List of Famous people born in August

Ted Prior is an American actor, film producer, bodybuilder and model. He is known for his frequent lead roles in action films directed by his brother David A. Prior. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Prior first moved to Los Angeles, California in the late 1970s to pursue his career as a bodybuilder. By the early 1980s he and he worked as a dancer for the troupe Chippendales, and was a centrefold model for Playgirl magazine. In this area, Prior made his acting debut with a lead in the horror film Sledgehammer (1983) and another one in the actioner Killzone (1985) both directed by his brother David.

Wesley Lautoa is a New Caledonian footballer native of Wallis and Futuna who plays for Dijon.

Motoko Arai is an award winning Japanese science fiction and fantasy writer. Her writing is characterized by her use of a light conversational tone geared towards a young adult audience. She has published three series of novels and several short stories. Her works, Green Requiem and Neptune, received the Seiun Award for short story in 1981 and 1982.

Meni Levi, is a retired Israeli footballer who played as a right back for Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Jorge Perugorría Rodríguez is a Cuban actor, film director and painter. He is well known for his part as Diego in Strawberry and Chocolate (original title in Spanish Fresa y chocolate. He recently acted in Steven Soderbergh's Che, with Benicio del Toro and in the original Netflix series Four Seasons in Havana. He lives in Santa Fe, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Havana, with his wife Elsa Maria Fuentes de La Paz and their four children.

Silvia Mittermüller is a German snowboarder. Born in Munich, Germany, Mittermüller currently trains in the United States. She competes on the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour. She has sponsorship deals with Ride Snowboards, Oakley, Vans and Planet Sports.

Vladimír Darida is a Czech footballer who plays as a central midfielder for German club Hertha BSC and the Czech Republic national team.

Park Sun-young, known professionally as Luna, is a South Korean singer, musical actress and television presenter. She debuted as a member of girl group f(x) in September 2009. Apart from her group's activities, Luna has established herself as a musical actress, notably through her participation in the original and Korean versions of stage musicals including Legally Blonde, Coyote Ugly, High School Musical on Stage!, School OZ Hologram Musical, In the Heights, Rebecca, Rudolf and Autant en emporte le vent . She also starred in the film The Lightning Man's Secret (2015).

Lars Rudolph is a German actor and musician. He appeared in more than ninety films since 1984. He won the Max-Ophüls-Preis in 1997.

Esther María Koplowitz y Romero de Juseu, 7th Marchioness of Casa Peñalver, LH is a Spanish billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist.