List of Famous people born on December 30th

Keifer Jerail Sykes is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, and also played for the Austin Spurs of the NBA G League, Anyang KGC of the Korean Basketball League, Ankara DSI of the Basketball Super League, and S.S. Felice Scandone of the Lega Basket Serie A.

Charles Arthur Bassett II, Major, USAF, was an American electrical engineer and United States Air Force test pilot. He went to Ohio State University for two years and later graduated from Texas Tech University. He joined the Air Force as a pilot and graduated from both the Aerospace Research Pilot School and the Air Force's Experimental Test Pilot School. Bassett was married and had two children. He was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1963 and was assigned to Gemini 9. He died in an airplane crash during training for his first spaceflight. He is memorialized on the Space Mirror Memorial; The Astronaut Monument; and the Fallen Astronaut memorial plaque, which was placed on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission.

Gary O'Donovan is an Irish rower. Together with his brother Paul he won the gold medal in the lightweight double sculls at the 2016 European Rowing Championships, silver in the same discipline at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and gold at the 2018 World Rowing Championships. He was the flag bearer for Ireland during the closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Jutta Leerdam is a Dutch speed skater specializing in the sprint events.

Bryan Heath Evans is a former American football Running back and former analyst on NFL Network. After playing college football at Auburn he was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the third round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He also played for the Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, and New Orleans Saints, the last of which he won a Super Bowl with while on injured reserve. Evans retired after the 2010 season and was formerly an analyst with NFL Network.

Elena Anatolyevna Tchaikovskaia, also spelled as Chaykovskaya or Chaikovskaia is a Russian figure skating coach, choreographer, and former competitor for the Soviet Union. She runs a skating school at the Yantar Sports Center, built in 2010 in the Strogino District west of Moscow. She coaches in collaboration with Vladimir Kotin, her former pupil.

Silda Alice Wall Spitzer is an American businesswoman, lawyer, and the First Lady of New York State from January 2007 until March 2008, when her former husband Eliot Spitzer was governor. She has worked in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors in the areas of green/sustainability issues, youth service/education, and human rights and women's financial and other empowerment.

Gavino Ledda is an author and a scholar of the Italian language and of Sardinian. He is best known for his autobiographical work Padre Padrone (1975).

Samuel James Otero is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Blanca Ares Torres is a former Spanish basketball player, representing Spain from 1988 to 1994 and winning a gold medal at the 1993 European Championship, scoring 24 points in the final against France.