List of Famous people born in December

Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden,, generally known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative politician. The Times obituary called him "the creator of the modern educational system, the key-figure in the revival of post-war Conservatism, arguably the most successful chancellor since the war and unquestionably a Home Secretary of reforming zeal." He was one of his party's leaders in promoting the post-war consensus through which the major parties largely agreed on the main points of domestic policy until the 1970s, sometimes known as "Butskellism" from a fusion of his name with that of his Labour counterpart Hugh Gaitskell.

Godfrey Walter Phillimore, 2nd Baron Phillimore M.C. was an English peer, soldier and author.

Thomas McLaughlin McAvoy, Baron McAvoy is a British Labour and Co-operative politician currently serving as Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords.

Ananda Shankar was a Bengali musician, singer and composer best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles. He was married to dancer and choreographer Tanusree Shankar.

Anne Mortimer, also known as Anne de Mortimer, was a medieval English noblewoman who became an ancestress to the royal House of York, one of the parties in the fifteenth-century dynastic Wars of the Roses. It was her line of descent which gave the Yorkist dynasty its claim to the throne. Anne was the mother of Richard, Duke of York, and thus grandmother of kings Edward IV and Richard III.

Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, was a Welsh physician and psychiatrist.

Nikolai Grigoryevich Dvortsov was a Soviet writer and a member of the Union of Soviet Writers since 1955.

Daiamami Genki is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Tatsugō, Kagoshima. After a successful amateur career, he turned professional in January 2016, making the top makuuchi division that November of the following year. His highest rank has been maegashira 11. He wrestles for Oitekaze stable.