List of Famous people born on December 2nd

Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène, is a French mathematician. He is a Directeur de Recherches at CNRS at the Université Paris-Saclay in Orsay. He studies mainly number theory and arithmetic geometry.

René Doynel de Saint-Quentin was a French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States from 1938 to 1940.

David Macaulay is a British-born American illustrator and writer. His works include Cathedral (1973), The Way Things Work (1988) and The New Way Things Work (1998). His illustrations have been featured in nonfiction books combining text and illustrations explaining architecture, design and engineering, and he has written a number of children's fiction books. Macaulay was a 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program award and received the Caldecott Medal in 1991 for Black and White (1990).

Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney John Cotton was a British Army officer. He was the commandment of the Moreton Bay penal colony in Australia.