List of Famous people who born in 1924

Marcello Gatti was an Italian cinematographer.

John William Middendorf II is a former Republican United States diplomat and Secretary of the Navy.

Efim Samoilovich Fradkin was a Russian physicist.

Arthur Roland Frackenpohl was an American composer and Professor Emeritus at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam.

Anna Maestri was an Italian stage, film and television actress.

Bill Lenny was a British film editor. Among his films were Cromwell (1970), Casino Royale (1967) and Hammer Film's original Dracula (1958). He was nominated for an Emmy and Eddie award for work on Ike (1979), and for a second Eddie for Life on the Mississippi (1980).

Sri Lankabhimanya Ranasinghe Premadasa was the third President of Sri Lanka from 2 January 1989 to 1 May 1993. Before that, he served as the Prime Minister in the government headed by J. R. Jayewardene from 6 February 1978 to 1 January 1989. He was awarded Sri Lanka's highest award to a civilian Sri Lankabhimanya in 1986 by President Junius Richard Jayewardene, the first to receive in Sri Lankan history. He was assassinated in Colombo in a suicide bombing by the LTTE.