List of Famous people born in August

Elena Sergeyevna Vesnina is a Russian professional tennis player. She is a four-time Grand Slam champion in doubles competition, having won the 2013 French Open, 2014 US Open, and 2017 Wimbledon tournaments with Ekaterina Makarova, and the 2016 Australian Open mixed-doubles title with Bruno Soares. In June 2018, Vesnina was number one in women's doubles. Her career-high singles ranking is 13, achieved in March 2017.

Luis Roldán Ibáñez is a former Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician known for being the director general of the Civil Guard when a big scandal of corruption arose in 1993. This case, along with the GAL case, greatly contributed to the defeat of the PSOE in the 1996 general election. Upon initiation of prosecution for his criminal activities, Luis Roldán escaped from Spain in 1994. He surrendered in 1995 at the airport in Bangkok. Between 1996 and 1998 he was tried in a court of Madrid. He was sentenced to 28 years in prison for embezzlement, bribery, tax evasion and fraud, which the Supreme Court increased to 31 years. He was from February 1995 in the female prison of Brieva (Ávila) In 2005 he was allowed out of prison to work in an intermediate regime between the second and third degree.

Franz Artur Viehböck is an Austrian electrical engineer, and was Austria's first cosmonaut. He was titulated „Austronaut“ by his country's media. He visited the Mir space station in 1991 aboard Soyuz TM-13, returning aboard Soyuz TM-12 after spending just over a week in space.

Thibault Lassalle is a French professional rugby union player. He currently plays at lock for Oyonnax in the ProD2.

Simon Philip Yates is a British road and track racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team BikeExchange. His twin brother is Adam Yates, who is also a professional cyclist. He won the gold medal in the points race at the 2013 Track Cycling World Championships. Following a doping ban in 2016, he won the young rider classification in the 2017 Tour de France and the general classification in the 2018 Vuelta a España. Yates has also won multiple stages at each of cycling's three grand tours.

Götz Kubitschek is a German publisher, journalist and far-right political activist. Kubitschek espouses ethnocentric positions and is one of the most important protagonists of the Neue Rechte in Germany. Hailing from the staff of right-wing newspaper Junge Freiheit, Kubitschek is one of the founders of the Neue Rechte think tank Institut für Staatspolitik. Since 2002, he is the manager of his self-founded publishing house Antaios, since 2003 chief editor of the journal Sezession, as well as editor of the corresponding blog Sezession im Netz.

Ty Simpkins is an American actor. His major film roles include Insidious (2011), its sequel Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013), Iron Man 3 (2013) and Jurassic World (2015). He makes a minor cameo appearance in Avengers: Endgame (2019), reprising his Iron Man 3 role as Harley Keener.

Jonathan James Scheyer is an American-Israeli basketball coach and former professional player who is an associate head coach of the Duke Blue Devils men's team. Scheyer led his high school team to an Illinois state basketball championship as a high school All-American, and was one of the starters on the 2009–10 Duke Blue Devils that won the 2010 NCAA Basketball Championship, as a college All-American. He was a prolific high school scorer, and later an Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) leader in numerous statistical categories, ranging from free throw percentage and three point shots/game to assists/turnover ratio.

Scott Andrew Caan is an American actor. He stars as Detective Sergeant Danny "Danno" Williams in the CBS television series Hawaii Five-0 (2010–2020), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Caan had a recurring role as manager Scott Lavin in the HBO television series Entourage (2009–2011). In the 1990s, he was a part of hip hop group The Whooliganz with The Alchemist.

Alexander Borisovich Zhurbin is a Russian composer.