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Famous people born on August 7

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Well-known people born on August 7 include Charlize Theron (1975), Elinor Ostrom (1933), Yun Hyon-seok (1984) and David Duchovny (1960). Our list below has 88 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 7 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1742 (Nathanael Greene) and the most recent is 2001 (Daiki Hashimoto). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, actor.

Who was born on August 7?

  1. Charlize Theron 1975 South African and American actress
  2. Elinor Ostrom 1933 American political economist
  3. Yun Hyon-seok 1984 South Korean poet, writer and LGBT activist
  4. David Duchovny 1960 American actor and writer
  5. Sofia Rotaru 1947 Ukrainian singer, songwriter and actress
  6. John C. Mather 1946 American astrophysicist and cosmologist
  7. Bruce Dickinson 1958 English heavy metal singer
  8. Ralph Bunche 1904 Diplomat, educator, civil rights activist and the first African American Nobel Peace…
  9. Abebe Bikila 1932 Ethiopian double Olympic marathon champion
  10. James Randi 1928 Canadian-American stage magician and skeptical movement adherent
  11. Emil Nolde 1867 German artist
  12. Carl Ritter 1779 German geographer
  13. Robert Mueller 1944 American attorney and sixth director of the FBI
  14. James P. Allison 1948 American immunologist and Nobel laureate
  15. Louis Leakey 1903 Kenyan-British archaeologist and naturalist
  16. Wout Weghorst 1992 Dutch association football player
  17. Dani Ceballos 1996 Spanish association football player
  18. Abbie Cornish 1982 Australian actress
  19. Wayne Knight 1955 American actor
  20. Michael Shannon 1974 American actor
  21. Tobin Bell 1942 American actor
  22. Nicholas Ray 1911 American film director
  23. Sigfried Held 1942 German association football player and manager
  24. Nenad Đorđević 1979 Serbian association football player
  25. Jean-Luc Dehaene 1940 Prime Minister of Belgium from 1992 until 1999
  26. Victoria of Baden 1862 Queen consort of Sweden
  27. Vladimir Sorokin 1955 Russian writer
  28. Harold Perrineau 1963 American actor
  29. Billie Burke 1884 American stage and film actress
  30. Caetano Veloso 1942 Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist
  31. Sidney Crosby 1987 Canadian ice hockey player
  32. François Darlan 1881 French admiral
  33. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone 1999 American hurdler and sprinter
  34. Bryan Mbeumo 1999 Cameroonian-French footballer
  35. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 1890 American politician
  36. Valter Birsa 1986 Slovenian footballer
  37. Valery Gazzaev 1954 Soviet footballer and manager
  38. Alain Corneau 1943 French film director
  39. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach 1870 German businessperson, politician
  40. Danny 1983 Portuguese footballer
  41. DeMar DeRozan 1989 American basketball player
  42. Alain Robert 1962 French climber and author
  43. Viktor Medvedchuk 1954 Pro-Russian politician in Ukraine, deprived lawyer and businessman
  44. Giorgetto Giugiaro 1938 Italian automobile designer
  45. Matty Cash 1997 Polish-English association football player
  46. Yana Klochkova 1982 Ukrainian swimmer
  47. Erik Pieters 1988 Dutch association football player
  48. Mohammed Badie 1943 Egyptian politician, 8th Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood
  49. Léon Brillouin 1889 French physicist
  50. M. S. Swaminathan 1925 Indian agronomist
  51. John Glover 1944 American actor
  52. Caroline Aaron 1952 American actress
  53. Brit Marling 1982 American actress, screenwriter and producer
  54. Simon Yates 1992 British road and track racing cyclist
  55. Hans Enoksen 1956 Prime Minister of Greenland
  56. Florian Grillitsch 1995 Austrian association football player
  57. Abanindranath Tagore 1871 Indian painter and writer
  58. Valeri Nepomniachi 1943 Russian association football player and manager
  59. Paul Lambert 1969 Scottish association football manager
  60. Nathanael Greene 1742 American general in the American Revolutionary War
  61. Nelson Goodman 1906 American philosopher
  62. Tom McGrath 1964 American voice actor, animator and film director
  63. Christiana Figueres 1956 Costa Rican diplomat engaged in UN
  64. Daiki Hashimoto 2001 Japanese artistic gymnast
  65. Deeyah Khan 1977 Norwegian documentary film director
  66. Ann Harding 1902 American actress
  67. Abigail Spanberger 1979 American politician and former intelligence officer
  68. Adam Yates 1992 British racing cyclist (borm 1992)
  69. Lauren Hemp 2000 English association football player
  70. Jocelyn Angloma 1965 French football player and manager
  71. Paul Biedermann 1986 German swimmer
  72. Sasha Calle 1995 Colombian-American actress
  73. Hermann Paul 1846 German philologist
  74. Vo Chi Cong 1912 President of Vietnam
  75. Carlos Vives 1961 Colombian singer
  76. Goran Vlaović 1972 Croatian footballer
  77. Alexandre Aja 1978 Film director
  78. Loïc Perrin 1985 French association football player
  79. Franco Columbu 1941 Italian bodybuilder and actor
  80. Kerry Reid 1947 Australian tennis player
  81. Juninho Bacuna 1997 Dutch-Curaçaoan footballer
  82. Joachim Ringelnatz 1883 German poet and artist
  83. Ulrich Salchow 1877 Swedish figure skater
  84. Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange 1751 Consort of Prince William V of Orange
  85. Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom 1783 Daughter of King George III of the United Kingdom
  86. Vassilis Spanoulis 1982 Greek basketball player
  87. Gaahl 1975 Norwegian musician
  88. Alexander Dityatin 1957 Soviet-Russian artistic gymnast

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 7 share the 7th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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