List of Famous people born on September 24th
Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and grew up in Christchurch. She completed a Master's degree in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her award-winning debut novel, The Rehearsal, written as her Master's thesis, was published in 2008, and has been adapted into a 2016 film of the same name. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Man Booker Prize, making Catton the youngest author ever to win the prize and only the second New Zealander. It was subsequently adapted into a television miniseries, with Catton as screenwriter.
Alexandr Rasnitsyn
Alexandr Pavlovich Rasnitsyn is a Russian entomologist, expert in palaeoentomology, and Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (2001). His scientific interests are centered on the palaeontology, phylogeny, and taxonomy of hymenopteran insects and insects in general. He has also studied broader biological problems such as evolutionary theory, the principles of phylogenetics, taxonomy, nomenclature, and palaeoecology. He has published over 300 articles and books in several languages. In August 2008 he was awarded the Distinguished Research Medal of the International Society of Hymenopterists.
Khalid bin Sultan
Khaled bin Sultan Al Saud is a former Saudi deputy minister of defense and a member of the House of Saud.
Peter Götz
Peter Götz is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.
Kevin Millar
Kevin Charles Millar is an American former professional baseball first baseman and outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) and current analyst for MLB Network. He played in MLB for the Florida Marlins, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, and Toronto Blue Jays from 1998 through 2009. He is currently a host along with Stephen Nelson on the MLB Network show Intentional Talk, and the show's companion audio podcast "Intentional Talk: Caught Listening".
Tan Yee Khan
Dato' Tan Yee Khan is a former Malaysian badminton player who represented his country in badminton events around the world during the 1960s.
Heinz Hardt
Gotthard Jasper
Kati Wolf
Kati Wolf is a Hungarian singer. Wolf represented Hungary at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song "What About My Dreams?".