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Famous people born on August 8

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Well-known people born on August 8 include Paul Dirac (1902), Giuseppe Conte (1964), Emiliano Zapata (1879) and Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1887). Our list below has 108 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 8 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1646 (Godfrey Kneller) and the most recent is 2007 (Arvid Lindblad). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, singer.

Who was born on August 8?

  1. Paul Dirac 1902 British theoretical physicist
  2. Giuseppe Conte 1964 Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 to 2021
  3. Emiliano Zapata 1879 Mexican revolutionary
  4. Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1887 Ukrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature
  5. Ernest Lawrence 1901 American nuclear physicist
  6. Roger Penrose 1931 English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
  7. Klaus Ebner 1964 Austrian writer
  8. Alija Izetbegović 1925 Bosnian politician, lawyer, philosopher and author
  9. Louis van Gaal 1951 Dutch footbal player and manager
  10. Jostein Gaarder 1952 Norwegian author
  11. Shawn Mendes 1998 Canadian singer
  12. Svetlana Savitskaya 1948 Soviet cosmonaut
  13. Lloyd J. Austin III 1953 United States 28th Secretary of Defense
  14. Nigel Mansell 1953 British racing driver
  15. Makoto Tanaka 1975 Japanese association football player and manager
  16. Dennis Tito 1940 American businessman
  17. Alysa Liu 2005 American figure skater
  18. Louis Saha 1978 French footballer
  19. Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist 1881 German field marshal
  20. Johann Friedrich Gmelin 1748 German naturalist
  21. Esther Williams 1921 American swimmer, actress and singer
  22. Joël Matip 1991 Cameroonian-German association football player
  23. Akira Matsunaga 1948 Japanese association football player
  24. Princess Beatrice of York 1988 Elder daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson
  25. The Edge 1961 Irish rock musician, guitar player of U2
  26. Dino De Laurentiis 1919 Italian film producer
  27. Akihiro Nishimura 1958 Japanese association football player and manager
  28. Anita Włodarczyk 1985 Polish hammer thrower
  29. Francis Hutcheson 1694 Scottish philosopher
  30. Esma Redžepova 1943 Macedonian-Romani singer, songwriter and humanitarian
  31. Faye Wong 1969 Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
  32. Vladimír Darida 1990 Czech footballer
  33. Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (Marie of Hesse) 1824 Empress consort of Russia
  34. Johann Christoph Adelung 1732 German philologist, linguist
  35. Abel Hernández 1990 Uruguayan association football player
  36. Sara Teasdale 1884 American writer and poet
  37. Zito 1932 Brazilian footballer
  38. William Bateson 1861 British geneticist and biologist
  39. Harel Skaat 1981 Israeli singer, performer, songwriter
  40. Koki Ogawa 1997 Japanese association football player
  41. Katie Leung 1987 Scottish actress
  42. Sylvia Sidney 1910 American actress
  43. Earle Page 1880 Australian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia
  44. Godfrey Kneller 1646 German-born British painter
  45. Artur Bernardes 1875 Brazilian politician
  46. Manjul Bhargava 1974 Indo-Canadian mathematician
  47. Mirabai Chanu 1994 Indian weightlifter
  48. Josip Drmić 1992 Swiss footballer
  49. Cecilia Roth 1956 Argentine actress
  50. Alberto Granado 1922 Argentine-Cuban biochemistry doctor, writer, scientist and traveling companion of Che…
  51. Martine Aubry 1950 French politician
  52. Ralph Gonsalves 1946 Former Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  53. Igor Smolnikov 1988 Russian footballer
  54. Keith Carradine 1949 American actor and singer
  55. Malick Thiaw 2001 German footballer
  56. Georg I of Saxony 1832 King of Saxony
  57. Chivu Stoica 1908 48th Prime Minister of Romania
  58. Henry Fairfield Osborn 1857 American geologist
  59. Chancel Mbemba 1994 Congolese association football player
  60. Robert Siodmak 1900 German-born American film director
  61. Nina Berberova 1901 Russian novelist and short story writer
  62. Kateryna Volodko 1986 Ukrainian female tennis player
  63. Benny Carter 1907 American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader
  64. Taras Stepanenko 1989 Ukrainian footballer
  65. Lee Unkrich 1967 American film editor
  66. Cécile Chaminade 1857 French composer and pianist
  67. Danilo Gallinari 1988 Italian basketball player
  68. Kiko Seike 1996 Japanese association football player
  69. Nélson Oliveira 1991 Portuguese footballer
  70. Kieffer Moore 1992 Welsh-English association football player
  71. Danny Gabbidon 1979 Welsh footballer
  72. Antonee Robinson 1997 American soccer player
  73. Herbert Prohaska 1955 Austrian football player and coach
  74. Jamie Gittens 2004 English footballer
  75. Just Jaeckin 1940 French film director
  76. Esmail Ghaani 1957 Iranian general in the Quds Force
  77. Eileen Gray 1878 Irish architect and designer
  78. Mamoru Oshii 1951 Japanese filmmaker, television director, and writer
  79. Sanja Vučić 1993 Pop singer
  80. Martin Brest 1951 American film director
  81. Gene Deitch 1924 American illustrator, animator and film director
  82. Félix Auger-Aliassime 2000 Canadian tennis player
  83. Ekaterina Zaharieva 1975 European Commissioner and former Deputy PM and minister in Bulgaria
  84. Ruth Chepng'etich 1994 Kenyan track and field athlete
  85. Ron Klain 1961 White House Chief of Staff from 2021 to 2023
  86. Michael Urie 1980 American actor
  87. Peyton List 1986 American actress
  88. Jon Turteltaub 1963 American film director and producer
  89. Jeremy Toljan 1994 German association football player
  90. Ferenc Kölcsey 1790 Hungarian politician and writer
  91. Kengo Kuma 1954 Japanese architect
  92. Aleksandr Khanzhonkov 1877 Russian entrepreneur, organizer of film production, screenwriter, director
  93. Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia 1831 Russian grand duke; third son and sixth child of Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of…
  94. Meagan Good 1981 American actress and producer
  95. Rashard Lewis 1979 American basketball player
  96. Lauv 1994 American musician
  97. Luis García Meza Tejada 1929 Bolivian dictator
  98. Arvid Lindblad 2007 British racing driver
  99. Tatjana Maria 1987 German tennis player
  100. Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch 1839 German explorer and biologist
  101. Tokugawa Ietsugu 1709 The seventh shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan
  102. JC Chasez 1976 American singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, and occasional actor
  103. Clemerson de Araújo Soares 1977 Brazilian association football player
  104. Cláudio Hummes 1934 Catholic cardinal
  105. André Jolivet 1905 French composer
  106. Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson 1979 Icelandic handball player
  107. José Francisco Molina 1970 Spanish footballer
  108. Moza bint Nasser Al Missned 1959 Widow of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 8 share the 8th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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