List of Famous people born on August 26th

Luis Cepeda Fernández, also known as Cepeda, is a Spanish singer and songwriter.

Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe, known professionally as Lil Tecca, is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. He rose to mainstream fame with the release of his single "Ransom", which peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. The single was included on his debut mixtape We Love You Tecca (2019) which peaked at number 4 on the US Billboard 200. The mixtape also included the singles "Love Me" and "Did It Again". His debut studio album, Virgo World (2020) debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200 and included the Billboard Hot 100 charting songs "Dolly" and "When You Down".

Kaye Lani Rae Rafko Wilson is the winner of the 1988 Miss America Pageant. She is from Monroe, Michigan, where a street is now named for her.

Kirk Fox is an American actor, screenwriter, and stand-up comedian.

David Longstaff is a British ice hockey forward. He is the Player Coach of the Whitley Warriors of the National Ice Hockey League.

Bülent Şakrak is a Turkish actor and TV presenter.

Cícero Santos, simply known as Cícero, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a central or attacking midfielder.

Barbet Schroeder is an Iranian-born Swiss film director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working with directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette. Since the late 1980s, he has directed many big budget Hollywood films, often mixing melodrama with the thriller genre in films like Single White Female, Kiss of Death, and Murder by Numbers. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, and for the Palme d'Or for his 1987 film Barfly.

Jesse Martin, OAM is a German-Australian sailor who in 1999 became the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop, and unassisted, Martin's journey in the 34-foot (10 m) S&S 34 sloop Lionheart-Mistral took approximately 11 months. He chronicled his adventures in the book Lionheart: A Journey of the Human Spirit, and his story was made into a documentary, Lionheart: The Jesse Martin Story.

William F. Shortz is an American puzzle creator and editor and crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times.