List of Famous people born in August

Mark Charles Lee USAF Colonel, is a former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions. He retired from the Air Force and NASA on July 1, 2001.

Udo Schiefner is a German politician. Born in Kempen, North Rhine-Westphalia, he represents the SPD. Udo Schiefner has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2013.

Krystyna Guzik is a Polish biathlete. She was born in Zakopane. She represented Poland at the 2006 Winter Olympics, 2010 Winter Olympics and 2014 Winter Olympics. Her best result at the Olympics was a tenth place in the 15 km individual event at the 2014 Games in Sochi. At the 2013 World Championships she won the silver medal in pursuit.

Sandra Aguilar Navarro is a Spanish group rhythmic gymnast.

Kwon Soo-hyun is a South Korean actor. Three years into his acting career, Kwon finally got cast in the television series Run, Jang-mi (2014), playing a vital part in the drama. He also starred in High Society (2015). He looks up to Park Hae-il as his role model as he likes the latter acting.

Thomas Hickersberger is a retired Austria international football player and a coach who is currently an assistant manager with Rapid Vienna.

William Waldorf Astor II, 3rd Viscount Astor was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician. He was also a member of the Astor family.

Erika Tsukada is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 1-dan.

Hideki Shirakawa is a Japanese chemist, engineer, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He is best known for his discovery of conductive polymers. He was co-recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger.

Jon Ferguson "Jay" Mohr is an American actor, comedian and radio host. He is known for his roles as film producer Peter Dragon in the TV comedy series Action, Professor Rick Payne in the TV series Ghost Whisperer (2006–2008), the title role in the CBS sitcom Gary Unmarried (2008–2010), as a featured cast member on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (1993–1995) and the back-stabbing sports agent Bob Sugar in Jerry Maguire (1996). Since making his feature film debut with Jerry Maguire, he has appeared in the films Suicide Kings (1997), Picture Perfect (1997), Paulie (1998), Mafia! (1998), Small Soldiers (1998), The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002), Are We There Yet? (2005), The Groomsmen (2006), Street Kings (2008), Hereafter (2010) and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013).