List of Famous people born in August

Nicholas Andres Martinez is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers and for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Jiro Wang is a Taiwanese singer and actor, who started his career as a model. Wang is a member of Taiwanese Mandopop vocal quartet boy band Fahrenheit.

Herfried Münkler is a German political scientist. He is a Professor of Political Theory at Humboldt University in Berlin. Münkler is a regular commentator on global affairs in the German-language media and author of numerous books on the history of political ideas, on state-building and on the theory of war, such as "Machiavelli" (1982), "Gewalt und Ordnung" (1992), "The New Wars" and "Empires: The Logic of World Domination from Ancient Rome to the United States". In 2009 Münkler was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the category "Non-fiction" for Die Deutschen und ihre Mythen.

Hitomi Kanehara is a Japanese novelist. Her novel Hebi ni piasu won the Shōsetsu Subaru Literary Prize and the Akutagawa Prize, and sold over a million copies in Japan. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide.

Alexander Mattheus Michel is an American businessman, producer, and television personality. He is best known for being the first star of The Bachelor during its premiere season on ABC in 2002.

Eili Harboe is a Norwegian actress. She was born in Stavanger. She starred in Joachim Trier's 2017 film Thelma. Thelma and Harboe's performance received good reviews in the Norwegian press.

Ney de Souza Pereira, known as Ney Matogrosso, is a Brazilian singer who is distinguished for his uncommon countertenor voice. He was ranked by Rolling Stone as the third greatest Brazilian singer of all time.

Maharu Yoshimura is a Japanese table tennis player.

Suleyman Ali "Sulley" Muntari is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.

Georgina Coghlan is an Australian television presenter and performer who is best known for co-hosting Network Ten's Logie Award winning The Circle between 2010 and 2012, as well as being a regular panelist on The Project.