List of Famous people born in August

István Kovács, nicknamed Ko-Ko or sometimes The Cobra is a Hungarian retired world champion boxer.

Michal Strnad is a Czech entrepreneur and the 100 % owner of the Czechoslovak Group, the industrial holding of companies which operates mainly in aerospace, automotive, defence and rail industries.

Jost Kobusch is a German mountaineer and author.

Damien Leake is an American actor and record-holding masters track and field athlete.

Pia Elda Locatelli is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Italian Socialist Democrats, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.

Eric Garth Hudson is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist. As the organist, saxophonist and accordionist for Canadian-American rock group the Band, he was a principal architect of the group's sound. Hudson has been called "the most brilliant organist in the rock world" by Keyboard magazine. With the deaths of Richard Manuel in 1986, Rick Danko in 1999, and Levon Helm in 2012, Hudson is one of only two living original members of The Band, the other being Robbie Robertson.

Herminio Masantonio was an Argentine football centre-forward. He played most of his career for Club Atlético Huracán and represented Argentina at international level.

Linda Sue Fratianne is an American former figure skater known for winning two World Championship titles, four consecutive U.S. Championships (1977–1980), and a silver medal in the 1980 Winter Olympics.