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Famous people born on August 28
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 28 include José Eduardo dos Santos (1942), Jack Black (1969), Shania Twain (1965) and Ivo Josipović (1957). Our list below has 93 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 28 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1592 (George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham) and the most recent is 2003 (Quvenzhané Wallis). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on August 28?
- José Eduardo dos Santos 1942 President of Angola from 1979 to 2017
- Jack Black 1969 American actor, comedian, and musician
- Shania Twain 1965 Canadian singer
- Ivo Josipović 1957 Croatian politician, third President of Croatia
- Sheryl Sandberg 1969 American technology executive, activist, and author
- César Azpilicueta 1989 Spanish association football player
- Paul Martin 1938 Prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006
- Chang Myon 1899 South Korean politician
- Jennifer Coolidge 1961 American actress
- Jack Kirby 1917 American comic book artist
- Valtteri Bottas 1989 Finnish Formula 1 racing driver
- Thiago Motta 1982 Italian-Brazilian association football player and manager
- Bojan Krkić 1990 Spanish footballer
- C. Wright Mills 1916 American sociologist
- Paula Fernandes 1984 Brazilian singer-songwriter
- Masahiko Inoha 1985 Japanese association football player
- Julen Lopetegui 1966 Spanish association football player and coach
- George Whipple 1878 American physician and biomedical researcher
- Tjalling Koopmans 1910 Dutch American economist
- Ben Gazzara 1930 American actor
- Ayase Ueda 1998 Japanese association football player
- Daigo Nishi 1987 Japanese association football player
- Charles Boyer 1899 French actor
- Shunichiro Okano 1931 Japanese association football player and manager
- Armie Hammer 1986 American actor
- Edward Burne-Jones 1833 British Pre-Raphaelite painter
- Billy Boyd 1968 Scottish actor and musician
- Barbara Bach 1946 American actress
- Weston McKennie 1998 American soccer player
- Florence Welch 1986 British singer
- Lidia Gueiler Tejada 1921 President of Bolivia
- Daniel Stern 1957 American actor, artist, director and screenwriter
- LeAnn Rimes 1982 American singer and actress
- Amanda Tapping 1965 English-born Canadian actress
- Jack Vance 1916 American mystery and speculative fiction writer
- Jason Priestley 1969 Canadian-American actor and director
- Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 1691 Holy Roman Empress consort
- Sheridan Le Fanu 1814 Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels
- Ons Jabeur 1994 Tunisian tennis player
- Umberto Giordano 1867 Italian opera composer
- Satoshi Tajiri 1965 Japanese video game designer
- George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham 1592 Politician from England
- Anastasiya Kuzmina 1984 Slovak biathlete
- Quvenzhané Wallis 2003 American actress
- Antoine Augustin Cournot 1801 French economist and mathematician (*1801 – †1877)
- Lucy Webb Hayes 1831 First Lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881
- Bruno Bettelheim 1903 Austrian-American child psychologist and writer
- Julio César Romero 1960 Paraguayan footballer
- Irinej 1930 Serbian patriarch
- Andreja Pejić 1991 Australian fashion model
- Surayud Chulanont 1943 President of the Privy Council of Thailand
- Fernando Fernán Gómez 1921 Spanish actor, screenwriter, and director
- Emlyn Hughes 1947 English association football player
- Elizabeth Ann Seton 1774 First native-born American saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs 1825 German jurist, writer and gay rights activist
- Karl Böhm 1894 Austrian conductor
- John Betjeman 1906 English poet, writer and broadcaster
- Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein 1853 Prince of Liechtenstein
- Alejandro Agustín Lanusse 1918 38th President of the Argentine Republic
- David Soul 1943 American-British actor
- Robertson Davies 1913 Canadian novelist
- Joseph Luns 1911 Dutch politician and diplomat
- Janet Frame 1924 New Zealand author
- Kaj Leo Johannesen 1964 Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands from 2008 until 2015 and former soccer and…
- Janet Evans 1971 American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder
- Oliver Glasner 1974 Austrian association football manager
- Carsten Jancker 1974 German association football player and manager
- Andreas Wellinger 1995 German ski jumper
- Kjetil Jansrud 1985 Norwegian alpine skier
- Scott Hamilton 1958 American figure skater
- William Cohen 1940 American politician
- Brian Thompson 1959 American actor
- Jeff Green 1986 American basketball player
- Count Nikolai of Monpezat 1999 Danish model, influencer, and former prince; elder son of Prince Joachim and…
- Victor Khristenko 1957 Russian economist and statesman
- Bismack Biyombo 1992 Congolese basketball player
- Roger Pingeon 1940 French racing cyclist
- Shinji Jojo 1977 Japanese association football player
- Raimundo Pereira 1956 President unterine of Guinea-Bissau
- Abdelkarim Hassan 1993 Qatari footballer
- Rita Dove 1952 American poet, essayist, and university teacher
- Karl Otfried Müller 1797 German scholar of classical Greek studies
- Kashetu Kyenge 1964 Italian politician and ophthalmologist
- Hwang Ui-jo 1992 South Korean association football player
- Leroy Chiao 1960 American astronaut and engineer
- Katie Findlay 1990 Canadian actress
- Stéphanie de Beauharnais 1789 Consort of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden, and adoptive daughter of Napoleon I
- Constant Troyon 1810 French painter
- Christian Pander 1983 German footballer
- Alfonso Herrera Rodriguez 1983 Mexican actor and former singer
- Jaime Balmes 1810 Spanish philosopher
- Barbro Hiort af Ornäs 1921 Swedish actress
- Daniel Gygax 1981 Swiss 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 28 share the 28th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.