List of Famous people born in August

Monir Fakhry Abdel Nour born 21 August 1945) is an Egyptian businessman and politician.

Erdem Özgenç is a Turkish footballer who plays as a right back for Tuzlaspor. He made his Süper Lig debut on 11 September 2011.

Feng Jin is a Chinese professional footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Chinese Super League club Qingdao Hainiu on loan from Shanghai Port.

Walis Perin is a Seediq Taiwanese politician. He served four terms in the Legislative Yuan from 1993 to 2005, each time with a different political affiliation. He became a founding member of the Non-Partisan Solidarity Union in 2004, and after losing reelection, was appointed the minister for the Council of Indigenous Peoples in 2005. He stepped down in 2007, and since then has launched two unsuccessful legislative campaigns, in 2012 with the People First Party and 2016, representing the Democratic Progressive Party. In 2018, Walis Perin was appointed to the Control Yuan.

Ahmed Djebbar is an academic and the Algerian minister for education in the 1992 government of Belaid Abdessalam.

Pierre Deshawn Jackson is an American professional basketball player for Galatasaray of the Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL). He played college basketball for the College of Southern Idaho and Baylor University in which he was one of the top college players in the 2012–13 season.

Sin-hung Tam is a Chinese opera singer and actress from Hong Kong. Tam is credited with over 140 films.

Yan Lianke is a Chinese writer of novels and short stories, based in Beijing. His work is highly satirical, which has resulted in some of his most renowned works being banned in China. He has admitted to self-censorship while writing his stories in order to avoid censorship.

Earl Daniel Barron Jr. is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played college basketball for the University of Memphis and had stints in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with multiple teams.