List of Famous people born in August

Rami Hamdallah is a Palestinian politician and academic. He is the former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority and president of An-Najah National University in Nablus.

Élodie Ginette Thomis is a former French football player who played for French club Olympique Lyon of the Division 1 Féminine. She played either a winger or striker and was described as a player who possesses pace comparable to that of French men's internationals Thierry Henry and Sidney Govou. Thomis is a graduate of the women's section of the Clairefontaine academy and was a French women's international having made her debut with the team in June 2005 at UEFA Women's Euro 2005 against Italy.

María Consuelo Porras Argueta is a Guatemalan lawyer. She served as Deputy Magistrate of the Constitutional Court since April 2016. She was appointed by President Jimmy Morales as the new Attorney General and Chief of the Public Prosecutor's Office to replace Thelma Aldana.

Andrea Gabriela Noli Constantinescu, known professionally as Andrea Noli, is a French-born Mexican actress of Romanian descent. She has participated in various telenovelas and theatrical productions. She is the daughter of acclaimed pianist, Daniel Noli and Olga Constantinescu. She lived in Athens, Greece during the 80s where she attended high school in Ampelokipi district. As a student she was elected in the fifteen-member students association board. After school she moved to South America ending up in Mexico where she have lived her infant years. She has a daughter, Valentina, born on September 9, 2006, with actor Jorge Salinas.

Rita Laura Segato is an Argentine-Brazilian academic, who has been called "one of Latin America's most celebrated feminist anthropologists" and "one of the most lucid feminist thinkers of this era". She is specially known for her research oriented towards gender in indigenous villages and Latin American communities, violence against women and the relationships between gender, racism and colonialism. One of her specialist areas is the study of gender violence.

Bernhard Trares is a German former professional footballer who played mainly as a centre-back, and current manager of Würzburger Kickers.

Megumi Kinukawa is a Japanese long-distance runner. She represented her country at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka and is the Japanese high school and junior record holder for the 10,000 metres.

Takashi Ishii is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher and coach. He pitched for 14 seasons for the Seibu Lions and made three All-Star teams. His brother Akio Ishii was drafted in 1986 but never made it into Nippon Pro Baseball.

Richard Robert Ernst is a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Laureate.

Malika Gaïd (1933–1957) was an Algerian nurse who joined the National Liberation Army (ALN) to care for the wounded and to fight for independence from the French during the Algerian War in 1955. In June 1958, she was shot dead by a French soldier while defending the wounded in a cave near M'Chedallah. Gaïd is now remembered as one of the heroic martyrs of Algerian independence. Along with other martyrs, she was commemorated in a series of postage stamps in 2019.