List of Famous people born in December

Famara Diédhiou is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays for English Football League Championship side Bristol City, and the Senegal national team as a striker.

Henriette Caillaux was a Parisian socialite and second wife of the former Prime Minister of France, Joseph Caillaux. On March 16, 1914, she shot and killed Gaston Calmette, editor of the newspaper Le Figaro.

Martin Kaymer is a German professional golfer. A winner of two major championships, he was also the No. 1 ranked golfer in the Official World Golf Ranking for eight weeks in 2011.

Asa Griggs Candler was an American business tycoon who in 1888 purchased the Coca-Cola recipe for US$1,750 from chemist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. Candler founded The Coca-Cola Company in 1892 and developed it as a major company.

Geeta S. Iyengar, the eldest daughter of Yogacharya B. K. S. Iyengar, was a yoga teacher credited with advancing yoga for women.

Paula Mary Wilcox is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Chrissy in the popular ITV sitcom Man About The House from 1973 to 1976, but has also had large roles in TV shows such as both Elaine Jones and Janice Langton in Coronation Street, Beryl Battersby in The Lovers, Elizabeth Jones in Miss Jones and Son, Audrey in The Queen’s Nose, Lilian in The Smoking Room, Hilary Potts in Emmerdale, Pauline Johnson in Mount Pleasant, Carol in Boomers, Mary Shakespeare in Upstart Crow and Carole Hardcastle in Girlfriends.

Philip Warren Anderson was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson made contributions to the theories of localization, antiferromagnetism, symmetry breaking, and high-temperature superconductivity, and to the philosophy of science through his writings on emergent phenomena.

María Jesús Lampreave Pérez, known professionally as Chus Lampreave, was a Spanish character actress who starred in more than 70 films. She is internationally known for her roles in films by Pedro Almodóvar.

Jacques Boudet is a French stage and screen actor. He had great success in the 1980s with his appearance in Exercises in Style, and is featured in the film The Names of Love (2010).

Julien Henry Guy Benneteau-Desgrois is a French retired professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is ATP world no. 25, which he reached in November 2014. He formerly resided in Boulogne-Billancourt and now lives in Geneva. Benneteau did not win a singles title, although he finished as runner-up in ten ATP tournaments. He reached the quarterfinals of the 2006 French Open and the semifinals of the 2014 Cincinnati Masters and 2017 Paris Masters.