List of Famous people who born in 1924

Kenneth Kendall was a British broadcaster. He worked for many years as a newsreader for the BBC, where he was a contemporary of fellow newsreaders Richard Baker and Robert Dougall. He is also remembered as the host of the Channel 4 game show Treasure Hunt, which ran between 1982 and 1989, as well as the host of "The World Tonight" in the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Antônio Lomanto Júnior, widely known as Lomanto Júnior, was a Brazilian politician. He served as the Governor of Bahia from 1963 to 1967, becoming the youngest governor in Bahia's history, as well as a Senator in the federal Chamber of Deputies, representing the state of Bahia, from 1979 until 1987. He was also mayor of the city of Jequié for several nonconsecutive tenures in office.

Masatoshi Itō is a Japanese billionaire businessman.

Chin Shunshin or Chen Shunchen was a Taiwanese-Japanese novelist, translator and cultural critic. He is best known for his historical fictions and mystery novels based on Chinese and Asian history, including First Opium War, Chinese History, Ryukyu Wind. He won numerous literary awards, including the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature and the Naoki Prize.

Aman Mikael Andom was an Eritrean general and the first post-imperial acting head of state of Ethiopia. He was appointed to this position following the coup d'état that ousted Emperor Haile Selassie on 12 September 1974, and served until his death in a shootout with his former supporters.

John Michael Stringer was a film production designer, art director, painter and illustrator.