List of Famous people born in December

Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns, was an Irish-born British statesman who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain during the first two ministries of Benjamin Disraeli. He was one of the most prominent Conservative statesmen in the House of Lords during this period of Victorian politics. He served as the seventeenth Chancellor of the University of Dublin between 1867 and 1885.

Octavius Wigram was an English businessman and ship owner in the City of London, a member of Lloyds and Governor of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation.

Paras Bir Bikram Shah Dev is the former Crown Prince of Nepal, the heir apparent to the throne, from 2001 until the abolition of the monarchy by the Interim Constituent Assembly in 2008 following Constituent Assembly election.

Princess Olga Valerianovna Paley was the morganatic second wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia.

Peter Alexandru Herbolzheimer was a Romanian-German jazz trombonist and bandleader.

Max Adalbert was a German stage and film actor.

Peder Anker was a prominent Norwegian landowner, businessman and politician. He served as Prime Minister of Norway from 1814 until 1822.

Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax, GCB, PC, known as Sir Charles Wood, 3rd Bt, between 1846 and 1866, was an Anglo-Indian Whig politician and Member of Parliament of the British Empire. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1846 to 1852.