List of Famous people born in December

Abbott Lawrence Lowell was an American educator and legal scholar. He was President of Harvard University from 1909 to 1933.

John Birt, Baron Birt is a British television executive and businessman. He is a former Director-General (1992–2000) of the BBC.

Prince Janusz Radziwiłł, also known as Janusz the Second or Janusz the Younger was a noble and magnate in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Throughout his life he occupied a number of posts in the state administration, including that of Court Chamberlain of Lithuania, Field Hetman of Lithuania and Grand Hetman of Lithuania. He was also a voivode of Vilna Voivodeship, as well as a starost of Samogitia, Kamieniec, Kazimierz and Sejwy. He was a protector of the Protestant religion in Lithuania and sponsor of many Protestant schools and churches.

Barbara Ruick, also known as Barbara Ruick Williams, was an American actress and singer.

Marius Eriksen was a Norwegian skier, fighter pilot, model and actor.

Niels Aall was a Norwegian estate owner, businessman and politician.

Mehmet Akif Hamzaçebi is a Turkish politician and economist who has served as a Member of Parliament for İstanbul's 1st electoral district since 12 June 2011. Previously, he served as an MP for the electoral district of Trabzon between 2002 and 2011. He is a member of the Republican People's Party (CHP) of Turkey, having served as the party's spokesperson on planning and budgetary issues as well as a parliamentary group leader between 2010 and 2015.

Jaroslav Heyrovský was a Czechoslovak chemist and inventor. Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959 for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis. His main field of work was polarography.