List of Famous people born in August

Daniel Flottmann is a German footballer who plays for SV Rödinghausen.

Willem Jacubos le Roux is a South African rugby union player. He is a versatile back-line player who generally plays as a fullback or wing, though earlier in his career he played mostly as a fly-half. He plays for the South Africa national team and for Toyota Verblitz in the Top League. He was born in Stellenbosch.

Chu Tʽien-wen is a Taiwanese fiction writer. Chu is perhaps best known for writing the screenplays for most Hou Hsiao-hsien films. She is the recipient of the 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.

Sylvain Pierre Kastendeuch is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender. He was capped nine times by the France national team. He is the player with the sixth-most appearances in the French championship. In his entire career, he never received a red card.

Susumu Mochizuki , better known by his ring name Susumu Yokosuka , is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to Dragon Gate. He is not related to fellow Dragon Gate wrestler and long term ally/rival Masaaki Mochizuki, who debuted much earlier for WAR.

James Norwich Arbuthnot, Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom,, is a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Wanstead and Woodford from 1987 to 1997, and then MP for North East Hampshire from 1997 to 2015.

Samar Yazbek is a Syrian writer and journalist. She was born in Jableh, Syria, near Latakia, in 1970, and studied Arabic literature at Latakia university. She has written in a wide variety of genres - novels, short stories, film scripts, television dramas, film and TV criticism, literary narratives.

Alexis Raynaud is a French sport shooter. Competing in the 50 meter rifle three positions he won a silver medal at the 2015 European Championships and a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics.

Augusto Ernesto dos Santos Silva is a Portuguese sociologist, university professor, and politician. Since November 2015, he has been the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the XXI and XXII Constitutional Governments led by Prime Minister António Costa.