List of Famous people who born in 1924

Pierre Marie Léon Augustin Plateau was a French Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Marcian David (Matty) Bleahu was a Romanian geologist, speleologist, geographer, alpinist, explorer, writer and politician. He is well known for his scientific contributions to the development of the theories of global tectonics, for his pioneering in speleology and for the development of this science, but also for the popularization of science and of ecology in Romania.

Yoko Matsuoka McClain was a Japanese-born American professor of Japanese language and literature at the University of Oregon. She was the granddaughter of Japanese novelist, Natsume Sōseki, from her maternal lineage.

Marie-Thérèse Cheroutre was a French historian and professor of philosophy. She served as general commissioner of Guides de France from 1953 to 1979.

Girma Wolde-Giorgis was an Ethiopian politician who was the 3rd President of Ethiopia from 2001 to 2013. He was the second person to hold the office of President since the founding of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia in 1995.