List of Famous people born on December 23rd

Tessel Tina Middag is a Dutch footballer who plays as a midfielder for Rangers in the Scottish Women's Premier League and the Dutch national team, representing the country at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. She previously played for ADO Den Haag, AFC Ajax, Manchester City, West Ham United, and Fiorentina.

Joaquín Capilla Pérez, was a Mexican diver who won the largest number of Olympic medals among Mexican athletes. Together with his elder brother Alberto he competed in the 3 m springboard and 10 m platform at the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won one gold, one silver and two bronze medals, finishing fourth in the two remaining competitions. He also won four medals at the Pan American Games, in 1951 and 1955. After retiring from competitions Capilla descended into poverty, chain smoking and alcoholism, eventually losing his family and home. He recovered owing to religion and later earned a degree in theology. In 2009 he was awarded the National Sports Award. He died the next year as a result of cardiac arrest.

Sono Sachiko (園祥子) was the fifth concubine of Emperor Meiji of Japan. Although Meiji was the last Japanese emperor to have more than one consort, the official role at court was not abolished until 1924; surviving concubines remained as members of the imperial family in retirement. In 2005 Prince Tomohito of Mikasa urged the revival of concubinage to address problems related to male-only primogeniture in the current order of Japanese imperial succession.

Dante Alfonso Delgado Rannauro is a Mexican politician, lawyer, and diplomatic who is the national coordinator and co-founder of the Citizens' Movement political party. He has served as Interim Governor of Veracruz, as Ambassador of Mexico in Italy, as Senator of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Veracruz, and as Deputy during the LIII Legislature.

Gala León García is a former professional tennis player from Spain. On 21 September 2014 she was announced as the new Davis Cup captain for the Spanish national men's tennis team.

Raúl Baglini was an Argentine politician who served in both houses of the National Congress of Argentina, representing the Radical Civic Union.

Sonia Castedo Ramos is a Spanish politician and was mayor of Alicante until her resignation on December 23, 2014.

Nikolay Alexandrovich Alexeyev is a Russian LGBT rights activist, lawyer, and journalist.

Robert Bartko is a German former road and track cyclist, who competed professionally between 2001 and 2014. Born in the former East Germany, Bartko won two gold medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia: in the individual and in the team pursuit.

Maria Reiter, known as "Mimi" or "Mitzi", was associated romantically with Adolf Hitler in the late 1920s. She told her story to the German periodical Stern in 1959.