List of Famous people born in August

Christoph Matthias Schmidt is a German economist. He is the president of the RWI Essen and since 2009 chairman of the German Council of Economic Experts. He is also a professor at the University of Bochum. His field of interest is Applied Econometrics, particularly in the context of Labor Economics and Energy Economics.

Günter Meyer is a German Geographer and Orientalist. He is chairman of the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) and director of the Center for Research on the Arab World (CERAW) at the University of Mainz. Meyer focuses mainly on the Political Geography of the Arab World, and the economic as well as urban development in the Middle East, especially in Egypt, Syria, Yemen and the UAE, but also in Germany. He became known to a wider German-speaking audience through more than 1100 interviews on the Iraq War, the Syrian Civil War and on the Libyan Civil War 2011 and 2014.

Anka Muhlstein is a historian and biographer.

Mykhailo Vitaliyovych Havryliuk is a Ukrainian public figure. He participated in the Euromaidan protests and was tortured by Berkut officers in January 2014. In October 2014, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada during the Ukrainian parliamentary election, as a candidate of People's Front, by winning the situated in Irpin with 19.43% of the votes. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, this time as a self-nominated candidate again in electoral district 95, he failed to regain his parliamentary seat. 512 people voted for him, thus he gained 0.56% of the (2019) votes of the district.

Claus-Peter Schnorr is a German mathematician and cryptographer.

Aílton José Almeida, simply known as Aílton, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Örgryte IS.

Junta Terashima is a Japanese voice actor, narrator, and singer. He debuted as a voice actor in 2009. Notable roles played by him include Hyōga Yukimura from Inazuma Eleven Go, Shin Ichijo from the King of Prism series, Takeru Taiga from The Idolmaster: SideM, and Hisoka Mikage from A3!. In addition to voice acting, Terashima also started a singing career in 2019 with the release of the extended plays 29 + 1: Miso and Joy Source.

Kévin Diaz is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Istres.

Yeşim Büber is a Turkish actress.