Roger Federer is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times.
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors24% (12 people)
Athletes20% (10 people)
Authors20% (10 people)
Musicians18% (9 people)
Scientists18% (9 people)
Creators12% (6 people)
Entrepreneurs10% (5 people)
Countries
23 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States16 (16 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
France2 (2 people)
Ireland2 (2 people)
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~20Shawn MendesNamed Time 100 (2018)
~25Faye WongNamed Stockholm International Film Festival (1994)
Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor and filmmaker. As one of the key leading man actors in the formation of New Hollywood, Hoffman is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters.
Keith Ian Carradine is an American actor. In film, he is known for his roles as Tom Frank in Robert Altman's Nashville, E. J. Bellocq in Louis Malle's Pretty Baby, and Mickey in Alan Rudolph's Choose Me.
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was an English theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Dirac laid the foundations for both quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, coining the former term.
Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Shmuel Yosef Agnon was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is known by the nom de plume Shai Agnon. In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.
Israeli GPO photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, is a member of the British royal family. She is the elder daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson, and a niece of King Charles III. Born fifth in the line of succession to the British throne, she is ninth as of 2026.
Sky Dylan Dayton is an American entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder of Internet service provider EarthLink, co-founder of eCompanies, the founder of Boingo, and co-founder of City Storage Systems and CloudKitchens.
Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Brendan Blumer is an American billionaire businessman who has served as chief executive officer of Block.one since 2016, which developed the EOS.IO blockchain platform and launched crypto exchange Bullish. He is based in Hong Kong.
Anne Beaufour is a French billionaire businesswoman. She is a descendant of Henri Beaufour, founder of the Beaufour laboratories, ancestor of the French biopharmaceutical company Ipsen.
Shawn Peter Raul Mendes is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician. He gained a following in 2013 when he posted song covers on the video-sharing platform Vine.
William Frederick Durst is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and filmmaker, best known as the frontman and lyricist of the nu metal band Limp Bizkit, formed in 1994, with whom he has released six studio albums.
ECarterSterling, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa Al-Ayyat was an Egyptian politician, engineer, and professor who served as the fifth president of Egypt from 2012 to 2013, when General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed him from office in a coup d'état after protests in June.
Office of the President of Egypt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Aloysius Paulus Maria "Louis" van Gaal is a Dutch former football player and manager. At club level, he served as manager of Ajax, Barcelona, AZ, Bayern Munich and Manchester United, as well as having three spells in charge of the Netherlands national team.
Congres in Beeld from Eindhoven, The Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
David Howell Evans, known by his stage name the Edge or simply Edge, is an Irish and British musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist of the rock band U2.
Faye Wong is a Chinese singer-songwriter and actress. Early in her career, she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong (王靖雯). Born in Beijing, she moved to Hong Kong at the age of 18.
Esther Jane Williams was an American competitive swimmer and actress. She set regional and national records in her late teens on the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team.
Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Louis Laurent Saha is a French former professional footballer who played as a striker. Saha was capped 20 times for the France national team and scored four goals.
Alija Izetbegović was a Bosnian politician, Islamic philosopher and author who served as the president of the presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1990 to 1996.
Helene C. Stikkel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sylvia Sidney was an American stage, screen, and film actress whose career spanned over 70 years. She rose to prominence in dozens of leading roles in the 1930s.
CINEGRAF magazine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lee Edward Unkrich is an American film director, editor and writer. He is best known for his work with animation studio Pixar, which he joined in 1994 as an editor before being credited as a co-director on Toy Story 2 (1999).
Janice Y Ahn, Jeannie T Lee, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a spacewalk.
Mikhail Klimentyev / Russian Presidential Press and Information Office, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dennis Anthony Tito is an American engineer and entrepreneur. During mid-2001, he became the first space tourist to fund his own visit to space, when he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of ISS EP-1, a visiting mission to the International Space Station.
Sara Trevor Teasdale was an American lyric poet. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and used the name Filsinger after her 1914 marriage. In 1918, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection Love Songs.
Creator: Gerhard Sisters, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jostein Gaarder is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories, and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world.
Heike Huslage-Koch, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
José Francisco Molina Jiménez is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently manager of the Honduras national team.
Esma Redžepova-Teodosievska was a Macedonian Romani vocalist, songwriter and humanitarian. She was nicknamed "the Queen of the Gypsies" per her contribution to Romani culture and music.
Arbenllapashticaaa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Albert Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. Young was posthumously awarded the Academy Award for Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture for Around the World in 80 Days at the 29th Academy Awards in 1957.
Harel Skaat sometimes known by the mononym Harel is an Israeli singer and songwriter. He represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song "Milim".
James Martin Moran was an American car dealer and philanthropist whose net worth of $2.4 billion ranked him 390th on the Forbes 400 at the time of his death.
Time Inc., photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Time failed to renew the copyrights of many early issues; see wikisource:Ti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 50 people born on August 8, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of August 2026. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on August 8. Read the full methodology.
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