List of Famous people born in December

Dame Carol Ann Duffy is a British poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, resigning in 2019. She is the first woman, the first Scottish-born poet and the first known LGBT poet to hold the position.

Ernst Rudolf van Altena was a Dutch poet, writer and translator. He was best known for his translations of chansons by Jacques Brel.

Yulia Anatolyevna Chepalova is a former Russian cross-country skier.

William John Sullivan is a software freedom activist, hacker, and writer. John is currently executive director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), where he has worked since early 2003. He is also a speaker and webmaster for the GNU Project. He also maintains the Plannermode and delicious-el packages for the GNU Emacs text editor.

Alan Lybrooks Henderson is an American former professional basketball player of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He stands 6'9" tall. Born in Morgantown, West Virginia, Henderson attended Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis, Indiana. They lost the state championship game his senior year to Glenn Robinson's Gary Roosevelt squad. In 1994, he was a part of the US men's basketball team for the Goodwill Games.

Elaine Princi is a contemporary American actress. She played roles on several soap operas, including Dr. Dorian Lord on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live from February 1990 to February 1993.

Avram Hershko is a Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.

Henry Thacker ("Harry") Burleigh was an American classical composer, arranger, and professional singer known for his baritone voice. The first black composer instrumental in developing characteristically American music, Burleigh made black music available to classically trained artists both by introducing them to spirituals and by arranging spirituals in a more classical form. Burleigh also introduced Antonín Dvořák to Black American music, which influenced some of Dvořák's most famous compositions and led him to say that Black music would be the basis of an American classical music.