List of Famous people born on August 18th

Andreas Pinkwart is a German politician and academic who currently serves as State Minister for Economic Affairs, Digitization, Innovation and Energy in the government of Minister-President Armin Laschet. He previously was the Dean of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and holder of the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship.

Andrew Shim is an American-born English actor and mixed martial artist best known for his appearances in the films and TV shows of Shane Meadows, especially This Is England (2006–2015). Although an United States citizen, he has lived most of his life in England since 1989, after his family left from the United States.

Kieran Bew is an English actor, known for portraying Alfonso, Duke of Calabria in Da Vinci's Demons for Starz, Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale for Hallmark Entertainment and Gary Parr in Jimmy McGovern's BAFTA Award-winning The Street. He has worked extensively in British theatre and television since graduating from LAMDA in 2001.

Glenn E. Plummer is an American film and television actor.

Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury is an English actress, best known for her role in the Mira Nair-directed feature film Mississippi Masala (1992). In the late 1990s, Choudhury added to her repertoire with supporting roles in the thriller A Perfect Murder (1998), 3 A.M. (2001), and the John Cassavetes remake Gloria (1999). In 2002, she starred in Just a Kiss. She played a lesbian virgin in Spike Lee's She Hate Me (2004) and acted as Anna Ran in Lady in the Water, a 2006 thriller by M. Night Shyamalan. She also played Egeria in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015) and co-starred with Tom Hanks in the 2016 film A Hologram for the King.

Adam J. Storke is an American actor who has starred in television and film. He is best known for playing Julia Roberts's love interest in the 1988 film Mystic Pizza and as Larry Underwood in the 1994 Stephen King mini series The Stand.

Věra Jourová is a Czech politician and lawyer who has been the Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency since 1 December 2019 and previously served as the European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality from 2014 to 2019. She served as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies between 2013 and 2014 and as the Czech Minister for Regional Development in 2014.

Pegeen Vail Guggenheim was a Swiss-born American painter. Her painting combines two different artistic styles: surrealism and naïve art.

Elisabeth Raiser is a 21st-century historian, former President of the German Evangelical Church Assembly, and daughter of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.

Matías Rodrigo Campos López is a Chilean footballer who plays for Universidad de Chile of the Chilean Primera División.