List of Famous people born on May 24th

Jean-Claude Fignolé was a Haitian author.

Jacopo Carucci, usually known as Jacopo da Pontormo, Jacopo Pontormo or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a profound stylistic shift from the calm perspectival regularity that characterized the art of the Florentine Renaissance. He is famous for his use of twining poses, coupled with ambiguous perspective; his figures often seem to float in an uncertain environment, unhampered by the forces of gravity.

Klaus Croissant was a lawyer of the Red Army Faction, later an East German spy and a political activist for Berlin's Alternativen Liste für Demokratie und Umweltschutz and, after 1990, the PDS.

Cristina Calderón is the last living full-blooded Yaghan person after the death of her 84 year-old sister Úrsula in 2005. By 2004, Calderón and her sister-in-law Emelinda Acuña were the only two remaining native speakers of the Yaghan language. With her granddaughter Cristina Zárraga and her sister Úrsula Calderón she published a book of Yaghan stories called Hai Kur Mamashu Shis in 2005. Zárraga, along with her husband Oliver Vogel, published Yagankuta, a dictionary and storybook of the Yaghan language, in 2010, based on interviews with Calderón.

Linda Liao is a Taiwanese singer, actress, VJ and professional gamer. She attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Björgvin Páll Gústavsson is an Icelandic handball player for Skjern Håndbold and the Icelandic national team.

Habib Sissoko is a French-born Malian former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Monika Hauser is a Swiss-born Italian physician gynecologist and humanitarian. She is the founder of Medica Mondiale, an internationally renowned women’s rights and aid organization. Hauser lives and works in Cologne.

Georg Rafael Donner was one of the most prolific Austrian sculptors of the 18th century. His style was baroque with some pseudo-ancient additions. He educated many German sculptors of his era, including his son Matthäus Donner.

Charly Antolini is a Swiss jazz drummer.