List of Famous people born on August 8th

Miles Maochun Yu is an American historian, strategist and the principal China policy and planning adviser to United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. He is also a professor of military history and modern China at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.

Houcine Benayada is an Algerian footballer who currently plays for Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 club Club Africain. He plays primarily as a centre-back but can also play as a right-back.

Joely Collins is a Canadian-English actress and producer. She is the daughter of Andrea Bertorelli and English musician Phil Collins.

Bruce Rankin Matthews is an American former professional football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for 19 seasons, from 1983 to 2001. He spent his entire career playing for the Houston / Tennessee Oilers / Titans franchise. Highly versatile, throughout his NFL career he played every position on the offensive line, starting in 99 games as a left guard, 87 as a center, 67 as a right guard, 22 as a right tackle, 17 as a left tackle, and was the snapper on field goals, PATs, and punts. Having never missed a game due to injury, his 293 NFL games started is the third most of all time, behind quarterbacks Brett Favre and Tom Brady.

Laura Kamhuber is an Austrian singer. Her performance of Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You", taped when she was a 13-year-old on the 2013 German edition of The Voice Kids, is the most watched YouTube video by an Austrian artist. She has recorded three albums.

Mutulu Shakur is an American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army, sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck in which a guard and two police officers were murdered.

Sören Benn is a German politician and since 2016 'Bezirksbürgermeister' of the Berlin borough of Pankow.

Deborah Anne Norville is an American television journalist and businesswoman. Norville is the anchor of Inside Edition, a syndicated television news magazine, a position she has held since March 6, 1995. She is a member of the board of directors of ViacomCBS. She markets and sells a line of yarns for knit and crochet enthusiasts, manufactured by Premier Yarns. Previously, she was an anchor and correspondent for CBS News and earlier co-host of Today on NBC. Her book Thank You Power was a New York Times best-seller.

Branscombe Richmond, sometimes credited in films as Richmond Branscombe, Ranscombe Richmon, Ranhome Quickman or Branscom Richmond, is an American character actor and stuntman of English, Native American, Native Hawaiian, French, French Polynesian, Spanish and Portuguese descent.

Kengo Kuma is a Japanese architect and professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Tokyo. Frequently compared to contemporaries Shigeru Ban and Kazuyo Sejima, Kuma is also noted for his prolific writings. He is the designer of the New National Stadium, Tokyo which has been built for 2020 Summer Olympics.