List of Famous people born on August 3rd

Alexander Glebovich Nevzorov is a Russian and Soviet television journalist, a film director and a former member of the Russian parliament. He is the founder of a horsemanship school, Nevzorov Haute École. He also engaged in criticism of religion.

Sonny William Williams is a New Zealand professional rugby league player, and former professional rugby union footballer and heavyweight boxer, who most recently played as a second-row forward for the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League. He is only the second person to represent New Zealand in rugby union after first playing for the country in rugby league, and is one of only 21 players to have won multiple Rugby World Cups.

Masahiro Sakurai is a Japanese video game director, game designer and songwriter best known as the creator of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series. Apart from his work on those series, he also led the design of Meteos in 2005 and directed Kid Icarus: Uprising in 2012. Formerly an employee of HAL Laboratory, he founded Sora Ltd. in 2005, a company he still leads. He is also an author of a weekly column for Famitsu magazine, and has done voice acting work in some of his games.

James Alan Hetfield is an American musician and songwriter best known for being the co-founder, lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist and main songwriter for the heavy metal band Metallica. Hetfield is mainly known for his intricate rhythm playing, but occasionally performs lead guitar duties and solos, both live and in the studio. Hetfield co-founded Metallica in October 1981 after answering an advertisement by drummer Lars Ulrich in the Los Angeles newspaper The Recycler. Metallica has won nine Grammy Awards and released ten studio albums, three live albums, four extended plays and 24 singles.

Mathieu Kassovitz is a French director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and actor. He is the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company.

Lambert Wilson is a French actor, singer and activist. He is best known internationally for his portrayal of The Merovingian in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.

Corentin Tolisso is a French professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for German club Bayern Munich and the France national team.

Emerson Palmieri dos Santos, known as Emerson Palmieri or simply Emerson, is a professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Chelsea and the Italy national team. Mainly a left back, he has been deployed as a left wing back and a left midfielder on occasion.

Atsunori Inaba is a Japanese professional baseball manager and former player. He was the Most Valuable Player of the 2006 Japan Series.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005.