List of Famous people born in August

Hiroshi Moriwaki is a former Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player and current coach.

Jorge Rodrigo Barrios is an Argentine former professional boxer who held the WBO junior lightweight title.

Lev Matveevich Zelenyi is a Soviet and Russian physicist, an expert in the field of space plasma physics, the physics of solar-terrestrial relations, nonlinear dynamics and planetary research. Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2002-2017), with whom his entire career is connected, now his scientific advisor. Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2013-2017, member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2008), full member of the International Academy of Astronautics.

Jordi Savall i Bernadet is a Catalan conductor and viol player. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for popularizing the viol family of instruments in contemporary performance and recording. As a historian of early music his repertoire features everything from medieval, Renaissance and Baroque through to the Classical and Romantic periods. He has incorporated non-western musical traditions in his work; including African vernacular music.

Yutaka Ohno , is a former Japanese baseball player of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Japan's Central League.

Tarō Gomi is a Japanese children's book writer who is currently one of Japan's most prolific children's book illustrators and authors. He is a graduate of the Kuwazawa Design Institute. His first children's picture book was published in 1973. He has published more than 400 books in Japan and his work has been widely translated into other languages.

Romain Grégoire Clément Amalfitano is a French professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Al-Faisaly. He previously played for Reims, Châteauroux, Evian, Newcastle United and Dijon FCO.

Jarbas Vasconcelos is a Brazilian politician and lawyer. He represented Pernambuco in the Federal Senate from 2007 to 2015. Previously, he was governor of Pernambuco from 1999 to 2006. He is a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party.

Elohim Prandi is a French handball player for Paris Saint-Germain Handball and the French national team.

Fumiya Sashida is a Japanese singer-songwriter. He is represented with Stardust Promotion and his record label is Warner Music Japan.