September 24 is the birthday of 42 notable people we've found so far, including creators, authors, entrepreneurs and politicians, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Dieter Schwarz is a German billionaire businessman, and owner of the Schwarz-Gruppe. He is the former chairman and CEO of the supermarket chain Lidl, and the hypermarket chain Kaufland. As of 2025, he has the highest net worth in Germany.
Share of the 42 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors29% (12 people)
Creators29% (12 people)
Entrepreneurs24% (10 people)
Politicians24% (10 people)
Actors21% (9 people)
Scientists21% (9 people)
Athletes14% (6 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Spain3 (3 people)
France2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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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.
Entrepreneur · Hughes Aircraft Company · manufacturing
1905–1976 · United States
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American aviator, aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor. He was one of the richest and most influential people in the world during his lifetime.
Acme Newspictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known as F. Scott Fitzgerald or simply Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.
Nickolas Muray, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Philip Edward Hartman was a Canadian and American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and graphic designer. Hartman was born in Brantford, Ontario, and his family moved to the United States when he was ten years old.
Paul Hartmann, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney was an American photographer, musician, cookbook author, and activist. She was the keyboardist and harmony vocalist in the band Wings, which she had formed with her husband Paul McCartney of the Beatles.
Kurt Schollenberger, Comet Photo AG Zürich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".
Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)".
Irwin Gooen (NY University), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
James Maury Henson was an American puppeteer, creative producer, filmmaker and director who achieved worldwide notability as the creator of the Muppets.
Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Stephanie Marie McMahon Levesque is an American businesswoman and retired professional wrestler. She is known for her various roles within WWE between 1998 and 2023.
TheRedDragon021, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jacques Fabrice Vallée is a French Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France.
Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Marcus Alonzo Hanna was an American businessman and Republican politician who served as a United States Senator from Ohio as well as chairman of the Republican National Committee.
William J. Root, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Georges Claude was a French engineer and inventor. He is noted for his early work on the industrial liquefaction of air, for the invention and commercialization of neon lighting, and for a large experiment on generating energy by pumping cold seawater up from the depths.
Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kevin David Sorbo is an American actor, director and producer. He has had starring roles in two television series: as Hercules in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995–1999) and as Captain Dylan Hunt in Andromeda (2000–2005).
Seanpanderson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Philip Bradley Bird is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He developed an interest in the art of animation early on, and completed his first short subject by age 14.
nicolas genin from Paris, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Johan de Witt was a Dutch statesman and mathematician who was a major political figure during the First Stadtholderless Period, when flourishing global trade in a period of rapid European colonial expansion made the Dutch a leading trading and seafaring power in Europe, commonly referred to as the Dutch Golden Age.
Adriaen Hanneman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Marshall was an American statesman, jurist, and Founding Father who served as the fourth chief justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835. He remains the longest-serving chief justice and fifth-longest-serving justice in the history of the U.S.
John Watts Young was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.
Mustafa İsmet İnönü was a Turkish politician and military officer who served as the president of Turkey from 1938 to 1950, and as its prime minister three times: from 1923 to 1924, 1925 to 1937, and 1961 to 1965.
Unknown. Official photo of President., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ashton Baldwin Carter was an American government official and academic who served as the 25th United States secretary of defense from February 2015 to January 2017. He later served as director of the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School.
Monica King/US Department of Defense, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Milojko Spajić is a Montenegrin politician serving as Prime Minister of Montenegro since October 2023. He previously served as minister of finance and social welfare in the Krivokapić Cabinet from 2020 to 2022. He is also the leader and co-founder of the Europe Now! Movement.
Marco Tardelli is an Italian former football player and manager. At club level, he played as a midfielder for several Italian clubs; he began his career with Pisa, and later played for Como, Juventus, and Inter Milan, before retiring with Swiss club St. Gallen.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Knight of the Order of Santiago, was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era. Along with his lifelong rival Luis de Góngora, Quevedo was one of the most prominent Spanish poets of the age.
Attributed to Juan van der Hamen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alán Alejandro Maldonado Tamez is a Mexican rapper, actor, singer and songwriter better known by his stage name Dharius. He is known for having formed part of the Hip Hop Cartel de Santa group from 1999 to 2013.
Ella Yuryevna Kagan, known as Elsa Triolet, was a Russian-French writer and translator known for being the first woman to be awarded the Prix Goncourt.
Alexander Rodchenko, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky, also known as Mykhailo Vasyliovych Ostrohradskyi, was a Russian Imperial mathematician, mechanician, and physicist of Ukrainian Cossack ancestry.
Petr Borel / Andrey Denyer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Wale Adenuga is a Nigerian former cartoonist/publisher, and currently series producer, best known for the productions Ikebe Super, Binta and Friends and Super Story, as well their televised versions through his production company WAP.
U.S. Mission Nigeria, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Birgit Sarrap, also known mononymously as Birgit, is an Estonian singer. She rose to prominence in 2007 after winning the first season of Eesti otsib superstaari, the Estonian version of Idol. Her debut self-titled studio album was later released in 2008.
Yuri Viktorovich Ryazanov is a Russian businessman and politician. He is a member of the Federal Council of the all-Russian political party Party of Action and the Vice President of Novoe Sodruzhestvo.
Бабкинъ Михаилъ, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 42 people born on September 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 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 September 24. Read the full methodology.
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