List of Famous people born in December
Julia Slingo
Dame Julia Mary Slingo, is a British meteorologist and climate scientist. She has been the Chief Scientist at the Met Office since 2009. She is also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, where she held, prior to appointment to the Met Office, the positions of Director of Climate Research in the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) National Centre for Atmospheric Science and founding Director of the Walker Institute for Climate System Research.
Eulalio González
Eulalio "Lalo" González Ramírez, nicknamed "Piporro", was a Mexican actor, humorist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter, announcer, film director, and film producer. He is considered one of the great comics of the golden age of Mexican cinema and is best known for his character "piporro" which is the embodiment of norteño popular culture, that is, popular culture from Northern Mexico.
Ruedi Walter
Ruedi Walter or Rudolf Walter, was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions.
Ludvig Holberg
Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway, during the time of the Dano-Norwegian dual monarchy. He was influenced by Humanism, the Enlightenment and the Baroque. Holberg is considered the founder of modern Danish and Norwegian literature. He is best known for the comedies he wrote in 1722–1723 for the Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen. Holberg's works about natural and common law were widely read by many Danish law students over two hundred years, from 1736 to 1936.
Sarina Paris
Sarina Paris is a Canadian singer and songwriter, best known for her international dance-club hits "Look at Us" (2000) and "Just About Enough" (2001).
Shinichi Takeuchi
Shinichi Takeuchi is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Vladimir Yumin
Vladimir Sergeyevich Yumin was a Russian freestyle wrestler. He won an Olympic gold medal in 1976 and world titles in 1974, 1977, 1978 and 1979, placing second in 1975 and third in 1973. He was also European champion in 1975–77. Domestically, Yumin won Soviet titles in 1973–75 and 1978. He placed third at the 1980 Soviet Championships and did not qualify for the Olympics. After that he retired and worked as a wrestling coach with the Turkish national team. In 2009 he was inducted into the International Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Francis Hardy
Francis Hardy was a French politician.
Ilaria Kaeslin
Ilaria Marina Käslin is a retired Swiss artistic gymnast. She competed at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships from 2013 to 2015 and in 2019.
Lukas Klapfer
Lukas Klapfer is an Austrian nordic combined skier who has been competing since 2002. His best World Cup finish was second in the normal hill Gundersen event in Austria in February 2009.