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Famous people born on August 12

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 12 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1604 (Tokugawa Iemitsu) and the most recent is 2001 (Dixie D'Amelio). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.

Who was born on August 12?

1. François Hollande 1954 President of France from 2012 to 2017
2. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 Austrian physicist
3. George Soros 1930 Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist
4. Jacinto Benavente 1866 Spanish writer
5. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1820 to 1830
6. Mario Balotelli 1990 Italian association football player
7. Pete Sampras 1971 American tennis player
8. Helena Blavatsky 1831 Russian occult writer
9. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq 1924 President of Pakistan from 1978 to 1988, of Saudi origin
10. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar 1983 Dutch association football player
11. Casey Affleck 1975 American actor
12. Cecil B. DeMille 1881 American film director, producer and actor
13. Robert Southey 1774 English romantic poet
14. Cara Delevingne 1992 English model and actor
15. Mark Knopfler 1949 British musician
16. Matthijs de Ligt 1999 Dutch association football player
17. Fernando Collor 1949 President of Brazil from 1990 to 1992
18. Djibril Cissé 1981 French footballer
19. Klara Hitler 1860 Mother of Adolf Hitler mi vrg
20. Ewa Farna 1993 Polish-Czech singer
21. Sirikit 1932 Queen Consort of Thailand from 1950 to 2016, since then Queen Mother
22. Txiki Begiristain 1964 Spanish association football player
23. Tom Cleverley 1989 English association football player
24. Shigetatsu Matsunaga 1962 Japanese association football player
25. Cantinflas 1911 Mexican comic film actor, producer, and screenwriter
26. Arthur Melo 1996 Brazilian association football player
27. Jean Nouvel 1945 French architect (b.1945)
28. Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia 1904 Last Russian tsesarevich and heir apparent of the Russian Empire; youngest child of…
29. Muhammad Ahmad ibn ʿAbdallah 1844 Religious leader in the Sudan, self-proclaimed as the Mahdi
30. Wissam Ben Yedder 1990 French footballer
31. John Cazale 1935 American actor
32. Peter Krause 1965 American actor
33. Tyson Fury 1988 British boxer
34. Stefanos Tsitsipas 1998 Greek tennis player
35. Koji Funamoto 1942 Japanese association football player
36. Mohammad Hatta 1902 1st vice president of Indonesia from 1945 to 1956
37. Margaret Burbidge 1919 British-born American astronomer
38. Carlos Mesa 1953 Vice President of Bolivia from 2002 to 2003 and President of Bolivia from 2003 to 2005
39. Vikram Sarabhai 1919 Father of Indian space programme
40. William Goldman 1931 American novelist, screenwriter and playwright
41. Laurent Fignon 1960 French professional road bicycle racer
42. LaKeith Stanfield 1991 American actor and rapper
43. George Hamilton 1939 American film and television actor
44. Pat Metheny 1954 American jazz musician
45. Martin Seligman 1942 American psychologist and writer
46. Chen Kaige 1952 Chinese film director and screenwriter
47. Sushil Koirala 1939 Prime Minister of Nepal
48. Yusof bin Ishak 1910 1st President of Singapore
49. CY Leung 1954 Hong Kong surveyor and politician
50. Jane Wyatt 1910 American actress
51. Heinrich Biber 1644 Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist
52. Emil Kostadinov 1967 Bulgarian footballer
53. Bruce Greenwood 1956 Canadian actor and musician
54. Hans Urs von Balthasar 1905 Swiss Catholic theologian
55. Jesper Grønkjær 1977 Danish footballer
56. Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz 1843 Field marshal and military writer
57. Mark Iuliano 1973 Italian association football player and manager
58. Masako Yoshida 1957 Japanese association football player
59. Taiwo Awoniyi 1997 Nigerian association football player
60. Dixie D'Amelio 2001 American influencer
61. Samuel Fuller 1912 American screenwriter, actor and film director
62. Otto Struve 1897 Baltic German astronomer
63. Tanita Tikaram 1969 British singer-songwriter
64. Iva Majoli 1977 Croatian tennis player
65. Tokugawa Iemitsu 1604 The third shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan
66. Radclyffe Hall 1880 British poet and author
67. Alexandros Tzorvas 1982 Greek footballer
68. Stefano Benni 1947 Italian writer and journalist
69. Sam J. Jones 1954 American actor, model and militar
70. María José Martínez Sánchez 1982 Spanish tennis player
71. Benjamin Sheares 1907 2nd President of Singapore
72. Jim Beaver 1950 American actor
73. Jean-Jacques Ampère 1800 French philologist
74. Miguel Torga 1907 Portuguese writer
75. Eduardo Dato 1856 Spanish author
76. Gustavs Zemgals 1871 President of Latvia
77. John Derek 1926 American actor, director and photographer
78. Dominique Swain 1980 American actress
79. Jacques Tits 1930 Belgian mathematician
80. Cindy Klassen 1979 Canadian speed skater
81. Isaach de Bankolé 1957 Ivorian actor
82. Yvette Nicole Brown 1971 American actress
83. Tejay van Garderen 1988 American Racing cyclist
84. Edith Hamilton 1867 American teacher and writer
85. Hayley Wickenheiser 1978 Canadian ice hockey and softball player
86. Samuel Moutoussamy 1996 Congolese association football player
87. Danny Graham 1985 English association football player
88. Sherone Simpson 1984 Jamaican athletics competitor
89. Takuya Nozawa 1981 Japanese association football player
90. Maggie Lawson 1980 American actress
91. Auston Trusty 1998 American soccer player
92. Dream 1999 American YouTuber, streamer and singer
93. Osmany Juantorena 1985 Cuban volleyball player
94. Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir 1797 Malay author, translator and teacher
95. Alexander Kotov 1913 Soviet chess player

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 12 share the 12th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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