List of Famous people born in August
Malu Rodrigues
Maria Luísa Reisderfer Rodrigues, best known as Malu Rodrigues, is a Brazilian actress.
Mehdi Abeid
Mehdi Abeid is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for UAE Pro League club Al-Nasr and the Algeria national team.
Misha Romanova
Nu Virgos was the name used to promote the musical group VIA Gra outside of Ukraine and other nearby countries. The name VIA Gra is a triple wordplay: it is an allusion to the drug Viagra, also the first three letters "ВІА" ("VIA") stand for "vocal-instrumental ensemble" in Ukrainian, and "Гра" ("hra") means "game" or "play" in Ukrainian, and it is also kind of a signature of the surnames of the two first girls of the group, VI-nnytsk-A and GRA-novska, the originally used maiden name of Nadia Meiher. Nu Virgos was a Ukrainian girl group that hit the charts in Ukraine and Russia in September 2000 with their first single "Popytka No. 5". Their first success outside the Russian language area was in May 2004 with the single "Stop! Stop! Stop!", an English version of their 2002 Russian song. The group is known for their frequent lineup changes, with 13 different individuals having at one time been in the group. The group was co-created by Dmitriy Kostyuk and Konstantin Meladze. Kostyuk is the manager of the group and the co-producer of the group's albums. Meladze is the writer of the group's songs and the co-producer of the group's albums.
Volkert Kraeft
Volkert Kraeft is a German television actor.
Louise Forestier
Louise Forestier is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actress.
Patsy Gallant
Patricia Gallant is a Canadian pop singer and musical theatre actress. Of Acadian ancestry, she has recorded and performed in both English and French.
Zhang Zifeng
Zhang Zifeng, also known as Wendy Zhang, is a Chinese actress currently attending Beijing Film Academy. She is widely considered one of the best young actors in China today.
Sun Honglei
Sun Honglei is a Chinese actor.
Jorge Maronna
Jorge Maronna is an Argentine multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer, author and a founding member of the comedy-musical group Les Luthiers. Born August 1, 1948, in Bahía Blanca, he joined I Musicisti while still a teenager, and helped Gerardo Masana and Carlos Iraldi build the first informal instrument, the "contrachitarrone da gamba". In 1967, he was part of the four people who left I Musicisti and formed Les Luthiers. There, he and Masana composed most of the music for early shows, and to this day Maronna still pens many musical pieces for the group, often in collaboration with one of his bandmates.
Eike Onnen
Eike Onnen is a German high jumper.