List of Famous people born on August 26th

Thomas Letsch is a German professional football manager who is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse Arnhem.

Samuel Kalu is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as winger for Ligue 1 club Bordeaux and the Nigeria national team.

Boris Lvovich Vannikov was a Soviet government and military official, a three-star General.

Maria Milagros Ortiz Bosch is a lawyer, business manager and Dominican politician. She was the first Dominican woman to be vice president of the country, during 2000–2004. She was senator of the Distrito Nacional twice and Secretary of State (Minister) for Education of the Dominican Republic, for the same time period she was vicepresident (2000-2004).

Santiago Silva Gerez is a Uruguayan footballer who plays for Peruvian club Deportivo Binacional on loan from César Vallejo as a forward.

Timo Schultz is a German former footballer, and current manager of FC St. Pauli.

Lee Yong-kyu is an outfielder who plays for the Hanwha Eagles of the KBO League. He bats and throws left-handed

Toshimichi Takatsukasa , son of Duke Nobusuke, was a Japanese researcher of trains. He was a descendant of Tokugawa Yoshinao and consequently was born into an aristocratic family, but, like all Japanese aristocrats, lost his title with the post-war legal reforms of 1947. He worked at TEI Park, a railroad museum in Tokyo. He married the third daughter of Emperor Hirohito, Princess Kazuko; they adopted a son from Ogyū-Matsudaira, Naotake.

Liu Huan is a Chinese singer and songwriter. He is one of China's modern era pioneers in pop music and is considered China's King of Pop. He combines his music career with teaching the history of Western music at the Beijing University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.

Irina-Camelia Begu is a Romanian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 22 in the world, in August 2016. Two years later, she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking, also 22. Begu has won four singles titles and nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She also has won one singles title on the WTA 125K series, as well as, 12 singles and 19 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.