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Famous people born on August 3
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 3 include James Hetfield (1963), Evangeline Lilly (1979), Habib Bourguiba (1903) and Stanley Baldwin (1867). Our list below has 104 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 3 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1766 (Kurt Sprengel) and the most recent is 2006 (Rayan). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actor.
Who was born on August 3?
- James Hetfield 1963 American guitarist and singer
- Evangeline Lilly 1979 Canadian actress
- Habib Bourguiba 1903 Tunisian politician
- Stanley Baldwin 1867 British statesman
- Martin Sheen 1940 American actor
- Haakon VII of Norway 1872 King of Norway from 1905 to 1957
- Evika Siliņa 1975 Prime Minister of Latvia from 2023 to 2026
- Tony Bennett 1926 American singer
- Fahri Korutürk 1903 6th President of the Republic of Turkey
- Abhisit Vejjajiva 1964 Thai politician
- Frederick William III of Prussia 1770 King of Prussia from 1797 to 1840
- Sunil Chhetri 1984 Indian football player
- Tom Brady 1977 American football player
- Jonas Malheiro Savimbi 1934 Angolan political and military leader
- Alfred Deakin 1856 Australian politician
- Jules Bianchi 1989 French motor racing driver
- Martha Stewart 1941 American businesswoman, writer, TV personality
- Osvaldo Ardiles 1952 Argentine association football player and manager
- Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean 1960 Harpist and composer
- Brahim Díaz 1999 Moroccan association football player
- Clifford D. Simak 1904 American writer, journalist
- Hage Geingob 1941 President of Namibia from 2015 to 2024
- Jean-Pierre Raffarin 1948 94th Prime Minister of France
- Gary Medel 1987 Chilean association football player
- Mathieu Kassovitz 1967 French actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter
- Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria 1923 117th pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
- Ryan Lochte 1984 American swimmer
- Corentin Tolisso 1994 French footballer
- Kazuaki Tasaka 1971 Japanese association football player and manager
- Dolores del Río 1904 Mexican actress
- Mile Jedinak 1984 Australian association football player
- Graham Arnold 1963 Australian association football player and coach
- Darya Domracheva 1986 Belarusian biathlete and coach
- Masaharu Suzuki 1970 Japanese association football player
- P. D. James 1920 English crime writer
- Tadahiko Ueda 1947 Japanese association football player
- Ernesto Geisel 1907 Military and president of Brazil
- Nemo 1999 Swiss musician, singer and rapper
- George FitzGerald 1851 Irish physicist
- Rupert Brooke 1887 English poet
- Emerson Palmieri 1994 Italian-Brazilian association football player
- Karlie Kloss 1992 American fashion model
- Sven Ulreich 1988 German association football player
- John Landis 1950 American film director, screenwriter and producer
- Jannik Vestergaard 1992 Danish association football player
- Lambert Wilson 1958 French actor
- Stefan Wyszyński 1901 Polish Roman Catholic cardinal
- John C. McGinley 1959 American actor
- Alain Touraine 1925 French sociologist
- Stephen Graham 1973 English actor
- Géza Gárdonyi 1863 Hungarian writer
- Matteo Politano 1993 Italian footballer
- Felix Brych 1975 German football referee
- Chris Murphy 1973 American lawyer and politician
- Jack Straw 1946 British politician
- Marlene Dumas 1953 South African painter and draftsperson
- Lucky Dube 1964 South African reggae musician
- Leon Uris 1924 American author
- Yuko Oita 1969 Japanese association football player
- Kaede Nakamura 1991 Japanese association football player
- Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson 1943 Swedish princess; elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- Yaroslav Rakitskiy 1989 Ukrainian footballer
- Isaiah Washington 1963 American actor
- Mamie Gummer 1983 American actress
- Jay Cutler 1973 American bodybuilder
- Nadia Ali 1980 American singer-songwriter
- Elisha Otis 1811 Founder of Otis Elevator Co.
- Andrés Gimeno 1937 Spanish tennis player
- Sonny Bill Williams 1985 New Zealand rugby league and rugby union player, and heavyweight boxer
- Ernesto Samper 1950 President of Colombia
- Bernadette Meehan 1975 Wikimedia CEO and American diplomat
- Franz König 1905 Austrian Catholic cardinal
- Rayan 2006 Brazilian footballer
- Waldemar Cierpinski 1950 East German athlete
- Sam Hutchinson 1989 English association football player
- Louis Chiron 1899 Monegasque racing driver
- Óscar Pereiro 1977 Road bicycle racer
- Joan Higginbotham 1964 American engineer and NASA astronaut
- Cécile Aubry 1928 French actress, television director, writer and screenwriter
- Georgy Shonin 1935 Soviet cosmonaut
- Maria Haukaas Mittet 1979 Norwegian singer
- William Kennedy Dickson 1860 Scottish photographer and inventor of motion picture cameras
- Pablo Ibáñez 1981 Spanish footballer
- Oleksii Arestovych 1975 Blogger
- Oswald Külpe 1862 German philosopher
- Masahiro Sakurai 1970 Japanese video game designer
- Charlotte Casiraghi 1986 Monegasque equestrian and journalist; second child of Caroline, Princess of Hanover,…
- Viktor Khryapa 1982 Russian basketball player
- Themba Zwane 1989 South African soccer player
- Hàm Nghi 1871 Vietnamese emperor
- Jean Hagen 1923 American actress
- Marilyn Maxwell 1921 American actress and singer
- Hamilton Fish 1808 American politician
- Aron Steven Haddad 1982 American professional wrestler
- August Kubizek 1888 Austrian musician, soldier, and friend of Adolf Hitler
- Steven Berkoff 1937 British actor, playwright, author and director
- Kurt Sprengel 1766 German botanist
- Mariusz Jop 1978 Polish footballer
- José Manuel Moreno 1916 Argentine footballer and manager
- Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen 1817 Austrian officer
- Angela Beesley Starling 1977 Co-founder of Wikia
- Terry Wogan 1938 Irish radio and television broadcaster
- Abdullah Otayf 1992 Saudi Arabian footballer
- Alexander Nevzorov 1958 Soviet-Russian journalist, film director and writer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 3 share the 3rd of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.