List of Famous people born on August 24th
Prince Philippe, Count of Paris
Prince Philippe of Orléans, Count of Paris, was disputedly King of the French from 24 to 26 February 1848 as Philippe VII, although he was never officially proclaimed as such. He was the grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French. He was the Count of Paris as Orléanist claimant to the French throne from 1848 until his death.
Richie Gray
Richie Gray is a Scotland international rugby union player, who plays for Glasgow Warriors. He previously played for Toulouse, Castres Olympique and Sale Sharks.
Marcela Gándara
Marcela Gándara is a Mexican singer-songwriter of Christian music. To date she has produced 6 Christian albums.
Frank-Michael Wahl
Frank-Michael Wahl is a former German handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics, in the 1988 Summer Olympics and in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Kate Claxton
Kate Claxton was an American actress.
Oleksandr Gladkiy
Oleksandr Mykolayovych Hladkyy is a Ukrainian football forward who plays for Zorya Luhansk. He has also appeared for the Ukraine national team. His last name is variously transliterated into English as Hladkiy, Gladkiy and Gladkyy.
Carlos Hermosillo
Carlos Manuel Hermosillo Goytortúa is a Mexican former professional footballer. He is one of the top all-time goalscorers for the Mexico national team. He is also known as El Grandote de Cerro Azul. He currently works as an analyst for Telemundo Deportes.
Paulo Leminski
Paulo Leminski Filho was a Brazilian poet, translator, literary critic, biographer, teacher and judoka. He was noted for his avant-garde work, an experimental novel and poetry inspired in concrete poetry, as well as abundant short lyrics derived from haiku and related forms.
Elohim Prandi
Elohim Prandi is a French handball player for Paris Saint-Germain Handball and the French national team.
Pierfrancesco Favino
Pierfrancesco Favino is an Italian actor. He has appeared in more than fifty European and American movies and television series since the early 1990s, including The Prince of Homburg (1997), The Last Kiss (2001), El Alamein: The Line of Fire (2002), The Keys to the House (2004), Romanzo Criminale (2005), The Unknown Woman (2006), Night at the Museum (2006), Saturn in Opposition (2007), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), Angels & Demons (2009), ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards (2012) Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012), World War Z (2013), Rush (2013), Suburra (2015) and The Traitor (2019). In 2020, he won the Volpi Cup at Venice Film Festival for his performance in Padrenostro.