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Famous people born on August 21
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 21 include Usain Bolt (1986), Robert Lewandowski (1988), Mohammed VI of Morocco (1963) and Sergey Brin (1973). Our list below has 95 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 21 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1609 (Jean Rotrou) and the most recent is 2002 (Zion Suzuki). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, actress.
Who was born on August 21?
- Usain Bolt 1986 Jamaican sprinter
- Robert Lewandowski 1988 Polish association football player
- Mohammed VI of Morocco 1963 King of Morocco since 1999
- Sergey Brin 1973 American billionaire businessman
- William IV 1765 King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837
- Stephen Hillenburg 1961 American marine science educator and artist
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy 1789 French mathematician
- Kenny Rogers 1938 American country singer
- Hayden Panettiere 1989 American actress and singer
- Leonid Andreyev 1871 Russian playwright, author and poet
- John L. Hall 1934 American physicist
- Leonid Hurwicz 1917 Polish-American economist and mathematician
- Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon 1930 British princess
- Serj Tankian 1967 Armenian-American rock musician, singer, songwriter and record producer
- Paetongtarn Shinawatra 1986 Businesswoman and former Prime Minister of Thailand
- Alizée 1984 French pop singer
- Carrie-Anne Moss 1967 Canadian actress, producer and model
- Count Basie 1904 American jazz musician and composer
- Kim Cattrall 1956 British–Canadian actress
- Emilio Salgari 1862 Italian writer
- Festus Mogae 1939 President of Botswana from 1998 to 2008
- Peter Weir 1944 Australian film director
- Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria 1858 Austrian archduke
- Charb 1967 French caricaturist and journalist
- Sofyan Amrabat 1996 Moroccan-Dutch association football player
- Maria Kaczyńska 1942 First Lady of Poland
- Afonso VI of Portugal 1643 King of Portugal and the Algarves
- Aleix Vidal 1989 Spanish association football player
- Alicia Witt 1975 American actress and singer-songwriter
- Norio Yoshimizu 1946 Japanese association football player
- Joe Strummer 1952 British singer, musician and songwriter
- Silvio Spann 1981 Trinidad and Tobago association football player
- Joel Griffiths 1979 Australian association football player
- RJ Mitte 1992 American actor
- Kacey Musgraves 1988 American singer
- Lili Boulanger 1893 French composer
- Bo Burnham 1990 American comedian
- Bhumika Chawla 1978 Indian actress
- Karolína Muchová 1996 Czech tennis player
- Mary Simon 1947 Governor General of Canada 2021-2025
- Sergey Biryuzov 1904 Soviet military commander
- Zion Suzuki 2002 American-Japanese association footballer
- Leandro Bacuna 1991 Dutch-Curaçaoan footballer
- Tignous 1957 French cartoonist
- Nikolai Valuev 1973 Russian politician and former heavyweight boxer
- Liezel Huber 1976 South Africa born- US tennis player
- Laura Haddock 1985 British actress
- Karekin II 1951 Catholicoi of Armenia
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze 1725 French painter
- Nicolás Almagro 1985 Spanish tennis player
- Glenn Hughes 1952 British bassist and singer
- Jasmine Camacho-Quinn 1996 Puerto Rican hurdler
- Scott Bessent 1962 United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Felipe Nasr 1992 Brazilian racing driver
- Donald Dewar 1937 Scottish politician, 1st First Minister of Scotland (in office from 1999 to 2000)
- Kelis 1979 American singer
- Gennadiy Aygi 1934 Chuvash poet, writer, and translator
- Jiří Paroubek 1952 Czech politician, former prime minister
- Gustavo Noboa 1937 President of Ecuador
- Perry Christie 1943 Bahamian politician
- Thomas S. Monson 1927 President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
- William Murdoch 1754 Scottish engineer and inventor
- Jon Tester 1956 American politician and farmer
- Johan Mojica 1992 Colombian association football player
- Millie Bright 1993 English association football player
- Anton Shipulin 1987 Russian biathlete
- Didier Six 1954 French footballer
- Antonio Benarrivo 1968 Italian footballer
- Giuseppe Guarneri 1698 Italian luthier
- Loretta Devine 1949 American actress
- Eve Torres 1984 American professional wrestler and Jiu-Jitsu trainer
- Janet Baker 1933 British opera and concert singer
- Cathy Weseluck 1970 Canadian actress
- François Pinault 1936 French billionaire businessman and art collector
- Narcisse Virgilio Díaz 1807 French painter
- Laura Morante 1956 Italian actress
- Jernej Kopitar 1780 Slovenian philologist
- Cory Edwards 1968 American film director and comedian
- Art Farmer 1928 American jazz trumpeter
- Asher Brown Durand 1796 American painter and engraver
- James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick 1670 Anglo-French military leader
- Walter Block 1941 Austrian School economist and prominent anarcho-capitalist
- Frédéric Mitterrand 1947 French politician
- Jacques Roux 1752 French priest and revolutionary
- Basil Poledouris 1945 Greek-American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores
- Yahia Fofana 2000 Ivorian and French footballer
- Andrew Kim Taegon 1821 Korean Catholic saint
- Uriel Antuna 1997 Mexican association football player
- Fredrik André Bjørkan 1998 Norwegian footballer
- Ahmed Kathrada 1929 South African politician
- Jean Rotrou 1609 French writer
- Oliver Kirch 1982 German footballer
- Carl Gegenbaur 1826 German scientist
- Demy 1991 Greek singer
- Endre Szemerédi 1940 Hungarian-American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 21 share the 21st of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.