List of Famous people born in December

Emílio Garrastazu Médici was a Brazilian military leader and politician who was President of Brazil from 1969 to 1974. His authoritarian rule marked the apex of the Brazilian military government.

Thomas Bartlett "Bart" Whitaker is an American convicted of murdering two family members, under the Texas Law of Parties, who spent nearly 11 years on death row at the Polunsky Unit near Livingston, Texas. He was convicted for the December 10, 2003, murders of his mother and brother by gunman Chris Brashear and sentenced to death in March 2007. On February 22, 2018, 45 minutes before the scheduled execution at 6:00 pm, Whitaker had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment without parole by Governor Greg Abbott, the first time Governor Abbott has done so. He currently resides in the McConnell Unit in Beeville, Texas, in solitary confinement.

Heike Gabriela Drechsler is a German former track and field athlete who represented East Germany and later Germany. One of the most successful long jumpers of all-time, she is a former world record holder and ranks third on the all-time list with her legal best of 7.48 metres in 1988. Her marginally wind-assisted jump of 7.63 metres (+2.1) in 1992 at altitude in Sestriere, is still the furthest a woman has ever long jumped. She is the only woman who has won two Olympic gold medals in the long jump, winning in 1992 and 2000.

Ridouan Taghi is a Moroccan-Dutch suspect. He is currently held at Nieuw Vosseveld, a maximum security prison in Vught, for suspected involvement in at least ten murders related to organised crime, as well as for his involvement in drug trafficking and the leading of a criminal organisation. Until his late 2019 arrest in Dubai, Taghi was the most wanted criminal in the Netherlands with a record-breaking reward of €100,000.

Jakob Elijah Johnson is a German gridiron football fullback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Tennessee Volunteers and signed with the Patriots as an undrafted free agent as part of the NFL's International Player Pathway program.

Mitakeumi Hisashi is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Agematsu, Nagano. He is in the Dewanoumi stable. He is a pusher thruster-type wrestler. A former amateur champion at Toyo University, he made his professional debut in March 2015, reaching the top makuuchi division in November of the same year. He has nine special prizes for Fighting Spirit, Technique and Outstanding Performance, as well two gold stars for defeating a yokozuna. His highest rank has been sekiwake. He won his first top division championship (yūshō) in July 2018 and his second in September 2019.

Shigeko Higashikuni , born Shigeko, Princess Teru , was the wife of Prince Morihiro Higashikuni and eldest daughter of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun. She was the eldest sister to Japan's Emperor Emeritus Akihito.

Kamini Zantoko is a French rapper. In 2006, his songs and music videos about rural French life became an Internet phenomenon.

Hamilton Nash Grier is an American Internet personality. He became known for his online videos on the now-defunct video sharing service Vine in early 2013. By 2015, Grier was the second most-followed user on the platform.

Seda Sayan is a Turkish pop folk singer, actress, and TV variety-show hostess.