List of Famous people born in August
Adem Büyük
Adem Büyük is a Turkish professional footballer who currently plays as a striker for Yeni Malatyaspor. He is a former international for Turkey, also earning caps with the U-18 and U-21 squads.
Andrey Amador
Andrey Amador Bikkazakova is a Costa Rican professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers.
In Gyo-jin
In Gyo-jin is a South Korean actor.
Normand Brathwaite
Normand Brathwaite is a Quebec comedian, movie and television actor, radio and television host and musician. He is known for hosting variety televisions shows for over 10 years, including Piment Fort as well as the Montreal radio morning show Yé trop de bonne heure on CKOI-FM for 15 years. He currently hosts CITE-FM's Mix 80 on Saturdays 4-8pm since August 2011.
Pour Lui
Pour Lui is a Japanese singer known for her work as the founder and leader of the "alternative idol" group Bis. Pour Lui started her career in November 2009 as a solo singer, being promoted as a "new age rock icon". She released her debut album, The World Is Pour Lui's in 2010. She announced that she would be indefinitely suspending her solo career, and would be forming an idol group, which would eventually become Bis. She was one of only two original members remaining by the time Bis disbanded in July 2014. She was often seen as the "face" of the group, and was often supportive of the sometimes drastic and extreme measures that were used to gain the group publicity. This led to tensions between the members, most notably Yufu Terashima and Rina Yokoyama. Pour Lui formed the rock band Lui Frontic Akabane Japan in December 2013, with former members of The Storefront and Bis sound producer Kenta Matsukuma. Once Bis disbanded, she focused her activities with the band until there disbandment in 2017. Two years after Bis' disbandment, Pour Lui relaunched the group with new members and remained a member until early 2018. Later that year she became a member of Billie Idle and remained a member until their disbandment at the end of 2019. She released her second album, The World Is Pour Lui's II, in 2020, and launched the new idol group Piggs.
Jim Reeves
James Travis Reeves was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well known as a practitioner of the Nashville sound. Known as "Gentleman Jim", his songs continued to chart for years after his death. Reeves died in the crash of his private airplane. He is a member of both the Country Music and Texas Country Music Halls of Fame.
Sunao Katabuchi
Sunao Katabuchi is a Japanese screenwriter, storyboard artist, and director. He is an instructor at the college of Art of Nihon University.
Hiroaki Nagasawa
Hiroaki Nagasawa is a Japanese politician and member of the Komeito Party of Japan and former Senior Vice Minister for the Reconstruction Agency. He resigned in September 2017 after letting a female acquaintance use a housing complex reserved for lawmakers.
Jacques Tardi
Jacques Tardi is a French comics artist. He is often credited solely as Tardi.
Jérémie Bélingard
Jérémie Bélingard is a French ballet dancer who performed with the Paris Opera Ballet as an Étoile. He joined the company at age eighteen in 1991, and became an étoile in March 2007.