List of Famous people born in August

Richard Griffin, better known by his stage name Professor Griff, is an American rapper, spoken word artist, and lecturer currently residing in Atlanta. He was a member of the hip hop group Public Enemy, serving as the group's Minister of Information.

Ida Siekmann was a German nurse who became the first known person to die at the Berlin Wall, only nine days after the beginning of its construction.

John Houssam Ibrahim, is a former Kings Cross nightclub owner. Police allege Ibrahim is a "major organised-crime figure" and was labelled as the "lifeblood of the drugs industry of Kings Cross" during the 1995 Wood royal commission. However, Ibrahim strongly denies this, and has not been convicted of any related crime.

Laura Kamhuber is an Austrian singer. Her performance of Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You", taped when she was a 13-year-old on the 2013 German edition of The Voice Kids, is the most watched YouTube video by an Austrian artist. She has recorded three albums.

Chelsea "Chelsee" Jade Healey is an English actress. She is known for playing Janeece Bryant in the BBC school-based drama series Waterloo Road from 2006 to 2012, Honey Wright in the BBC medical drama series Casualty from 2014 until 2015 and Goldie McQueen in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2016 onwards.

Claudell Washington was an American baseball outfielder who played seventeen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Oakland Athletics, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, Atlanta Braves, New York Yankees, and California Angels from 1974 until 1990. He batted and threw left-handed.

Dante Antwane Fowler Jr. is an American football defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Florida, and was selected third overall by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2015 NFL Draft.

Gamal Yafai is a British professional boxer who held the Commonwealth super-bantamweight title in 2016 and is the current European Super-Bantamweight Champion since December 2020. As an amateur he won a bronze medal at the 2010 European Championships in Moscow.

Gregory P. Roman is an American football coach who is the offensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as an assistant coach for the Buffalo Bills, San Francisco 49ers, Houston Texans and Carolina Panthers.

Mutulu Shakur is an American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army, sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck in which a guard and two police officers were murdered.