March 24 is the birthday of 65 notable people we've found so far, including scientists, actors, authors and entrepreneurs, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Andrey Grigoryevich Guryev is a Russian billionaire businessman. He is the former head of PhosAgro, one of the world's four largest producers of phosphate-based fertilizers. As of March 2022, his net worth is estimated at US$4.8 billion.
Пресс-служба Совета Федерации Федерального Собрания РФ, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 65 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors26% (17 people)
Authors26% (17 people)
Scientists26% (17 people)
Entrepreneurs25% (16 people)
Politicians18% (12 people)
Athletes15% (10 people)
Creators14% (9 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States22 (22 people)
Germany6 (6 people)
United Kingdom6 (6 people)
France4 (4 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Russia3 (3 people)
Australia2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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Terrence Stephen McQueen was an American actor. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of 1960s counterculture, made him a top box office draw for his films of the late 1950s to the mid-1970s.
Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, freigestellt von Birkho und farblich aufgehellt, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Peyton Williams Manning is an American former professional football player. He was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons. Nicknamed "the Sheriff", he spent 14 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts and four with the Denver Broncos.
All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alyson Lee Hannigan is an American actress and television presenter. She began her film career with supporting roles in the comedy films Impure Thoughts (1986) and My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988), receiving a Young Artist Award nomination for the latter.
vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dario Luigi Angelo Fo was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Andrew William Mellon, known also as A. W. Mellon, was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and politician. The son of Mellon family patriarch Thomas Mellon, he established a vast business empire before moving into politics.
Trinity Court Studio, a photography studio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
William Alain André Gabriel Saliba is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Arsenal and the France national team. Considered one of the best defenders in the world, he is known for his strength, pace, tackling, and composure.
Ronald Lee Ermey was an American actor and U.S. Marine drill instructor. He achieved fame for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
William Morris was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production.
Frederick Hollyer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic, author, and politician. Since 2018, he has served as Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing European political alliance he co-founded in 2016.
David John Cawdell Irving is an English author who has written on the military and political history of the Second World War, especially Nazi Germany. He was found to be a Holocaust denier in a British court in 2000 as a result of a failed libel case.
Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle was an American silent film actor, director, and screenwriter. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd as well as with his nephew, Al St. John.
Photographer uncredited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Wesson Bosh is an American former professional basketball player. A Texas Mr. Basketball in high school, he played one season of college basketball for Georgia Tech before declaring for the 2003 NBA draft, where he was selected fourth overall by the Toronto Raptors.
Flickr user Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gabriele Susanne Kerner, known artistically as Nena, is a German singer. In 1983, as the lead vocalist of the band Nena, she recorded the Neue Deutsche Welle song "99 Luftballons". In the same year, the band re-recorded this song in English as "99 Red Balloons".
Peter Jacobson is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Dr. Chris Taub on the Fox medical drama series House. He also starred on the USA Network science fiction drama Colony as former Proxy Snyder.
Joseph Priestley was an English chemist, Unitarian, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator and classical liberal political theorist. He published over 150 works, and conducted experiments in several areas of science.
Ellen Sharples, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ramires Santos do Nascimento, known as Ramires, is a Brazilian former professional footballer. A midfielder, he was comfortable playing in either the centre or right midfielder position.
Curtis Lee Hanson was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Born in Reno, Nevada, Hanson grew up in Los Angeles. After dropping out of high school, Hanson worked as photographer and editor for Cinema magazine.
David Shankbone (attribution required), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Luigi Numa Lorenzo Einaudi was an Italian politician, economist and banker who served as the president of Italy from 1948 to 1955 and is considered one of the founding fathers of the Italian Republic.
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ilir Rexhep Meta is an Albanian politician who served as President of Albania from 2017 to 2022. He was a member of the Parliament of Albania from 1992 to 2017, serving across multiple legislatures before taking office as president.
Malton Dibra / European Commission, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who was the seventh World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions.
Immanuel Nobel the Younger was a Swedish engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist. He was the inventor of the rotary lathe used in plywood manufacturing and also designed and worked on several inventions such as an improved underwater mine used in the Crimean war.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Reinhard Genzel is a German astrophysicist, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, a professor at LMU Munich and an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Joseph Liouville was a French mathematician who worked on a number of different fields in mathematics, including number theory, complex analysis, and mathematical physics.
Marie Liouville, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt was a German biochemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his "work on sex hormones." He initially rejected the award in accordance with government policy, but accepted it in 1949 after World War II.
Gabriel Téllez, O. de M., also known as Tirso de Molina, was a Spanish Baroque dramatist and poet, as well as a Mercedarian friar, and Catholic priest.
Fray Antonio Manuel de Hartalejo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 65 people born on March 24, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 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 February 2026. 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 March 24. Read the full methodology.
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