List of Famous people born in August

Watchara Buranakruea is a Thai male badminton player. In 2014, he won the Smiling Fish International tournament in the men's doubles event partnered with Trawut Potieng and in the mixed doubles event partnered with Phataimas Muenwong.

Hassan Hamdy was the 12th and president of the Egyptian Al Ahly Sporting Club. He was the vice president of the club during Saleh Selim's presidency and the chairman of Al-Ahram advertising agency which is part of the Al-Ahram association and the president of the International Advertising Association (IAA)'s Cairo branch. He also played for Al Ahly football team as a midfielder/defender in 1960 and 1970, and was the 20th captain of the squad. He played for Egypt national football team from early seventies to late seventies of the last century.

Marco Börries is a German IT entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of Star Division, who developed StarOffice, which later became OpenOffice.org.