List of Famous people born on August 26th

Victor Koretzky is a French cross-country mountain biker. He won the junior cross-country world championship in 2011. Competing with the French team he won the cross-country team relay world championship in 2011, 2015, and 2016.

Jérémy Clément is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his career with two clubs, Paris Saint-Germain and AS Saint-Étienne.

Peter Fricke is a German television actor.

Ahmet Özhan is a prominent Turkish classic music singer, conductor, and actor.

Paula Hawkins is a Zimbabwe-born British author, best known for her best-selling psychological thriller novel The Girl on the Train (2015), which deals with themes of domestic violence, alcohol, and drug abuse. The novel was adapted into a film starring Emily Blunt in 2016. Hawkins' second thriller novel, Into the Water, was released in 2017.

Juan Antonio Señor Gómez is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a central midfielder.

Grigory Anatolyevich Drozd is a Russian former professional boxer. He is the former WBC cruiserweight champion, having lost the title when he was unable to defend it due to injury and was subsequently stripped. He also is a former European cruiserweight champion.

Paulo César Arruda Parente, known as Paulo César, is a former Brazilian footballer and former manager of Juventude. He is currently the assistant coach of Paris Saint-Germain Women's Under-19.

Yevgeniy Petrovich Zagorulko is a Russian high jump coach.

Alexander Alexandrovich Zhilkin is a Russian politician who served as the Governor of Astrakhan Oblast between 2004 and 2018. He became acting governor in August 2004, when governor Anatoly Guzhvin, who had been the leader of the oblast for over a decade, died. Zhilkin was elected governor as a candidate of the United Russia party in 2004, receiving 65% of the vote; an overall majority. He was the first deputy before he became the governor. On 26 October 2018, he resigned and was replaced by Sergey Morozov