December 1 is the birthday of 49 notable people we've found so far, including creators, entrepreneurs, politicians and actors, and 6 of them are billionaires.
$16.1Bolder estimate, as of September 2014 · Forbes
Anne Beau Cox Chambers was an American media proprietor, diplomat, and philanthropist who served as United States Ambassador to Belgium from 1977 to 1981.
Robert Frederick Smith is an American businessman. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. Globally, Smith is among the ranking The World's Billionaires with a net worth exceeding US$10.6 billion as of 2025.
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James Coulter is an American billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder of private equity firm TPG Inc., originally known as the Texas Pacific Group.
Safra Ada Catz is an Israeli-American business executive. She is the executive vice chair and former CEO of Oracle Corporation. She has been an executive at Oracle since April 1999, and a board member since 2001.
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Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique was a Chilean businessman and politician who served as 34th and 36th president of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and from 2018 to 2022.
Share of the 49 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Creators29% (14 people)
Entrepreneurs22% (11 people)
Politicians22% (11 people)
Actors20% (10 people)
Musicians20% (10 people)
Authors18% (9 people)
Scientists18% (9 people)
Countries
19 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States23 (23 people)
France3 (3 people)
Italy3 (3 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Poland2 (2 people)
United Kingdom2 (2 people)
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Heywood "Woody" Allen is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and comedian. In a career spanning more than seven decades, he has written for film, television, and theater.
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Emory Andrew Tate III is an American and British social media personality and former professional kickboxer who built a webcam pornography business before gaining notoriety for promoting various highly controversial positions in the manosphere.
Zoë Isabella Kravitz is an American actress, singer, and filmmaker. She has received nominations for a Critics' Choice Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2022, she was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People.
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Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Known for reaching a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, he is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential comedians ever.
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Rizwan Ahmed is a British actor and rapper. He has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two British Academy Film Awards.
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Richard Lynn Scott is an American attorney, businessman, politician, and Navy veteran serving as the senior United States senator from Florida, a seat he has held since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2011 to 2019 as the 45th governor of Florida.
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Federico Faggin is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
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Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum (Arabic: أحمد بن سعيد آل مكتوم; born 1 December 1958 is an Emirati businessman, politician and member of Dubai's ruling Al Maktoum family, who was the chairman and CEO of the Emirates airline and the Emirates Group, second vice chairman of the…
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Mian Mohammad Mansha Yahya is a Pakistani business magnate who is the current chairman of MCB Bank and one of the wealthiest individuals in Pakistan. His family owns Nishat Group.
Sarah Kate Silverman is an American stand-up comedian, actress and writer. She first rose to prominence for her brief stint as a writer and cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live during its 19th season, between 1993 and 1994.
Janelle Monáe Robinson is an American singer, songwriter, rapper and actor. She has received ten Grammy Award nominations, and is the recipient of a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Children's and Family Emmy Award.
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Alexandra of Denmark was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 22 January 1901 to 6 May 1910 as the wife of King Edward VII.
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Jennifer Rene Psaki is an American political analyst and former government official. A political advisor who served under both the Obama and Biden administrations, she served in the Biden administration as the 34th White House press secretary from January 2021 to May 2022.
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Néstor Gastón Carbonell is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He came to prominence for his role as Luis Rivera in the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan.
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Nico Cédric Schlotterbeck is a German professional footballer who plays primarily as a centre-back for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and the Germany national team. He is known for his build-up play, aerial ability, speed, strength and aggressive tackling.
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Salvatore Schillaci, also known as Totò Schillaci, was an Italian professional footballer who played as a striker. During his club career, he played for Messina (1982–1989), Juventus (1989–1992), Internazionale (1992–1994) and Júbilo Iwata (1994–1997).
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Anna Maria "Marie" Tussaud, commonly known as Madame Tussaud, was a French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she founded in London.
"A Portrait Study by John T. Tussaud", Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ignacy Mościcki was a Polish chemist and politician who was the country's president from 1926 to 1939. He was the longest serving president in Polish history. Mościcki was the president of Poland when Germany invaded the country on 1 September 1939 and started World War II.
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Ernst Toller was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician, and revolutionary known for his Expressionist plays. He served for six days in 1919 as president of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, after which he became head of its army.
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John Francis Clauser is an American theoretical and experimental physicist known for contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics, in particular the Clauser–Horne–Shimony–Holt inequality.
Victor Robert Ambros is an American developmental biologist of Polish descent, who discovered the first known microRNA (miRNA). He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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Maurice De Bevere, better known as Morris, was a Belgian comics artist, illustrator, and the creator of Lucky Luke, a best-selling comic series about a gunslinger in the American Wild West. He was inspired by the adventures of the historic Dalton Gang and other outlaws.
Martin Heinrich Klaproth was a German chemist. He trained and worked for much of his life as an apothecary, moving in later life to the university. His shop became the second-largest apothecary in Berlin, and the most productive artisanal chemical research center in Europe.
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Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan writer who rose to fame for his 1985 novel L'Enfant de sable. Although his first language is Darija, his works are written in French. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Sir James David Wolfensohn was an Australian-American lawyer, investment banker, and economist who served as the ninth president of the World Bank Group (1995–2005).
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Martin Rodbell was an American biochemist and molecular endocrinologist who is best known for his discovery of G-proteins. He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alfred G.
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Finn Erling Kydland is a Norwegian economist known for his contributions to business cycle theory. He is the Henley Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also holds the Richard P.
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This page lists 49 people born on December 1, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 6 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of August 2025. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on December 1. Read the full methodology.
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