List of Famous people born in August

Arawashi Tsuyoshi is a former professional sumo wrestler from Ulan Bator, Mongolia. He made his professional debut in November 2002. He is the 21st Mongolian to reach the top makuuchi division, which he achieved in May 2014. His 68-tournament rise through the ranks is the second-slowest progress for a foreign wrestler after Sentōryū. He won three kinboshi or gold stars for defeating yokozuna. He was a member of three stables, Araiso, Hanakago and Minezaki. His highest rank was maegashira 2.

Andrei Medvedev is a former top five professional tennis player from Ukraine. He reached the final of the French Open in 1999, the French Open semifinals in 1993 and won four Masters titles during his career, achieving a career-high ranking of four in May 1994.

Brendan Gabriel Dolan is a professional darts player from County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He is best known for becoming the first player to hit a nine-dart finish in a double to start an event, which he did at the 2011 World Grand Prix. He lost to Phil Taylor in the final of the tournament; to date, it was his only appearance in a major final. Away from the television cameras, in floor events on the PDC Pro Tour, Dolan lost his first seven finals before winning his maiden ranking title in 2013.

Daishi Nobuyuki is a former sumo wrestler from Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan. He made his professional debut in March 1984, and reached the top division in July 1994. His highest rank was maegashira 3. He retired in March 2002 and remained in the Sumo Association as jun-toshiyori before leaving in June 2003. He is now a professional singer.

Melvin Adrien is a professional footballer who plays for FC Martigues as a goalkeeper. Born in Réunion, he represents Madagascar at international level.

Susana María del Carmen Villarán de la Puente is a centre-left politician in Peru, a former presidential candidate, and in municipal elections in 2010 became the first woman to be elected Mayor of Lima.

Françoise Combes is a French astrophysicist at the Paris Observatory and a professor at the Collège de France where she has been the chair of Galaxies and cosmology since 2014.

Kotaro Tatsumi is a member of the House of Councillors and a member of the Japanese Communist Party. He was elected to his position in the National Diet in 2013. Tatsumi is opposed to the MagLev system, saying that it is a waste of resources.

Chin Ka-lok, sometimes credited as Chin Kar-lok, is an actor, action choreographer.

Venera Nigmatulina is a Kazakhstani film actress and director of the film festival Shaken's Stars. She is the widow of Talgat Nigmatulin and the mother of Linda Nigmatulina.