List of Famous people born in December

Mykola Khvylovy was a Ukrainian writer and poet of the early Communist era Ukrainian Renaissance (1920–1930).

Zalman Yanovsky was a Canadian folk-rock musician. Born in Toronto, he was the son of political cartoonist Avrom Yanovsky. He played lead guitar and sang for the Lovin' Spoonful, a rock band which he founded with John Sebastian in 1964. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1996. He was married to actress Jackie Burroughs, with whom he had one daughter, Zoe.

Charles Barclay of Bury Hill, Surrey, was a British brewer and landowner, who also served as a Tory Member of Parliament for the constituencies of Southwark (1815–1818), Dundalk (1826–1830), and West Surrey (1835–1837). Closely related to both the Barclay and Gurney banking dynasties, he came from a prominent Quaker family and was cousin of social reformer Elizabeth Fry.