List of Famous people born on December 8th

Darren Stephen Sheridan is an English former footballer and manager. As a player, Sheridan played as a centre midfielder. He had one spell as a player-manager, with Barrow, before managing Salford City.

Louis de Bernières is an English novelist. He is known for his 1994 historical war novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. It has been translated into over 11 languages and is an international best-seller.

Michael Kahn is an American film editor. His credits range from TV's Hogan's Heroes to feature films directed by George C. Scott and Steven Spielberg, with whom he has had an extended, notable collaboration for over 40 years.

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg is a German film director, whose best known film is his lengthy feature Hitler: A Film from Germany.

Sean Michael Coulthard, better known by his stage name Michael Cole, is an American professional wrestling commentator and former journalist. He is signed to WWE, where he serves as the play-by-play commentator for the SmackDown brand, and since 2020, has served as Vice President of Announcing.

Iván Alejandro Moreira Barros is a Chilean politician who currently serves as Senator of the Republic of Chile. An opponent of same-sex marriage, he accused the Chilean government of "bowing to the agenda of the left" in pushing the bill through the parliament in 2021, and accused Sebastián Piñera of abandoning his constituency and the "commitments we had with the world of values."