List of Famous people born in August

Jørn Lund is a former Danish cyclist who competed in multiple Summer Olympics. He took part in the men's 100 km team time trial in the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games. His 1976 team, which also included Verner Blaudzun, Gert Frank, and Jørgen Hansen, won a bronze medal, finishing behind the Soviet Union and Poland and beating out West Germany and Czechoslovakia for third place.

Michael Hepburn is an Australian track and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team BikeExchange.

Carlos Manuel Merino Campos is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement party and the current interim Governor of Tabasco after Adán Augusto López Hernández left the position. He previously served as a deputy and senator for Tabasco.

Andrzej Ehrenfeucht is a Polish American mathematician and computer scientist. He formulated the Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé game, using the back-and-forth method given by Roland Fraïssé in his PhD thesis. The Ehrenfeucht–Mycielski sequence is also named after him.

Simon Marcus Taylor is a Scottish retired professional rugby union footballer who played for Bath Rugby, Stade Français and Edinburgh Rugby. He played as a back-row forward, usually a number eight. He played for Edinburgh for six seasons between 2000 and 2006 and in 2007 agreed a three-year deal with Stade Français joining them immediately after the 2007 World Cup. In the summer of 2010, Taylor signed for Bath Rugby in the English Aviva Premiership. He also represented Scotland and the British and Irish Lions. At the start of his rugby career, he played for Heriot's Former Pupils.

Christopher Coles is a badminton player from England. He started playing badminton at age 6. He did a BTEC at Chippenham College, after year 11. In 2011, he won the gold medal at the European Junior Badminton Championships in the boys' doubles event with Matthew Nottingham.

Stefan Kaufmann is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2009.