List of Famous people born on August 12nd

Imani Hakim is an American actress best known for her role as Tonya Rock on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris as well as portraying Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle Douglas in the 2014 Lifetime original movie The Gabby Douglas Story.

David Jost is a German music producer, singer-songwriter and DJ born in Hamburg. His career has a track record of 74 platinum and 108 gold records and 14 No. 1 hits. He has worked with artists like Lady Gaga, Chris Brown, Tokio Hotel, Limp Bizkit, Selena Gomez, Nelly Furtado, Keri Hilson, Aura Dione, and Adam Lambert. For his work as a songwriter, Jost was named Germany's best songwriter by the GEMA. For Tokio Hotel, Jost has composed, produced and mixed six No. 1 singles and three No. 1 albums.

The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism is a biography attributed to Naoki Higashida, a nonverbal autistic person from Japan. It was first published in Japan in 2007. The English translation, by Keiko Yoshida and her husband, English author David Mitchell, was published in 2013.

Bernard Boursicot is a French diplomat who was caught in a honeypot trap by Shi Pei Pu, a male Peking opera singer who performed female roles, whom Boursicot believed to be female. This espionage case became something of a cause célèbre in France in 1986, as Boursicot and Shi were brought to trial, owing to the nature of the unusual sexual subterfuge alleged.

Ernesto Javier Chevantón Espinosa is a former Uruguayan footballer, who played as a forward.

Ulrich Neymeyr is a German Roman-Catholic bishop.

Mads Mensah Larsen is a Danish handball player for SG Flensburg-Handewitt and the Denmark national team.

Fumitake Miura is a former Japanese football player and manager.

Tejay van Garderen is an American professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–Nippo. During the season, he lives in Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

Wolfgang Huber is a prominent German theologian and ethicist. Huber served as bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia until November 2009. Huber succeeded Manfred Kock as Chairperson of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) in November 2003 and was succeeded by Bishop Margot Käßmann, the first woman in that position, in October 2009.