List of Famous people born in August

Michael Richard Taylor is an American basketball coach, currently as of the from 29 January 2014 selectioner and the head coach of Poland's national basketball team, which he led to the Round of 16 at the 2015 EuroBasket and the quarterfinals at 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup.

Charlie Cheever is the co-founder, along with Adam D'Angelo, of Quora, an online knowledge market. He was formerly an engineer and manager at Facebook. Prior to Facebook, Cheever was employed by Amazon.com in Seattle. He left Facebook to start Quora in June 2009. He stepped down from active management of Quora in September 2012 but remains an advisor. In 2016 it was announced that he is working as the CEO of Expo, a startup company that is a "translation machine for mobile app code".

Derek Sherinian is an American keyboardist who has toured and recorded for Alice Cooper, Billy Idol, KISS, and Joe Bonamassa. He was also a member of Dream Theater from 1994 to 1999, is the founder of Planet X and also one of the founding members of Black Country Communion and Sons of Apollo. He has released eight solo albums that have featured a variety of prominent guest musicians, including guitarists Slash, Yngwie Malmsteen, Allan Holdsworth, Steve Lukather, Joe Bonamassa, Billy Sheehan, Zakk Wylde and Al Di Meola.