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Famous people born on August 15
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 15 include Walter Scott (1771), Jennifer Lawrence (1990), Ben Affleck (1972) and Louis de Broglie (1892). Our list below has 94 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 15 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1740 (Matthias Claudius) and the most recent is 1994 (Jesús Gallardo). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, actor.
Who was born on August 15?
- Walter Scott 1771 Scottish novelist, poet and playwright
- Jennifer Lawrence 1990 American actress and producer
- Ben Affleck 1972 American film actor, director and screenwriter
- Louis de Broglie 1892 Nobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter
- Aurobindo Ghosh 1872 Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist
- Abiy Ahmed 1976 Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018
- Gerty Cori 1896 Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist
- Melinda Gates 1964 American philanthropist
- Anne, Princess Royal 1950 Daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Alejandro González Iñárritu 1963 Mexican film director
- Julia Child 1912 American chef
- Stieg Larsson 1954 Swedish author
- Khaleda Zia 1945 Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1991–1996, 2001–2006)
- Richard F. Heck 1931 American chemist
- Thomas De Quincey 1785 British author
- Jules Grévy 1807 French statesman and lawyer
- Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi 1975 Japanese association football player
- Ethel Barrymore 1879 American actress
- Joe Jonas 1989 American singer, actor and musician
- Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 1993 English association football player
- Oscar Peterson 1925 Canadian jazz pianist
- Alain Juppé 1945 92nd Prime Minister of France
- Natasha Henstridge 1974 Canadian actress
- Debra Messing 1968 American actress
- Bounnhang Vorachit 1937 General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
- Konstantinos Stephanopoulos 1926 Greek politician, former president of the Hellenic Republic
- Akira Nozawa 1914 Japanese association football player
- Wendy Hiller 1912 English film and stage actress
- Matthias Claudius 1740 German poet
- Yukio Tsuda 1917 Japanese association football player
- Edith Nesbit 1858 English author and poet
- Masahiro Endo 1970 Japanese association football player
- Anthony Anderson 1970 American actor
- Barbara Bouchet 1943 German-American actress and entrepreneuse
- Elias Magnus Fries 1794 Swedish biologist considered to be one of the founding fathers of the modern taxonomy…
- Rose Marie 1923 American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer
- Boudewijn Zenden 1976 Dutch association football player
- Stephen Breyer 1938 US Supreme Court justice from 1994 to 2022
- Phyllis Schlafly 1924 American conservative activist
- Florence Harding 1860 First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923
- Sylvie Vartan 1944 French singer, chansonnier, and actress
- Rakhee Gulzar 1947 Indian actress
- Nicolas Roeg 1928 English film director and cinematographer
- Bernard Lacombe 1952 French football manager
- Michael Hainisch 1858 President of Austria
- Lilia Podkopayeva 1978 Ukrainian artistic gymnast, coach, and dancer
- Mike Connors 1925 American actor
- John Fetterman 1969 American politician
- Vladimir Petković 1963 Bosnian association football player and coach
- Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum 1943 Emir of Dubai
- Filip Mladenović 1991 Serbian football player
- Jesús Gallardo 1994 Mexican association football player
- Nangolo Mbumba 1941 President of Namibia from 2024 to 2025
- Nyusha 1990 Russian singer
- Lương Cường 1957 President of Vietnam from 2024 to 2026
- Arthur Tansley 1871 British botanist
- Oussama Assaidi 1988 Moroccan association football player
- Laura Mulvey 1941 British feminist film theorist
- Clinton Njie 1993 Cameroonian professional footballer
- Petr Shelokhonov 1929 Russian actor and director
- Mbark Boussoufa 1984 Moroccan footballer
- Timati 1983 Russian rapper
- Keir Hardie 1856 Scottish socialist and labour leader
- Emily Kinney 1985 American actress and singer-songwriter
- Scott Altman 1959 American astronaut, aviator and test pilot
- Bobby Helms 1933 American male singer
- Ivan Meštrović 1883 Croatian sculptor and architect
- Robert Bolt 1924 English playwright
- Karl Korsch 1886 German politician
- Carlo M. Cipolla 1922 Italian economic historian
- Teddy Sinclair 1986 British singer and actress
- Giorgi Ugulava 1975 Georgian mayor and journalist
- Georgios Roubanis 1929 Greek pole vaulter
- David Zayas 1962 Puerto Rican actor
- Aleksey Krylov 1863 Russian naval engineer and mathematician
- Boban Marjanović 1988 Serbian basketball player
- Song Ji-hyo 1981 South Korean actress
- Anita Sarkeesian 1983 American blogger
- Malcolm Glazer 1928 American businessman, sports franchise owner
- Carlos PenaVega 1989 American film and TV actor, singer-songwriter, dancer and television show host
- Mikao Usui 1865 Founder of Reiki
- Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden 1824 Grand Duke of Baden
- Suhasini Maniratnam 1961 Indian actress and director
- Željko Ivanek 1957 Slovenian–American actor
- Jack Lynch 1917 Taoiseach of Ireland; from 1966 to 1973 and 1977 to 1979
- Quinton Aaron 1984 American actor
- Walter Crane 1845 English artist and book illustrator
- Conrad Moench 1744 German botanist
- Dietmar Mögenburg 1961 German high jumper
- Masaaki Kanno 1960 Japanese association football player and manager
- Naoto Tajima 1912 Japanese triple jumper, long jumper (track and field)
- Arnulfo Arias 1901 President of Panama
- Oh Jin-hyek 1981 South Korean archer
- Hamilton Mourão 1953 Vice president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023 and Senator of the Republic for the state…
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 15 share the 15th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.