List of Famous people born in December

Kin Platt (1911–2003) was an American writer-artist, painter, sculptor, caricaturist and comics artist, best known for penning radio comedy and animated TV series, as well as children's mystery novels, for one of which he received the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award.

Hu Yitian is a Chinese actor. He made his acting debut in the television drama A Rush to Dead Summer (2017), and subsequently starred in the 2017 hit web series A Love So Beautiful which brought him wider recognition and several newcomer awards.

Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira was an activist for socialism and sexual revolution, born and raised by her mother as a model for the woman of the future. She spoke 6 languages when eight years old, finished law school as a teenager, and was a leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party which she abandoned in favour of extreme republicanism. By the time she was 17 years old and had become internationally known, her mother shot her to death.

Esteban Antonio Loaiza Veyna [lo-EYE-sa] is a Mexican retired professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Washington Nationals, Oakland Athletics, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Loaiza was the American League's (AL) starting pitcher in the 2003 All-Star Game. That year, he led the AL in strikeouts.

Christopher Tolofua is a French rugby union player who currently plays for Toulon.

James Richard Laurinaitis is a former American football linebacker who played for the St. Louis Rams and New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Ohio State, where he was a three-time consensus All-American and won numerous awards. He was drafted by the Rams in the second round of the 2009 NFL Draft.

Fritz Haber was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. This invention is of importance for the large-scale synthesis of fertilizers and explosives. It is estimated that two thirds of annual global food production uses nitrogen from the Haber-Bosch process, and that this supports nearly half the world population. Haber, along with Max Born, proposed the Born–Haber cycle as a method for evaluating the lattice energy of an ionic solid.

Frederic Fenimore Forrest Jr. is an American actor. Forrest came to public attention for his performance in When the Legends Die (1972), which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. He went on to receive Academy and Golden Globe Award nominations in the Best Supporting Actor category for his portrayal of Huston Dyer in musical drama The Rose (1979).

Rachel Morningstar Hoffman was a 23-year-old Florida State University graduate, who was murdered while acting as a police informant in a botched drug sting that started on May 7, 2008. Her body was recovered two days later near Perry, Florida.

Tan See Leng is a Singaporean politician, business executive, medical practitioner and entrepreneur. A member is the governing party People's Action Party, he was appointed as the Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Second Minister for Manpower and Second Minister for Trade and Industry by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.