List of Famous people born on June 24th
Steve Dickson
Steven Lance Dickson is an Australian politician. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly beginning in 2006, representing the electorates of Kawana (2006–2009) and Buderim (2009–2017). First elected for the Liberal Party, he joined the Liberal National Party in the 2008 merger, but switched to Pauline Hanson's One Nation in January 2017. He subsequently lost his seat to the LNP candidate at the 2017 election. Dickson served as Minister for National Parks, Recreation, Sport and Racing in the Campbell Newman government from 2012 to 2015.
Nick Woodman
Nicholas D. Woodman is an American businessman, and the founder and CEO of GoPro.
Georg Stanford Brown
Georg Stanford Brown is a Cuban-American actor and director, perhaps best known as one of the stars of the ABC police television series The Rookies from 1972 to 1976. On the show, Brown played the character of Officer Terry Webster.
Jessamyn Duke
Jessamyn Laurel Duke is an American professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist, signed to WWE as part of their NXT brand. She formerly competed for Ultimate Fighting Championship and Invicta Fighting Championships in the women's bantamweight division.
Jordan Botaka
Jordan Rolly Botaka is a Congolese professional footballer who plays for RSC Charleroi on loan from K.A.A. Gent. He also represents DR Congo at international level.
Jan Kubiš
Jan Kubiš was a Czech soldier, one of a team of Czechoslovak British-trained paratroopers sent to eliminate acting Reichsprotektor (Realm-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia, SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, in 1942 as part of Operation Anthropoid. During the attack, Kubiš threw the bomb that mortally wounded Heydrich.
Dick Donato
Richard Louis Donato is a bar manager and podcaster from Los Angeles, California whose nickname is Evel Dick. He was the winner of the reality game show Big Brother 8. He and his daughter, Daniele Donato, are the only family member pair to win the American Big Brother program's top two prizes in the same competition. Dick holds the record as the show's oldest winner, and Daniele is the youngest person ever to win one of the American program's top two prizes. Dick returned for Season 13 of Big Brother as a team with his daughter Daniele, but departed the show citing "personal reasons" during the first week. In 2014, Donato announced that the reason he departed the show was due to a positive HIV diagnosis.
Matt Jackson
Matthew Barnett Jackson is an American paralegal and former contestant on the syndicated game show Jeopardy! who is known for winning 13 straight games and earning $413,612, the sixth-highest total in regular play in both categories, after Ken Jennings, James Holzhauer, Julia Collins, David Madden, and Jason Zuffranieri. His 13-episode streak ended with a loss on October 14, 2015. Jackson's total winnings amount to $413,612, which places him 5th on the all-time money-winning list in regular (non-tournament) games.
Julia Kristeva
Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a professor emeritus at the University Paris Diderot. The author of more than 30 books, including Powers of Horror, Tales of Love, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, Proust and the Sense of Time, and the trilogy Female Genius, she has been awarded Commander of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Merit, the Holberg International Memorial Prize, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Vision 97 Foundation Prize, awarded by the Havel Foundation.
Tomohiro Abe
Tomohiro Abe is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.