List of Famous people born in August

Fátima Ptacek is an American film and television actress and model, and a human rights activist working with UN Women's #HeForShe campaign for gender equality. She is best known as the lead actor in the 2012 Academy Award winning film Curfew and its 2014 full-length feature film version Before I Disappear. She has lent her voice as the lead role of "Dora" in Nickelodeon's animated television series Dora the Explorer since 2010 and Dora and Friends: Into the City! since 2014.

Christopher Paul Davies is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Brecon and Radnorshire after winning the seat in the 2015 general election. In March 2019, he pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud concerning Parliamentary expenses, and on 21 June 2019 he was removed from office by a recall petition. He stood again for the Conservatives in the ensuing by-election, but lost to the Liberal Democrat candidate Jane Dodds.

Javier Nart Peñalver is a Spanish journalist and politician who has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014. From 2012 until 2019, he was a member of Citizens (Cs).

Taner Ölmez is a Turkish actor who started his acting career in 2009 when he was 23. His first drama was Kayıp Şehir where he acted as Sadık. He gained fame through Medcezir in which he played Mert Asım Serez.

Ali Jaber is a Lebanese journalist, media consultant, TV personality and the Group TV Director of MBC, the Arab world's largest satellite broadcaster.

Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida GCB GCFR popularly known as IBB; nicknamed, "Maradona" or "The Evil Genius", is a retired Nigerian Army general who ruled the Federal Republic of Nigeria from 27 August 1985 until his resignation in August 1993. He served as Chairman of the Armed Forces Ruling Council from 1985 to 1993 and Chief of Army Staff from 1984 to 1985; going on to orchestrate his seizure of power in a palace coup d'ètat against Muhammadu Buhari. He rose through the ranks of the Nigerian Army fighting in the Nigerian Civil War and at various times being involved in all the military coups in Nigeria, before advancing to the full-rank of a General and ultimately as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces; and as an unelected President and military strongman from 1985 to 1993, ruling for an uninterrupted period of eight years. His years in power, colloquially known as the Babangida Era, are considered one of the most controversial in the military history of the country, and characterized by a burgeoning political culture of corruption in Nigeria, with Babangida and his regime estimated at least 12 billion dollars.

Runa Imai is a Japanese swimmer. She qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the 200 meter individual medley. She swam the 11th best time in the heats and qualified for the semifinals, where she was eliminated with a 15th-place finish.

David Joseph Campbell is an Australian singer, stage performer and television presenter. He is the son of singer Jimmy Barnes.

Hadson da Silva Nery, known as Hadson or Hadballa, is a Brazilian professional football manager of Santos de Macapá, reality-television personality and former professional footballer.

Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, and a Conservative peer of the House of Lords. He is primarily known as the author of several Sunday Times best-seller novels; for the screenplay for the film Gosford Park, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2002; and as the creator, writer and executive producer of the multiple award-winning ITV series Downton Abbey (2010–2015).