List of Famous people born on May 24th

Helen Brooke Taussig was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetralogy of Fallot. This concept was applied in practice as a procedure known as the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt. The procedure was developed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas, who were Taussig's colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Yulia Lavrenchuk is a Ukrainian former competitive figure skater. She is the 1997 European bronze medalist, the 1998 Nations Cup silver medalist, and a two-time Ukrainian national champion. Her highest World placement was 9th, in 1997 and 1999. She finished 11th at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.

Antonio Martín Velasco, born in Torrelaguna, a municipality of Madrid, Spain, was a professional road bicycle racer from 1992 until his death in 1994.

Christopher Figg is a film producer from the town of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. His film credits include Heidi, The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby, Dog Soldiers and the first three films from the Hellraiser series: Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, and Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth. He was recently executive producer on Noel Clarke's 4.3.2.1 and on the film Coriolanus with Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler. He was also executive producer of We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Luciano Sánchez García, known as Vavá II, is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a forward.

Susan Sutherland Isaacs, CBE was a Lancashire-born educational psychologist and psychoanalyst. She published studies on the intellectual and social development of children and promoted the nursery school movement. For Isaacs, the best way for children to learn was by developing their independence. She believed that the most effective way to achieve this was through play, and that the role of adults and early educators was to guide children's play.

John James 'Sean' Kelly is an Irish former professional road bicycle racer, one of the most successful road cyclists of the 1980s, and one of the finest classics riders of all time. From turning professional in 1977 until his retirement in 1994, he won nine monument classics, and 193 professional races in total. He won Paris–Nice seven years in a row and the first UCI Road World Cup in 1989. He won the 1988 Vuelta a España and had multiple wins in the Giro di Lombardia, Milan–San Remo, Paris–Roubaix and Liège–Bastogne–Liège. Other victories include the Critérium International, Grand Prix des Nations and smaller tours including the Tour de Suisse, Tour of the Basque Country and Volta a Catalunya.

Laura Elizabeth Campbell, better known as Nell Campbell or by her stage name Little Nell, is an Australian actress, singer and club owner. She is best known for her role as Columbia in the 1975 film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the original stage play from which it was adapted. In 1978, Campbell released her debut EP, The Musical World of Little Nell, through A&M Records. She appeared as Nurse Ansalong in the 1981 film Shock Treatment.