian opera singer
  51. Yu Kil-chun 1856 Korean independence activist
  52. Shenae Grimes 1989 Canadian–American actress
  53. Eugène Fromentin 1820 French painter
  54. Serhat 1964 Turkish singer
  55. Monica 1980 American singer and rapper
  56. Karl Lueger 1844 Austrian politician
  57. Anthony Vanden Borre 1987 Belgian association football player
  58. Jack Colback 1989 English association football player
  59. Keith Rowley 1949 Politician from Trinidad and Tobago
  60. Zeno Debast 2003 Belgian association football player
  61. Juan Pablo Ángel 1975 Colombian footballer
  62. John Ruddy 1986 English association football player
  63. Bruma 1994 Portuguese association football player
  64. Denise Levertov 1923 British-American poet
  65. Iván Kaviedes Toaquiza 1977 Ecuadorian footballer
  66. Marianne North 1830 English philanthropist, painter, biologist and botanical artist
  67. Christoph Daum 1953 German football manager
  68. Nikola Vučević 1990 Montenegrin basketball player
  69. Jeff Merkley 1956 American politician
  70. Ferdinand Hiller 1811 German composer and conductor
  71. Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 1739 German princess, composer, editor
  72. Matthew Amoah 1980 Ghanaian footballer
  73. Tallis Obed Moses 1954 Pastor, former President of Vanuatu
  74. Levi Leipheimer 1973 American cyclist
  75. Susan Kilrain 1961 American engineer, US Navy officer, and astronaut
  76. Florian Kainz 1992 Austrian association football player
  77. John Tuzo Wilson 1908 Canadian geologist
  78. Octave Lapize 1887 French racing cyclist
  79. Emma Donoghue 1969 Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian
  80. Rafael Carrera 1815 President of Guatemala
  81. Oscar Wendt 1985 Swedish association football player
  82. Theodor Stolojan 1943 54th Prime Minister of Romania
  83. George Crumb 1929 American composer
  84. Adrienne Bailon-Houghton 1983 American singer, actress, and television personality
  85. Vidit Gujrathi 1994 Indian chess player
  86. Mohammad Beheshti 1928 Iranian cleric, one of the leading figures of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
  87. Alexey Kaledin 1861 Russian general
  88. Arkady Raikin 1911 Soviet actor
  89. Daniel Swarovski 1862 Austrian crystal glass industrialist, founder of D. Swarovski KG company
  90. Jing Haipeng 1966 Chinese astronaut
  91. Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel 1811 Dutch botanist
  92. Oliver Jackson-Cohen 1986 English actor and model
  93. Jacques Laffitte 1767 French banker and politician
  94. Giacomo Bulgarelli 1940 Italian footballer
  95. Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp 1712 Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst, mother of Catherine II of Russia
  96. David Roberts 1796 Scottish painter

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 24 share the 24th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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