List of Famous people born on December 9th

Zachary Norvell Jr. is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Santa Cruz Warriors of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Gonzaga Bulldogs.

Hayley McQueen is a Scottish TV sports presenter, reporter, RTS award winning producer, and event host. McQueen is a lead anchor on Sky Sports News and currently the presenter of Scottish Premiership and Scottish Cup. Previous to that she hosted Sky Sports' flagship Saturday evening Football First Premier League highlights show Match Choice, when Sky had the rights Hayley anchored the live 3 o'clock Premier League game which is shown exclusively in Ireland with full build up and post match. She is also an awards presenter and regularly hosts corporate events. Alongside her Sky work Hayley presented for Premier League TV worldwide and has appeared as a guest host on BBC5Live football phone-in show as well as hosting duties for Radio X show The Kickabout standing in for Johnny Vaughan. She is the former co-presenter of Sky Sports Champions League as well as other Sky Sports football programming and once weekly Sportswomen programme.

Michael Vernon Townley is an American-born former agent of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), the secret police of Chile during the regime of Augusto Pinochet. In 1978, Townley pled guilty to the 1976 murders of Orlando Letelier, former Chilean ambassador to the United States, and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, Letelier's co-worker at the Institute for Policy Studies. He was sentenced to ten years in prison, serving 62 months. As part of his plea bargain, Townley received immunity from further prosecution; he was not extradited to Argentina to stand trial for the 1974 assassination of Chilean General Carlos Prats and his wife in Buenos Aires. He has lived under the United States Federal Witness Protection Program since his release from prison in 1983.

Fernando "Nando" Seler Parrado Dolgay is one of the sixteen Uruguayan survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes mountains on 13 October 1972. After spending two months trapped in the mountains with the other crash survivors, he, along with Roberto Canessa, climbed through the Andes mountains over a 10-day period to find help. His efforts, supported in various ways by the entire group, have been recognized through books and other media. He was portrayed by Ethan Hawke in the 1993 feature film Alive: Miracle in The Andes.

Milton Gonçalves is a Brazilian actor. He is one of the most famous black actors in Brazil, having collaborated twice with acclaimed director Hector Babenco. One notable role with Babenco was that alongside William Hurt and Raúl Juliá as a police chief in Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Dante Spinetta is an Argentine singer/composer who is part of the duo Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas.

Marianne, Dowager Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, is a German noble, the mother of Alexander, 7th Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn.

Mário José Gomes de Freitas Centeno is a Portuguese economist, university professor, and politician. Since 2015, he has been Minister of Finance in the government of Prime Minister António Costa of Portugal. He was the president of the Eurogroup and chairman of the board of Governors of the European Stability Mechanism from 2018 to 2020. Previously, he was a board member economist of the Bank of Portugal. On 9 June 2020, he announced his resignation from the Ministry of Finance, effective 15 June.

Tadashi Irie is a yakuza, the head (kumicho) of the Osaka-based 2nd Takumi-gumi and the grand general manager (so-honbucho) of the 6th Yamaguchi-gumi. He is regarded as the number-three leader of the 6th Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest known yakuza syndicate.

Clifton Eugene Abraham, Jr. is a former American and Canadian football player who was a defensive back in the National Football League (NFL) for three seasons. He played college football for Florida State University, and was recognized as an All-American. He played professionally for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Chicago Bears and Carolina Panthers of the NFL. Abraham also played for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.