List of Famous people born in August

Lindsay John Casson Gaze is an Australian former basketball player and coach. He played for Australia in three Summer Olympics qualification tournaments, between 1960 and 1968, and was the head coach of the senior Australian basketball team at four Summer Olympics, between 1972 and 1984. Gaze also coached the Melbourne Tigers for 35 years, including 22 seasons in the National Basketball League (NBL), winning two league championships, in 1993 and 1997. He was the NBL Coach of the Year in 1989, 1997 and 1999, and is second all-time in the number of coaching wins in that league. Gaze is a member of the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame, as both a player and coach, and is an associate member of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. He has also been inducted into both the FIBA Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, as a coach.

Eric Douglas Saumarez, 7th Baron de Saumarez, is a British hereditary peer.

Shane Gaalaas is a Canadian-born drummer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter best known for his long running affiliation with Japanese rock superstars B'z, whom he joined in 2002, and his extensive work with guitar virtuosos Michael Schenker, Yngwie Malmsteen, Uli Jon Roth, Vinnie Moore, and Jeff Kollman.

Chinatsu Matsui is a professional squash player who represents Japan. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 50 in September 2007.

Corey Gregg Weinberg, better known as Corey Burton, is an American voice actor, known as the current voice of Captain Hook, Ludwig Von Drake and others for The Walt Disney Company, Shockwave on The Transformers, Brainiac in the DC Animated Universe, Zeus in the God of War series, Count Dooku and Cad Bane among others on Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Hugo Strange in Batman: Arkham City.

Arthur Kulkov is a Russian male model. His work has been prominently featured in American publications such as GQ and Details. He has been featured on covers for both publications, a rarity in the male model industry. He is recognized for being one of the few successful Russian models working internationally and for nabbing at least one fashion campaign every season he's been an active model.

Festus Gontebanye Mogae is a Botswana politician who served as the third President of Botswana from 1998 to 2008. He succeeded Quett Masire as President in 1998 and was re-elected in October 2004; after ten years in office, he stepped down in 2008 and was succeeded by Lieutenant General Ian Khama.

Valdis Dombrovskis is a Latvian politician serving as Executive Vice President of the European Commission for An Economy that Works for People since 2019 and European Commissioner for Trade since 2020. He previously served as European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union from 2016 to 2020 and Prime Minister of Latvia from 2009 to 2014.