List of Famous people born in August

Byron Mann is a Hong Kong-American actor of film and television. His best-known roles include Ryu in Street Fighter, Silver Lion in The Man with the Iron Fists, Wing Chau in The Big Short, Admiral Augusto Nguyen on The Expanse, Chang on Hell on Wheels, Yao Fei on the first season of Arrow, and Uncle Six in the Netflix series Wu Assassins.

Marreese Akeem Speights is an American professional basketball player for the Guangzhou Long-Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played college basketball for the Florida Gators, where he was a freshman member of their NCAA national championship team in 2007. The Philadelphia 76ers selected him with the 16th overall pick in the 2008 NBA draft.

Disha Vakani is an Indian film and television actress. She is well known for playing the role of Daya Jethalal Gada in popular daily sitcom Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah.

John Raymond Craven, is an English journalist and television presenter, best known for presenting the BBC programmes Newsround, Countryfile and Beat the Brain.

Mark Galli is an American author and editor, and former Protestant minister. For seven years he was editor in chief of Christianity Today.

Zeti Akhtar Aziz is currently the Group Chairman of Permodalan Nasional Berhad. She was the 7th Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, Malaysia's central bank. She was Governor from 2000 to 2016, and was the first woman in the position. She was one of the members of the Council of Eminent Persons in Mahathir's second administration, a special advisory council advising the government on economic and financial matters during this transitional period.

Yōsui Inoue is a Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, guitarist and record producer, who is an important figure in Japanese music. He is renowned for his unique tone, eccentric lyrics, and dark sunglasses which he always wears.

Adam Richard Yates is a British road and track racing cyclist who currently rides for Ineos Grenadiers. He placed fourth overall at the 2016 Tour de France and became the first British rider to win the young rider classification, one year ahead of his twin brother Simon,

Oliver Roggisch is a retired German team handball player who played for Rhein-Neckar Löwen.He currently serves as the sporting director for the Löwen as well as for the German national team. Roggisch is a World champion from 2007 with the German national team. He participated for the German team that finished fourth at the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship.

Cynthia Nonyelum Sember is an American-born British track and field athlete, specialising in sprint hurdles. She finished fourth in the 100 metres hurdles final at the 2016 Olympic Games. Her best times, 12.60 secs for the 100 metres hurdles in 2015, and 7.89 secs for the 60 metres hurdles indoors in 2016, rank her third on the British all-time list for both events behind her sister and British record-holder, Tiffany Porter and Olympic champion helptathlete, Jessica Ennis-Hill.