List of Famous people born on August 24th

Jules Pierre Verreaux was a French botanist and ornithologist and a professional collector of and trader in natural history specimens. He was the brother of Édouard Verreaux and nephew of Pierre Antoine Delalande.

Marion Frederick Hawthorne is an inorganic chemist who has made contributions to the chemistry of boron hydrides, especially their clusters.

Leon Wasilewski (1870–1936) was an activist of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS), a coworker of Józef Piłsudski, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, designer of much of Second Polish Republic policy towards Eastern Europe, historian and father of Halszka Wasilewska and of Wanda Wasilewska.

David Moura Pereira da Silva is a Brazilian judoka. He won a silver medal at the 2017 World Judo Championships in Budapest.

Hubertus von Pilgrim is a German artist who lives and works in Pullach near Munich as a sculptor, printmaker, and medallist. He has work in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and Art Institute of Chicago. He was Vice-Chancellor of the Pour le Mérite from 2009 to 2013.