November 24 is the birthday of 37 notable people we've found so far, including historical figures, authors, politicians and musicians, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Share of the 37 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors38% (14 people)
Musicians19% (7 people)
Politicians19% (7 people)
Actors16% (6 people)
Creators16% (6 people)
Athletes14% (5 people)
Entrepreneurs11% (4 people)
Countries
19 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States9 (9 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
France3 (3 people)
Soviet Union2 (2 people)
Canada1 (1 people)
Cyprus1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on November 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.
By 25
~23Oscar RobertsonReceived the NBA Rookie of the Year Award (1961)
~24Dave BingReceived the NBA Rookie of the Year Award (1967)
~23Takaji MoriJoined Japan men's national football team (1966)
~19Naoya KikuchiJoined Júbilo Iwata (2003)
26 to 30
~26Oscar RobertsonReceived the NBA Most Valuable Player Award (1964)
~29Katherine HeiglReceived the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (2007)
~26Naoya KikuchiJoined Japan men's national football team (2010)
31 to 40
~31Tsung-Dao LeeReceived the Nobel Prize in Physics (1957)
Tsung-Dao Lee was a Chinese-American physicist known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton stars.
Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Simon van der Meer was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles, the two fundamental communicators of the weak interaction.
Baruch (de) Spinoza, also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin who was born and lived in the Dutch Republic.
Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.
Augustus Binu/ facebook, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
David Bing is an American former professional basketball player, businessman and politician who served as the 74th mayor of Detroit from 2009 to 2014. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of the Chief Human Capital Office. Office of Broadcasting Operations, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sarah Jane Hyland is an American actress and singer. She is best known for playing Haley Dunphy in the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020), for which she received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
SAMHSA from Rockville, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir William Connolly is a Scottish actor, musician, television presenter, artist and retired stand-up comedian. He is sometimes known by the Scots nickname the Big Yin.
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa, known as Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator.
Randolph Peter Best is a British retired musician who was the drummer for the Beatles from 1960 to 1962. He was dismissed shortly before the band attained global fame and is one of several people referred to as a fifth Beatle.
Leslie Spear cropped by Blofeld, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dale Carnegie was an American writer and teacher of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Oscar Palmer Robertson, nicknamed "the Big O", is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Peter Odell is an English singer-songwriter. His debut EP, Songs from Another Love, was released in 2012, earning him a BRITs Critics' Choice Award. He won an Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year in 2014.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
Herbert Rose Barraud (1845-1896), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Carlo Lorenzini, better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was an Italian author, humourist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Laurence Sterne was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric. He is best known for his comic novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759–1767) and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768).
Joshua Reynolds (died 1792), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi was a historian, ethnologist, and Labor Zionist who was the second president of Israel from 1952 until his death in 1963. Ben-Zvi is Israel's longest-serving president.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez is a Spanish novelist and journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for RTVE for 21 years (1973–1994). His first novel, El húsar, set in the Napoleonic Wars, was published in 1986.
Librairie Mollat, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Soviet People's Commissar (minister) of Education, as well as an active playwright, critic, essayist, and journalist throughout his career.
Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt was a Swiss traveller, geographer, and Orientalist. Burckhardt assumed the alias Sheikh Ibrahim Ibn Abdallah during his travels in Arabia. He wrote his letters in French and signed Louis.
Maurice Babey, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Walter Burley Griffin was an American architect and landscape architect. He designed Canberra, Australia's capital city, the New South Wales towns of Griffith and Leeton, and the Sydney suburb of Castlecrag.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and a Soviet politician who served as the first People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs in the Soviet government from March 1918 to July 1930.
Ivi Adamou is a Greek Cypriot singer. Born and raised in Agia Napa, she rose to recognition in Greece and Cyprus following her participation in the second season of the Greek version of The X Factor, where she was under the mentorship of Giorgos Theofanous.
Henry Thomas Buckle was an English historian, the author of an unfinished History of Civilization and a strong amateur chess player. He is sometimes called "the Father of Scientific History".
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Marquis Nagamichi Kuroda was a Japanese ornithologist. His works included Ducks of the World (1912), Geese and Swans of the World (1913), Birds of the Island of Java and Parrots of the World in Life Colours (1975). He described the crested shelduck in 1917.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 37 people born on November 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 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 November 24. Read the full methodology.
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