List of Famous people born on December 15th

Alexander B. H. Cox is an English film director, screenwriter, actor, nonfiction author and broadcaster. Cox experienced success early in his career with Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, but since the release and commercial failure of Walker, he has directed his career towards independent films. Cox received a co-writer credit for the screenplay of Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) for previous work on the script before it was completely rewritten by Gilliam.

Hans Carossa was a German novelist and poet, known mostly for his autobiographical novels, and his "innere Emigration" during the Nazi era.

Stephan Ernst Johann Mayer is a German politician. He is a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU). Since 2002 he has been a member of the German Bundestag and spokesman for Home Affairs of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, and member of the executive board of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag.

Jean-Daniel Colladon was a Swiss physicist.

Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta is a politician in Afghanistan who last served as National Security Advisor of President Hamid Karzai. Prior to that he served as Foreign Minister from April 2006 to January 2010.

Nilakanta Sri Ram or Nilakantha Sri Ram was a freemason, theosophist and president of the Theosophical Society Adyar during twenty years.