List of Famous people born on August 1st

Margarete (Marga) von Etzdorf was a German aircraft pilot, notable for being the first woman hired to fly for an airline, and the first woman to fly solo across Siberia, from Germany to Tokyo, Japan.

Murat Erdoğan is an English footballer of Turkish descent.

Takayuki Sugō is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Chiba Prefecture, Japan. He is widely noted for portraying paternal figures or mentors to protagonists in various anime and audio productions. He is also the famous official Japanese dubbing roles for Jean Reno, Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Harris and many more.

Kota Futaki is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Yaşar Yakış is a Turkish politician. He is a former Foreign Minister, and a former ambassador to the UN Office in Vienna, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. From 2002 to 2011 he represented Düzce as an MP in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. He is a member of the Justice and Development Party, the leading political party in Turkey at the moment and he is the chair of the European Union Harmonization Committee of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. He received the French Légion d'Honneur

Teresa Mak Ka-kei (麥家琪) is a Hong Kong actress signed to ATV. She competed in the 1993 Miss Hong Kong Pageant.

Arthur Retière is a French rugby union winger or full-back and he currently plays for La Rochelle in the French Top 14.

Karl-Heinz Wiesemann is the 96th Bishop of Speyer.

Hugo Alfonso González Durán is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Liga MX club Monterrey.

Laurence Rochat is a Swiss cross-country skier who has competed since 1996. She won a bronze medal in the 4 × 5 km relay at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and had her best individual finish with a 15th place in the Individual sprint at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.