List of Famous people born in August

Yao Bin is a Chinese figure skating coach. He is considered one of the pioneers of the sport in China. Yao and his partner Luan Bo were the first team to represent China at the World Figure Skating Championships. Since then Yao has almost single-handedly turned China into a pair skating world power.

Bryan Larkin is a Scottish actor, writer and producer. Also a self-taught filmmaker, he was awarded the Trailblazer award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2009. He is perhaps best known for his role of Dolokhov in Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz directed by Kieran Parker.

Lucy Jane Briers is an English actress. Her film, stage and television roles have included appearances in Pride & Prejudice (1995) and sitcom Game On.

Çağla Şimşek is a Turkish actress.

André Declerck was a Belgian racing cyclist. He rode in the 1948 Tour de France. He finished in sixth place in the 1949 Paris–Roubaix and fourth in the 1951 Paris–Roubaix.

Joeano Pinto Chaves, known simply as Joeano, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a striker.

Tomi Adeyemi is a Nigerian-American novelist and creative writing coach. She is known for her novel Children of Blood and Bone, the first in the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, which won the 2018 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, the 2019 Waterstones Book Prize, and the 2019 Hugo Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book. In 2019, she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. In 2020, she was named to the TIME 100 Most Influential People of 2020 in the "Pioneers" category.