List of Famous people born on August 6th

Narsingh Pancham Yadav is an Indian wrestler. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he won the gold medal in the men's freestyle 74 kg category.

Geoffrey John Harvey was an English-Australian musician, pianist, conductor, musical director and television personality who worked at the Australian Nine Network for 38 years. Known primarily for his appearances on The Mike Walsh Show and Midday, Harvey also composed a number of the theme songs for the network's programs.

Anna Haining Bates, was a Canadian woman famed for her great stature of 7 feet 11 inches (2.41 m). Her parents were of average height and were Scottish immigrants.

Roman Aleksandrovich Dobrokhotov is a Russian public figure, journalist, activist, political science teacher, one of the founders and leaders of the 5th of December Party. He is a member of the federal political council of the Solidarnost movement, member of the political council of the Solidarnost's Moscow branch, founder and owner of investigative newspaper The Insider.

Mark Warwick Fordham Speight was an English television presenter and host of children's art programme SMart. Speight was born in Seisdon, Staffordshire and left school at 16 to become a cartoonist. He took a degree in commercial and graphic art and, while working in television set construction, heard of auditions for a new children's art programme. Speight was successful in his audition and became one of the first presenters of SMart, working on it for 14 years.

Sir Gordon Howard Eliott Hodgkin was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction.

Pedro Miguel Carvalho Deus Correia, known as Ró-Ró, is a naturalized Qatari footballer of Cape Verdean origins who plays for Al Sadd SC as a central defender.

Reece Dinsdale is an English actor and director of stage, film and television.

Yasutomo Kubo is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. He previously played for the Chiba Lotte Marines from 2005 to 2008, the Hanshin Tigers from 2009 to 2013, and the Yokohama DeNA BayStars from 2014 to 2017. In 2018, he played for the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

John Michael Gant is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals and Minnesota Twins.