List of Famous people born in August

François Laruelle is a French philosopher, formerly of the Collège international de philosophie and the University of Paris X: Nanterre. Laruelle has been publishing since the early 1970s and now has around twenty book-length titles to his name. Alumnus of the École normale supérieure, Laruelle is notable for developing a science of philosophy that he calls non-philosophy. He currently directs an international organisation dedicated to furthering the cause of non-philosophy, the Organisation Non-Philosophique Internationale.

Takafumi Iwasaki is a Japanese guitarist, lyricist, music arranger, and musical artist from Kumamoto Prefecture. He is signed to Columbia Music Entertainment, for which he is known for writing and performing various anime and tokusatsu theme songs. He is known for his solo performance of the theme song of Mahou Sentai Magiranger and for performing guitar for the Dragon Ball Kai theme songs "Dragon Soul" and "Yeah! Break! Care! Break!", which he also composed as one-half of a special unit, Dragon Soul. He is part of Columbia's Project.R group for Super Sentai theme songs.