List of Famous people born in August

Leonardo "Leo" Carrilho Baptistão is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Chinese club Wuhan Zall F.C. mainly as a striker but also as a winger.

Otelo Nuno Romão Saraiva de Carvalho, GCL, is a retired Portuguese military officer. He was the chief strategist of the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Lisbon. After the Revolution, Otelo assumed leadership roles in the first Portuguese Provisional Governments, alongside Vasco Gonçalves and Francisco da Costa Gomes, and as the head of military defense force COPCON. In 1976, Otelo ran in the first Portuguese presidential election, in which he placed second with the base of his support coming from the far-left. In the 1980s Otelo was accused of having involvement with the controversial Forças Populares 25 de Abril.

Miles Maochun Yu is an American historian, strategist and the principal China policy and planning adviser to United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. He is also a professor of military history and modern China at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.

Tong Liya is a Chinese actress of Xibe ethnicity.

Rika Nakai is a Japanese idol and tarento. She is a first generation member of the Japanese girl group NGT48. She is represented with Ohta Production.

Ahmet Hakan Coşkun is a Turkish columnist, currently working at Hürriyet, CNN Türk and Kanal D. He studied at Bursa Religious High School and then Bursa Divinity Faculty. He used to be anchor-man for the television channel Kanal 7 founded by Necmettin Erbakan the founder/leader of Welfare Party. He was appointed editor of Hürriyet in 2019.

Ryan Michael Madson is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, Washington Nationals and Los Angeles Dodgers. Madson won World Series championships with the Phillies in 2008 and the Royals in 2015. He is second all-time in postseason pitching appearances; only Mariano Rivera has pitched in more postseason games.

Patrick Tse Yin is a Hong Kong actor, producer, screenwriter and director in Hong Kong cinema.

Keiichi Nanba is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator currently affiliated with Fujiga Office Inc. He is married to fellow voice actress Mayumi Shō.

Jennifer Kaye Ringley is an Internet personality and former lifecaster. She is known for creating the popular website JenniCam. Previously, live webcams transmitted static shots from cameras aimed through windows or at coffee pots. Ringley's innovation was simply to allow others to view her daily activities. She was the first web-based "lifecaster". She retired from lifecasting at the end of 2003.