List of Famous people born in August
Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Ebon Moss-Bachrach is an American actor best known for playing the role of David Lieberman in The Punisher and Desi Harperin in Girls.
Nikolai Dobrynin
Nikolai Nikolaevich Dobrynin is a Soviet and Russian stage and cinema actor, Meritorious Artist (2002).
Zoë Quinn
Zoë Tiberius Quinn is an American video game developer, programmer, and writer. They developed the interactive fiction game Depression Quest, which was released in 2013. In 2014, a blog post by Quinn's ex-boyfriend sparked the Gamergate controversy, in which Quinn was subjected to extensive harassment. The next year, Quinn co-founded Crash Override, a crisis hotline and resource center for victims of online harassment.
Connie Chung
Constance Yu-Hwa Chung is an American journalist. She has been an anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bülow and U.S. Representative Gary Condit, whom Chung interviewed first after the Chandra Levy disappearance, and basketball legend Magic Johnson after he went public about being HIV-positive. In 1993, she became only the second woman to co-anchor a network newscast as part of CBS Evening News. She was removed in 1995 as CBS Evening News co-anchor after a controversial interview with a fireman, during rescue efforts at the Oklahoma City bombing, which seemed inappropriately combative, and her interview tactics to get Newt Gingrich's mother to admit her unguarded thoughts about Hillary Clinton.
Henrique Meirelles
Henrique de Campos Meirelles is former Minister of the Economy and an executive of the Brazilian and the international financial sectors and former president of Central Bank of Brazil where he remained in office from 2003 to 2011. He chairs J&F's board of directors, company that owns Banco Original, JBS and Vigor, among others. He is also a member of the board of directors of Azul Brazilian Airlines.
Adam Housley
Arthur Adam Housley is an Emmy, AP, and RTNDA Award-winning American journalist, former professional baseball player, and current winery owner. He joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in 2001 as a Los Angeles–based senior correspondent.
Jason McCourty
Jason McCourty is an American football cornerback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the sixth round, 203rd overall, in the 2009 NFL Draft and has also played for the Cleveland Browns. He played college football at Rutgers.
Amanda Chou
Amanda Chou Hsiao-han is a Taiwanese actress.
Masahiro Yamamoto
Masahiro 'Masa' Yamamoto is a left-handed, retired Japanese professional baseball pitcher. A screwballer, Yamamoto pitched for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball for 29 years from 1986 to 2015. He is the oldest Japanese pitcher to win a baseball game. With 200+ career victories, he is a member of Meikyukai.
Julie Newmar
Julie Newmar is an American actress, dancer, and singer, known for a variety of stage, screen, and television roles as well as a writer, lingerie inventor, and real estate mogul. She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Katrin Sveg in the 1958 Broadway production of The Marriage-Go-Round, and reprised the role in the 1961 film version. In the 1960s, she starred for two seasons as Catwoman in the television series Batman (1966–1967). Her other stage credits include the Ziegfeld Follies in 1956, Lola in Damn Yankees! in 1961, and Irma in Irma la Douce in 1965 in regional productions.