List of Famous people born on August 5th

Fetra Ratsimiziva is a judoka who represented Madagascar at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He was one of three sportspeople on the team to qualify for the Olympics rather than win a wild-card spot. In the Men's 81kg event, he lost to Emmanuel Lucenti of Argentina in the second round.

Krista Katriina Kiuru is a Finnish politician. She served as Minister of Housing and Communications and Minister of Education and Communications in Jyrki Katainen's and Alexander Stubb's cabinets. Since June 2019, she has served as the Minister of Family Affairs and Social Services in the Rinne Cabinet and the subsequent Marin Cabinet.

Danica Prodanović, is a Serbian Doctor of Pharmacy, researcher and part-time singer, known by her nickname Nina.

Chen Ding is a Chinese racewalker who won a gold medal in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. He finished the race in 1:18:46, a new Olympic record.

Erik Bork is a screenwriter, producer, script consultant and blogger best known for his work on the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and From the Earth to the Moon, for which he wrote multiple episodes, and won two Emmy and two Golden Globe Awards as part of the producing team.

Kintu Musoke, is a Ugandan politician, closely associated with President Yoweri Museveni. He served as Prime Minister of Uganda from 18 November 1994 to 5 April 1999. He was later appointed to head a task force on fighting AIDS in Uganda. He also serves as an Advisor to the President of Uganda.

Thomas John Joseph Paprocki is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois since 2010. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago from 2003 to 2010.