List of Famous people born on December 9th

Asashio Tarō IV is a former sumo wrestler from Muroto, Kōchi, Japan. His highest rank was ōzeki. A former amateur champion, he turned professional in 1978. He won one top division tournament championship and was a runner-up on four other occasions. He won fourteen special prizes, including a record ten Outstanding Performance Awards, and five gold stars for defeating yokozuna. He retired in 1989 and became head coach of the Wakamatsu stable, which in 2002 merged with Takasago stable. He stood down as head coach in 2020.

Kuan Bi-ling is a Taiwanese politician. She is a member of the Democratic Progressive Party, currently serving as a member of the Legislative Yuan.

Hisham Talat Moustafa is an Egyptian businessman who had been elected in 2004 to the Shura Council in the Parliament of Egypt. As the former chairman and head of the Real Estate Branch of the Talaat Moustafa Group, his net worth was estimated at $800 million in 2007. He was arrested on September 2, 2008 and found guilty on May 21, 2009 for his involvement in the murder of Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim, but his sentence to death by hanging was overturned on a legal technicality. Following a retrial in 2010, he was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. Moustafa was released after 9 years on June 23, 2017 after receiving a presidential pardon.

Henk ten Cate is a Dutch football manager and former professional player who last worked as the head coach of Saudi Professional League club Al-Ittihad.

Irma Consuelo Cielo Serrano Castro is a Mexican pop-folk-singer of chanson, songwriter, actress, politician and vedette. Famous for her "tantalizing," "untamed spitfire" voice, she is one of the most noted performers of the ranchera and corrido genres; she was nicknamed La Tigresa de la Canción Ranchera and later known simply as "La Tigresa". At the same time, she developed a film career of more than a dozen films.

Miriam Welte is a German track cyclist.

Pedro Francisco García Aguado is a former water polo player from Spain. He was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Four years earlier, when Barcelona hosted the Games, he was on the side that captured the silver medal. In total, García has competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko is a Japanese animator, manga artist, and director in the anime industry.

Ayşe Begüm Onbaşı is a junior Turkish aerobic gymnast competing in three events. She is a gold medalist of World and European championships.

Joseph John Lando is an American actor, known for playing Byron Sully on the television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.