List of Famous people born on August 29th

Julia Vlassov is an American retired pair skater. She and partner Drew Meekins are the 2006 World Junior Champions.

Takahiro Miki is a Japanese film, television and music video director.

James Joseph Florio is an American Democratic politician who served as the 49th Governor of New Jersey from 1990 to 1994, the first Italian American to hold the position. He also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for 15 years between 1975 and 1990.

Dale Vince, OBE is a British "green energy" industrialist. A former New Age traveller, he is the owner of the electricity company Ecotricity.

Preston Sturges was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. In 1941, he won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the film The Great McGinty, his first of three nominations in the category.

Joël Houssin is a French author of science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction. Two of his novels have won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. He also wrote the film Dobermann, based on his series of police novels, and created the crime/fantasy TV series "David Nolande". With Josiane Balasko, he wrote the screenplay of the film My Life Is Hell.

Alain Kirili is a sculptor. He is recognized for his post-minimalist abstract sculptures in forged iron and his large-scale public sculptures. His work has subsequently been the subject of numerous gallery and museum exhibitions in America and Europe, and has received considerable critical interest from art historians, such as Thierry Dufrêne, Robert C. Morgan, Robert Rosenblum, and Kirk Varnedoe. Alain Kirili lives and works in Paris and New York.

Vitold Lvovich Shmulyan, was a Soviet mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. The Eberlein–Šmulian theorem and Krein–Smulian theorem are named after him.

Jacques Limouzy was a French politician.