List of Famous people born on May 24th

Edward Hitchcock was an American geologist and the third President of Amherst College (1845–1854).

John Maitland, 1st Duke and 2nd Earl of Lauderdale, 3rd Lord Maitland of Thirlestane KG PC, was a Scottish politician, and leader within the Cabal Ministry.

John Brenden "Jack" Kelly Jr., also known as Kell Kelly, was an American athlete, an accomplished rower, a four-time Olympian, and an Olympic medal winner. He was also the son of triple Olympic gold medal winner Jack Kelly Sr., and the elder brother of the actress and Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly. In 1947, Kelly was awarded the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States. Kelly was also a politician, having served as an at-large member of the Philadelphia City Council. He also, until his death, served a brief tenure as president of the United States Olympic Committee.

Jill Anna Maria Johnson is a Swedish country and pop singer, songwriter and TV-hostess. She performed the Melodifestivalen 1998 contest winning song "Kärleken är", and represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 with that song, which finished 10th with 53 points. In 2003 she again entered Melodifestivalen with "Crazy in Love", which finished fourth in the final. She also hosted the final of Melodifestivalen 2005. Johnson is today one of the most successful artists in Sweden, with several Gold and Platinum records and since 2014 even hosts her own Swedish TV-show from Nashville, Jills veranda.

Marian Ruth Engel was a Canadian novelist and a founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada. Her most famous and controversial novel was Bear (1976), a tale of erotic love between a librarian and a bear.

Hermann Ludwig Rudolph Duncker was a German Marxist politician, historian and social scientist. He was a lecturer for the workers' education movement, co-founder of the Communist Party of Germany, professor at the University of Rostock, and rector of East Germany's trade union academy.

Aleksandar "Mišo" Broz is a Croatian retired diplomat. He is the son of Yugoslav president and Marshal Josip Broz (1892–1980) and Herta Haas (1914–2010). He has held diplomatic positions in Russia and Egypt. From 2004 to 2009 he served as Croatian ambassador to Indonesia.