List of Famous people born on August 27th

Hugh Gough, 3rd Viscount Gough, he was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford (MA).

Lucius Henry Cary, 6th Viscount Falkland was a Scottish peer and Jacobite.

Masazumi Inada was a lieutenant general in the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.

Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb was a British classical scholar.

Charles Dryden (1666–1704), was an English chamberlain to Pope Innocent XII.

James Henry Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, KBE, PC, often known as Jim Molyneaux, was a Northern Irish unionist politician, and leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from 1979 to 1995. He was a leading member and sometime Vice-President of the Conservative Monday Club. An Orangeman, he was also Sovereign Grand Master of the Royal Black Institution from 1971 to 1995.

Heinrich Ernst Schirmer was German-born architect most noted for his work in Norway. Schirmer worked in Norway from 1838 to 1883 and put his mark on a number of public buildings. He contributed significantly to the introduction of the so-called Swiss architectural style in Norway, based partly on Italian villa style, Gothic Revival, and neoclassicism.