List of Famous people born on August 16th

Yohanes Rendy Sugiarto is an Indonesian male badminton player from PB Djarum badminton club. He was the boys' doubles gold medalist at the 2009 Asian Junior Badminton Championships partnered with Angga Pratama.

Hasely Joachim Crawford TC is a former track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago. In 1976, he became his country's first Olympic champion and the first Olympic 100m champion from a Caribbean country. A stadium was renamed in his honor in 2001.

Jean-Pierre Grédy, often anglicised as Gredy was a French playwright.

Paul Soter is an American actor, writer, and director, and one of the members of the Broken Lizard comedy group. As a child, he lived in Sacramento, Anchorage, Phoenix, and Denver. He graduated from Colgate University and was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. During his time there, he was a member of the Charred Goosebeak troupe along with the members of Broken Lizard.

Joao Joshimar Rojas López is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ecuadorian Serie A club Emelec and the Ecuador national team. He made his international debut for Ecuador on 14 November 2019 in a 3–0 win against the Trinidad and Tobago.

Kate Higgins is an American voice actress, singer, and jazz pianist.

Carmel Shama-Hacohen is an Israeli lawyer and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Likud in two spells between 2009 and 2014, before becoming Israel's envoy to the OECD, UNESCO and the Council of Europe. In 2018 he was elected mayor of Ramat Gan.