List of Famous people born in August

Azusa Sumi is a female long-distance runner from Japan. She competed in the Women's 5000 metres event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China.

Zhiwei Yun is a Professor of Mathematics at MIT specializing in number theory, algebraic geometry and representation theory, with a particular focus on the Langlands program. Before moving to Yale University in 2016, he held assistant and associate professorships at Stanford University from 2012 to 2016 and was a C. L. E. Moore instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2010 to 2012.

Daigenis Mercedes Saturria is a Dominican Republic female badminton player. In 2013, she won the Carebaco International tournament in the women's doubles event partnered with Berónica Vibieca. In 2015, she also won the Carebaco International tournament in the women's and mixed doubles event and became the runner-up in the women's singles event. She competed at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto, Canada.

Jón Sigurðsson is an Icelandic politician. He was brought in as Minister of Industry and Commerce for the Progressive Party when Halldór Ásgrímsson abandoned politics. He was later elected party chairman from 2006 to 2007 but resigned after he failed to win a seat in the Althing. Prior to that, he had been governor of the Central Bank of Iceland from 2003 to 2006.