List of Famous people born on December 31st

Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014. He was the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) for over 20 years, serving two terms, from 1990 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2014. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Banff and Buchan between 1987 and 2010, when he stood down to focus on his role as First Minister, and then for Gordon from 2015 to 2017, when he lost his seat to Scottish Conservative candidate Colin Clark. Salmond served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 to 2001 and 2011 to 2016.

Sun Lijun is a former Chinese politician. He was investigated by the Chinese Communist Party's anti-graft agency in April 2020. Previously he served as Deputy Minister of Public Security and vice-president of the China Law Society. Prior to that, he served as director of the First Bureau of Ministry of Public Security, handling domestic political security. And he served as the ministry's director of the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office and a deputy director of the 610 Office, which was in charge of suppressing Falun Gong practitioners. Sun became the second official at provincial or ministerial level to be investigated by the anti-corruption watchdog in 2020, after Zhang Zhinan, former vice governor of east China's Fujian province.

Rikiya Koyama is a Japanese actor and voice actor. He is a member of Haiyuza Theatre Company. He has done popular voicing roles in Hajime no Ippo, Utawarerumono and Kamen no Maid Guy. He is also known by the nicknames "Rikki" and "Riki-chan". Koyama become well known for voicing Yamato in Naruto Shippuden, Kogoro Mouri in Case Closed. He is also known for voicing rather tall or massive inhuman villains like Coyote Starrk in Bleach, Fukuro in Fairy Tail and Deep Sea King in One Punch Man. He is also the official dub-over artist of George Clooney and Kiefer Sutherland, also for Ma Dong-seok.

Nikolay Maximovich Tsiskaridze PAR is a Georgian-Russian ballet dancer who had been a member of the Bolshoi Ballet for 21 years (1992–2013).

Eric Tradd Schneiderman is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 65th Attorney General of New York from 2011 until his resignation in May 2018. Schneiderman, a member of the Democratic Party, previously served for ten years in the New York State Senate.

Vanessa Burggraf is a French journalist, television presenter and columnist.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi is a Mauritanian man who was detained at Guantánamo Bay detention camp without charge from 2002 until his release on October 17, 2016.

Alexander Aleksandrovich Bolshunov is a Russian cross-country skier and two-time winner of the 14th and 15th Tour de Ski. He is the first male post-Soviet Russian World Cup champion, winning the overall World Cup in 2020.

Park Jae-sang, known professionally as Psy, is a South Korean singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Psy is known domestically for his humorous videos and stage performances, and internationally for his hit single "Gangnam Style". The song's refrain was entered into The Yale Book of Quotations as one of the most famous quotations of 2012.

Jordan Banjo is a British street dancer, best known as a current member of the dance troupe Diversity, who won the third series of Britain's Got Talent.