List of Famous people born in August

Alexandre Tiedtke Quintanilha, GOSE is a Portuguese scientist, former director of the Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular of the University of Porto and Professor at ICBAS - Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences.

Valery Victorovich Ryumin is a former Soviet cosmonaut.

Toshiaki Kubo is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 9-dan. He is a former Ōshō and Kiō title holder.　

Antonio del Real is a Spanish film director, actor and screenwriter.

Panagiotis Retsos is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a defender for Ligue 1 club Saint-Étienne, on loan from Bayer Leverkusen, and the Greece national team.

Hirokazu Nakaima is a Japanese bureaucrat, business leader, and politician. He was elected governor of Okinawa Prefecture in 2006.

Nina George is a German writer, best known as the author of The Little Paris Bookshop, an international bestseller, that has been translated in more than 28 languages as of 2015, and sold in more than 500.000 copies. She has published 26 books as well as over hundred short stories and more than 600 columns. George has worked as a cop reporter, columnist and managing editor for a wide range of publications, including Hamburger Abendblatt, Die Welt, Der Hamburger, as well as TV Movie and Federwelt.

Ahmet Tuncay Özkan is a Turkish journalist, writer and politician. He was arrested on September 27, 2008, in relation to the odatv case of the Ergenekon trials, and in August 2013 he was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment.

Allene Damian "Ally" Walker is an American actress. She made her television debut in the NBC daytime soap opera Santa Barbara (1988) before landing the leading roles on the short-lived dramas True Blue (1989–1990), and Moon Over Miami (1993).

Kerim Çalhanoğlu is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for Schalke 04. Born in Germany, he began playing for Turkey on a youth international level before switching to Germany.