List of Famous people born in August
Claire Kuo
Claire Kuo is a Taiwanese singer and television host.
Clay Higgins
Glen Clay Higgins is an American politician and reserve law enforcement officer from the state of Louisiana. A Republican, he is the U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. The district is in the southwestern corner of the state and includes Lafayette, Lake Charles, New Iberia and Opelousas. He won the runoff election on December 10, 2016, defeating fellow Republican Scott Angelle.
Vernon Jordan
Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. is an American business executive and civil rights activist in the United States. After working for several Civil Rights Movement organizations, he was chosen by President Bill Clinton as a close adviser. Jordan has become known as an influential figure in American politics.
Honeysuckle Weeks
Honeysuckle Susan Weeks is a British actress known for her starring role as Samantha Stewart in the ITV wartime drama series Foyle's War beginning in 2002.
Mile Svilar
Mile Svilar is a Belgian professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club Benfica as a goalkeeper.
Hideaki Itō
Hideaki Ito is a Japanese actor.
Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, KCSG, is a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher, and writer. His father was businessman George Montegu Black II, who had significant holdings in Canadian manufacturing, retail and media businesses through part-ownership of the holding company Ravelston Corporation. In 1978, two years after their father's death, Conrad and his older brother Montegu took majority control of Ravelston. Over the next seven years, Conrad Black sold off most of their non-media holdings in order to focus on newspaper publishing. Black controlled Hollinger International, once the world's third-largest English-language newspaper empire, which published The Daily Telegraph (UK), Chicago Sun-Times (U.S.), The Jerusalem Post (Israel), National Post (Canada), and hundreds of community newspapers in North America, before controversy erupted over the sale of some of the company's assets.
Laremy Tunsil
Laremy Alexander Tunsil is an American football offensive tackle for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at the University of Mississippi.
Marsai Martin
Caila Marsai Martin is an American actress and executive producer. She is known for her role as Diane Johnson in the ABC comedy series Black-ish. She starred in the 2019 Universal Pictures comedy film Little, for which she was also an executive producer. Martin is a nine-time NAACP Image Awards winner. Time included her on its "Time 100 Next" list in 2019.
Sudha Murthy
Sudha Murthy is an Indian engineering teacher, Kannada, Marathi and English author as well as a Social worker. She is also the Chairperson of the Infosys Foundation. She is married to co-founder of Infosys, N. R. Narayana Murthy.