List of Famous people born in August
Emmanuel Rodríguez
Emmanuel Rodríguez Vázquez is a Puerto Rican professional boxer who held the IBF bantamweight title from 2018 to 2019. As an amateur he represented Puerto Rico at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and won a gold medal in the flyweight event. As of July 2020, he is ranked as the world's fifth best active bantamweight by the The Ring, seventh by BoxRec, and eighth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.
Xavier Trias
Xavier Trias i Vidal de Llobatera is a Spanish politician, member of the Catalan European Democratic Party and was Mayor of Barcelona from July 2011 to June 2015. Among other responsibilities to the Government of Catalonia, he was Minister of Health and Director of the Presidency for various Jordi Pujol Governments.
Shane Lechler
Edward Shane Lechler is an American former professional football player who was a punter for 18 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies, and was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the fifth round of the 2000 NFL Draft.
Adrián Granados
Adrián René Granados is an American professional boxer of Mexican descent, who fights in the light welterweight division.
Shunta Tanaka
Shunta Tanaka is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in Nippon Professional Baseball(NPB).
Billy J. Kramer
William Howard Ashton, known professionally as Billy J. Kramer, is an English pop singer. In the 1960s he was managed by Brian Epstein, who also managed the Beatles, and he recorded several original Lennon–McCartney compositions.
Barun Sobti
Barun Sobti is an Indian actor. He started his acting career in 2009 with Star Plus's Shraddha and later appeared in a negative role in Dill Mill Gayye. He portrayed his first lead role in Sony TV's series Baat Hamari Pakki Hai (2010). In 2011, Sobti played Arnav Singh Raizada in Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?.
Björn Kircheisen
Björn Kircheisen is a German former nordic combined skier. He won four 4 x 5 km team medals at the Winter Olympics with three silvers and a bronze (2010).
Brandon Nakashima
Brandon Nakashima is an American tennis player.
Keiko Sonoi
Keiko Sonoi was a Japanese actress, who was a member of the all-female musical-performing Takarazuka Revue during the 1930s and the 1940s, best known for her role as an officer's widow in the wartime film Muhōmatsu no isshō (1943), and for being part of the Sakura-tai or Cherry Blossom Unit of traveling shingeki play actors who died as a result of the 1945 Hiroshima bombing.