List of Famous people born on December 5th

Sir Roger Owen Douglas is a retired New Zealand politician who served as a minister in two Labour governments. He became arguably best known for his prominent role in New Zealand's radical economic restructuring in the 1980s, when the Fourth Labour Government's economic policy became known as "Rogernomics".

Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy was a Russian navigator.

Clinton Hart Merriam was an American zoologist, mammalogist, ornithologist, entomologist, ecologist, ethnographer, geographer, and naturalist.

Ernest Paul was a French professional road bicycle racer.

Angela R. Nissel is an American author and television writer best known for her first book The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke. She was a writer and executive producer for Scrubs and is working on a television series with Halle Berry, who optioned both of Nissel's books. Nissel also worked as a writer and consulting producer in the fourth season of The Boondocks and is currently a co-executive producer and writer for the ABC sitcom Mixed-ish.

Alessandro Fersen was a Polish-born Italian dramatist, actor, theater director, author and drama teacher.