List of Famous people born on August 29th
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla is a Lithuanian conductor. She is currently music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO).
Terry Bouhraoua
Terry Bouhraoua is a French rugby union and rugby union sevens player who plays for the France national rugby sevens team. His position is scrum-half.
Kei Kobayashi
Kei Kobayashi is a French chef and owner of the restaurant Kei in Paris 1e. His restaurant has earned three Michelin stars in 2020. He is the first Japanese chef earned three Michelin stars in France.
Beste Kökdemir
Beste Kökdemir is a Turkish actress.
Inga Artamonova
Inga Grigoryevna Artamonova was a Soviet speed skater, the first four-time Allround World Champion in women's speed skating history. After her marriage in 1959 to fellow speed skater Gennady Voronin, she was also known as Inga Voronina.
Michel Girouard
Michel Girouard was a Quebec journalist.
Yūta Yoneyama
Yuta Yoneyama is a Japanese male volleyball player. He was part of the Japan men's national volleyball team at the 2010 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship in Italy. He plays for Toray Arrows.
Saadet Aksoy
Saadet Işıl Aksoy is a Turkish-born actress, who received critical acclaim with her portrayal of Aska, a red-haired punk trumpet player in Italian actor-director Sergio Castellitto's film Twice Born, in which she co-starred with Penélope Cruz and Emile Hirsch. Christy Lemire described her as "the striking Saadet Aksoy" in her Twice Born review, and film critic David Rooney stated, "Saadet Aksoy brings a subdued fieriness to her scenes as a Bosnian woman" in The Hollywood Reporter. In his article on Variety, Boyd Van Hoeij wrote, "Turkish thesp Saadet Aksoy impresses in a supporting role as a spunky Yugoslav local." about her performance in Twice Born.
Flex
Félix Danilo Gómez Bosquez, known by his stage names Flex and Nigga, is a Panamanian reggaeton singer and songwriter. He adopted the name Nigga after being told by another Panamanian artist that he "sings like a black guy from Jamaica." Before releasing an album in the United States in 2008, Flex removed references to his nickname in songs, and his CD packages were reprinted with the name "Flex."
Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He is known for his work in computer science, mathematics, and in theoretical physics. In 2012, he was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.