List of Famous people born in August

Hiroki Kikuta is a Japanese video game composer and game designer. His major works are Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana, Soukaigi, and Koudelka, for which he also acted as producer and concept designer. He has composed music for seven other games, and worked as a concept designer in addition to composer for the unreleased MMORPG Chou Bukyo Taisen. He became interested in music at an early age, but earned a degree in Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Cultural Anthropology from Kansai University. He spent the next few years working first as a manga illustrator, then as a composer for anime series, before coming to work for Square in 1991.

Robert Leroux is a French fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team épée event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Laura Slade Wiggins is an American actress, singer and musician. She is most known for her roles in Stand, Shameless, The Tomorrow People, Starving in Suburbia and Rings.

Alan Wareing is a British television director. He became interested in directing through amateur theatre. He directed many plays before he started working in BBC Television, firstly as an assistant floor manager and then as a production assistant, before training to be a director at the corporation. His early work as a director included three Doctor Who serials from Sylvester McCoy's era as the Seventh Doctor, and he has directed hundreds of episodes of the ITV soap operas Coronation Street and Emmerdale.

Émilie Lefel is a French badminton player. In 2012, she won her first National Championships title in the women's doubles event with her partner Pi Hongyan.