List of Famous people born on August 5th

Michael F. Doyle Jr. is an American politician who is the U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district, serving in Congress since 1995. He is currently a member of the Democratic Party. The district is based in Pittsburgh and includes most of Allegheny County. He is currently the Dean of the Pennsylvania congressional delegation.

James Clifford Timlin is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Scranton from 1984 to 2003. During his tenure as bishop, he reassigned a priest who had raped a girl and arranged for her family to be paid to remain silent on the matter.

John Francis Spellar is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Warley, formerly Warley West, since 1992. A member of the Labour Party, he previously represented Birmingham Northfield from 1982 to 1983. He served as a minister in numerous departments between 1997 and 2005 and later served as Comptroller of the Household in the Whips' Office between 2008 and 2010. After Labour entered opposition, he served as a shadow Foreign Office minister from 2010 to 2015.

Christopher Gunning is an English composer of concert works and music for films and television.