List of Famous people born in August
Grégory Doucet
Grégory Doucet is a French politician. He served as mayor of Lyon since 2020.
Surveen Chawla
Surveen Chawla is an Indian film actress and dancer. She started her career with television soap operas in the earlier days and ended up in appearing in the films. She is known for her roles in movies and serials like Hate Story 2 (2014), Ugly (2013), Parched (2015) and 24 (2016) etc. along with many others films. In 2018, she was seen in web series Haq Se.
Hiroshi Ogushi
Hiroshi Ogushi is a Japanese politician and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Kishima District, Saga and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Finance in 1989 and received an MBA from University of California, Los Angeles in the United States while in the ministry. Leaving the ministry in 2005, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in the same year.
Yun-ju Lin
Lin Yun-Ju is a table tennis player from Taiwan. He is a left-handed player who plays with the shakehand grip and is sponsored by Butterfly. He is ranked world number 6 as of March 2021. Lin was born in Yuanshan, Yilan County, Taiwan. Lin started competing in the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) senior circuit. He has won two major tournaments in a row, first the T2 Diamond Malaysia 2019 in July 2019, followed in August by his first ITTF World Tour title, the Czech Open 2019 at the age of only 18. In these tournaments, he had beaten some of the top players, including Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Timo Boll.
Ai Takabe
Ai Takabe is a former Japanese actress and voice actress. She is best known for starring as Fumiyo Nabekura in television series Guren Onna and voicing Agiri Goshiki in anime television series Kill Me Baby.
Kenzo Shirai
Kenzō Shirai is a Japanese artistic gymnast. His notable victories include the team gold and a bronze on individual vault at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Although later an all-around athlete, he is still a floor and vault specialist, who excels in hard-twisting skills/combinations. More major-medal wins of all levels, mainly gold, also took place at the world championships (WC) since his 2013 debut.
Patrick Pelloux
Patrick Pelloux, born in 1963 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, is a French physician and activist. He is a specialist of emergency medical services.
Sean Rigby
Sean Rigby is an English actor from Preston, Lancashire. He graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2012.
Kanji Ishimaru
Kanji Ishimaru is a Japanese actor and singer. Ishimaru is signed to Sony Music Entertainment Japan. He grew up in Ichihara, Chiba and graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts.
Diego De La Hoya
Diego de la Hoya Villegas is a Mexican professional boxer who held the WBC-NABF and WBO-NABO super bantamweight titles between 2017 and 2019. As an amateur he represented Mexico, winning the 2011 Mexican National Championships and competing at the 2012 Youth World Championships. He is the cousin of former boxer Oscar De La Hoya.