List of Famous people born on August 12nd

Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman is a former Australian Liberal-National Party politician who served as the 38th premier of Queensland from 26 March 2012 to 14 February 2015. Newman served as the member for Ashgrove in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland between March 2012 and 31 January 2015. He was the leader of the LNP from 2 April 2011 to 7 February 2015, and was the 15th lord mayor of Brisbane from 27 March 2004 to 3 April 2011.

Hélio Filipe Dias de Sousa is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a central midfielder, and is the current manager of the Bahrain national team.

Terence Oldfield is an English composer, and brother to Sally and Mike Oldfield.

Selina Jane Cadell is an English actress. She is the younger sister of actor Simon Cadell and granddaughter of actress Jean Cadell. She is the great niece of the Scottish artist Francis Cadell.

Michael Dine is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in elementary particle physics, supersymmetry, string theory, and physics beyond the Standard Model.

Hans-Ulrich Treichel is a Germanist, novelist and poet. His earliest published books were collections of poetry, but prose writing has become a larger part of his output since the critical and commercial success of his first novel Der Verlorene. Treichel has also worked as an opera librettist, most prominently in collaboration with the composer Hans Werner Henze.

Mary Wakefield is an American nurse and health care administrator, who served in the Obama administration as acting United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2015 to 2017, and as head of the Health Resources and Services Administration from 2009 to 2015.