David Rudisha

David Lekuta Rudisha, MBS is a Kenyan middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. He is a two-time back-to-back Olympic champion from the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics, a two-time World champion from the 2011 and 2015 World Championships in Athletics, and a world record holder at the event with a time of 1:40.91, set at the 2012 London Games on 9 August 2012. Rudisha is the first and only person to ever run 800 metres under 1:41, and he holds the three fastest, six of the eight fastest, and half of the twenty fastest times ever run in this event.

17 December 1988

Born on the same birth date (17 December 1988): Craig Sutherland • Grethe Grünberg • Kris Joseph • Liisa Ehrberg

Born on the same birth day (17 December): Arnaud Clément • Craig Berube • Doyle Conner • Edward Meneeley • Edward Short, Baron Glenamara • Erwin Piscator • Eugene Levy • Fernando Abad • Fernando Lopes-Graça • James McGaugh • John Greenleaf Whittier • John Kennedy Toole • Kåre Valebrokk • Martin Ødegaard • Mike Mills • Patricia Kú Flores • Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna • Peter Farrelly • Ray Noble • Sam Barry • Simon Bates • Wes Studi

Born in the same month (December 1988): Adam Eaton (outfielder) • Andriy Pylyavskyi • Angelina Gabueva • Craig Sutherland • Grethe Grünberg • Isaac John • Lizzie Deignan • Mallory Hagan • Melissa Aldana • Peter Winn (footballer) • Rick Porcello • Ross Bagley • Seth Doege • Stephen McGinn • Tyler Joseph • Vanessa Hudgens