List of Famous people born in August
Boogie
Anthony Tremaine Dixson, known professionally as Westside Boogie, is an American rapper. He is known for bringing real life experiences into his music. His debut mixtape, Thirst 48, was released on June 24, 2014, followed by his next mixtape, The Reach which was released a year later. In 2016, he released his third mixtape Thirst 48, Pt. II and signed to Shady Records and Interscope Records in 2017. His debut studio album, Everythings for Sale, was released on January 25, 2019. His second album More Black Superheroes was released on June 17, 2022.
Sylvain Ripoll
Sylvain Ripoll is a French former football player and current manager who manages the French under-21 football team.
Raj Kapoor
Raj Kapoor is an Born: Indian Tamil film Director who has directed multiple Tamil language films, notably Uthama Raasa, Kusthi, Aval Varuvala and also Nandhini serial. He introduced cinematic techniques in his Tamil serial Nandini causing a huge hype in south Indian film industry. He has also appeared as a supporting actor in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films.
Sharon Prabhakar
Sharon Prabhakar is an Indian pop singer, theatre personality and public speaker.
Whitney Duncan
Whitney Duncan is an American country music singer and songwriter. She finished as the fifth place finalist on the fifth season of Nashville Star. She has released one studio album and has charted on the U.S. Hot Country Songs chart with "When I Said I Would" and "Skinny Dippin'," as well as a Christmas single and guest appearance on a Kenny Rogers single which was released before her Nashville Star appearance. In the fall of 2011, Duncan competed on the 23rd season of Survivor, Survivor: South Pacific, where she ultimately finished in 9th place, becoming the fourth member of the jury. In the fall of 2014, Duncan and her then-fiancé, fellow Survivor: South Pacific castaway Keith Tollefson, competed together on the 25th season of The Amazing Race, where they placed in 8th place.
Andrii Derkach
Andrii Leonidovych Derkach is a politician and businessman, as well as a suspected agent of the Russian Federation. He is a member of the Ukrainian Parliament. In August 2020, U.S. counterintelligence chief William Evanina identified Derkach as a key participant in Russian efforts to harm Joe Biden's candidacy in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. United States intelligence community analysis released in March 2021 found that Derkach was among proxies of Russian intelligence who promoted and laundered misleading or unsubstantiated narratives about Biden "to US media organizations, US officials, and prominent US individuals, including some close to former President Trump and his administration." Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani met with Derkach in December 2019.
Şebnem Bozoklu
Şebnem Bozoklu is a Turkish actress.
Albert Quixall
Albert Quixall was an English professional footballer who played as an inside-forward. He joined Sheffield Wednesday as a youth and debuted in their professional side in 1951. He played almost 250 league games for Wednesday and became known as the "Golden Boy", also being capped five times for the England national team. Quixall joined Manchester United in 1958 for a record transfer fee, a signing made by Matt Busby to rebuild his team following the Munich air disaster. Quixall played 184 games for United and was regarded by Bobby Charlton as key to many of his goals in this era. He ended his football career at Oldham Athletic and Stockport County. In retirement he lived in Greater Manchester and ran a scrap metal firm.
Dave Tippett
David G. Tippett is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Denny Wahyudi
Denny Wahyudi, commonly known as Denny Cagur, is an Indonesian actor, comedian. and presenter. He first came into the public eye in 1997 as a member of the comedy group The Cagur Band, with Wendy Armoko and Narji.