List of Famous people born on August 9th

Brad Gilbert is a former professional tennis player and an American tennis coach. During his career, he won 20 singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 in 1990, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 18 four years prior. He won a bronze medal at the 1988 Olympics, and both a gold medal and a silver medal at the 1981 Maccabiah Games.

Andrea Iannone is an Italian professional motorcycle racer who is serving a four-year competition ban from 17 December 2019. He was initially given an 18-month ban by the FIM and WADA which, after a failed appeal, was extended to four years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Sandra Aguilar Navarro is a Spanish group rhythmic gymnast.

John Kerr is a Canadian sailor and publisher. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1973.

Jessica Lee Liszewski, better known by her stage name Jes Macallan, is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Josslyn Carver in ABC drama series Mistresses and Ava Sharpe in The CW superhero comedy-drama Legends of Tomorrow.

Ronnie Quintarelli is an Italian racecar driver, currently competes at Super GT. He holds the all-time record for the most drivers' championship titles (4), for the most drivers' championship title won by a non-Japanese driver (4) and the most drivers' championship won in GT500 class (4) of Super GT.

Elizabeth Leigh Vassey is an American actress. Her roles include Emily Ann Sago in the television series All My Children, Captain Liberty in the 2001 television series The Tick, Wendy Simms in the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Nikki Beaumont in the web series Nikki & Nora.

Ulrich Kirchhoff is a German and Ukrainian show jumping rider, Olympic champion from 1996.

Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE is a British newspaper cartoonist, and writer and illustrator of both children's books and graphic novels. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she has drawn the series Gemma Bovery (2000) and Tamara Drewe (2005–06), both later published as books. Her style gently satirises the English middle classes and in particular those of a literary bent. Both of the published books feature a "doomed heroine", much in the style of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century gothic romantic novel, to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant.

Badr Jafar is an Emirati business executive and social entrepreneur based in the United Arab Emirates. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Crescent Enterprises, a diversified global business with operations in several sectors including ports and logistics, power and engineering.