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Famous people born on August 27
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 27 include Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Lyndon B. Johnson (1908), Sebastian Kurz (1986) and Ivan Franko (1856). Our list below has 111 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 27 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1669 (Anne Marie d'Orléans) and the most recent is 2007 (Ariana Greenblatt). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, singer.
Who was born on August 27?
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 German philosopher and theologian
- Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 President of the United States from 1963 to 1969
- Sebastian Kurz 1986 Chancellor of Austria (2017–2019, 2020–2021)
- Ivan Franko 1856 Ukrainian poet and writer
- Jamala 1983 Ukrainian singer
- Theodore Dreiser 1871 American novelist and journalist
- Cesária Évora 1941 Cape Verdean singer-songwriter
- Charles G. Dawes 1865 Vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929
- Carl Bosch 1874 German chemical engineer
- Deco 1977 Portuguese footballer
- Man Ray 1890 American and French visual artist
- Norman Foster Ramsey 1915 American physicist
- Mark Webber 1976 Australian professional racing driver
- Giuseppe Peano 1858 Italian mathematician
- Osamu Shimomura 1928 Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist
- Vincent Auriol 1884 16th President of the French Republic
- Paul Reubens 1952 American actor and comedian
- Sulley Muntari 1984 Ghanaian footballer
- Pyotr Wrangel 1878 Russian army general of Baltic German origin
- Aaron Paul 1979 American actor
- Chinmoy Kumar Ghose 1931 Indian writer and spiritual teacher
- Hannibal Hamlin 1809 Vice President of the United States from 1861 to 1865
- Luuk de Jong 1990 Dutch association football player
- Carlos Moyá 1976 Spanish tennis player
- Charles Fleischer 1950 American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and musician
- René Higuita 1966 Colombian footballer and manager
- The Great Khali 1972 Indian-American professional wrestler, actor and powerlifter
- Ange Postecoglou 1965 Australian association football player and manager
- Valentín morón 1997 Brazilian association football player
- Jeanette Winterson 1959 English writer
- Baal Shem Tov 1698 Polish founder of Hasidic Judaism
- Nikica Jelavić 1985 Croatian association football player
- Karl Haushofer 1869 German philosopher
- Dado Coletti 1974 Italian actor and television presenter
- Sōsuke Uno 1922 75th Prime Minister of Japan
- Johann Georg Hamann 1730 German philosopher
- Gerhard Berger 1959 Austrian former Formula One racing driver
- Maxwell 1981 Brazilian footballer
- Sarah Chalke 1976 Canadian actress
- Tom Ford 1961 American fashion designer and filmmaker
- Charles Rolls 1877 Motoring and aviation pioneer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce
- Peter Stormare 1953 Swedish actor, director and musician
- Dietmar Hamann 1973 German association football player and manager
- Kenji Miyazawa 1896 Japanese poet and author of children's literature
- Alexa PenaVega 1988 American actress
- Chandra Wilson 1969 American actress and director
- James Henry Breasted 1865 American archaeologist, Egyptologist and historian
- Barthold Georg Niebuhr 1776 Danish-German statesman and historian
- Neha Dhupia 1980 Indian actress
- Sergei Krikalev 1958 Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
- Bergüzar Korel 1982 Turkish actor
- Kathy Hochul 1958 57th governor of state New York since 2021
- Soluna Samay 1990 Danish singer
- Matheus Nunes 1998 Portuguese footballer
- Lester Young 1909 American jazz saxophonist
- Patrick J. Adams 1981 Canadian actor
- Juhan Parts 1966 Estonian politician
- Sergey Sirotkin 1995 Russian racing driver
- Avril Haines 1969 7th Director of National Intelligence
- Kristen Nygaard 1926 Computer scientist, Mathematician
- Kim Petras 1992 German singer
- Sjón 1962 Icelandic writer
- Tuesday Weld 1943 American actress
- David Bentley 1984 English association football player
- Nat Lofthouse 1925 English footballer
- C. S. Forester 1899 British novelist, "Hornblower" author
- Jendrik Sigwart 1994 German musician, born 1994
- Anne Marie d'Orléans 1669 Queen Consort of Sardinia
- Kayla Ewell 1985 American actress
- Nabil El Zhar 1986 Moroccan-French footballer
- Daniel Ståhl 1992 Swedish discus thrower and shot putter
- G. W. Bailey 1944 Actor
- Blake Jenner 1992 American actor
- Ariana Greenblatt 2007 American actress
- Stefan Lainer 1992 Austrian association football player
- Nikola Pilić 1939 Croatian tennis coach and former Yugoslavian tennis player
- Peter Mensah 1959 English-Ghanaian actor
- Peter Ebdon 1970 English snooker player
- Hermann Weingärtner 1864 German gymnast
- Daphne Koller 1968 Israeli-American computer scientist
- Alessandro Gamberini 1981 Italian footballer
- Cesar Millan 1969 Mexican - American dog trainer and television personality
- Mile Svilar 1999 Serbian association football player
- Igor Dobrovolski 1967 Soviet and Russian footballer
- Halet Çambel 1916 Turkish archaeologist
- Robert Richardson 1955 American cinematographer
- Martha Raye 1916 American comic actress and singer
- Alice Coltrane 1937 American jazz musician
- Tori Bowie 1990 American sprinter and long jumper
- David Elazar 1925 Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces
- Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré 1948 Former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso
- Mangosuthu Buthelezi 1928 South African politician
- Yury Vasilyevich Malyshev 1941 Soviet cosmonaut
- Kerstin Ekman 1933 Swedish writer
- Denise Lewis 1972 British athlete
- Alex Lifeson 1953 Canadian guitarist
- Franz Wagner 2001 German basketball player
- Wilson Isidor 2000 Haitian-French association football player
- Agustín Gamarra 1785 President of Peru
- Bohdan Stupka 1941 Soviet and Ukrainian actor
- Malik Harris 1997 German singer
- Gholamreza Takhti 1930 Iranian wrestler
- Amado Nervo 1870 Mexican modernist poet
- Daniela Romo 1959 Mexican singer and actor
- Jelle Zijlstra 1918 Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- Anna Kikina 1984 Russian astronaut
- Yolanda Adams 1961 American gospel singer
- Roger Stone 1952 American political consultant and lobbyist
- Derek Warwick 1954 British racecar driver
- Sven Tumba 1931 Swedish athlete
- E-type 1965 Swedish singer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 27 share the 27th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.