List of Famous people born in August

Heiner Goebbels is a German composer, director and professor at Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen and artistic director of the International Festival of the Arts Ruhrtriennale 2012–14. His composition Stifters Dinge (2007) received five votes in a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000, and writers for The Guardian ranked his composition Hashirigaki (2000) the ninth greatest classical composition of the same period.

Kristine Riis is a Norwegian actress and comedian. She is best known to international audiences for her role in the Netflix series Norsemen.

Pak Hyon-Suk is a female weightlifter from North Korea.

Michael John Turner CBE is the former chief executive officer (CEO) of the aerospace and defence company BAE Systems, and current chairman of Babcock International and prior to the hostile takeover by Melrose was chairman of GKN plc.

Dyson Lovell is a film producer and actor. He produced amongst others, Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet, starring Mel Gibson (1990), and Francis Ford Coppola's 1984 box-office flop The Cotton Club, starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane. He has received four Emmy Award, and three Golden Globe nominations for his work as a producer in television.

Kenji Momota is a Japanese racing announcer and former driver. He has raced in the All Japan Touring Car Championship, American Racing Series, IndyCar, and NASCAR.

George Ivy Hunter, known as Ivy Jo Hunter, is a former R&B songwriter, record producer and singer, most associated with his work for Motown in the 1960s.