List of Famous people born in August

Min Sun-ye, known professionally as Sunye or Sun, is a South Korean singer, actress and missionary. She is the former leader and main vocalist of the K-pop group Wonder Girls.

Robert Shimer is an American macroeconomist and labor economist who currently holds the Alvin H. Baum Chair in the Economics Department of the University of Chicago. He was an editor of the Journal of Political Economy from 2004 to 2012. His research focuses on the search and matching approach to labor economics. He is especially known for arguing that the standard labor market matching model predicts fluctuations in the unemployment rate much smaller than those actually observed over the business cycle, an observation which has sometimes been called the Shimer puzzle. His book Labor Markets and Business Cycles was published in 2010 by Princeton University Press, and was recommended by Robert Hall:

Shimer's definitive account of the modern theory of labor market volatility presents many new results and deserves a prominent place on the bookshelf of every macroeconomist and labor economist.

Tantan Dzalikha is an Indonesian professional footballer who played as a forward.

Takahiko Yamamura is a Japanese sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics.