List of Famous people born on December 20th

Alexandre François Étienne Jean Bouin was a French middle-distance runner. He competed in the 1500m at the 1908 Olympics and the 5000m at the 1912 Olympics. He won a silver medal in the 5000m in 1912, behind Hannes Kolehmainen. His race against Kolehmainen has long been regarded as one of the most memorable moments in running. Kolehmainen and Bouin quickly pulled away from the others, with Bouin leading and Kolehmainen repeatedly trying to pass him. Kolehmainen succeeded only 20 metres from the finish, winning by 0.1 seconds. Both contenders broke the world record.

Carl Robert Olof Gustafsson is a Swedish comedian, actor, and member of Killinggänget. He has sometimes been called "the funniest man in Sweden".

Valeriu Lazarov or Valerio Lazarov was a Romanian-born television producer and director of Spanish Channel, Telecinco between 1985–1994.

Rosa María Bartra Barriga is a Peruvian lawyer, politician and pharmaceutical chemist who served as a congressman for La Libertad from 2016 to 2020. She successfully ran for the post of parliamentarian in the 2016 elections with the fujimorism party, Popular Force and in the 2020 elections with National Solidarity, not obtaining the seat, being invited by these two political organizations on both occasions.

Per-Åke Tommy Persson, known by the stage name Peps Persson, was a Swedish blues and reggae musician and social critic from Tjörnarp, Scania. Throughout his career he mostly made music in Swedish and was well known for his Scanian dialect. At an earlier stage he made a few albums in English. His songs from the 1970s have become Swedish classics, including "Falsk matematik", which was number-one on Svensktoppen for 15 weeks.

Tamás Lőrincz is a Hungarian wrestler. He won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Greco-Roman 66 kg event and a gold medal in the men's 77 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.

Edip Yüksel is a Kurdish American author and philosophy professor of Sunni Muslim background. He is an exponent of the modern Islamic reform and Quranism (Quraniyoon) movements and is known for his criticism and rejection of both Sunni and Shiite versions of Islam. Author of several books on the Qur'an and Islam, he gained attention through his works and speeches.

Jan Philipp Albrecht is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens, part of The Greens-European Free Alliance. Since 2018, he has been serving as Minister for Energy, Agriculture, the Environment, Nature and Digitalization of Schleswig-Holstein. From 2009 until 2018, he was a Member of the European Parliament. He is specialized in the field of civil rights, data protection and democracy.

Amanda Daniela Coneo Cardona is a Colombian volleyball player. She is part of the Colombia national team.

Robina Courtin is a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Buddhist Gelugpa tradition and lineage of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. In 1996 she founded the Liberation Prison Project, which she ran until 2009.