List of Famous people born in December

Claudia Nicoleitzik is a Paralympian athlete from Germany competing mainly in category T36 sprint events.

Sir David Alan Chipperfield, is an English architect. He established David Chipperfield Architects in 1985.

Pierre Jacques Étienne Cambronne, later Pierre, 1st Viscount Cambronne, was a general of the First French Empire. A main strategist of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, he was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo.

Alfonso Osorio García was a Spanish politician.

Wahei Tatematsu was a Japanese novelist. He wrote several novels including Enrai and Dogen-Zenji, about the devout Buddhist who founded the Soto Sect of Zen Buddhism in 1227.

Julius Erich Wess was an Austrian theoretical physicist noted as the co-inventor of the Wess–Zumino model and Wess–Zumino–Witten model in the field of supersymmetry. He was also a recipient of the Max Planck medal, the Wigner medal, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the Heineman Prize, and of several honorary doctorates.

Petko Kirkov Кaloyanov Петко Кирков Калоянов, better known as Captain Petko Voyvoda was a 19th-century Bulgarian hajduk leader and freedom fighter who dedicated his life to the liberation of Bulgaria.

Zhu Gaoxu, Commandery Prince of Gaoyang, later the Prince of Han, was the second son of the Yongle Emperor and Empress Ren Xiao Wen. Gaoxu fought with his elder brother Zhu Gaozhi for the throne.

Károly Makk was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Five of his films were nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival; however, he won lesser awards at Cannes and elsewhere. He was born in Berettyóújfalu, Hungary.

Thomas Schweicker was a German artist and calligrapher. He was noted for being a painter even though he had no arms or hands.