December 24 is the birthday of 48 notable people we've found so far, including authors, actors, entrepreneurs and musicians, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Stewart Allen Resnick is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the president and chairman of The Wonderful Company, a privately held company he owns with his wife Lynda Resnick.
Share of the 48 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors35% (17 people)
Actors25% (12 people)
Entrepreneurs21% (10 people)
Musicians21% (10 people)
Politicians19% (9 people)
Creators17% (8 people)
Scientists13% (6 people)
Countries
24 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States15 (15 people)
India4 (4 people)
France3 (3 people)
Russia3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Nigeria2 (2 people)
Argentina1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on December 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.
Alexis Mac Allister is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool and the Argentina national team. He has been praised for his passing range, tactical awareness, and ability to control the tempo of play.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an Indian statesman and a poet who served as the prime minister of India, from 1998 to 2004, and previously for two weeks in 1996. He was the first non-Congress prime minister to serve a full term in the office.
Ryan John Seacrest is an American television host and producer. Seacrest is the host of Wheel of Fortune, having hosted since replacing long-time host Pat Sajak in September 2024.
Michel de Nostredame, usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties, a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events.
After César de Notre-Dame, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Stephenie Meyer is an American novelist and film producer. She wrote the vampire romance series Twilight, which has sold over 160 million copies, with translations in 37 different languages.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael Thomas Flynn is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as the 24th U.S. national security advisor for the first 22 days of the first Trump administration.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Moses Juran was a Romanian-born American engineer, management consultant and author. He was an advocate for quality and quality management and wrote several books on the topics. During World War II, he served as Assistant Administrator of the Lend-Lease Administration.
Rochester Institute of Technology, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Katherine Noel Valentine Brosnahan Spade was an American fashion designer and entrepreneur. She was the co-founder and co-owner of the designer brand Kate Spade New York.
Anil Surinder Kapoor is an Indian actor and producer who works primarily in Hindi films, in addition to Indian television and international films. In a career spanning over 40 years, Kapoor has appeared in more than 100 films.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ian Fraser Kilmister, better known as Lemmy or Lemmy Kilmister, was an English musician best known for being the founder, lead vocalist, bassist and primary songwriter of Motörhead, of which he was the only continuous member from 1975 to his death.
Ilham Heydar oghlu Aliyev is an Azerbaijani politician and statesman who has been the fourth president of Azerbaijan since 2003. He is the son of the previous president, Heydar Aliyev, and has led the New Azerbaijan Party since 2005.
Press Service of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tycho Brahe, generally called Tycho for short, was a Danish astronomer known for his comprehensive and unprecedentedly accurate astronomical observations which helped to turn astronomy into the first modern science and launch the Scientific Revolution.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Amaury Nolasco Garrido is a Puerto Rican actor. He is best known for the role of Fernando Sucre on the Fox television series Prison Break, and for his role in Transformers (2007).
Chief Executive Officer of General Motors · General Motors · automotive
1961 · United States
Mary Teresa Barra is an American businesswoman who has been the chair and chief executive officer (CEO) of General Motors since January 15, 2014. She is the first female CEO of a 'Big Three' automaker.
Benjamin Applebaum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as a national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. He also largely influenced Ukrainian literature and affected Russian literature.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Burak Özçivit is a Turkish actor and model who is best known for his roles in Çalıkuşu, Kara Sevda and as the titular role of Osman Gazi in the Turkish historical fiction TV series Kuruluş: Osman. Throughout his acting career Özçivit has been a recipient of numerous accolades.
Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially recognised World Chess Champion, winning 6 World Chess Championships.
1822–1888 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School, and brother of both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova is a Russian diplomat who serves as the director of the information and press department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
José Marcelo Salas Melinao, nicknamed Matador, El Fenómeno and Shileno, is a Chilean former footballer who played as a striker. Salas is considered the best striker in the history of Chile.
Kim Jong-suk was a North Korean revolutionary, anti-Japanese guerrilla, Communist activist, the first wife of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, the mother of former leader Kim Jong Il and grandmother of current leader Kim Jong Un.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dima Nikolayevich Bilan is a Russian singer. In 2002, Bilan participated in the first edition of New Wave. At the end of the contest, he finished in fourth place.
René Lodge Brabazon Raymond, best known by the pen name James Hadley Chase, was an English author of crime fiction. He is one of the best known thriller writers of all time.
Stephen Leroy Appiah is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. During his career, he played for Udinese, Parma, Brescia, Juventus and Fenerbahçe.
Charles Hermite was a French mathematician who studied analysis, number theory, and algebra. One of his most remarkable achievements was the proof of the transcendence of the number e.
Charles_Hermite_circa_1901.jpg: Unknown derivative work: Quibik (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Augustin Eugène Scribe was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays", a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of many of the most successful grand operas and opéras-comiques.
Hendrik Wade Bode was an American engineer, researcher, inventor, author and scientist, of Dutch ancestry. As a pioneer of modern control theory and electronic telecommunications, he revolutionized both the content and methodology of his chosen fields of research.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen, known by her pen name and sobriquet Lydia Koidula, was an Estonian poet. She is also frequently referred to as Koidulaulik.
Reinhold Sachker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 48 people born on December 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 2025. 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 December 24. Read the full methodology.
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