List of Famous people born on August 16th

Kaili Shimbo is a Japanese footballer currently playing as a defender for Renofa Yamaguchi. He is the son of the former Japanese international defender, Hayuma Tanaka.

Nikolaos "Nikos" Zisis is a Greek professional basketball player for AEK Athens of the Greek Basket League and the Basketball Champions League. At a height of 1.97 m tall, he plays at both the point guard and shooting guard positions.

Seiji Goto , better known by his ring name Tarzan Goto (ターザン後藤), is a Japanese professional wrestler who has wrestled on the independent circuit most of his career. He is best known for his exploding steel cage matches against Atsushi Onita in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW).

Nur Tatar Askari is a world and European champion Turkish female taekwondo practitioner competing in the feather, light and welterweight divisions. She is of Kurdish descent.

Wan Wan is a Taiwanese comics artist, blogger, illustrator and actress.

Fahad Al-Mirdasi is a Saudi Arabian football referee who served as a full international for FIFA from 2011 to 2018, when he was banned for life for match fixing.

Valery Victorovich Ryumin is a former Soviet cosmonaut.

Karine Teles is a Brazilian actress, screenwriter and filmmaker. She is best known for her role in The Second Mother.

Katsuki Yamazaki is a Japanese former professional baseball catcher. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks / Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Orix Buffaloes

Wei Te-sheng is a Taiwanese film director and screenwriter. He directed Cape No. 7, currently the highest grossing domestic Taiwanese film and the second highest-grossing film in Taiwanese film history.