List of Famous people born on December 6th

José Rodrigues Neto was a Brazilian football fullback and manager.

Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala was a British Indian Army officer. He fought in the First Anglo-Sikh War and the Second Anglo-Sikh War before seeing action as chief engineer during the second relief of Lucknow in March 1858 during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He also served in the Second Opium War as commander of the 2nd division of the expeditionary force which took part in the Battle of Taku Forts, the surrender of Peking's Anting Gate and the entry to Peking in 1860. He subsequently led the punitive expedition to Abyssinia July 1867, defeating the Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia with minimal loss of life among his own forces and rescuing the hostages of Tewodros.

Simon Alexander McMenemy is a Scottish football manager. Previously he had spells as manager of Bhayangkara FC, Maldivian side New Radiant, Indonesia Super League club Pelita Bandung Raya, Mitra Kukar in Indonesia, Đồng Tâm Long An in Vietnam, Loyola Meralco Sparks in Philippines, the Philippines national football team and the Indonesia national football team.

Miguel Ángel Lunghi is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician, paediatrician and mayor of Tandil, where he was born.

Yasemin Adar is a Turkish freestyle wrestler competing in the 75 kg division. She is a World champion and four-time European champion.

Beatrice of Castile was a daughter of Alfonso X of Castile and his wife Violant of Aragon. She was Marchioness of Montferrat by her marriage and was mother of Irene of Montferrat.

Yoshio Nishina was a Japanese physicist. He was called "the founding father of modern physics research in Japan". He led the efforts of Japan to develop an atomic bomb during World War II.

Masami Kurumada is a Japanese manga artist and writer, known for specializing in fighting manga featuring bishōnen and magical boy.

André Lerond was a French footballer who played as a defender. He played mainly as a centre back or at left back, and occasionally as a Left Half. He was part of the French national teams of the 1950s. According to France Football in 2007, Lerond was "of average size, but extremely quick, a great technician, calm and always at the right place. He was a very gifted footballer." He captained the France national team 14 times. He died on 8 April 2018 at the age of 87.

Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, often referred to as Malesherbes or Lamoignon-Malesherbes, was a French statesman and minister in the Ancien Régime, and later counsel for the defense of Louis XVI. He is known for his vigorous criticism of royal abuses as President of the Cour des Aides and his role, as director of censorship, in helping with the publication of the Encyclopédie. Despite his committed monarchism, his writings contributed to the development of liberalism during the French Age of Enlightenment.