February 24 is the birthday of 53 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, authors, creators and actors, and 2 of them are billionaires.
$35.4Breported estimate as of October 2025 · Forbes
Philip Hampson Knight is an American billionaire businessman who is the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Nike, Inc., a global sports footwear, equipment and apparel company. He was previously its chairman and CEO.
Jan Borysovych Koum is an American billionaire businessman and computer programmer. He is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging app which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for US$19.3 billion.
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Share of the 53 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs28% (15 people)
Authors21% (11 people)
Actors19% (10 people)
Creators19% (10 people)
Artists17% (9 people)
Politicians17% (9 people)
Scientists15% (8 people)
Countries
23 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States23 (23 people)
India4 (4 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Australia2 (2 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
France2 (2 people)
Brazil1 (1 people)
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Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976.
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Brian Paul Schmidt is an American Australian astrophysicist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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David Jeffery Wineland is an American physicist at the Physical Measurement Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). His most notable contributions include the laser cooling of trapped ions and the use of ions for quantum-computing operations.
Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. is an American professional boxer and boxing promoter. He is undefeated at 50–0. Mayweather won 15 major world championships spanning five weight classes from super featherweight to light middleweight.
William George Zane Jr. is an American actor. His breakthrough role was in the Australian film Dead Calm (1989), a performance that earned him a nomination for the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actor.
Zell Bryan Miller was an American politician who served as the 79th governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999 and as a United States senator representing the state from 2000 to 2005.
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Kelly Dawn Craft is an American businesswoman, politician, and former diplomat who served as the 30th United States ambassador to the United Nations from 2019 to 2021 under President Donald Trump.
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Ted Arison was an Israeli businessman who co-founded Norwegian Cruise Lines in 1966 with Knut Kloster and soon left to form Carnival Cruise Lines in 1972. He is the founding owner of Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Hajime Satomi is a Japanese businessman. Satomi is known as the founder of Sammy Corporation, which merged with the Japan-based video game and arcade game producer Sega to form the holding company Sega Sammy Holdings.
Lőrinc Mészáros is a Hungarian billionaire businessman and former politician who was mayor of the village of Felcsút from 2011 to 2018. With an estimated wealth of 1,749 billion forints as of 2025, he is the richest person in Hungary.
Hans-Dieter "Hansi" Flick is a German professional football manager and former player who is the manager of La Liga club Barcelona. He is widely considered to be one of the best managers in the world.
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Jayaram Jayalalithaa, popularly known as Amma, was an Indian politician and actress who served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for six terms spanning more than fourteen years between 1991 and 2016.
Daniel Kaluuya is an English actor. His work encompasses both screen and stage, and his accolades include an Academy Award, two BAFTAs, two Actor Awards, and a Golden Globe, in addition to nominations for a Laurence Olivier Award and an Emmy Award.
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Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli medievalist, military historian, public intellectual, and popular science writer. He is a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Antony Matheus dos Santos, known mononymously as Antony, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a right winger for La Liga club Real Betis.
Mitchell Lee Hedberg was an American stand-up comedian. He was known for his one-liner comedy, characterized by surreal humor and his distinctive deadpan delivery, as well as his unconventional stage presence.
Priscilla Chan is an American pediatrician and philanthropist. Chan has been married to Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms, since May 2012.
Judith Butler is an American feminist, queer philosopher, and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, psychoanalysis, and the fields of feminist and queer theory, academic freedom, and literary theory.
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Barry Knapp Bostwick is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Brad Majors in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and Mayor Randall Winston in the sitcom Spin City (1996–2002).
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Lleyton Glynn Hewitt is an Australian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 80 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2001 and 2002.
Pooja Bhatt is an Indian actress, director, and filmmaker who works in Hindi films. She established herself as one of the leading actresses of the 1990s and is the recipient of several accolades, including two National Film Awards and one Filmfare Award.
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Abraham Vigoda was an American actor, known for his portrayals of Salvatore Tessio in The Godfather (1972) and Phil Fish in both Barney Miller and Fish (1977–1978).
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Joseph Isadore Lieberman was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's vice presidential nominee in the 2000 presidential election.
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Gillian Schieber Flynn is an American author, screenwriter, and producer, best known for her thriller and mystery novels Sharp Objects (2006), Dark Places (2009), and Gone Girl (2012).
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Roy Rudolphus Antonius Makaay is a Dutch professional football coach and former player. As a forward, he was known for his goal-scoring ability as a result of his "aerial prowess and quick drives to the net where he can put the ball away with either foot."
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Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general.
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary theorist and feminist critic. She is a professor at Columbia University and a founding member of Columbia's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
Michel Jean Legrand was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz pianist, and singer. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written more than 200 film and television scores, in addition to many songs.
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Frank Joseph Fertitta III is an American businessman. He is the CEO of Station Casinos. He is also a founder of Zuffa LLC, formerly the parent entity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
Charles Le Brun was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time. He served as a court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of all time".
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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish writer, painter, philosopher, theorist, playwright, novelist, and photographer active before World War I and during the interwar period.
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Arrigo Boito was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic whose only completed opera was Mefistofele. Among the operas for which he wrote the libretti are Giuseppe Verdi's monumental last two operas Otello and Falstaff as well as Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda.
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Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz, usually cited as Emil Lenz or Heinrich Lenz in some countries, was a Russian physicist of Baltic German descent who is most noted for formulating Lenz's law in electrodynamics in 1834.
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This page lists 53 people born on February 24, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 October 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 February 24. Read the full methodology.
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