List of Famous people born in August

Jan Palach was a Czech student of history and political economy at Charles University in Prague. His self-immolation was a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring resulting from the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies.

Dieter Salomon is a German politician and was mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau for two terms from 2002 until 2018. He is a member of the Alliance '90/The Greens.

Suzuka Ohgo is a Japanese actress.

Joel Craig Ehlo is a retired American basketball player. He played fifteen seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with four teams, amassing career totals of 7,492 points, 2,456 assists and 3,139 rebounds.

John Collison is an Irish billionaire entrepreneur. He is best known for having co-founded Stripe with his brother, Patrick. The brothers are worth at least $3.2 billion each, after San Francisco-based Stripe raised $150 million from CapitalG, an investment division of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc., and General Catalyst Partners. The brothers hold a controlling interest in Stripe and will be able to retain control should the company go public.

Serge Halimi is a French journalist working at Le Monde diplomatique since 1992. In March 2008 he became the editorial director. He is also the author of Le Grand Bond en Arrière.

Danielle Spera is an Austrian journalist, writer, and the current director of the Jewish Museum Vienna.

Seçkin Özdemir is a Turkish actor and former TV presenter, radio personality and disc jockey (DJ). His mother is of Turkish descent, from Xanthi, Greece. His mother was born in Greece and immigrated to Turkey. His father is from Sinop. Seçkin has established himself as a leading actor in Turkey with roles in several of the highly successful television series, that includes The Girl with the Red Scarf (2011), Bir Aşk Hikâyesi (2013), Günahkar (2014), Acı Aşk (2015) and Kuruluş: Osman (2020).

Barry John Sheerman is a British Labour Co-op politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Huddersfield since the 1979 general election.

Armin Wolf is an Austrian journalist and television anchor. In 2017 Politico Europe called him "one of Europe’s most skilled political journalists". In 2019 he was named "European Journalist of the year".