List of Famous people born in August
Antoine Winfield Jr.
Antoine Duane Winfield Jr. is an American football free safety for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Minnesota, and was drafted by the Buccaneers in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft. He is the son of former NFL player Antoine Winfield Sr.
Jarrett Hurd
Jarrett Hurd is an American professional boxer. He is a former unified light middleweight world champion, having held the WBA (Super), IBF and IBO titles between 2017 and 2019. As of September 2019, Hurd is ranked as the world's second best active light middleweight by The Ring magazine, fourth best by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and sixth by BoxRec.
Kristina Schröder
Kristina Schröder is a German politician who served as the Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2009 to 2013. She served as a Member of Parliament between 2002 and 2017.
Jalen Brunson
Jalen Marquis Brunson is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Villanova University, where he was the National Player of the Year as a junior and won two national championships.
Reginald VelJohnson
Reginald VelJohnson is an American actor. He is best known for playing policeman characters such as Carl Winslow on the sitcom Family Matters, which ran from 1989 to 1998, and LAPD Sgt. Al Powell in the films Die Hard and Die Hard 2. He played air traffic controller, Bob Abbot, in the 2012 film Air Collision.
Domenico Berardi
Domenico Berardi is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a winger and forward for Serie A club Sassuolo and the Italy national team.
Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt
Jean Dolores Schmidt BVM, popularly known as Sister Jean, is a chaplain for the Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team of Loyola University Chicago and a religious sister of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Veena George
Veena George, born 3 August 1976, is an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and represents Aranmula constituency in the Kerala Legislative Assembly. Prior to joining politics, she has worked with major Malayalam news channels for over 16 years. She is also the first female executive editor among Malayalam news channels.
Bruno Nuytten
Bruno Nuytten is a French cinematographer turned director.
Émilie Dequenne
Émilie Dequenne is a Belgian actress. She first gained attention for playing the title character in the film Rosetta (1999), which earned her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. She then went on to star in many films such as Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001), The Light (2004), The Girl on the Train (2009), Our Children (2012), Not My Type (2014) and This Is Our Land (2017).