List of Famous people born on August 5th

Nathalia Timberg is a Brazilian actress. She is celebrated as one of the best and most well known Brazilian actresses of cinema, theater and television.

Matthew Tyler Costello is an American-born naturalised Ivorian professional basketball player for Baskonia of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for Michigan State.

Benjamin Compaoré is a French athlete specialising in the triple jump. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Ellen Sprunger is a Swiss track and field athlete.

José Manuel Fidalgo Soares is a Portuguese model and actor.

José Félix Tezanos Tortajada is a Spanish sociologist, politician, and professor. He serves as President of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS) since 2018.

Sergio Ramírez Mercado is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as Vice President of the country 1985-1990 under the presidency of Daniel Ortega.

Erkan Zengin is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Adana Demirspor.

Mizuki Fujii is a badminton player from Ashikita, Kumamoto, Japan and plays for the Renesas badminton club. Mizuki Fujii concentrates on doubles badminton. Most of her success has come with women's doubles partner Reika Kakiiwa. Together they reached the final of the 2010 Korea Open Super Series, their first major final as a pair. She also assisted her team in winning the Bronze medal at the 2010 Uber Cup. In the mixed doubles she pairs with Hirokatsu Hashimoto. Her career highest achievement was the silver medal in the women's doubles at the 2012 London Summer Olympics with Kakiiwa. She retired from professional badminton after the win at London.

Henri Stambouli is an Algerian former football player and manager.