List of Famous people born on July 24th

Konoe Iehiro , son of regent Motohiro, was a kugyō or Japanese court noble of the Edo period (1603–1868). He held a regent position kampaku from 1707 to 1709 and from 1709 to 1712.

Mary Hobson is an English writer, poet and translator. She has written four novels and an autobiography. She translated Alexander Griboedov's Woe from Wit and his letters. She also translated works by Alexander Pushkin. She has won the Griboedov Prize and Pushkin Medal.

Anthony Evelyn Melbourne Ashley was British barrister and Liberal politician. He was private secretary to Lord Palmerston and later published a biography of him. After entering Parliament at a by-election in 1864, Ashley served under William Ewart Gladstone as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1880 to 1882 and as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1882 to 1885.

Edward Algernon FitzRoy was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1928 until his death.

Dorothy Bussy was an English novelist and translator, close to the Bloomsbury Group.

Talal Derki is a Syrian Kurdish director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Damascus and of Kurdish descent, Derki studied film directing in Athens at Stavrako High Institute of Cinematographic Art and Television, graduation in 2003. He worked as an assistant director for feature film productions and was a director for different Arab TV programs & TV films between 2009 and 2012. He worked as a freelance cameraman for CNN and Thomson Reuters. Talal Derki’s short films and documentaries received awards at a variety of festivals. His feature documentary Return to Homs has won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize. In 2014 he was a member of the international Jury at IDFA. Talal Derki lives now in Berlin, Germany.

Kim Sang-ho is a South Korean actor. He appears in film, television and theater. Kim won Best Supporting Actor at the 2007 Blue Dragon Film Awards for his performance in The Happy Life.