List of Famous people born in August

Serkan Özsoy is a Turkish professional footballer who plays for TKİ Tavşanlı Linyitspor in the TFF First League.

Jumpei Kusukami is a Japanese footballer currently playing for Shimizu S-Pulse.

Shun Nagasawa is a Japanese professional football player currently playing for J1 League team Oita Trinita. After working his way through the S-Pulse youth system, he signed full professional terms in 2007. He spent loan spells at J. League 2 sides Roasso Kumamoto, Kyoto Sanga and Matsumoto Yamaga before signing with Gamba Osaka in July 2015.

André Oumansky is a French actor. He appeared in more than eighty films since 1958.

João Manuel Vieira Pinto CvIH is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played mostly as a forward.

Gao Qiang is a Chinese politician and a former minister and party secretary of the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China.

Géraldine Zivic is an Argentine-born Colombian award-winning actress, model and television host of Serbian descent best known for her roles in telenovelas.

Ren Hayakawa is a Japanese archer of South Korean descent who won a bronze medal in the women's team event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Olivier Roy is a French political scientist, professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has published articles and books on secularisation and Islam including "Global Islam", and The Failure of Political Islam. He is known to have "a different view of radical Islam" than some other experts, seeing it as peripheral, Westernized and part of a radicalized and "virtual" rather than pious and "actual" Muslim community. More recently he has written on the Charlie Hebdo shooting, and the November 2015 Paris attacks.