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Famous people born on August 13
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 13 include Fidel Castro (1926), Alfred Hitchcock (1899), Frederick Sanger (1918) and Manuel Valls (1962). Our list below has 73 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 13 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1625 (Rasmus Bartholin) and the most recent is 2001 (Julián Araujo). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, writer.
Who was born on August 13?
- Fidel Castro 1926 Cuban politician, author and revolutionary
- Alfred Hitchcock 1899 British filmmaker
- Frederick Sanger 1918 British biochemist
- Manuel Valls 1962 French and Spanish politician
- Sridevi 1963 Indian actress
- John Logie Baird 1888 Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television
- Janet Yellen 1946 78th United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Alan Shearer 1970 English footballer
- Richard Willstätter 1872 German chemist
- Anders Jonas Ångström 1814 Swedish physicist
- Makarios III 1913 Archbishop primate, primate & 1st President of Cyprus
- Sebastian Stan 1982 Romanian and American actor
- Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet 1819 Irish mathematician and physicist
- Salvador Luria 1912 Italian American microbiologist
- Presnel Kimpembe 1995 French footballer
- Lucas Moura 1992 Brazilian association football player
- Kristalina Georgieva 1953 Bulgarian economist and CEO
- Niko Kranjčar 1984 Croatian footballer
- Hissène Habré 1942 5th president of Chad
- Maria Carolina of Austria 1752 Queen of Naples and Sicily from 1768 to 1814
- Gyoji Matsumoto 1934 Japanese association football player
- MØ 1988 Danish singer and songwriter
- Paul Greengrass 1955 English writer and film director
- John Slattery 1962 American actor
- Tomáš Necid 1989 Czech footballer
- Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen 1792 Queen consort of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837
- Lucy Stone 1818 American abolitionist and suffragist
- Casiano Delvalle 1970 Paraguayan association football player
- Antonio Salandra 1853 Prime Minister of Italy
- Riqui Puig 1999 Spanish association football player
- Friedrich Miescher 1844 Swiss biochemist
- Joaquín Correa 1994 Argentine association football player
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders 1982 Governor of Arkansas since 2023
- Kumi Yokoyama 1993 Japanese association football player
- Mami Yamaguchi 1986 Japanese association football player
- Annie Oakley 1860 American exhibition sharpshooter
- Borjana Krišto 1961 Chairwoman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2023
- Karine Jean-Pierre 1974 French-American political advisor and White House Press Secretary from 2022-2025
- Giovanni Agnelli 1866 Italian entrepreneur
- Moritz Bleibtreu 1971 German actor
- Felix Wankel 1902 German mechanical engineer, inventor of the Wankel engine
- Christian Krohg 1852 Norwegian painter and writer
- Said bin Taimur Al Said 1910 Sultan of Muscat and Oman
- Ben Hogan 1912 American golfer
- Kamila Shamsie 1973 Pakistani and British writer and novelist
- Thomas Ravelli 1959 Swedish association football goalkeeper
- DeMarcus Cousins 1990 American basketball player
- Robert Hall 1943 American economist
- Benjamin Stambouli 1990 French footballer
- Koji Kondo 1961 Japanese composer and pianist
- Alona Bondarenko 1984 Ukrainian tennis player
- Jin Xing 1967 Chinese ballerina, modern dancer, choreographer and actress
- Jean Borotra 1898 French tennis player
- Andrea Meza 1994 Miss Universe 2020
- Debi Mazar 1964 American actress
- James Morrison 1984 British singer
- Heike Makatsch 1971 German actress and singer
- Saša Lukić 1996 Serbian association football player
- Olesia Zhurakivska 1973 Ukrainian actress
- George Shearing 1919 British-American jazz pianist
- Philippe Petit 1949 French high-wire artist
- Franz Ziereis 1905 German SS officer, commandant of the Mauthausen concentration camp
- Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria 1743 Princess
- David Crane 1957 American writer and producer
- Rasmus Bartholin 1625 Danish scientist, physician and grammarian
- Mariya Savinova 1985 Russian female 800m Olympic sprinter
- Leandro Lessa Azevedo 1980 Brazilian association football player
- Collins Fai 1992 Cameroonian footballer
- Theroigne de Mericourt 1762 French revolutionary
- Julián Araujo 2001 Mexican-American soccer player
- Kasia Smutniak 1979 Polish actress and model (1979)
- Yeo Jin-goo 1997 South Korean actor
- Alexander Kačaniklić 1991 Swedish 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 13 share the 13th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.