List of Famous people born in August

Veniamin Anatolyevich Mandrykin is a retired Russian professional football goalkeeper.

Georg Preuße is a German actor and drag performer.

Waldir Maranhão Cardoso is a Brazilian politician and a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB). He was rector of the State University of Maranhão before being elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2006. As Vice President of the Chamber he became Acting President of the Chamber of Deputies on 5 May 2016 following the suspension of Eduardo Cunha, until new elections were held on July 13, with Rodrigo Maia as the new President.

Terawan Agus Putranto was the Minister of Health of Indonesia, in office since 23 October 2019. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Gajah Mada University and then joined the Indonesian Army as a military physician. He is a radiologist. He is the fourth Health Minister of Indonesia to have come from the military and the first since Suwardjono Surjaningrat, who was in office between 1978 and 1988. As Suwardjono and the two earlier officers were 2-star generals, Terawan is the highest-ranked military officer to have ever held this ministerial office.

Jassim Al-Nabhan, Kuwaiti actor.

Yukari Nakano is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. She is the 2006 Four Continents silver medalist, the 2003 Four Continents bronze medalist, the 2005–06 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, the 2007 Asian Winter Games champion, and a three-time Japanese national bronze medalist. Nakano is one of twelve female skaters to perform a triple Axel in international competition.

Dame Janet Abbott Baker is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.

Corinne Rey is a French cartoonist who publishes under the pen name Coco.

Hunter A. Tootoo is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Nunavut from 2015 to 2019. Elected as a Liberal to the House of Commons, he was appointed Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard by Justin Trudeau on November 4, 2015. Tootoo resigned from that position on May 31, 2016, to take a leave from Parliament to seek treatment for alcohol addiction. He returned to Parliament by the end of July 2016 after the completion of his treatment program, but sat as an independent member for the remainder of the 42nd Parliament and did not run for re-election.

Yuma Ishigaki is a Japanese actor from Gifu Prefecture and raised in Nerima, Tokyo.