List of Famous people born in August

Jacques Weber is a French actor, director and writer.

Ian Edward Heinisch is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in the middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional since 2015, he has also competed for the World Series of Fighting and Legacy Fighting Alliance, where he is the former Interim Middleweight Champion. As of December 14, 2020, he is #15 in the UFC middleweight rankings.

Gerald Lee McRaney is an American television and movie actor. McRaney is best known as one of the stars of the television shows Simon & Simon, Major Dad, Promised Land and House of Cards. He was a series regular in the first season of Jericho and the final season of Deadwood. He appeared in a recurring role as main antagonist Mason Wood in season eight of Castle. Recently, he played Barlow Connally in the A&E series Longmire and has a recurring role in the NBC series This Is Us as Dr. Nathan Katowski, a role which earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.

Roger Carel was a French actor and voice talent, known for his recurring film roles as Asterix, the French voice of Star Wars' C-3PO, and the French voice of Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Rabbit in Winnie the Pooh. He has also dubbed David Suchet as Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Poirot. He also voiced Wally Gator, Mickey Mouse, Yogi Bear, Kermit the Frog, Heathcliff, Foghorn Leghorn, ALF and many other famous characters in French. He was born in Paris, France.

Luis Manuel Rubiales Béjar is a Spanish football official and former professional player who played as a defender. He is the current president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation.

Amelle Chahbi is a French comedian, writer and director.

Rosa Anna Katharina "Rosi" Mittermaier-Neureuther is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Germany. She was the overall World Cup champion in 1976 and a double gold medalist at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Jessie Diggins is an American cross-country skier. She and teammate Kikkan Randall won the United States' first ever cross-country skiing gold medal at the Winter Olympics in women's team sprint at Pyeongchang in 2018. Diggins was named to the United States Ski Team in 2012. She penned an autobiography in 2020 about her athletic accomplishments and personal struggles with bulimia nervosa as a teenager.

Randy Douglas Edsall is an American football coach who is currently in his second stint as the head football coach at the University of Connecticut. He was director of football research-special projects for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL) previously in 2016. He was the head coach at the University of Maryland from 2011 to 2015. Edsall was previously the head coach at Uconn from 1999 until the 2011 Fiesta Bowl, and oversaw the program's promotion from the NCAA Division I-AA level to Division I-A. He is UConn's all-time leader in wins and games coached.

Peter Kohl is a German businessman and author, who resides in Switzerland. He is the younger son of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Hannelore Kohl, and brother of Walter Kohl.