List of Famous people born in August

Elisabetta Fantone is a Canadian actress.

Shinji Kobayashi is a former Japanese football player and manager.

Naoto Saito is a Japanese rugby union player who plays as a Scrum-half. He currently plays for Sunwolves in Super Rugby.

Sri Prakash Lohia is an Indian-born Indonesian billionaire businessman, and the founder and chairman of Indorama Corporation, a diversified petrochemical and textile company.

Ryu Seung-min is a Korean table tennis player who won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's singles competition. His opponent was Wang Hao, a top-seeded player from Chinese national team. Along the way, he defeated 1992 Olympic champion Jan-Ove Waldner with 4–1. At the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics he was part of the South Korean team that won the bronze and silver medals respectively. Ryu is ranked twenty-fifth in the world as of July 2013.

Cedate Gomes Sa is a French-Portuguese rugby union player. His position is prop and he currently plays for Racing 92 in the Top 14.

Takuya Kida is a Japanese football player who since 2012 has played midfield for Yokohama F. Marinos in J1 League. He also played for team Japan in the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup in their run to Quarterfinals. Not only that Kida participated in the 2014 Asian Games for team Japan in their run to the Quarterfinal where they lost 1-0.

Gilberto Simoni is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, most recently for Lampre–Farnese Vini. Simoni is twice winner of the Giro d'Italia cycling race. Simoni might have won a third Giro, but in 2002 he tested positive for cocaine and was withdrawn from the race by his Saeco team – he was later cleared of any doping violation by the Italian Cycling Federation. Aside from this incident in 2002 he finished on the podium in every other Giro between 1999 and 2006.

Adrián Mora Barraza is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga MX club Juárez on loan from Toluca.

Gabriel Ricardo Quadri de la Torre, better known as Gabriel Quadri de la Torre, or simply as Gabriel Quadri, is a Mexican politician, free-market environmentalist and former presidential candidate for the New Alliance Party, although he is not affiliated with the party. He was the presidential candidate for his party in the Mexican general elections of 2012.