List of Famous people born on August 27th

Shigeo Iwanami was a publisher in the early Shōwa period Japan, and founder of Iwanami Shoten.

Major Sir Jocelyn Morton Lucas, 4th Baronet, was a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Portsmouth South in a by-election in 1939 and held the seat until he retired at the 1966 general election. Prior to his election he had been the Portsmouth District Officer for Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists.

Alphonse Schepers was a Belgian racing cyclist. A native of the Flemish Brabant deelgemeente (part-municipality) of Neerlinter, Alphonse Schepers died in Tienen at the age of 77.

João Bosco Papaléo Paes, better known simply as Papaléo Paes, was a Brazilian politician and physician from the state of Pará who represented the state of Amapá at national level.