List of Famous people born in August

Melanie Raabe is a German novelist and journalist.

Tetsuya Bessho is a Japanese actor and radio presenter. Since 2014, he hosted the Miss International pageant.

Marcel Henri Barbeault is a French serial killer who murdered in Nogent-sur-Oise in the 1970s. He is responsible for the murder of seven women and one man. Because his crimes were always in the evening or early in the morning, he was given the nickname The Shadow Killer.

Akari Yoshida is a former member of the Japanese idol girl group NMB48. She is a former member of NMB48's Team N.

Mark Alexander Jackson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club, St Kilda Football Club and Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and for the South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).

David Caves is a Northern Irish actor who is known for his role as Jack Hodgson in the BBC drama series Silent Witness. Caves studied French and German at St. Andrews University in Scotland From 1997 to 2002. Caves also studied at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and graduated in 2005 and has since then appeared in a variety of stage productions, including The Beggar’s Opera at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and The Changeling at the Southwark Playhouse.

Bonnie Piesse is an Australian actress and singer/songwriter. Her breakthrough role was playing a trapeze artist in the Australian children's television series High Flyers at the age of 15 and not long after that was scouted by George Lucas to play the role of a young Beru Lars in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. She also had recurring roles on Blue Heelers, Horace and Tina, Stingers, and Last Man Standing.

Peter Fitzek is a German political activist associated with the Reichsbürgerbewegung, a movement contesting the legitimacy of the German state.

Byron McGuigan is a rugby union outside centre or wing for Scotland in international rugby and for Sale Sharks in the English Premiership. He was born in Walvis Bay – then a South African exclave, but part of modern-day Namibia – and grew up in Cape Town, where he came through the Western Province academy before his first taste of first class rugby with the Border Bulldogs in 2010 and 2011. After a short spell with the Scotland Sevens team, he returned to fifteens rugby, playing for Glasgow Warriors, Bay of Plenty, Exeter Chiefs and Sale Sharks, culminating in a call-up to Scotland in 2017.

Harry Francis Smith is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Davey Boy Smith Jr.. Smith is a former three-time IWGP Tag Team Champion, two-time GHC Tag Team Champion, two-time NWA World Tag Team Champion and one-time MLW World Tag Team Champion. He is also appearing for World of Sport Wrestling using the name British Bulldog Jr. He is known for his tenures in Major League Wrestling (MLW), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Pro Wrestling Noah, regularly teaming with Lance Archer as the Killer Elite Squad (K.E.S).