List of Famous people born in December

Mary Anne Theresa Whitby (1783–1850), née Symonds, was an English writer, landowner, and artist. She became an authority on the cultivation of silkworms, and in the 1830s reintroduced sericulture to the United Kingdom. During the 1840s, she corresponded extensively with Charles Darwin about silkworms, conducting breeding experiments to help develop his theories of natural selection.

Dame Quentin Alice Louise Bryce, is an Australian academic who served as the 25th Governor-General of Australia from 2008 to 2014. She is the first woman to have held the position, and was previously the 24th Governor of Queensland from 2003 to 2008.

John Christopher Rolleston was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

Sir Alexander Bannerman, 6th Baronet was a Scottish doctor and professor of medicine at the University of Aberdeen.

Princess Maria Anna von Schwarzenberg was a Margravine consort of Baden-Baden and Princess of Schwarzenberg by birth. She was the daughter of Prince Adam Franz von Schwarzenberg and Princess Eleonore von Lobkowicz.