List of Famous people born in August

Ruth Maria Kubitschek is a German actress born in Czechoslovakia. At the end of WW2 her family fled to Köthen. Ruth Maria went to the University for Theater and Music in Halle and then to the German Theater-Institute in Weimar. Together with Götz Friedrich she has one son.

Lonnie Duane Kruger is an American college and professional basketball coach who is currently the men's basketball head coach of the University of Oklahoma. Kruger played college basketball for Kansas State University. He has served as the head coach of the University of Texas–Pan American, Kansas State, the University of Florida, the University of Illinois, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as well as the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt is the Germany national football team doctor and current club doctor of Bayern Munich. He was a club doctor for the club between 1 April 1977 and 16 April 2015, and again since November 2017. He resigned after the medical staff was blamed after a 3–1 loss to Porto in a UEFA Champions League match, and rejoined after the reappointment of Jupp Heynckes as coach.

Debra Paget is an American actress and entertainer. She is perhaps best known for her performances in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments (1956) and in Love Me Tender (1956), and for the risque snake dance scene in The Indian Tomb (1959).

Ian Woodward Falconer is an American author and illustrator of children's books, and a designer of sets and costumes for the theater. He has created 30 covers for The New Yorker as well as other publications. Falconer wrote and illustrated the Olivia series of children's books, chronicling the adventures of a young pig, a series initially conceived as a Christmas gift for his young niece. Born in Ridgefield, Connecticut, Falconer graduated from The Cambridge School of Weston, studied art history at New York University, and studied painting at Parsons School of Design and the Otis Art Institute.

Jessica Hilda Mauboy is an Australian R&B and pop singer, songwriter, and actress. Born and raised in Darwin, Northern Territory, Mauboy rose to fame in 2006 on the fourth season of Australian Idol; she became the runner-up and subsequently signed a recording contract with Sony Music Australia. After releasing a live album of her Idol performances and briefly being a member of the girl group Young Divas in 2007, Mauboy released her debut studio album, Been Waiting, the following year. It earned Mauboy her first number-one single "Burn", became the second highest-selling Australian album of 2009, and was certified double platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA).

Hasan Abdullah Ismaik is a Jordanian businessman and Chairman of Hasan Abdullah Mohammed Group, a UAE-based group of investment companies founded by Ismaik in 2006. He owns Marya Development & Real Estate Investment LLC, a private investment company in the United Arab Emirates with a diversified investment portfolio that includes projects worth US$4 billion. He is the Chairman and majority shareholder of the German sports club TSV 1860 Munich; Chairman of Al-Ashmal Real-Estate Investment Co. in Jordan; and Chairman of publicly-listed Masaken for Land and Industrial Development Projects. In 2014, Forbes Magazine listed Ismaik as the first Jordanian billionaire and the third-youngest billionaire in the Middle East.

Nigel Graham Pearson is an English football manager and former professional player. During his playing career, he was a defender and played for Shrewsbury Town, Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough. As a coach he has taken charge of Hull City, Southampton, Carlisle United, Leicester City, Derby County, OH Leuven, and Watford; and was assistant manager for England Under-21s and Newcastle United.

Nidhhi Agerwal is an Indian actress and dancer who appears in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi-language films. In 2017, she made her acting debut in the film Munna Michael. She was a Yamaha Fascino Miss Diva 2014 finalist.

Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian. He saved tens of thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and Hungarian Fascists during the later stages of World War II. While serving as Sweden's special envoy in Budapest between July and December 1944, Wallenberg issued protective passports and sheltered Jews in buildings designated as Swedish territory.