List of Famous people born in August

Susan Cummings is an American heiress, best known for killing her boyfriend in 1997. She had been charged with homicide, but subsequently convicted of voluntary manslaughter only. She was released after serving 57 days.

Julio César Franco Robles is a Dominican former professional baseball player and coach, who is a hitting coach for the farm team of the Lotte Giants of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO). He spent most of his playing career in Major League Baseball (MLB), entering the major leagues in 1982 and last appearing in 2007, at which time he was the oldest active big league player. During that stretch, Franco also spent two seasons playing in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and one season playing in the KBO.

Lewis Smith is an American actor.

Cameron Zishan Rana-Jerome, known as Cameron Jerome, is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for League One club Milton Keynes Dons.

Philip Christopher Hammond Harvey is the creative director and former manager of the band Coldplay.

Scott MacArthur is an American actor and writer. He is best known for playing Jimmy Shepherd, a main character on the Fox comedy series The Mick. MacArthur was initially hired as a writer for the series. The Jimmy character was played by Nat Faxon in the original pilot for The Mick, with the knowledge that Faxon would not be able to continue in the role if the pilot got picked up to series. After offering the role to MacArthur, Fox re-shot the pilot prior to the series debut.

Dar'shun Nicole Kendrick is an American politician and a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, representing the 93rd district; she previously represented the 94th district. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

Alan Ferguson is an American music video director. He is the son of the late Winifred Hocker Ferguson and the late William Alfred Ferguson Sr. His father was a U.S. Army veteran and a postal worker. He married his longtime girlfriend, Solange Knowles, whom he had been dating since 2008, on November 16, 2014. For Solange's 2016 album, Ferguson is credited as co-director on both the "Cranes in the Sky" and "Don't Touch My Hair" videos.

Nadine Prohaska is an Austrian football midfielder, currently playing for SC Sand in the Frauen Bundesliga. She previously played for USC Landhaus and SV Neulengbach, and Bayern Munich in the German Bundesliga.

Roosevelt Barnes, Jr. is a retired football linebacker for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League and a current sports agent. He played three sports at Purdue University—football, basketball, and baseball. While he was most noted as a football player, he also enjoyed significant success in basketball, playing on Purdue's 1980 Final Four team. After retiring from professional football, in 1987 Barnes became a partner and contract advisor with Maximum Sports Management. He has negotiated contracts for Laveranues Coles, Walter Jones, Ray Lewis, Ndamukong Suh, and Andre Wadsworth, among others.