List of Famous people born in December

George Pavlovich Ignatieff, was a noted Russian-Canadian diplomat. His career spanned nearly five decades in World War II and the postwar period.

Renate Hoy, also credited as Renate Huy and Erika Nordin, is a German actress.

Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright and chess expert. With writers such as Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock, Leiber can be regarded as one of the fathers of sword and sorcery fantasy, having coined the term.

Júlia Szendrey was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator, most known as the wife of celebrated Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi.

Eleanor G. Holm was an American competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist. She is best known for having been expelled from the 1936 Summer Olympics team after she was allegedly found intoxicated after attending a cocktail party on the transatlantic ship taking the team to Germany. She went on to have a high-profile celebrity career as a socialite and interior designer, and co-starred in a Hollywood Tarzan movie --- Tarzan's Revenge. She appeared in that film with Glenn Morris, another Olympian.