List of Famous people born in December
Angelica Garnett
Angelica Vanessa Garnett, was a British writer, painter and artist. She was the author of the memoir Deceived with Kindness (1984), an account of her experience growing up at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group.
Jo-Anne McArthur
Jo-Anne McArthur is a Canadian photojournalist, humane educator, animal rights activist and author. She is known for her We Animals project, a photography project documenting human relationships with animals. Through the We Animals Humane Education program, McArthur offers presentations about human relationships with animals in educational and other environments, and through the We Animals Archive, she provides photographs and other media for those working to help animals. We Animals Media, meanwhile, is a media agency focussed on human/animal relationships.
Dominic Lawson
Dominic Ralph Campden Lawson is an English journalist.
Debbie Matenopoulos
Thespina "Debbie" Matenopoulos is an American television host, journalist, and lifestyle expert.
Anžejs Pasečņiks
Anžejs Pasečņiks is a Latvian professional basketball player who last played for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Karlie Hay
Karlie Denise Hay is an American model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Teen USA 2016. She is the first Texan to win the crown since 2011.
India Knight
India Knight is a British journalist and author. She writes for British newspapers, and has written the books: My Life on a Plate, Don't You Want Me?, The Shops, Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet and The Thrift Book (2008). Her novels have been translated into 28 languages.
Vladimir Alekno
Vladimir Romanovich Alekno is a former Russian volleyball player and current volleyball coach. He is the current head coach of VC Zenit-Kazan and Iran national volleyball team.
Ernie Sims
Ernie Sims III is a former American football linebacker. He played college football at Florida State and was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the first round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He also played for the Philadelphia Eagles, Indianapolis Colts and Dallas Cowboys.
Charles Martin Hall
Charles Martin Hall was an American inventor, businessman, and chemist. He is best known for his invention in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminum, which became the first metal to attain widespread use since the prehistoric discovery of iron. He was one of the founders of Alcoa. Alfred E. Hunt, together with Charles Hall and a group of five other individuals – his partner at the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, George Hubbard Clapp; his chief chemist, W. S. Sample; Howard Lash, head of the Carbon Steel Company; Millard Hunsiker, sales manager for the Carbon Steel Company; and Robert Scott, a mill superintendent for the Carnegie Steel Company – raised $20,000 to launch the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, which was later renamed Aluminum Company of America and shortened to Alcoa.