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Famous people born on December 20

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Well-known people born on December 20 include Kylian Mbappé (1998), Abdulrazak Gurnah (1948), Binali Yıldırım (1955) and Ashley Cole (1980). Our list below has 83 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 20 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1629 (Pieter de Hooch) and the most recent is 2001 (Sepp van den Berg). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, politician.

Who was born on December 20?

  1. Kylian Mbappé 1998 French association football player
  2. Abdulrazak Gurnah 1948 Tanzanian-born British writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2021)
  3. Binali Yıldırım 1955 Prime Minister of Turkey
  4. Ashley Cole 1980 English association football player
  5. Martin Schulz 1955 German politician
  6. Kim Young-sam 1927 President of South Korea from 1993 to 1998
  7. Kim Ki-duk 1960 South Korean film director
  8. Jaroslav Heyrovský 1890 Czech chemist
  9. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz 1956 President of Mauritania from 2009 to 2019
  10. Martín Demichelis 1980 Argentine footballer and coach
  11. Nicușor Dan 1969 President of Romania since 2025
  12. Jonah Hill 1983 American actor
  13. Jorginho 1991 Brazilian and Italian association football player
  14. Ferdinand Buisson 1841 French academic and politician
  15. Michihiro Yasuda 1987 Japanese association football player
  16. Irene Dunne 1898 American actress and singer
  17. Gigliola Cinquetti 1947 Italian singer
  18. Todd Phillips 1970 American filmmaker
  19. Fabian Schär 1991 Swiss association football player
  20. David Bohm 1917 American theoretical physicist
  21. Andrea Belotti 1993 Italian association football player
  22. Abbas II of Persia 1633 The seventh Safavid king
  23. JoJo 1990 American singer and actress
  24. Robert Menzies 1894 Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia
  25. Alan Parsons 1948 British audio engineer, musician, and record producer
  26. Márcio Rodrigues 1978 Brazilian association football player
  27. Ognjen Vukojević 1983 Croatian association football manager and former player
  28. Mehmet Âkif Ersoy 1873 Turkish poet and writer
  29. Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz 1959 12th Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
  30. George Roy Hill 1921 American film director
  31. Väinö Linna 1920 Finnish writer
  32. Geremi 1978 Cameroonian association football player
  33. Pieter de Hooch 1629 Dutch Golden Age painter
  34. Jarrod Bowen 1996 English association football player
  35. Jean-Claude Trichet 1942 French economist and central banker
  36. Alain de Botton 1969 Swiss-born British philosopher and writer
  37. Walter Sydney Adams 1876 American astronomer
  38. Uri Geller 1946 Israeli illusionist
  39. Jenny Agutter 1952 British film and television actress
  40. Erina Yamane 1990 Japanese association football player
  41. Prince George, Duke of Kent 1902 Royal Navy admiral, member of the House of Windsor
  42. Edwin Abbott Abbott 1838 British theologian and author
  43. Anna Vissi 1957 Greek Cypriot singer
  44. Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo 1963 Infanta of Spain and Duchess of Lugo
  45. Arturo Alessandri 1868 Chilean politician and President
  46. Mohammed Muntari 1993 Qatari footballer
  47. Robert J. Van de Graaff 1901 American physicist
  48. Bob Morley 1984 Australian actor
  49. Knut Wicksell 1851 Swedish economist
  50. Facundo Pellistri 2001 Uruguayan association football player
  51. Susanne Langer 1895 American philosopher
  52. Infanta Isabel, Countess of Gergenti 1851 Spanish princess; eldest daughter of Queen Isabella II and Francis, Duke of Cádiz
  53. John Spencer 1946 American actor
  54. Kathryn Joosten 1939 American actress
  55. Sandra Cisneros 1954 American writer and poet
  56. Friederike Mayröcker 1924 Austrian poet
  57. David Cook 1982 American musician
  58. Geoffrey Howe 1926 British politician
  59. Jan Toorop 1858 Dutch painter
  60. Kate Atkinson 1951 English writer of novels, plays and short stories
  61. Azar Nafisi 1948 Iranian-American writer
  62. Elizaveta Boyarskaya 1985 Russian actress
  63. Ivana Kobilca 1861 Slovenian artist
  64. Julien Benneteau 1981 French tennis player
  65. Sohail Khan 1970 Indian actor, producer, writer
  66. Bartosz Bosacki 1975 Polish footballer
  67. Vasyl Slipak 1974 Ukrainian opera singer
  68. John Hillerman 1932 American actor
  69. Rik Van Looy 1933 Belgian road racing cyclist
  70. Dylan Wang 1998 Chinese actor and singer
  71. Giulio Ciccone 1994 Italian cyclist
  72. Nicole de Boer 1970 Canadian actress
  73. Julius Darmaatmadja 1934 Catholic cardinal
  74. Sepp van den Berg 2001 Dutch association football player
  75. Ed de Goey 1966 Dutch footballer
  76. Dmitry Bykov 1967 Russian writer and journalist
  77. De'Aaron Fox 1997 American basketball player
  78. Sonny Perdue 1946 American politician
  79. Karl Wendlinger 1968 Austrian racecar driver
  80. Billy Bragg 1957 English musician and activist
  81. Scholastique Mukasonga 1956 Franco-Rwandan writer
  82. Charlotte Bühler 1893 German American psychologist
  83. Denise Herrmann-Wick 1988 German cross-country skier and biathlete

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on December 20 share the 20th of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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