List of Famous people born on August 26th
Jeannette Bougrab
Jeannette Bougrab is a French lawyer and politician. She served as the junior minister for Youth and Community Life from 14 November 2010 to 10 May 2012 and is a member of the UMP party. Prior to this, she was the Chair of the French Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination Commission (HALDE) from 16 April 2010 to 14 November 2010.
Takayuki Murakami
Takayuki Murakami is a Japanese batting coach for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
Wayne Simmonds
Wayne Simmonds is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). Simmonds has previously played for the Los Angeles Kings, Philadelphia Flyers, Nashville Predators, New Jersey Devils and Buffalo Sabres. He is known to his teammates and fans by the nickname "Wayne Train".
Jean Hudson Boyd
Jean Hudson Boyd is a retired judge in the United States of America who served as the Presiding Judge of Texas's 323rd District Court. The 323rd District Court serves Tarrant County, Texas, as its juvenile court. Boyd, a Republican, assumed office in 1995, but is known for her controversial 2013 probation sentencing of Ethan Couch, a 16-year-old who killed four people and injured 11 while driving drunk.
Shirley Manson
Shirley Ann Manson is a Scottish singer, songwriter, musician, and actress. She is best known as the lead singer of the alternative rock band Garbage. Manson gained media attention for her forthright style, rebellious attitude, and distinctive voice. For the majority of her career, Manson commuted between her home city of Edinburgh and the U.S. to record with Garbage, which originally formed in Madison, Wisconsin; she now lives and works primarily in Los Angeles, while maintaining a second home in Edinburgh.
Saint Jhn
Carlos St. John Phillips, known professionally as Saint Jhn, is an American-Guyanese rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He released his first album under the Saint Jhn moniker, Collection One, in March 2018. He is best known for his single "Roses", initially released in 2016. A 2019 remix of "Roses" by Kazakh DJ Imanbek helped the song become a worldwide hit; reaching the top 5 of the US Billboard Hot 100 and topped the charts in Australia, the Netherlands, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Prior, John wrote songs for a number of acts, including Jidenna, Hoodie Allen, Usher, and Kiesza, among others. He is a founding member of the Gødd Complexx music collective.
Léo Baptistão
Leonardo "Leo" Carrilho Baptistão is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Chinese club Wuhan Zall F.C. mainly as a striker but also as a winger.
Keiichi Nanba
Keiichi Nanba is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator currently affiliated with Fujiga Office Inc. He is married to fellow voice actress Mayumi Shō.
Pablo Guiñazú
Pablo Horacio Guiñazú is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played for a number of clubs in Argentina, Italy, Russia, Paraguay and Brazil and represented the Argentina national team in 2003, being called up again for the second leg of the 2011 Superclásico de las Américas.
Solomon Thomas
Solomon Christopher Thomas is an American football defensive tackle for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Stanford University, and was drafted by the 49ers with the third overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft.