List of Famous people born on August 2nd

Matteo Trentin is an Italian professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates.

Lucy Verasamy is a British weather forecaster for ITV Weather, ITV Racing and ITV's Good Morning Britain.

Michael Derrick Tubbs is an American politician who served as the 79th mayor of Stockton, California from 2017 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a member of the Stockton City Council from the 6th District from 2013 until 2017.

Cho Jin-ho was a South Korean football player who played as a midfielder or striker for the South Korea national team.

Jashan Pahlajrai Vaswani, better known as Dada Vaswani was a non-sectarian spiritual leader. He also promoted vegetarianism and animal rights. He was the Spiritual Head at the Sadhu Vaswani Mission founded by his Guru, Sadhu Vaswani. The Mission, a non-profit organization headquartered in Pune, India, has centers around the world. Vaswani authored 150 self-help books.

Gail Omvedt was an American-born Indian sociologist and human rights activist. She was a prolific writer and published numerous books on the anti-caste movement, Dalit politics, and women's struggles in India. Omvedt was involved in Dalit and anti-caste movements, environmental, farmers' and women's movements, especially with rural women.

Emmanuel Joel Jose Villanueva(, born August 2, 1975) is a Filipino politician, who serves as a Senator of the Philippines. He took his senatorial seat following the 2016 Philippine national elections, where he ranked second highest in the polls with 18,459,222 votes. He was a former Director General of the Philippine TESDA from 2010 until 2015 and a three-term congressman from 2001 through 2010. Villanueva was the youngest member of the House of Representatives when he assumed office in February 2002.

Krzysztof Soszyński is a Polish–Canadian actor and retired mixed martial artist. An 11-year competitor from 2003 until 2014, Soszynski fought in the UFC, Strikeforce, the Los Angeles Anacondas of the IFL, and was a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir.

Sebastiano Tusa was an Italian archaeologist and politician who served as councilor for Cultural Heritage for the Sicilian Region of Italy from 11 April 2018 until his death on 10 March 2019. Tusa also served as a professor of paleontology at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples.

Serge Halimi is a French journalist working at Le Monde diplomatique since 1992. In March 2008 he became the editorial director. He is also the author of Le Grand Bond en Arrière.