List of Famous people born in December

Sara Lidman was a Swedish writer.

Lodewijk (Lode) De Witte is the former governor of the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.

Jean Paulhan was a French writer, literary critic and publisher, director of the literary magazine Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF) from 1925 to 1940 and from 1946 to 1968. He was a member of the Académie française. He was born in Nîmes (Gard) and died in Paris.

Reichen Lehmkuhl, is an American lawyer, businessman, reality show winner, former model, and former occasional actor. A former United States Air Force officer with the rank of captain, he is best known for winning season four of the reality game show The Amazing Race with his then-partner Chip Arndt, and for his much publicized 2006 relationship with pop singer Lance Bass.

William George Hervey Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton, was a British peer and soldier.

Ivan Deriuhin was a Soviet modern pentathlete and Olympic Champion. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he won a gold medal in the team competition (together with Aleksandr Tarasov and Igor Novikov, and placed ninth in the individual competition.

Richard Streit Hamilton is Davies Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University. He is known for contributions to geometric analysis and partial differential equations. He made foundational contributions to the theory of the Ricci flow and its use in the resolution of the Poincaré conjecture and geometrization conjecture in the field of geometric topology.