List of Famous people born on August 5th

Marc Libbra is a French former professional footballer, whose previous clubs include Marseille, Norwich City, Toulouse FC and Hibernian.

Princess Irene of the Netherlands is the second child of Queen Juliana I of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard.

Ava Liu Yu-Kiu is a Hong Kong singer, actress and television host.

Mathieu Gorgelin is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 2 club Le Havre.

Zhou Jie is a Chinese actor and singer, best known for his works on two television series as Fu Erkang in the My Fair Princess trilogy and as Yang Kang in The Legend of the Condor Heroes (2003).

Maren Meinert is a German football coach and former player who played as a midfielder and striker. She was most recently the head coach of Germany women's national under-20 football team.

Kanon Suzuki is a former idol and singer. She is a former ninth-generation member of the Japanese girl idol group Morning Musume.

Kenichi Wakatabe is a former Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher.

Daniela Schmitt is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as State Minister for Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture in the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2021. From 2013 until 2021, she was Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture under minister Volker Wissing.

Catherine Pégard is a French political journalist. She has spent most of her career at Le Point where she was editor. In 2007, she was appointed adviser to President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, and in charge of the "political center" at the Élysée Palace from March 2008. Since 2011 she has headed Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles that administer the Palace of Versailles. Pégard was awarded Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 2012.