List of Famous people born in August

Louis-Karim Nébati is a French actor, born in Bénouville (Calvados).

Taro Nakayama is a Japanese doctor and politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Osaka he received a Ph.D in medicine from Osaka Medical College in 1960 for the study of infantile paralysis. After serving in the assembly of Osaka Prefecture he was elected to the Diet for the first time in 1968 as a member of the House of Councilors and to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1986. From 1989 to 1990 he served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in Toshiki Kaifu's cabinet (1989–1991).

Maria Asteria Sastrayu Rahajeng, often called Maria Rahajeng is an Indonesian beauty pageant titleholder who was the representative from West Sulawesi and crowned Miss Indonesia 2014 on February 17, 2014 by her predecessor, Vania Larissa. As the winner of Miss Indonesia 2014, she represented Indonesia at Miss World 2014 on December 2014 in London.

Youssef Maaty ; born August 25, 1963) is an Egyptian satirist, playwright, and screenwriter, and sibling of the author Salah Maaty. He graduated from Ain Sham University and wrote over 18 books, 17 movies, 19 TV series, and 6 plays.

Kento Masaki is a Japanese Paralympic judoka in Super-Heavyweight.

Markus Schmidt is a German football referee who is based in Stuttgart. He referees for SV Sillenbuch of the Württemberg Football Association.

Marc Mézard is a French physicist and academic administrator. He is the director of the École normale supérieure (ENS). He is the co-author of two books.

Gert-René Polli was head of the Austrian Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism.

Elisabeth Raiser is a 21st-century historian, former President of the German Evangelical Church Assembly, and daughter of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.

Pegeen Vail Guggenheim was a Swiss-born American painter. Her painting combines two different artistic styles: surrealism and naïve art.