List of Famous people born on August 1st

Katarina Sonja Rodriguez is a Filipino-American actress, MTV VJ, athlete, model, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss World Philippines 2018 and Binibining Pilipinas Intercontinental 2017. She represented the Philippines in Miss Intercontinental 2017 where she placed as the first runner-up and also represented the Philippines in the Miss World 2018 competition.

Melanie Raabe is a German novelist and journalist.

Alain Damasio is a French writer of sci-fi and fantasy. He also works as a scriptwriter for comics, radio fictions, movie and TV series. He is also notable as an audio and spoken word artist.

Danny Chan Kwok-kwan is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, dance choreographer, and the lead singer of the rock band Poet. He is known for resembling Bruce Lee in appearance, and has portrayed Lee in the 2008 television series The Legend of Bruce Lee, the 2015 film Ip Man 3, and its 2019 sequel Ip Man 4. Chan is also a practitioner of Jeet Kune Do, the martial art created by Bruce Lee.

Peter Maxwell Evans is an Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1980s who won four Olympic medals, including a gold in the 4×100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as part of the Quietly Confident Quartet. He also won consecutive bronze medals in the 100 m breaststroke at the 1980 Olympics and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

Li Hongzhong is a Chinese politician, serving as Communist Party Secretary of Tianjin and a member of the 19th Politburo of the Communist Party of China. Born in Shenyang, Li spent much of his early career in Guangdong province, including as mayor, then party secretary of Shenzhen. He was transferred to Hubei province in 2007 and would go on to serve as Governor and party secretary there.

Torsten Lieberknecht is a retired German football player and manager, who last managed MSV Duisburg.

Cristina del Valle is a Spanish singer and activist.

Mariane Chan is a Hong Kong actress.

Polina Pavlovna Kutepova is a Soviet and Russian actress.