List of Famous people born on December 29th
Corina Grünenfelder
Corina Grünenfelder is a Swiss former alpine skier who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Alejandra Krauss
Alejandra Krauss Valle is a Chilean politician and former Minister of Planning and Cooperation.
Wynton Rufer
Wynton Alan Whai Rufer is a New Zealand retired footballer who played as a striker. He spent more than a decade of his professional career in Switzerland and Germany, achieving his greatest success at Werder Bremen, where he won a total of four major titles and finished the top scorer in the UEFA Champions League 1993–94 season. He was also a member of the New Zealand national team in its first FIFA World Cup appearance in 1982. He was named the Oceania Footballer of the Century by the Oceania Football Confederation.
Étienne Ghys
Étienne Ghys is a French mathematician. His research focuses mainly on geometry and dynamical systems, though his mathematical interests are broad. He also expresses much interest in the historical development of mathematical ideas, especially the contributions of Henri Poincaré.
Noel Leung
Sabrina Leung Siu-bing is a Hong Kong actress known for her roles in TVB television. She was the second runner-up in Miss Hong Kong 1990.
Mika Nagano
Mika Nagano is a Japanese female mixed martial artist and professional wrestler. She fought as a lightweight in the Deep and Jewels promotions before her retirement in 2014. Nagano has also wrestled in Ice Ribbon and World Wonder Ring Stardom. Her nickname is Future Princess.
Óscar Estupiñán
Óscar Eduardo Estupiñán Vallesilla is a Colombian footballer who plays as a striker for Vitória S.C..
Yevgeny Rein
Yevgeny Borisovich Rein is a Russian poet and writer, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1997). His poetry won the Pushkin Prize of Russia, Tsarskoe Selo Art Prize (1997), or the Russian National Prize - the Poet (2012).
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat is a French mathematician and physicist. She has made seminal contributions to the study of Einstein's general theory of relativity, by showing that the Einstein equations can be put into the form of an initial value problem which is well-posed. In 2015, her breakthrough paper was listed by the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity as one of thirteen 'milestone' results in the study of general relativity, across the hundred years in which it had been studied.
Gabrielle Destroismaisons
Gabrielle Destroismaisons is a Québécois singer. In 2000, she released her debut album Etc..., which sold more than 100,000 copies in a few months and led to Destroismaisons being awarded one win and two nominations at the 2002 Félix Awards and a nomination at the 2002 Juno Awards. She participated in the 20 year anniversary show of "La fureur" as a guest singer.