List of Famous people born in August

Polimá Ngangu Eduardo Miguel Orellana, known professionally as Polimá Westcoast, is a Chilean rapper and singer. His musical style is defined as Latin trap and reggaeton. He is one of the better known figures of the Chilean urban music scene that emerged in the late-2010s. He had his first underground hit with the song "Brokeboi" in 2018. In 2019 Polimá Westcoast presented a show at Lollapalooza Chile and toured the country soon after.

Hamilton Othanel Smith is an American microbiologist and Nobel laureate.

Vladimir Rokhlin Jr. is a mathematician and professor of computer science and mathematics at Yale University. He is the co-inventor with Leslie Greengard of the fast multipole method (FMM) in 1985, recognised as one of the top-ten algorithms of the 20th century.

Dinah Washington was an American singer and pianist, who has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s". Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music, and gave herself the title of "Queen of the Blues". She was a 1986 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

Stephen Robert Ward is an Irish professional footballer who most recently played as a left-back for Ipswich Town.

Malene Schwartz is a Danish film actress. She has appeared in 38 films since 1955. In the TV series Matador she played the role of Maude Varnæs. She was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark.

Jiří Paroubek is a Czech politician, who was the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from April 2005 to August 2006. He was also the leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) from 2006 until his resignation following the 2010 legislative election.