List of Famous people born on December 5th

Ottomar von Mayenburg was a German pharmacist. He invented the Clorodont toothpaste for the German market.

Nurnaningsih was an Indonesian actress. She has been described as Indonesia's first sex bomb.

Andrii Pavlovych Zahorodniuk is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician. He was the Minister of Defence of Ukraine from 29 August 2019 to 4 March 2020.

David Michael Culver, was a Canadian businessman and former Chairman and CEO of Alcan Aluminum Limited, from 1979 to 1989.

Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey was an eccentric and hot-tempered officer of the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars who was as distinguished for his gambling and dueling as for his military record. Although Harvey was a significant naval figure for over twenty years, his martial reputation was largely based on his experiences at the Battle of Trafalgar, when he took his ship HMS Temeraire into the thick of the action. Harvey used Temeraire to force the surrender of two French ships of the line and later created his family motto from the names of his opponents in the engagement; "Redoutable et Fougueux".

Gamal Hamza is an Egyptian former footballer. He played for Zamalek SC for most of his football career. He last played for the Egyptian Premier League side Haras El-Hodood.

Girolama or Geronima Mazarini was the sister of Cardinal Mazarin, the chief minister of France at the start of the reign of King Louis XIV of France. She was the mother of the five famous Mancini sisters, who with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, became famous at the French court as the Mazarinettes.

John Jervis Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache, was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and a major landowner and estate manager in Cheshire, becoming Baron Tollemache of Helmingham Hall in Suffolk.

Georgios Demosthenes Savalas was an American film and television actor. He was the younger brother of actor Telly Savalas, with whom he acted in the popular 1970s TV crime series Kojak.