List of Famous people born on December 22nd

Ömür Gedik is a Turkish journalist. She is a writer for Hürriyet newspaper, artist, animal rights advocate, a member of SİYAD, and founder and president of HAÇİKO Association.

Paulo Alexandre Baptista Teixeira de Morais is a Portuguese professor and politician. He is the vice-president of the national chapter of the NGO Transparency International. Former deputy mayor of Porto and a public voice against corruption in Portuguese politics, he ran to the presidential elections of 2016. Paulo de Morais, whose campaign focused on the fight against corruption, obtained more than 100,000 votes.

Kazuo "Kaz" Hirai is a Japanese businessman. He is best known as the former chairman of Sony Corporation, serving from April 2018 to June 2019, as well as president and CEO from April 2012 to April 2018. He also served as a board member of Sony Computer Entertainment and chairman and co-CEO of Sony Entertainment. He was noted by Entertainment Weekly as one of the most powerful executives in the entertainment industry. He led the Sony Computer Entertainment division between 2007 and 2012, and then became president and CEO of Sony on April 1, 2012. Through his tenure as CEO, Sony experienced a resurgence during the 2010s. On April 1, 2018, Hirai stepped down as president and CEO, becoming chairman of Sony Corporation. He fully retired from Sony on June 18, 2019, otherwise remaining as a senior adviser to the company.

Jean Tulard is a French academic and historian, specialising in the history of cinema, of the French Consulate and the First French Empire. He is a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques since 1994.

Snarky Puppy is an American instrumental band led by bassist Michael League. Founded in 2004, Snarky Puppy combines a variety of jazz idioms, rock, world music, and funk and has won four Grammy Awards. Although the band has worked with vocalists, League described Snarky Puppy as "a pop band that improvises a lot, without vocals".

Park Il-gyu is a South Korean football player, who plays for Sagan Tosu as a goalkeeper.

Rainer Mausfeld is a retired German professor of psychology at Kiel University. He did research on the psychology of perception, cognitive science, and the history of psychology. His publications since 2015, about manipulation in media and politics and the transformation of representative democracy to neoliberal elite democracy, have gained considerable attention.

Jean Malaurie is a French cultural anthropologist, explorer, geographer, physicist, and writer. He and the Inuit Kutsikitsoq were the first two men to reach the North Geomagnetic Pole on May 29, 1951.

Marie Rivière is a French actress and filmmaker. She is known for her collaborations with director Éric Rohmer.

Mikhail Vitalievich Margelov ,a Russian public figure and politician, Vice President, JSC “Transneft”, the ex-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council of Russia. He has been a member of the European Democrat Group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 2002 until 2009.