List of Famous people born in August

Oleg Aleksandrovich Strizhenov is a Soviet and Russian film actor and a People's Artist of the USSR.

Quincy Williams is an American football linebacker for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Murray State Racers and was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the third round of the 2019 NFL Draft.

William Lawrence Muschamp is an American football coach. He served as head football coach at the University of Florida from 2011 to 2014 and the University of South Carolina from 2016 to 2020.

Gary Earl Grice, better known by his stage names GZA and The Genius, is an American rapper and songwriter. A founding member of the hip hop group the Wu-Tang Clan, GZA is the group's "spiritual head", being both the first member in the group to receive a record deal and being the oldest member. He has appeared on his fellow Clan members' solo projects, and has maintained a successful solo career starting with Liquid Swords (1995).

Ragan Elizabeth Smith is an American collegiate gymnast. She is a five-time member of the US National Team (2014–2019). She is the 2017 United States national all-around champion and was an alternate for the 2016 Olympic team.

Masazumi Gotoda is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Oe District, Tokushima and graduate of Keio University, he worked at Mitsubishi Corporation from 1993 to 1998. He was elected for the first time in 2000.

Jean-Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and record producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and new-age genres, and is known for organising outdoor spectacles featuring his music, vast laser displays, large projections and fireworks.

Sir George Ivan Morrison is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer. His professional career began as a teenager in the late 1950s, playing a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Van Morrison rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B and rock band, Them, with whom he recorded the garage band classic "Gloria". His solo career began in 1967, under the pop-hit orientated guidance of Bert Berns with the release of the hit single "Brown Eyed Girl". After Berns's death, Warner Bros. Records bought out his contract and allowed him three sessions to record Astral Weeks (1968). Though this album gradually garnered high praise, it was initially a poor seller.

Kim Sang-eun, known professionally as Lee Ji-ah, is a South Korean actress. After her breakout role in The Legend in 2007, she has starred in television series Beethoven Virus (2008), Athena: Goddess of War (2010), Me Too, Flower! (2011), and Thrice Married Woman (2013).

Ryōhei Kurosawa , known by the stage name Akira, is a Japanese actor and dancer. He is also a member of the all-male J-Pop groups Exile and Exile The Second.