List of Famous people born in December

Fitzstephen French PC was a Whig Member of Parliament for Roscommon. He was the younger brother of Captain Charles French, 3rd Baron De Freyne and a son of Arthur French. Elected in 1832, he held the seat up until his death aged 71 in 1873. He was resident in London for most of this time.

Johannes Jisse (Hans) Duistermaat was a Dutch mathematician. He studied mathematics at Utrecht University from 1959 to 1965 and obtained his PhD degree there in 1968 under the supervision of Hans Freudenthal. After a postdoctoral year 1969–70 in Lund, where he learned Fourier integral operators from Lars Hörmander, he went in 1971–74 to Nijmegen, where he became full professor in 1972. In 1974 he returned to Utrecht on the chair of professor Freudenthal, where he stayed until his unexpected death in March 2010.

György Majláth, also known by his German name Georg von Majláth, was a Hungarian politician.

Evelyn Carow is a German movie editor. Working for state-owned production company DEFA, she was closely involved in the production of many films that are now considered classics of East German cinema.

Bernardus Marinus "Ben" Pon was a Dutch vintner and Olympian and motor racing driver. He competed in one Formula One race, the 1962 Dutch Grand Prix, but had a far longer career in sports car racing, before turning his back on the track to concentrate on the wine trade. He also represented the Netherlands in clay pigeon shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics, finishing 31st in the skeet event.