Arts and Music

• August Darnell
  • Kid Creole (see list of Nicknames of Musicians)
• August Manns (born 1825, died 1907)

  English conductor.

  • Led Saturday concerts at London''s Crystal Palace for 45 years (see list of Conductors)
• August Perrett
  • 1952 American Institute of Architects gold medal winner (see list of Winners of the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal)
• August Sander
  • A member of the International Photography Hall of Fame (see list of International Photography Hall of Fame)

Leadership

• August Belmont (born 1816, died 1890)

  German-American financier.

  • Founded the August Belmont & Company banking house (see list of Miscellaneous Business Leaders)
• August A. Busch III
  • CEO of Fortune 500 company Anheuser-Busch (see list of 1996 Fortune 500 Company CEOs)
• August Valentine Kautz (born 1828, died 1895)

  German-born Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • Gained distinction at the seige of Petersburg in 1864 (see list of Some Union Generals of the Army of the Potomac)

Science and Philosophy

• August von Wasserman (born 1866, died 1925)

  German bacteriologist.

  • Invented a test for syphilis (see list of Biological Scientists)

Sports

• August Güttinger

  Swiss athlete.

  • 1924 Olympic gymnastics gold medal winner for Parallel Bars (see list of Gold Medalists in Individual Gymnastics Events)
• August ''Mike'' Michalske
  • Elected to Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1964 (see list of Professional Football Hall of Fame)

The Literary World

• August Strindberg (born 1849, died 1912)

  Swedish playwright and novelist.

  • Wrote A Dream Play (see list of Prose Writers of the Victorian Era)
• August Wilson (born 1945)

  American playwright.

  • Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, in 1987 for Fences and in 1990 for The Piano Lesson (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama)
  • Wrote Two Trains Running (see list of Prose Writers of the 20th Century)