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Famous people born on August 1

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Well-known people born on August 1 include Herman Melville (1819), Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744), Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (1924) and Pierre Bourdieu (1930). Our list below has 108 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 1 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1713 (Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel) and the most recent is 2004 (Emmanuel Wanyonyi). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, politician.

Who was born on August 1?

  1. Herman Melville 1819 American writer and poet
  2. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 French naturalist
  3. Abdullah of Saudi Arabia 1924 King of Saudi Arabia from 2005 to 2015
  4. Pierre Bourdieu 1930 French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher
  5. Georges Charpak 1924 French physicist
  6. Jason Momoa 1979 American actor
  7. Yves Saint Laurent 1936 French fashion designer
  8. Bastian Schweinsteiger 1984 German association football player
  9. George de Hevesy 1885 Hungarian chemist
  10. Douglas Osheroff 1945 American physicist
  11. Coolio 1963 American rapper
  12. Sam Mendes 1965 British stage and film director
  13. Zoran Đinđić 1952 Serbian politician (1952−2003)
  14. Kurmanbek Bakiyev 1949 Kyrgyzstani politician
  15. Gaston Doumergue 1863 French lawyer and statesman
  16. Iván Duque 1976 33rd President of Colombia 2018–2022
  17. Nemanja Matić 1988 Serbian association football player
  18. Iago Aspas 1987 Spanish association football player
  19. Maria Mitchell 1818 American astronomer
  20. Hafizullah Amin 1929 Afghan communist revolutionary, politician and teacher
  21. Giancarlo Giannini 1942 Italian actor
  22. Alexander of Greece 1893 King of Greece
  23. Nwankwo Kanu 1976 Nigerian footballer
  24. Kaspar Capparoni 1964 Italian actor
  25. Meena Kumari 1933 Indian actress and poet
  26. David James 1970 English association football player
  27. Yoshio Kato 1957 Japanese association football player
  28. Satoshi Yamaguchi 1959 Japanese association football player
  29. Elena Vesnina 1986 Russian female tennis player
  30. Domenico Berardi 1994 Italian association football player
  31. Jordi Savall 1941 Spanish-Catalan composer, conductor, viol player, and musicologist
  32. Mariano Díaz 1993 Spanish-Dominican Republic association football player
  33. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar 1949 Afghan politician, mujahid and drug trafficker
  34. Taapsee Pannu 1987 Indian actress
  35. Lawrence Eagleburger 1930 American statesman and diplomat
  36. Christoph Baumgartner 1999 Austrian association football player
  37. Gerda Taro 1910 German photographer, best known for her reporting on the Spanish Civil War
  38. Jerry Garcia 1942 American guitarist and singer
  39. Salman Al-Faraj 1989 Saudi Arabian footballer
  40. Francis Scott Key 1779 American lawyer and poet who wrote The Star-Spangled Banner
  41. Jack O'Connell 1990 British actor
  42. Amber Rudd 1963 British politician
  43. Danny Blind 1961 Dutch association football manager
  44. Demián Bichir 1963 Mexican actor
  45. Tiffany Young 1989 South Korean-American singer, actress and model
  46. Hasan Şaş 1976 Turkish association football player
  47. Doug Burgum 1956 United States Secretary of the Interior
  48. Abd al-Malek Selal 1948 Algerian politician and Prime Minister
  49. William Clark 1770 American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor
  50. Avi Arad 1948 Israeli-American film producer
  51. Koichi Wakata 1963 Japanese engineer and JAXA astronaut
  52. Ray Dalio 1949 American billionaire hedge fund manager
  53. John Carroll Lynch 1963 American character actor and film director
  54. Ernst Jandl 1925 Austrian poet, dramatic and writer
  55. Álex Abrines 1993 Spanish basketball player
  56. Robert Todd Lincoln 1843 Union Army officer, U.S. ambassador, and Secretary of War
  57. Dom DeLuise 1933 American actor
  58. Stuart Holden 1985 American soccer player
  59. Hossein Salami 1960 Iranian military officer
  60. William Speirs Bruce 1867 Scottish marine biologist and polar explorer
  61. Leon Thomas III 1993 American actor, singer, songwriter and producer
  62. Olia Tira 1988 Moldovan singer
  63. Yury Romanenko 1944 Soviet cosmonaut
  64. M. R. James 1862 20th century British author, medievalist scholar and provost
  65. Helen Sawyer Hogg 1905 Astronomer
  66. Mancini 1980 Brazilian footballer
  67. J. Lee Thompson 1914 British film director
  68. Esteban Paredes 1980 Chilean footballer and coach
  69. Nathalie Delon 1941 French actress and director
  70. Julien Faubert 1983 French footballer
  71. Mrunal Thakur 1992 Indian actress
  72. Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke 1865 Painter and prince of Sweden
  73. Meir Kahane 1932 Rabbi, writer and far right American-Israeli politician
  74. Anatoliy Trubin 2001 Ukrainian football goalkeeper
  75. Tommy Bolin 1951 American guitarist
  76. Gregg Berhalter 1973 American soccer player and coach
  77. Edurne Pasaban 1973 Basque mountaineer
  78. Mona Eltahawy 1967 Egyptian-American journalist
  79. Leila Abashidze 1929 Georgian actress, film director, and writer
  80. Walter Gerlach 1889 German physicist
  81. Stephen Hunt 1981 Irish footballer
  82. Elon Lindenstrauss 1970 Israeli mathematician
  83. Ottavio Bottecchia 1894 Italian racing cyclist
  84. Emmanuel Wanyonyi 2004 Kenyan middle-distance runner
  85. Ko Un 1933 Korean poet
  86. Gonçalo Paciência 1994 Portuguese footballer
  87. Jakov Fak 1987 Slovenian biathlete, Croatian biathlete
  88. Milton Cruz 1957 Brazilian association football player
  89. David Gemmell 1948 British author of heroic fantasy
  90. W. D. Hamilton 1936 British evolutionary biologist
  91. Fayçal Fajr 1988 Moroccan and French association football player
  92. Leonardo Jardim 1974 Portuguese football manager
  93. Eduardo Noriega 1973 Spanish actor
  94. Björn Ferry 1978 Swedish biathlete
  95. Max Carver 1988 American actor
  96. Jim Carroll 1949 American author, poet, and punk musician
  97. Robert James Waller 1939 American writer
  98. Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 1713 Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
  99. Kamala Nehru 1899 Indian independence activist
  100. Richard Kirwan 1733 Irish geologist and chemist
  101. Gabriel Terra 1873 President of Uruguay
  102. Imad Khamis 1961 67. Prime Minister of Syria
  103. Robert Cray 1953 American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1953)
  104. Jack Kramer 1921 American tennis player
  105. Joe Elliott 1959 British musician
  106. Junior Agogo 1979 Ghanaian association football player
  107. Trevor Berbick 1954 Jamaican heavyweight boxer
  108. Dušan Švento 1985 Slovak footballer

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 1 share the 1st of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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