List of Famous people born on August 18th

Mauro Caviezel is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer. He competed for Switzerland in two Winter Olympics and three World Championships; he won a bronze medal in the combined event in 2017 at St. Moritz.

Parviz Nasibov is a Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler from Azerbaijan. He represented Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021, competing in Men's Greco-Roman 67 kg. He resides in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.

Bernhard Trares is a German former professional footballer who played mainly as a centre-back, and current manager of Würzburger Kickers.

Nobuhiro Ishida is a Japanese former professional boxer. He is a former WBA interim super welterweight champion who is best known for knocking out James Kirkland in a middleweight bout at the MGM Grand Las Vegas in April 2011. Ishida has so far been promoted by Canelo Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions among others and has been co-trained by Rudy Hernández and Daisuke Okabe, while residing back and forth between Los Angeles, California, United States and Osaka, Japan.

Dmitry Fyodorovich Mezentsev is a Russian politician and diplomat serving since 2021 as the State Secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus. Previously he was Ambassador of Russia to Belarus (2019–2021), Senator from Sakhalin Oblast (2015–2019), Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (2013–2015) and Governor of Irkutsk Oblast (2009–2012).

Agustín Ibarrola is a Spanish painter and sculptor.

Didier Auriol is a French former rally driver. Born in Montpellier, and initially an ambulance driver, he competed in the World Rally Championship throughout the 1990s. He became World Rally Champion in 1994, the first driver from his country to do so. He was a factory candidate for Lancia, Toyota and Peugeot among others, before losing his seat at Škoda at the end of 2003. His sister Nadine was also involved in rallying as a co-driver.

Andreas "Andi" Deris is a German singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of power metal band Helloween, and co-founder and former lead singer of German metal band Pink Cream 69. He has an active solo career, as well as his own recording studio in Tenerife, Spain.

Ekaterina Leonidovna Ivanchikova is a Belarusian singer and vocalist at Belarusian-Russian band IOWA. She was born in Chavusy and is now living in Saint Petersburg.

Fusanosuke Natsume is a Japanese columnist and cartoonist. Born in Tokyo to Jun'ichi Natsume, son of novelist Natsume Sōseki, he attended Aoyama Gakuin University, where he graduated in 1973.