List of Famous people born in August

Donna Marie Theresa Air is an English actress, television presenter and media personality.

Daniel Eugene "Rudy" Ruettiger is a motivational speaker and author who played college football at the University of Notre Dame. His early life and career at Notre Dame were the inspiration for the 1993 film Rudy.

Alma Andrea Meza Carmona is a Mexican model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Mexico 2017. She represented Mexico in Miss World 2017 where she finished 1st Runner-Up. On November 29, she was crowned Mexicana Universal 2020 and will represent Mexico in Miss Universe 2020.

Haruka Kinami is a Japanese actress who is affiliated with Horipro.

Mathias Fassou Pogba is a Guinean professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Racing Murcia FC.

Nacer Chadli is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a winger for İstanbul Başakşehir and the Belgium national team.

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Omelchenko became the mayor of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, in 1999. He lost his re-election bid in March 2006. Omelchenko is also a former member of the Verkhovna Rada.

Spencer John Stone is an American actor, writer and former United States Air Force staff sergeant. In August 2015, Stone, along with American friends Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler and three other passengers, as well as an off-duty conductor, were travelling from Amsterdam on a high speed, Paris-bound train and disarmed and subdued a solitary, heavily armed Moroccan terrorist. Three days later, French President Francois Hollande awarded Stone, Sadler, and Skarlatos, as well British citizen Chris Norman, the Legion of Honour. Stone was recognized by U.S. Ambassador to France Jane D. Hartley for "his actions in saving countless lives" and by U.S. President Barack Obama, with a ceremony held at The Pentagon to honor the trio. For his bravery, Stone was awarded the Airman's Medal and a Purple Heart.

Kazuyoshi Morita , known by his stage name Tamori (タモリ), is a Japanese television celebrity. Known for his trademark dark sunglasses, Tamori is one of the "big three" television comedians in Japan along with Takeshi Kitano and Sanma Akashiya. For more than 30 years he hosted Waratte Iitomo!, a nationally televised live show broadcast every weekday at noon from October 1982 until March 2014. His likeness is the basis for the Piranha Plant in All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.

Bogdan Bogdanović is a Serbian professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The swingman also represents the Serbian national basketball team internationally.