List of Famous people born in August

Tracy-Ann Oberman is an English television, theatre and radio actress, and a narrator. She played Chrissie Watts in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2004 to 2005, and Valerie Lewis in the Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner from 2011 to 2020.

Friederike Kempter is a German actress. Her acting credits include films like Pandorum and A Coffee in Berlin as well as television shows like Ladykracher and Hauptstadtrevier. She has played Police Kommissar Nadeshda Krusenstern in the Thiel and Boerne Tatort episodes since 2002.

Shankar Shanmugam ,is credited as S. Shankar or his mononym Shankar, is an Indian filmmaker who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. He made his debut as a director in the film Gentleman (1993), for which he won the Filmfare Best Director Award and the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Director. He is one of the highest paid film directors of India, particularly known for extensive use of visual effects, prosthetic makeup and state-of-art technology in songs.

Spencer George Matthews is a British entrepreneur and TV star, famous for his antics in Made in Chelsea. He is the founder and CEO of CleanCo, a low and no alcohol drinks company. He is best known for TV shows such as Made in Chelsea, Celebrity MasterChef and The Jump.

Brett Andrew Hull is a Canadian-American former ice hockey player and general manager, and currently an executive vice president of the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Calgary Flames, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings and Phoenix Coyotes between 1986 and 2005. His career total of 741 goals is the fourth highest in NHL history, and he is one of five players to score 50 goals in 50 games. He was a member of two Stanley Cup winning teams – 1999 with the Dallas Stars and 2002 with the Detroit Red Wings. In 2017 Hull was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.

Malavika Mohanan is an Indian film actress, who has worked in the Malayalam and Tamil language films. She has also appeared in Hindi and Kannada language films.

Helge Schneider is a German comedian, jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist, author, film and theatre director, and actor. Schneider's works are an unconventional mixture of horseplay humor, parody, and jazz-influenced music. They involve spontaneity and improvisation as important elements.

Louis Buller Gohmert Jr. is an American attorney and former judge currently serving as the U.S. Representative from Texas's 1st congressional district since 2005. Gohmert is a member of the Republican Party and is part of the Tea Party movement. In January 2015, he unsuccessfully challenged John Boehner for the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives. Gohmert was one of the 147 congressmen who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 US presidential election in Congress on January 7, 2021, the day after the storming of the US Capitol.

Robert Phillips Corker Jr. is an American businessman and politician who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 2007 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he served as Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2015 to 2019.

Kate Silverton is an English journalist, newsreader and broadcaster working for the BBC. Generally a main and relief presenter for the BBC, Silverton can be seen regularly presenting the BBC News at One, BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, and BBC Weekend News, and is the current Deputy Presenter of the BBC News at One as well as making occasional appearances on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News. In 2018 she participated in the series 16 of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, paired with professional dancer Aljaz Skorjanec finishing in 8th place.