List of Famous people born on May 24th

Miwako Yamanaka is a retired Japanese long-distance runner. Her first and only international medal came at the 1997 Summer Universiade where she took the bronze in the 10,000 metres. She won the Kobe Women's Half Marathon in 2001, setting a personal best time of 1:08:54 for the event.

Yoshiko Kawashima was a Qing dynasty princess of Manchu descent. She was raised in Japan and served as a spy for the Japanese Kwantung Army and Manchukuo during the Second Sino-Japanese War. She is sometimes known in fiction under the pseudonym "Eastern Mata Hari". After the war, she was captured, tried, and executed as a traitor by the Nationalist government of the Republic of China. She was also a notable descendant of Hooge, eldest son of Hong Taiji.

Svetlana Andreevna Toma is a Moldovan actress. She debuted at the Moldova-Film studio in 1966. She worked in Moldova and Russia.

Rainald Maria Goetz is a German author, playwright and essayist.

Jessica Ho Lok-yiu, known professionally as Sica, is a Hong Kong singer, guitarist, stage actor and cosplayer. She is also one of the Top 40 contestants of the ongoing ViuTV reality talent contest program King Maker IV.

Philippe Lafontaine is a Belgian singer and composer.

Nina Nikolaevna Uraltseva is a Russian mathematician, a professor of mathematics and head of the department of mathematical physics at Saint Petersburg State University, and the editor-in-chief of the Proceedings of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society. Her specialty is the study of nonlinear partial differential equations.

Kazuhiro Fujita is a Japanese manga artist. He graduated from Nihon University. He made his professional manga debut in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 1989. He is most famous for the manga Ushio and Tora, for which he won Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1992 and the Seiun Award in 1997, and the long-running Karakuri Circus.

Murasaki Fujima was an eminent figure in the Japanese dance community who also acted in more than 75 films.

Pius Suter is a Swiss professional ice hockey forward who is currently playing with the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL).