List of Famous people born in December

Jean Malaurie is a French cultural anthropologist, explorer, geographer, physicist, and writer. He and the Inuit Kutsikitsoq were the first two men to reach the North Geomagnetic Pole on May 29, 1951.

Iolanda Balaș was a Romanian athlete, an Olympic champion and former world record holder in the high jump. She was the first Romanian woman to win an Olympic gold medal and is considered to have been one of the greatest high jumpers of the twentieth century.

Gérard Séty (1922–1998) was a French actor.

Virginia Fábregas García was a Mexican film and stage actress active in the early 20th-Century. She appeared in films between 1931 and 1945.

Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, better known internationally as Bent Fabric, was a Danish pianist and composer.

Serge Riaboukine is a French actor.

Samuel Hadida was a Moroccan-born French film producer.

Uffe Valentin Haagerup was a mathematician from Denmark.

José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça is a Portuguese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. A theologian and university professor, he is also regarded as one of the most original voices of modern Portuguese literature and a Catholic intellectual. His work includes poetry, essays and plays that he signs José Tolentino Mendonça.

Paul Maar is one of the most important modern German writers for children and young people. He is a novelist, playwright, translator and illustrator.