List of Famous people born on August 15th

Ayọ Tometi, formerly known as Opal Tometi, is a Nigerian-American human rights activist, writer, strategist, and community organizer. She is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM). She is the former Executive Director of the United States' first national immigrant rights organization for people of African descent, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), working there in various roles for over nine years.

Ramesh Pokhriyal, known by his nom de plume Nishank is an Indian politician who was appointed on 31 May 2019 to serve as Minister of Human Resource Development in the Second Modi ministry, and as of July 2020, following the ministry's name change, his title was changed to Minister of Education. He represents the Haridwar Parliamentary constituency of Uttarakhand in the 17th Lok Sabha.

Eikei Suzuki is a Japanese politician and the current governor of Mie Prefecture located in Kansai region of Japan.

Derek William Draper is an English former lobbyist. As a political advisor he was involved in two political scandals, "Lobbygate" in 1998, and again in 2009 while Draper was editor of the LabourList website. He has worked as a psychotherapist.

Dmitry Dmitryevich Borisov is a Russian journalist, TV host, a Runet activist, producer of documentary projects and chief executive producer of Channel One Russia Worldwide. He has won a TEFI award as the best TV news presenter.

Rıdvan Dilmen is a former Turkish footballer who most notably played for Fenerbahçe and the Turkish national football team. During his career Rıdvan established himself as one of the most skilled players of the Turkish Super League. He was either an attacking midfielder or an out and out striker. Although he stated on numerous occasions his dislike for it, he was given the nickname "Şeytan Rıdvan" mostly for his wits, immense speed with the ball and stupendous fakes. Since retiring as a player, Rıdvan coached several teams before becoming a color commentator, analyst and sportswriter.

Natalie Lowe is an Australian ballroom dancer. She is a four-time Australian ballroom dance champion. Lowe competed on, and won, Australia's Dancing with the Stars with celebrity partner Anthony Koutoufides. She later joined the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing. She competed on Strictly for seven series, leaving after the 2016 series concluded.

Sean Rigby is an English actor from Preston, Lancashire. He graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2012.

Kanji Ishimaru is a Japanese actor and singer. Ishimaru is signed to Sony Music Entertainment Japan. He grew up in Ichihara, Chiba and graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts.

Waleed Aly is an Australian writer, academic, lawyer, media presenter and musician. Aly is a co-host of Network Ten's news and current affairs television program The Project, he writes for Fairfax Media, and is a lecturer in politics at Monash University working in their Global Terrorism Research Centre. In 2016, he won the Gold Logie Award for Best Personality on Australian Television.