List of Famous people born in December

Gebhard Fürst is a German Roman Catholic bishop. He is the Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.

Arvid Laurence "Larry" Bryggman is an American actor.

Maurice William "Moe" Mantha was a Canadian ice hockey player and a politician.

Attila Kovács was a Hungarian fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Harold Horace Hopkins FRS was a British physicist. His Wave Theory of Aberrations,, is central to all modern optical design and provides the mathematical analysis which enables the use of computers to create the wealth of high quality lenses available today. In addition to his theoretical work, his many inventions are in daily use throughout the world. These include zoom lenses, coherent fibre-optics and more recently the rod-lens endoscopes which 'opened the door' to modern key-hole surgery. He was the recipient of many of the world's most prestigious awards and was twice nominated for a Nobel Prize. His citation on receiving the Rumford Medal from the Royal Society in 1984 stated: "In recognition of his many contributions to the theory and design of optical instruments, especially of a wide variety of important new medical instruments which have made a major contribution to clinical diagnosis and surgery."

Alan Charles Rusbridger is a British journalist, Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and the former editor-in-chief of The Guardian.