List of Famous people born on August 27th

Colonel Charles Swinhoe was an English naturalist and lepidopterist, who served in the British Army in India. He was one of the eight founders of the Bombay Natural History Society and a brother of the famous naturalist Robert Swinhoe.

Chen Yi-chi is a Taiwanese politician who was a co-founder and the first chairperson of the Taiwan Statebuilding Party.

Robert Van Eenaeme (1916–1959) was a Belgian cyclist.

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 10-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. The Hornblower novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1938. His other works include The African Queen and The Good Shepherd.

Karl Altenburger was a German racing cyclist. He rode in the 1931 Tour de France.

Jelle Zijlstra was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) now the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and economist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 November 1966 until 5 April 1967.

Björn Gelotte is a Swedish musician and songwriter, best known as the lead guitarist for metal band In Flames. He originally joined the band as the drummer in 1995, and continued in this position during The Jester Race (1996) and Whoracle (1997). He switched to his current position on lead guitar after Glenn Ljungström left the band, sharing lead/rhythm guitar work with former In Flames guitarist Jesper Strömblad.

Greta Scarano is an Italian television, stage and film actress.