List of Famous people born in August

Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota is a South African politician, who currently serves as the President and Leader of the Congress of the People since 16 December 2008.

Thomas Edward Gullickson is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as an Apostolic Nuncio since 2004, most recently to Switzerland and Liechtenstein from 2015 until his retirement at the end of 2020.

Eric L. Haney is a retired member of the United States Army counterterrorist unit, the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1SFOD-D), more commonly known as Delta Force. In recent years he has been writing on terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and special operations. Haney is the author of Inside Delta Force, a memoir of his time in the elite unit, in which he also writes about his participation in the aborted 1980 Operation Eagle Claw mission to Iran to free American hostages.

Geraldo Brindeiro was a Brazilian jurist, lawyer, and academic. Brindeiro joined the national Public Prosecutor's Office in 1975. On June 28, 1995, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso appointed him as Prosecutor General of the Republic, the head of the Brazilian Federal Prosecution Office. He was reappointed for three additional terms until his retirement from the office on June 28, 2003, at the end of fourth term.

Gilmar de Lima Nascimento, known as Gilmar Fubá or Gilmar was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a midfielder.