List of Famous people born in August
Stefano Sensi
Stefano Sensi is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Inter Milan and the Italy national team.
Matt Hague
Matthew Donald Hague is an American former professional baseball first baseman and current minor league coach. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Toronto Blue Jays, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hanshin Tigers. Prior to beginning his professional career, he played college baseball at the University of Washington and Oklahoma State. In early 2020, he joined the Blue Jays organization as a coach.
Yida Huang
Yida Huang is a Singaporean singer and songwriter. The real capitalization of his name is Yida Huang, as the previous form of "YiDA" was used as a logo by Sony Music Taiwan. He has since stopped using the "YiDA" name form once his contract with Sony Music Taiwan ended. He has released four major albums with Sony Taiwan. His song "Chou Nan Ren" (Jerk) was the opening theme for the Taiwanese drama Devil Beside You. Another song of his, "Set Me Free", was the theme song for the Chinese version of the movie Stealth. He graduated from the Lee Wei Song School of Music.
Frank-Michael Wahl
Frank-Michael Wahl is a former German handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics, in the 1988 Summer Olympics and in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Naomi Wu
Naomi Wu, also known as Sexy Cyborg, is a Chinese DIY maker and internet personality. As an advocate of women in STEM, transhumanism, open source hardware, and body modification, she attempts to challenge gender and tech stereotypes with a flamboyant public persona, using objectification of her appearance to inspire women.
Yūta Kakita
Yūta Kakita is a professional Japanese baseball pitcher, who is a free agent. He previously played for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
Helmut Winklhofer
Helmut Winklhofer is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender or midfielder for Bayer 04 Leverkusen and FC Bayern Munich. He won four German titles and played in the 1987 European Cup Final before his career was cut short by injury in 1990.
Rubén Limardo
Rubén Dario Limardo Gascón is a Venezuelan épée fencer. Limardo won a gold medal for his native country at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the individual épée competition. Five years earlier, he won the gold medal in the individual épée competition at the 2007 Pan American Games. His younger brother, Francisco, also competes in fencing on the international level. In 2015 he was elected to the National Assembly for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
Melek Baykal
Melek Baykal is a Turkish actress mostly appearing in theater and TV series. Her roles as Nermin, Nurhayat and Pembe raised her popularity. After playing in Ferhunde Hanımlar in Ankara, she got many proposals to play in TV series and movies. Because of it, she decided to move to Istanbul. Baykal started to her career when she was 17 years old in a theater by playing an 85-year-old woman. She graduated from Ankara State Conservatory worked at Ankara State Theaters for a long time. Melek Baykal had her cinematic debut with a movie named Kaçma Birader. In 2012, she had her own TV program on Star TV.
Jamal Rayyan
Jamal Rayyan is a Palestinian news television anchorman with Al Jazeera Television Network. He was born in the city of Tulkarm in the West Bank on 23 August 1953.