List of Famous people born in August
Stefanie Giesinger
Stefanie Giesinger is a German model. She is the winner of the ninth season of the talent show Germany's Next Top Model. She was on the cover of the German Cosmopolitan in June 2014.
Suzy Favor Hamilton
Suzy Favor Hamilton is an American former middle-distance runner. She competed in the 1992, 1996, and 2000 Summer Olympics.
Alena Kostornaia
Alena Sergeyevna Kostornaia is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2020 European champion, the 2019–20 Grand Prix Final champion, the 2019 Internationaux de France champion, the 2019 NHK Trophy champion and the 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy champion. Competing domestically, she is the 2020 Russian national silver medalist, and a two-time Russian national bronze medalist.
Iñaki Alonso
José Iñaki Alonso Rodríguez is a Spanish football managerwho currently manages the football team of Deportivo Saprissa.
Peter Weck
Peter Weck is an Austrian film director and actor. In addition to his about 130 film and television acting credits between 1954 and 2015, he worked as a director on more than 50 productions between 1969 and 2007.
Lis Wiehl
Lis Wiehl is a New York Times bestselling American author of fiction and nonfiction books, and a legal analyst. She is the author of nineteen books, including, most recently, the second in a trilogy called The Hunting Series — Hunting the Unabomber: The FBI, Ted Kaczynski, and the Capture of America's Most Notorious Domestic Terrorist, published by Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins.
Velveteen Dream
Patrick Clark Jr. is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Velveteen Dream.
Nyla Rose
Nyla Rose is an American actress and professional wrestler signed to All Elite Wrestling, where she held the AEW Women's World Championship. She also starred in the 2016 Canadian television series The Switch.
Kym Johnson
Kym Herjavec is an Australian professional ballroom dancer and television performer who appeared in the first three seasons of the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars as a professional dancer, before moving to the U.S. version of the franchise from 2006 to 2015. Johnson returned as a professional to the U.S. series in 2017 for its 24th season. She also served as a judge on the Australian version of the show from 2013 to 2015. She is married to Robert Herjavec.
Kathleen Battle
Kathleen Deanna Battle is an American operatic soprano known for her distinctive vocal range and tone. Born in Portsmouth, Ohio, Battle initially became known for her work within the concert repertoire through performances with major orchestras during the early and mid-1970s. She made her opera debut in 1975. Battle expanded her repertoire into lyric soprano and coloratura soprano roles during the 1980s and early 1990s, until her eventual dismissal from the Metropolitan Opera in 1994. She later has focused on recording and the concert stage. After a 22-year absence from the Met, Battle performed a concert of spirituals at the Metropolitan Opera House in November 2016.