List of Famous people born in December

Maher al-Assad is a Syrian general and commander of the Republican Guard and the army's elite Fourth Armoured Division, which together with Syria's secret police form the core of the country's security forces. He is also a member of the Central Committee of the Ba'ath Party's Syrian Regional Branch. He is thought by some to be the second most powerful man in Syria after his brother Bashar, the current President. Maher is described by analysts as preferring Iran to play the largest role as the Syrian Government's main ally during the Syrian Civil War and subsequent post-war reconstruction. This is in contrast to the position of Suheil al-Hassan, prominent warlord and head of the Division 25 Special Mission Forces who has gained much influence as a result of his activities during the Syrian civil war, who was reported as preferring Russia.

Andrés Felipe Cadavid Cardona, known as Andrés Cadavid, is a Colombian footballer who plays for Independiente Medellín.

Óscar Antonio Ramírez Hernández, is a Costa Rican former footballer who played as a midfielder and was most recently the manager of the Costa Rica national team.

Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator was a German theatre director and producer and, along with Bertolt Brecht, the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or the production's formal beauty.

Kazuo "Kaz" Hirai is a Japanese businessman. He is best known as the former chairman of Sony Corporation, serving from April 2018 to June 2019, as well as president and CEO from April 2012 to April 2018. He also served as a board member of Sony Computer Entertainment and chairman and co-CEO of Sony Entertainment. He was noted by Entertainment Weekly as one of the most powerful executives in the entertainment industry. He led the Sony Computer Entertainment division between 2007 and 2012, and then became president and CEO of Sony on April 1, 2012. Through his tenure as CEO, Sony experienced a resurgence during the 2010s. On April 1, 2018, Hirai stepped down as president and CEO, becoming chairman of Sony Corporation. He fully retired from Sony on June 18, 2019, otherwise remaining as a senior adviser to the company.

Paulo Alexandre Baptista Teixeira de Morais is a Portuguese professor and politician. He is the vice-president of the national chapter of the NGO Transparency International. Former deputy mayor of Porto and a public voice against corruption in Portuguese politics, he ran to the presidential elections of 2016. Paulo de Morais, whose campaign focused on the fight against corruption, obtained more than 100,000 votes.

Hiromu Takahashi is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He is a member of Los Ingobernables de Japon, and is the current IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion in his fourth reign.

Julian Palmieri is a French professional footballer who last played for French club Gazélec Ajaccio. He has played in Ligue 1 for Lille, in Ligue 2 for SC Bastia, and in Serie B for F.C. Crotone.

Joan Sastre Morro is a Spanish professional basketball player for Valencia Basket of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. He is a 2.01 m (6'7") tall swingman, as he plays at both the shooting guard and small forward positions.

Major-General Khaled Nezzar is an Algerian general and former member of the High Council of State of Algeria. He was born in the douar of Thlet, in Seriana in the Batna region. His father, Rahal Nezzar, was a former non-commissioned officer in the French army who had turned to farming after World War II. His mother died in 1941.