List of Famous people born in August

Abel Casquete is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Guayaquil City.

Giliano Wijnaldum is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a left back. He formerly played for AZ, FC Groningen, Go Ahead Eagles and VfL Bochum.

Alberto de Castro Guedes is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

Klaus Schulze is a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried. He was briefly a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and The Cosmic Jokers before launching a solo career consisting of more than 60 albums released across five decades.

Samuel Dumoulin is a retired French professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2019 for the Jean Delatour, Cofidis and AG2R La Mondiale teams.

Pierfrancesco Favino is an Italian actor. He has appeared in more than fifty European and American movies and television series since the early 1990s, including The Prince of Homburg (1997), The Last Kiss (2001), El Alamein: The Line of Fire (2002), The Keys to the House (2004), Romanzo Criminale (2005), The Unknown Woman (2006), Night at the Museum (2006), Saturn in Opposition (2007), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), Angels & Demons (2009), ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards (2012) Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012), World War Z (2013), Rush (2013), Suburra (2015) and The Traitor (2019). In 2020, he won the Volpi Cup at Venice Film Festival for his performance in Padrenostro.

William David Ivy was an English professional Grand Prix motorcycle racer from Maidstone, Kent. He died during practice for a race in East Germany.

Thorsten Margis is a German bobsledder.

Lee Si-chen, is a Taiwanese engineer specializing in semiconductors, a researcher in amorphous silicon in the early development in Taiwan, and an IEEE Fellow. He has been a professor of electrical engineering since 1982 and the president of National Taiwan University from 2005 to 2013.

Ilija Trojanow is a Bulgarian–German writer, translator and publisher.