December 19 is the birthday of 46 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, actors, athletes and authors, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Abigail Johnson is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Fidelity Investments. The company had been founded by her grandfather, Edward C. Johnson II, in 1946, and her father, Edward Johnson III, was its CEO when she joined.
Share of the 46 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors24% (11 people)
Athletes24% (11 people)
Entrepreneurs24% (11 people)
Authors20% (9 people)
Creators17% (8 people)
Musicians13% (6 people)
Scientists11% (5 people)
Countries
17 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States17 (17 people)
France5 (5 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Austria–Hungary2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
South Africa2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on December 19 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
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~25Jake GyllenhaalReceived the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (2005)
Karim Mostafa Benzema is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker. He is a free agent after the termination of his contract with Saudi Pro League side Al Hilal.
Albert Abraham Michelson was an American experimental physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment. In 1907, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming the first American to win the Nobel Prize in a science.
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Alvin Eliot Roth is an American academic. He is the Craig and Susan McCaw professor of economics at Stanford University and the Gund professor of economics and business administration emeritus at Harvard University. He was president of the American Economic Association in 2017.
Lee Myung-bak, often referred to by his initials MB, is a South Korean politician and business executive who served as the tenth president of South Korea from 2008 to 2013. A member of the then Saenuri Party, he was the mayor of Seoul from 2002 to 2006.
Henry Clay Frick was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron. He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, and later became chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company.
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Aron Hector Schmitz, better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
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Alexander Nesis is a Russian entrepreneur and the largest stakeholder of a private equity firm ICT Holding Ltd. (Cyprus). He was the founder and the president of the ICT Group, a private equity entity based and operated in Russia from 1991 until 2013.
Alexis Alejandro Sánchez Sánchez, also known mononymously as Alexis, is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a winger or a striker for Major League Soccer club CF Montréal and the Chile national team.
Brandon Winn Sanderson is an American author of high fantasy, science fiction, and young adult books. His best known novels include the Mistborn series and The Stormlight Archive, which are set in the "Cosmere", a fictional universe.
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Édith Giovanna Gassion, known as Édith Piaf, was a French singer and lyricist. She is regarded as France's greatest popular singer and one of the most celebrated performers in the world. She is best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres.
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Gabriel dos Santos Magalhães, also known mononymously as Gabriel, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays primarily as centre-back for Premier League club Arsenal and the Brazil national team.
Richard Mark Hammond is an English television presenter, journalist, and author. He is best known for co-hosting the BBC Two motoring programme Top Gear from 2002 until 2015 with Jeremy Clarkson and James May.
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Cecily Louise "Cicely" Tyson was an American actress. In a career spanning seven decades, she portrayed complex and strong-willed African American women.
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Mileva Marić, sometimes called Mileva Marić-Einstein, was a Serbian mathematician. She was also the first wife of Albert Einstein from 1903 to 1919. She was the only woman among Einstein's fellow students at Zurich Polytechnic.
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Franck Yannick Kessié is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Atalanta and captains the Ivory Coast national team.
Tilman Valentin Schweiger is a German actor and filmmaker. He became known in the 1990s for films such as Manta, Manta, Der bewegte Mann and Knockin' on Heaven's Door.
Oluwafikayomi Oluwadamilola "Fikayo" Tomori is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie A club AC Milan. Born in Canada, he represents the England national team.
Sir Ralph David Richardson was an English actor. Along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave, Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness, he made up a quintet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.
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Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright.
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Robert Bernard Sherman was an American songwriter. Best known for his work in musical films with his brother, Richard M. Sherman, they, known as Sherman brothers, produced more motion picture song scores than any other songwriting team in film history.
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Tadanari Lee is a Japanese football executive and former player who played as a striker or attacking midfielder. He is currently the vice chairman and sporting director of Singapore Premier League club Tampines Rovers.
Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter was an American novelist. She was best known as the creator of the Pollyanna series of books, starting with Pollyanna (1913), which were a popular phenomenon.
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Jasmila Žbanić is a Bosnian film director, screenwriter and producer. She has received numerous accolades, including nominations for the Academy Award and two BAFTA Awards.
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Harold Gary Morse was an American billionaire and the developer, along with his father Harold Schwartz, of the active adult retirement community The Villages, Florida.
Michel Tournier was a French writer. He won awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Friday, or, The Other Island and the Prix Goncourt for The Erl-King in 1970.
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Antonín Zápotocký was a Czech communist politician and statesman in Czechoslovakia. He served as the Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1953, and then as President of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1957.
Douw Gerbrand Steyn was a South African billionaire businessman, the founder of BGL Group, a UK-based insurance and financial services company, and the parent of Compare the Market.
Leemon Agbonjagwe Ikpea(born 19 December 1956), is a Nigerian businessman, industrialist and philanthropist. He founded Lee Engineering and Construction Company Limited, a company involved in various industries including oil and gas, construction and power.
This page lists 46 people born on December 19, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 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 2019. 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 19. Read the full methodology.
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