Share of the 40 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors33% (13 people)
Actors30% (12 people)
Creators20% (8 people)
Musicians20% (8 people)
Artists18% (7 people)
Entrepreneurs18% (7 people)
Politicians18% (7 people)
Countries
22 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States10 (10 people)
France6 (6 people)
Belgium2 (2 people)
Switzerland2 (2 people)
Ukraine2 (2 people)
United Kingdom2 (2 people)
Czech Republic1 (1 people)
Life timeline
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~21Bob DylanNotable work: Blowin' in the Wind (1962)
~22Tracy McGradyReceived the NBA Most Improved Player Award (2001)
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his 69-year career.
Priscilla Ann Presley is an American businesswoman and actress. She is the former wife of Elvis Presley, to whom she was married from 1967 to 1973. Priscilla later co-founded and chaired Elvis Presley Enterprises (EPE), which oversaw the public opening of Graceland as a museum.
See Li from London, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Martin Winterkorn is a German former business executive who served as chairman of the board of management of Volkswagen AG, the parent company of the Volkswagen Group, as well as chairman of the supervisory board of Audi, and chairman of the board of management of Porsche Automobil Holding SE.
Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth was an American psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator who was an early pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies. She was described in the 1940s as "a genius in the art of living."
Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) at en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Rodrigo Javier De Paul is an Argentine professional football player who plays as a midfielder for Major League Soccer club Inter Miami and the Argentina national team.
John Christopher Reilly is an American actor. A character actor, he is known for his work with leading and supporting roles in both independent films and major studio features.
Asim Bharwani at http://modenadude.com/, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Éric Daniel Pierre Cantona is a French actor and former professional footballer. In his football career, Cantona was a physically strong and technically skilful player with both creative and goalscoring ability.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
James Broadbent is an English actor. After graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1972, he came to prominence as a character actor for his many roles in film and television.
Scottish Documentary Institute, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tracy Lamar McGrady Jr., nicknamed T-Mac, is an American former professional basketball player, best known for his career in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Keith Allison from Baltimore, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jean-Paul Marat was a French scientist, physician, political theorist, journalist, and politician. Before the French Revolution, he pursued a career in medicine and science and published works on subjects including optics, electricity, political theory, and criminal law.
Dinmukhammed Qanatuly Qudaibergen, known professionally as Dimash Qudaibergen and mononymously as Dimash, is a Kazakh singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts was a South African statesman, military officer and philosopher. In addition to holding various military and cabinet posts, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 to 1924 and 1939 to 1948.
Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. He was born in Poland to a family of German origin, although he spent much of his life in the Dutch Republic.
AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kazi Nazrul Islam was a Bengali poet, short story writer, journalist, lyricist, and musician. He was later honoured with the title of national poet of Bangladesh.
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael Chabon is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, D.C., he studied at Carnegie Mellon University for one year before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1984.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lilli Palmer was a German actress and writer. After beginning her career in British films in the 1930s, she later transitioned to major Hollywood productions, earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance in But Not for Me (1959).
original authors: Aldrich & Myers (producers of the play); cropped by: Rlevente, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Tansu Çiller is a Turkish academic, economist, and politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996. She is Turkey's only female prime minister.
Thierry Dauwe, European Communities, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko, known mononymously as Ruslana, is a Ukrainian singer, songwriter, producer, activist and former politician. She is a World Music Award and Eurovision Song Contest 2004 winning recording artist, holding the title of People's Artist of Ukraine.
Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano was a French naturalist and ornithologist, and a nephew of Napoleon. Lucien and his wife had twelve children, including Cardinal Lucien Bonaparte.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen was a French tennis player. She was the inaugural world No. 1 from 1921 to 1926, winning eight Grand Slam titles in singles and twenty-one in total. She was also a four-time World Hard Court Champion in singles, and ten times in total.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Déborah François is a Belgian actress. She is best known for her starring role in the Palme d'Or-winning film, The Child (2005), directed by the Dardenne brothers. In 2009, she won a César Award for Most Promising Actress for The First Day of the Rest of Your Life.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1794–1866 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Whewell was an English polymath. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In his time as a student there, he achieved distinction in both poetry and mathematics.
https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/a5/02/27077d587356a560e4d77fdaf300.jpg Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.o, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
José Nasazzi Yarza was a Uruguayan footballer who played as a right-back or centre-back. He captained his country when they won the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Henri Michaux was a Belgian-born French experimental poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York had shows of his work in 1978.
Carlo Maderno or Maderna was an Italian architect, born in today's Ticino, Switzerland, who is remembered as one of the fathers of Baroque architecture. His façades of Santa Susanna, St.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. was an American broadcasting businessman, as well as a magazine and newspaper publisher. He was the founder of Advance Publications.
Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov was a Russian landscape painter and creator of the lyrical landscape style. The most famous and a celebrated work is The Rooks Have Returned.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Chinonso Arubayi is a Nigerian film and television actress, television presenter, film and television producer and model. She is best known for her roles in My Flatmates, Rumour Has It and her film production debut, I Am Nazzy alongside IK Ogbonna and Jidekene Achufusi.
This page lists 40 people born on May 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 2021. 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 May 24. Read the full methodology.
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