List of Famous people born on December 20th
Adrien Jolivet
Oleksandr Fedenko
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Fedenko is a retired Ukrainian cyclist. He competed in four road and track events at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in the 4000 m team pursuit in 2000. In this discipline his team finished in seventh place at the 1996 Games and won two world titles in 1998 and 2001.
Teja Oblak
Teja Oblak is a professional Slovenian basketball player for ZVVZ USK Praha and the Slovenian national team. She began her basketball career in her hometown Škofja Loka, playing eight years for her local team Odeja Škofja Loka. In Euroleague, she combined one season in Polkowice with three seasons for Good Angels Košice and one season in Atomerömü KSC Szekszard and in 2018, she moved to ZVVZ USK Praha. She is one of two female Slovenian basketball players to have won two euroleague champion titles.
Victor Desmet
Roy Williams
Roy Eugene Williams Jr. is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions, Dallas Cowboys, and Chicago Bears. He played college football for the University of Texas Longhorns.
Terry George
Terence George is an Irish screenwriter and director. Much of his film work involves "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland.
Steven S. Vogt
Steven Scott Vogt is an American astronomer of German descent whose main interest is the search for extrasolar planets.
Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros is a Chicana writer. She is best known for her first novel, The House on Mango Street (1983), and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Her work experiments with literary forms and investigates emerging subject positions, which Cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, was awarded one of 25 new Ford Foundation Art of Change fellowships in 2017, and is regarded as a key figure in Chicana literature.