List of Famous people born on May 24th

Jessica Steiger is a German swimmer. She competed in the women's 50 metre breaststroke event at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships, in Hangzhou, China.

William Gilbert, also known as Gilberd, was an English physician, physicist and natural philosopher. He passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching. He is remembered today largely for his book De Magnete (1600).

John Ian Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford, styled Lord Howland until 1940 and Marquess of Tavistock between 1940 and 1953, was a British peer and writer. With J. Chipperfield he founded Woburn Safari Park and was the first Duke to open to the public the family seat, Woburn Abbey, which houses a large gallery of European paintings.

Svend Gunnarsen Auken was a Danish politician. He represented the Social Democrats as a member of the Danish parliament (Folketinget) from 1971 until his death.

Jorvan Vieira is a Brazilian-Portuguese football coach and former player who played for Botafogo, Vasco da Gama and Portuguesa in the Brazil Serie A, and a current manager of ES Sahel.

Prince Joseph Ernst Friedrich Karl Anton Meinrad of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the fifth Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. He ruled from 1715 to 1769.

Prince Frederik of Hesse, Count or Landgreve Friedrich of Hesse-Cassel was a Danish-German nobleman, general and governor-general of Norway (1810–1813) and the same in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein (1836–1842).