List of Famous people born on August 8th

Yōji Tanaka is a Japanese actor and tarento. He is often credited as BoBA.

Kurt Graham Maflin is an English-Norwegian professional snooker player. A strong break-builder, Maflin has compiled more than 190 century breaks during his career and is among 25 players to have made multiple 147 breaks in professional competition.

Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford was a British socialite, known for her relationship with Adolf Hitler. Both in Great Britain and Germany, she was a prominent supporter of Nazism, fascism and antisemitism, and belonged to Hitler's inner circle of friends. After the declaration of World War II, Mitford attempted suicide in Munich, and was officially allowed safe passage back to England in her invalid condition, but never recovered.

Preta Maria Gadelha Gil Moreira, known as Preta Gil, is a Brazilian singer and actress. She is the daughter of Gilberto Gil, a famous musician and former Minister of Culture in Brazil.

Alphons Joseph Kannanthanam or K. J. Alphons is an Indian civil servant, advocate, and politician from Kerala. He is the former Union Minister of State for Culture, and Tourism, in office since 3 September 2017 to May 2019 under the B.J.P. Government of Narendra Modi.He is currently serving as a Rajyasabha MP.

Lena Stolze is a German television and film actress.

Josip Drmić is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a striker for Championship club Norwich City and the Switzerland national team.

María Denisse Guerrero Flores is a Mexican musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the electropop band Belanova. The band has released five albums since signing to Virus Records and later to Universal Mexico, in 2000.

Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya is a retired Soviet aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a spacewalk.

Magizh Thirumeni is an Indian film director who has worked on Tamil language films. After working as an assistant to directors Selvaraghavan and Gautham Menon, he directed four Tamil films, including the action thrillers Thadaiyara Thaakka (2012), Meaghamann (2014), and Thadam (2019).