List of Famous people born on August 20th

Peter Horton is an American actor and director. He played Professor Gary Shepherd on the television series Thirtysomething from 1987 until 1991.

Nicolás Tauber is an Argentine-Israeli footballer currently playing for Villa San Carlos.

Trịnh Xuân Thuận is a Vietnamese-American astrophysicist.

Colin Alexander Cunningham is an American television and film actor. Cunningham is best known for his roles as John Pope in the TNT science fiction series Falling Skies and as Major Paul Davis on Stargate SG-1.

David Rees Snell is an American actor, most known for his role as Detective Ronnie Gardocki on the crime drama The Shield.

Sylvester McCoy is a Scottish actor and physical comedian. He is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989—the final Doctor of the original run—and briefly returning in a television film in 1996 and in 2021 for a special trailer, put together for a Limited Edition Collector Set. He is also known for his work as Radagast in The Hobbit film series (2012—2014).

Mary Ann-Catrin Stävin is a Swedish actress, model and beauty queen who won Miss World 1977 in London. She is the third Swedish woman to win the Miss World crown.

Noah Whipple Bean is an American actor best known for his roles as Ryan Fletcher on The CW action-thriller series Nikita, as David Connor on the FX legal drama Damages and his leading performance in the independent film The Pill.

Robert Donald Kilpatrick Jr., better known as Patrick Kilpatrick, is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, journalist, international entertainment speaker and teacher. He has appeared in over 180 films and television series.

Alison Dyan Liebert is a Canadian actress, model and producer. She was a recipient of a Canadian Screen Award for work in the wartime series Bomb Girls.