August 24 is the birthday of 55 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, actors and creators, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Vincent Kennedy McMahon is an American businessman and former professional wrestling promoter. McMahon, along with his later-estranged wife Linda, is co-founder of the modern WWE, the world's largest professional wrestling promotion.
Share of the 55 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors35% (19 people)
Entrepreneurs27% (15 people)
Actors24% (13 people)
Creators24% (13 people)
Athletes16% (9 people)
Scientists13% (7 people)
Musicians9% (5 people)
Countries
24 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States20 (20 people)
France5 (5 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
Argentina1 (1 people)
Austria1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on August 24 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
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21Marlee MatlinReceived the Academy Award for Best Actress (1987)
Elizabeth Debicki is an Australian actress. Born in Paris and raised in Melbourne, she trained in dance before studying drama at the University of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts. She made her feature film debut in A Few Best Men (2011).
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint is an English actor. He rose to fame for his role as Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film series, for which he was cast at age eleven, having previously acted only in school plays and his local theatre group.
User:Celestinesucess, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jared Francis Harris is an English actor. The son of the actor Richard Harris, he studied drama at Duke University and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
David Khari Webber Chappelle is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and former sketch comedian. He debuted his half-hour TV special in 1998 and his hour-long TV special in 2000.
John Bauld from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hideo Kojima is a Japanese video game designer, writer, director, and producer. He is best known for the Metal Gear franchise, which remains his most famous and acclaimed work, as well as Death Stranding and its sequel.
John Michael Green is an American author and YouTuber. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including The Fault in Our Stars (2012), which is one of the best-selling books of all time.
Robert Phillips Corker Jr. is an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator from Tennessee from 2007 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he served as Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2015 to 2019.
United States Senate, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Stéphane Richard is a French businessman who was the chief executive officer and chairman of the worldwide mobile phone network Orange from 2011 to 2021. In December 2021, he resigned after being sentenced for complicity in fraud and misuse of public funds.
Guillaume Paumier, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl.
Marlee Matlin is an American actress. Having been deaf since 18 months of age, she is known for her activism on behalf of deaf individuals in Hollywood and other industries.
Adam Chitayat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Steven Robert Guttenberg is an American actor, author, businessman, producer, and director. He is known for playing Carey Mahoney in the Police Academy films from 1984 to 1987 and for playing Michael Kellam in the box office hit Three Men and a Baby (1987) and its 1990 sequel.
Reginald Wayne Miller is an American former professional basketball player who played his entire 18-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Indiana Pacers.
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Paulo Coelho de Souza is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He has been a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His 1988 novel The Alchemist is an international best-seller.
Anne Archer is an American actress. Archer was named Miss Golden Globe in 1971, and in the year following, appeared in her feature-film debut The Honkers (1972).
Anne_Archer,_1989-03.jpg: Alan Light derivative work: Lashiec (talk), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jean-Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and record producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient, and new-age genres, and is known for organising outdoor spectacles featuring his music, accompanied by vast laser displays, large projections and fireworks.
Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986).
Howard Zinn was an American historian and a veteran of World War II. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University.
Jim from Stevens Point, WI, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic.
Frederick H. Evans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Denílson de Oliveira, known simply as Denílson or sometimes Denílson Show, is a Brazilian football pundit and former professional player who played as a winger.
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Jean Rhys was a British Creole novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she resided mainly in England, where she was sent for her education.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, known professionally by her former married name, A. S. Byatt, was an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
Seamus Kearney, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fernand Paul Achille Braudel was a French historian. His scholarship focused on three main projects: The Mediterranean, Civilization and Capitalism (1955–79), and the unfinished Identity of France (1970–85).
Kim Mikael Källström is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He was noted for his play-making ability and free-kick taking.
Голубович Дмитрий, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Anna Lee Fisher is an American chemist, emergency physician and a former NASA astronaut. Formerly married to fellow astronaut Bill Fisher, and the mother of two children, in 1984 she became the first mother to fly in space.
Ali Smith CBE FRSL is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Sebastian Barry described her in 2016 as "Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting."
Harry Max Markowitz was an American economist who received the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Joe Regalbuto is an American actor and director. He is known for his role as Frank Fontana on the CBS television sitcom Murphy Brown, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 1989.
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck ForMemRS is an American mathematician and one of the founders of modern geometric analysis. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she held the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair.
Léo Ferré was a Monégasque poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer. He released some forty albums over this period, composing the music and the majority of the lyrics. He released many hit singles, particularly between 1960 and the mid-1970s.
Angelo Deligio / Mondadori via Getty Images, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 55 people born on August 24, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of 2015. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on August 24. Read the full methodology.
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