Famous birthdays
Famous people born on December 2
Short answer
Well-known people born on December 2 include Britney Spears (1981), Maria Meneghini Callas (1923), Nelly Furtado (1978) and Pedro II of Brazil (1825). Our list below has 74 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 2 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1728 (Ferdinando Galiani) and the most recent is 2004 (Ilia Malinin). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actress.
Who was born on December 2?
- Britney Spears 1981 American singer, songwriter, actress and model
- Maria Meneghini Callas 1923 American-Greek operatic soprano
- Nelly Furtado 1978 Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter
- Pedro II of Brazil 1825 2nd and final Emperor of Brazil (r. 1831–89)
- Lucy Liu 1968 American actress
- Georges Seurat 1859 French painter
- Gary S. Becker 1930 American economist
- Otto Dix 1891 German painter and printmaker
- Monica Seles 1973 Yugoslav and American tennis player
- Gianni Versace 1946 Italian fashion designer
- Ibrahim Rugova 1944 President of Kosovo
- Charlie Puth 1991 American singer, songwriter, and record producer
- George Minot 1885 American physician
- Ivan Bagramyan 1897 Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Kazuya Yamamura 1989 Japanese association football player
- Kelvin Kiptum 1999 Kenyan long-distance runner
- Matteo Darmian 1989 Italian footballer
- Harry Reid 1939 American politician
- Francesco Toldo 1971 Italian association football player
- Antonín Panenka 1948 Czech footballer
- Jan Ullrich 1973 German cyclist
- Dmitri Radchenko 1970 Russian association football player
- Julie Harris 1925 American actress
- Kalvin Phillips 1995 English association football player
- Julio César Baldivieso 1971 Bolivian association football player
- Alexander Haig 1924 Former U.S. Secretary of State and U.S. Army general
- Francis Jammes 1868 French poet
- Deb Haaland 1960 American politician
- Danijel Pranjić 1981 Croatian association football manager and former player
- Marjan Šarec 1977 9th Prime Minister of Slovenia
- Chris Wolstenholme 1978 British bassist
- Raimundo Orsi 1901 Argentine-Italian footballer
- George Saunders 1958 American writer
- Sabina Babayeva 1979 Singer from Azerbaijan
- Saitō Makoto 1858 Prime Minister of Japan
- Lesley-Ann Brandt 1981 South African-American actress
- Gastón Ramírez 1990 Uruguayan footballer
- Aaron Rodgers 1983 American football player
- Paul Watson 1950 Canadian environmental activist
- Jean Paulhan 1884 French writer
- Alfred Enoch 1988 English actor
- Boman Irani 1959 Indian actor and voice actor
- Vlado Bučkovski 1962 Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia
- Daniela Ruah 1983 American-Portuguese actress and director
- Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev 1923 Soviet diplomat
- Luis Suárez 1997 Colombian association football player
- Matthias Alexander Castrén 1813 Finnish ethnologist and philologist
- Robin Risser 2004 French footballer
- Steven Bauer 1956 Euro-Indigenous Cuban-American character actor, producer, musician, and entrepreneur
- Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu 1990 Ghanaian footballer
- Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau 1846 Prime Minister of France
- Siyabonga Nomvethe 1977 South African footballer
- Carlos Sánchez 1984 Uruguayan footballer
- Johannes Hahn 1957 Austrian politician
- James Edward Smith 1759 English botanist, founder of the Linnean Society of London
- Ibrahim Sangaré 1997 Ivorian footballer
- Denis McDonough 1969 11th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- Joe Lo Truglio 1970 American actor and comedian
- Karim Rekik 1994 Dutch association football player
- Ferdinando Galiani 1728 Italian economist
- Marais Viljoen 1915 South African politician
- Dan Butler 1954 American actor
- Jason Collins 1978 American basketball player
- Nikola Vasilj 1995 Bosnian association football player
- Anders Hejlsberg 1960 Danish software engineer
- Takahito, Prince Mikasa 1915 Japanese prince
- Anna Kalinskaya 1998 Russian tennis player
- Joseph Bell 1837 Scottish physician
- Ilia Malinin 2004 American figure skater
- Isabella Karle 1921 American physical chemist
- John Barbirolli 1899 British conductor and cellist
- Yvonne Catterfeld 1979 German singer
- Vilgot Sjöman 1924 Swedish writer and film director
- Jalal Al-e-Ahmad 1923 Writer, thinker, and social and political critic
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on December 2 share the 2nd of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.