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Famous people born on August 16
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 16 include James Cameron (1954), Charles Bukowski (1920), Menachem Begin (1913) and Gabriel Lippmann (1845). Our list below has 97 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 16 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1645 (Jean de La Bruyère) and the most recent is 2001 (Amadou Onana). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actor.
Who was born on August 16?
- James Cameron 1954 Canadian filmmaker and explorer
- Charles Bukowski 1920 German-American writer
- Menachem Begin 1913 Israeli politician and former Prime Minister
- Gabriel Lippmann 1845 Luxembourgish physicist nationalized French
- T. E. Lawrence 1888 British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat
- Wilhelm Wundt 1832 German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor
- Jean de La Bruyère 1645 17th-century French writer and philosopher
- Umaru Musa Yar'Adua 1951 President of Nigeria
- Steve Carell 1962 American actor and comedian
- Jannik Sinner 2001 Italian tennis player
- Angela Bassett 1958 American actress
- Saif Ali Khan 1970 Indian film actor and producer
- Wendell Meredith Stanley 1904 American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)
- Anne L'Huillier 1958 French physicist
- Timothy Hutton 1960 American actor and director
- Arthur Cayley 1821 English mathematician
- Manisha Koirala 1970 Nepalese actress
- Moussa Sissoko 1989 French footballer
- Masoud Barzani 1946 1st president of Iraqi Kurdistan
- Taika Waititi 1975 New Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian
- Pierre Richard 1934 French actor, film director, screenwriter and comedian
- Bill Evans 1929 American jazz pianist
- Julie Newmar 1933 American actress (b. 1933)
- Diana Wynne Jones 1934 English children's fantasy writer
- Evanna Lynch 1991 Irish actress
- Kakuichi Mimura 1931 Japanese association football player
- Roque Santa Cruz 1981 Paraguayan footballer
- Daishirō Yoshimura 1947 Japanese association football player
- Helmut Rahn 1929 German association football player
- Ann Blyth 1927 American actress
- Tomasz Frankowski 1974 Polish association football player
- Cam Gigandet 1982 American actor
- Matthew Bingley 1971 Australian association football player
- Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy 1682 French duke
- Aziz Akhannouch 1961 Prime Minister of Morocco since 2021
- Joleon Lescott 1982 English association football player
- Cristin Milioti 1985 American actress
- Hugo Gernsback 1884 American inventor, writer, editor and publisher
- Ivan Bilibin 1876 Celebrated Russian illustrator
- Pierre Méchain 1744 French mathematician and astronomer
- Young Thug 1991 American rapper and singer-songwriter
- Arvind Kejriwal 1968 Indian politician
- Mirko Cvetković 1950 Prime Minister of Serbia
- Diego Llorente 1993 Spanish footballer
- James Michel 1944 3rd President of Seychelles
- Kento Hashimoto 1993 Japanese association football player
- Vanessa Carlton 1980 American singer-songwriter
- Jules Laforgue 1860 Franco-Uruguayan poet
- Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein 1906 Prince of Liechtenstein
- Albert Cohen 1895 Swiss writer
- Caeleb Dressel 1996 American swimmer
- E. F. Schumacher 1911 British economist
- George Galloway 1954 British politician, broadcaster, and writer
- Rumer Willis 1988 American actress
- Lesley Ann Warren 1946 American actress
- Stuart Roosa 1933 American astronaut
- Amadou Onana 2001 Belgian association football player
- Georgette Heyer 1902 British historical romance and detective fiction novelist
- Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany 1763 British prince
- Josip Juranović 1995 Croatian association football player
- Slaviša Jokanović 1968 Serbian association football player and manager
- Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī 1914 Albanian Islamic scholar
- Greyson Chance 1997 American singer, songwriter, and musician
- Reginald VelJohnson 1952 American actor
- Robert Culp 1930 American actor
- Carol Moseley Braun 1947 American politician and lawyer
- Iván Hurtado 1974 Ecuadorian footballer and politician
- Cameron Monaghan 1993 American actor and model
- Bruce Beresford 1940 Australian film director
- Quentin Fillon-Maillet 1992 French biathlete
- Krisztina Egerszegi 1974 Hungarian swimmer
- Valery Ryumin 1939 Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
- Bob Balaban 1945 American actor, director and producer
- Konstantin Vassiljev 1984 Estonian footballer
- Edward Ochab 1906 Polish general
- Stuart Baxter 1953 English association football player and manager
- Michaël Cuisance 1999 French association football player
- Phil Murphy 1957 American politician and financier
- Diego Schwartzman 1992 Argentine tennis player
- Elina Danielian 1978 Armenian chess player
- Milan Rapaić 1973 Croatian footballer
- Ismaïl Aissati 1988 Dutch-Moroccan footballer
- Juho Sunila 1875 Prime Minister of Finland
- Nur Tatar 1992 Turkish taekwondo athlete
- Zakaria Paliashvili 1871 Georgian composer
- Seán Brady 1939 Irish Roman Catholic cardinal
- Fabio Casartelli 1970 Italian cyclist
- Dmitri Kharine 1968 Russian footballer
- Didier Cuche 1974 Swiss alpine skier
- Shawn Pyfrom 1986 American actor
- Peter Burke 1937 British historian (b. 1937)
- Kevin Ayers 1944 English singer-songwriter, record producer
- Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller 1864 German-born British philosopher
- Nikos Zisis 1983 Greek basketball player
- Rina Sawayama 1990 Japanese singer
- Ahmed al-Mirghani 1941 Sudanese politician
- Hasely Crawford 1950 Trinidadian sprinter
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 16 share the 16th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.