List of Famous people born in December

Takeshi Kaikō was a prominent post-World War II Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, literary critic, and television documentary writer. He was distinguished by his knowledge, intellect, sense of humor and conversational skills, and although his style has been criticized as wordy and obtuse, he was one of the more popular Japanese writers in the late Shōwa period.

Isao Matsuoka is a longtime studio executive and former chairman of Toho Co., Ltd..

Koya Nishikawa is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Shioya District, Tochigi he attended Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology as both undergraduate and graduate students. After college, he worked at the government Tochigi Prefecture from 1967 to 1978. He was elected to the assembly of Tochigi Prefecture for the first time in 1979 and then to the Diet for the first time in 1996.

Hedwig Bleibtreu was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1919 to 1952. Bleibtreu is perhaps best-known to international audiences as Alida Valli's furious landlady in The Third Man (1949). From 1893 to 1956 she played at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Hedwig Bleibtreu is the great aunt of actress Monica Bleibtreu, and the great-great aunt of Monika's son actor Moritz Bleibtreu.

Kevin Parent is a bilingual Québécois singer-songwriter.

Mary Kornman was an American child actress who was the leading female star of the Our Gang series during the Pathé silent era.

Philippe Redon was a French football player and manager.

Pascal Garray was a Belgian comics artist and cartoonist best known for his work on Peyo's The Smurfs and Benoît Brisefer.

Karl Ove Knausgård is a Norwegian author. He became known worldwide for six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle. He has been described as "one of the 21st century's greatest literary sensations" by the Wall Street Journal. Since the completion of the My Struggle series in 2011, he has also published an autobiographical series entitled The Seasons Quartet, as well as critical work on the art of Edvard Munch.

Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, was a British Army officer, a British politician and a historian.