List of Famous people born on August 18th

Nicole Krauss is an American author best known for her four novels Man Walks Into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017), which have been translated into 35 languages. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in Best American Short Stories 2003, Best American Short Stories 2008, and Best American Short Stories 2019. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an award from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards for Great House. A collection of her short stories, To Be a Man, was published in 2020.

Ricardo Tozzi is a Brazilian actor. He was known for playing characters in the novels Insensato Coração, Cheias de Charme e Amor à Vida.

Samvel Karapetyan is a Russian-Armenian billionaire, who owns the Tashir Group conglomerate.

Carlo Cottarelli is an Italian economist and former director of the International Monetary Fund. On 28 May 2018 he was designated Prime Minister of Italy by President Sergio Mattarella, to lead a caretaker government that would bring Italy toward new elections. However, after few days, the Five Star Movement and the League reached an agreement and a new government, led by Giuseppe Conte, was formed.

Yu-Cheng Chang is a Taiwanese professional baseball infielder for the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball (MLB).

Veysel Eroğlu is a Member of Parliament for Afyonkarahisar of the ruling Justice and Development Party and a former Minister of Forestry and Water of Turkey.

Hakase Suidobashi is a Japanese comedian who is a member of the comedy duo Asakusa Kid. His real name is Masayoshi Ono .

Angela Christine Ruch is an American professional stock car racing driver. She is the niece of Derrike Cope and the sister of Amber Cope. She competes full-time in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, driving the No. 00 Chevrolet Silverado/Toyota Tundra for Reaume Brothers Racing.

Jack Robert Howell is an American former professional baseball third baseman. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut on May 20, 1985, with the California Angels, and played his final game on July 17, 1999, with the Houston Astros.

Daniel John Cole Nyer Orlovsky is a football analyst for ESPN and former American football quarterback who was active for twelve seasons in the NFL. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Connecticut. Orlovsky also played for the Houston Texans, Indianapolis Colts, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Los Angeles Rams.