List of Famous people born in August

Constantin Mugur Isărescu is the Governor of the National Bank of Romania, a position he held since September 1990, with the exception of an eleven months period, during which he served as Prime Minister of Romania. He is a member of the Romanian Academy.

Sashina Vignes Waran is a French badminton player. She originally Malaysian and naturalized by French on August 21, 2013.

Don McKellar is a Canadian actor, writer, and filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.

Donald Douglas was a Scottish actor in the United States who performed in films, on the stage and in radio.

Elena Cotta is an Italian stage, film and television actress.

Yves Balasko is a French economist working in England. He was born in Paris on August 9, 1945 to a Hungarian father and a French mother. After studying mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris he became interested in economics. He subsequently spent six years at Électricité de France where he was involved in the application of the theory of marginal cost pricing to electricity pricing. While at Électricité de France, he proved his first results on the structure of the equilibrium manifold in the theory of general equilibrium. After completing his dissertation on "L'équilibre économique du point de vue differentiel", he had positions at the Universities of Paris XII, Paris I, Geneva and York. In 2013, he held a visiting scholar position at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. Since 2014, he has returned to York University.

Laurens W. Molenkamp is a professor of physics and Chair of Experimental Physics at the University of Würzburg. He is known for his work on semiconductor structures and topological insulators.