List of Famous people born on December 24th

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is a Chinese computer scientist and computational theorist. He is currently a Professor and the Dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University. Yao used the minimax theorem to prove what is now known as Yao's Principle.

Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov was a Russian navigator and captain who along with Bering was the first Russian to reach North-West coast of North America. He discovered and charted some of the Aleutian Islands while he was deputy to Vitus Bering during the Great Northern Expedition.

I. F. Stone was a politically progressive American investigative journalist, writer, and author.

Frédéric Guilbert is a French professional footballer who plays as a right back for Ligue 1 club RC Strasbourg on loan from Premier League club Aston Villa.

Valentim dos Santos de Loureiro ComM is a Portuguese politician, and former football chairman of Boavista F.C. and Portuguese League for Professional Football. He has the rank of Major of the Portuguese Army. He was involved in the Apito Dourado corruption sports scandal.

Nora Noel Jill Bennett was an English actress, and the fourth wife of playwright John Osborne.

Félix Miélli Venerando was a Brazilian football player, more commonly known as Félix.

Ethan Jordan Bortnick is an American pianist, singer, songwriter, record producer and musician. At three years old, he discovered a rare set of music skills, including perfect pitch, on his little toy keyboard that eventually led him to appearances on The Tonight Show, Oprah, Disney, Nickelodeon, and his award-winning concert specials on PBS. Ethan has had over 4 national television concert specials, airing at record amounts. On October 3, 2010, Bortnick was listed in the Guinness World Records for "The World's Youngest Solo Musician to Headline His Own Concert Tour".

Maria Janion was a Polish scholar, critic, and theoretician of literature, as well as a renowned feminist. She was a Professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, specialising in literary Romanticism.

Kensuke Takahashi is a Japanese actor, best known for his role as Daichi Ozora, the main character of the 2015 Ultra Series Ultraman X.