List of Famous people born on August 1st

Anna Sergeyevna Sedoykina is a Russian handball player for CSKA Moscow and the Russian national handball team.

Jakov Fak is a biathlete born in Croatia and competing for Slovenia since 2010. As a member of the Croatian biathlon team, Fak won bronze medals at the 2009 World Championships and at the 2010 Winter Olympics where he was also the Croatian flag bearer at the opening ceremony. In 2010, Fak switched his citizenship and started competing for Slovenia. With the Slovenian team, Fak won four medals at the World Championships, including two gold, and a silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics. In addition, Fak has eight victories in the World Cup.

Mona Eltahawy is a freelance Egyptian-American journalist and social commentator based in New York City. She has written essays and op-eds for publications worldwide on Egypt and the Islamic world, including women's issues and Muslim political and social affairs. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and the Miami Herald among others. Headscarves and Hymens, Eltahawy's first book, was published in May 2015. Eltahawy has also been a guest analyst on U.S. radio and television news shows. She is also acknowledged as one of the people who spearheaded the Mosque Me Too movement through the usage of the hashtag #MosqueMeToo.

Kennys Vargas Gautier, nicknamed "Gorilla", is a Puerto Rican professional baseball designated hitter and first baseman for the Saraperos de Saltillo of the Mexican League. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins and for the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Saleh Gomaa is an Egyptian professional footballer who last played for Al Ahly, and the Egyptian national team. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2013 African U-20 Championship. As a 19-year-old, he played at the 2013 African U-20 championship in Algeria and won "The Player of the Tournament" award, when the Egyptians won their trophy. He is the elder brother of the Egyptian footballer Abdallah Gomaa.

Jordi Savall i Bernadet is a Catalan conductor and viol player. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for popularizing the viol family of instruments in contemporary performance and recording. As a historian of early music his repertoire features everything from medieval, Renaissance and Baroque through to the Classical and Romantic periods. He has incorporated non-western musical traditions in his work; including African vernacular music.

Jorge Rodrigo Barrios is an Argentine former professional boxer who held the WBO junior lightweight title.

Luis Callejo is a Spanish actor who appeared in more than 90 films since 1998.

Elizabeth Cervantes is a Mexican actress of films and soap operas. She studied acting in Casa del Teatro and Centro de Formacion Actoral of TV Azteca.

Admiral Widodo Adi Sutjipto is a former Commander of the National Armed Forces (TNI) of Indonesia.