Olympic Athletes Born on August 12

August 11 ▪ August 12 ▪ August 13 ▪

317 Athletes

Rk	Athlete	Country	Sport	Born	Died
1	Najmeh Abtin	Iran	Archery	1982
2	Iyabo Akanmu	Nigeria	Table Tennis	1968
3	Mohamed Barak Al-Dosari	Saudi Arabia	Athletics	1961
4	Naser Al-Meqlad	Kuwait	Shooting	1982
5	Clara Alfonso	Cuba	Fencing	1961
6	Maria Altheman	Brazil	Judo	1988
7	Sergio Álvarez	Cuba	Shooting	1948
8	Roselina Angee	Colombia	Swimming	1958
9	Mariano Arrate	Spain	Football	1892	1963
10	Bernhard Baier	Germany	Water Polo	1912	2003
11	Ambrus Balogh	Hungary	Shooting	1915	1978
12	Morgan Barbançon	Spain	Equestrianism	1992
13	Wilhelm Baumann	Germany	Handball	1912	1990
14	Aïssa Bel Aout	Algeria	Athletics	1968
15	Moustafa Belhmira	Morocco	Judo	1950
16	George Bellows	United States	Art Competitions	1882	1925
17	Bert Bergsma	Netherlands	Swimming	1955
18	Manuela Bezzola	Switzerland	Taekwondo	1989
19	Martin Bieltz	Romania	Rowing	1936
20	Waldemar Björkstén	Finland	Sailing	1873	1933
21	Lyudmila Bogdanova	Russia	Judo	1983
22	Svitlana Bondarenko	Ukraine	Swimming	1971
23	Gérard Boyer	France	Rowing	1951
24	Hans-Jürgen Bradler	West Germany	Football	1948
25	Chris Brathwaite	Trinidad and Tobago	Athletics	1948	1984
26	Charles Brommesson	Sweden	Football	1903	1978
27	Jim Brooker	United States	Athletics	1902	1973
28	Roland Brunner	Austria	Speed Skating	1970
29	Joel Brutus	Haiti	Judo	1974
30	Gerda Bryłka	Poland	Gymnastics	1941
31	Alfie Buller	Ireland	Equestrianism	1957
32	Françoise Burdet	Switzerland	Bobsleigh	1967
33	Tim Cafe	New Zealand	Alpine Skiing	1987
34	Harry Cail	United States	Shooting	1913	2008
35	Xavier Camps	Spain	Baseball	1970
36	Antonio Cerroni	Italy	Wrestling	1924
37	Boy Charlton	Australia	Swimming	1907	1975
38	Milena Cillerová	Czechoslovakia	Cross Country Skiing	1945
39	Tom Cleverley	Great Britain	Football	1989
40	Allison Cook-Tranquilli	Australia	Basketball	1972
41	Alexis Copello	Cuba	Athletics	1985
42	Robin Corsiglia	Canada	Swimming	1962
43	Jean-Claude Coucardon	France	Rowing	1950
44	José da Cunha	Hong Kong	Hockey	1935
45	Andrea Dakó	Hungary	Badminton	1972
46	Omar Dallah	Hong Kong	Hockey	1936
47	Ivonete das Neves	Brazil	Volleyball	1960
48	Antônio de Carvalho	Brazil	Athletics	1913
49	Rafael de Juan	Spain	Shooting	1924
50	César del Rio	Mexico	Wrestling	1941
51	Walter Delle Karth	Austria	Nordic Combined	1911	2004
52	Rogério Dezorzi	Brazil	Boxing	1966
53	Mariya Dimova	Bulgaria	Cross Country Skiing	1929
54	Graham Drane	Australia	Sailing	1916	1993
55	István Dudás	Hungary	Weightlifting	1971
56	Mariana Duque	Colombia	Tennis	1989
57	Édson	Brazil	Football	1930
58	Ragnar Ekberg	Sweden	Athletics	1886	1966
59	Norman Elder	Canada	Equestrianism	1940	2003
60	Steven Elm	Canada	Speed Skating	1975
61	Robert Emery	United States	Athletics	1898	1975
62	Dušan Epifanić	Yugoslavia	Shooting	1945
63	Miķelis Ežmalis	Latvia	Canoeing	1990
64	Andrew Faulds	Canada	Bobsleigh	1944
65	Maximiliano Fava	Brazil	Rowing	1911
66	Francisco Figueredo	Paraguay	Athletics	1960
67	Yevheniya Filanenko	Ukraine	Figure Skating	1982
68	Nataliya Filina	Azerbaijan	Swimming	1987
69	Ernst Fivian	Switzerland	Gymnastics	1931
70	Carl Flodström	Sweden	Shooting	1863	1930
71	Elsa Freire	Angola	Swimming	1974
72	Francesco Gabriotti	Italy	Football	1914	1987
73	Paul Gaudoin	Australia	Hockey	1975
74	Georg Gelbke	Germany	Art Competitions	1882	1947
75	Hermann Gericke	Switzerland	Swimming	1931
76	Lou Geutjes	Netherlands	Water Polo	1943
77	Lisa Gibson	Great Britain	Water Polo	1989
78	Khristos Gikas	Greece	Wrestling	1976
79	Luigi Gilardi	Italy	Cycling	1897	1989
80	Manuel Gomes	Angola	Boxing	1966
81	Andrés Gómez	Spain	Hockey	1962
82	Pascale Grand	Canada	Athletics	1967
83	Paul Gray	Australia	Cross Country Skiing	1969
84	José António Gregório	Portugal	Wrestling	1939
85	Émile Gretsch	Luxembourg	Fencing	1908	2004
86	Niall Griffin	Ireland	Equestrianism	1977
87	Bernhard Gruber	Austria	Nordic Combined	1982
88	Madeleine Grundström	Sweden	Handball	1980
89	Lasha Gujejiani	Georgia	Judo	1985
90	Viktor Gushchinsky	Russia	Athletics	1978
91	Allan Gutiérrez	Honduras	Swimming	1993
92	Ha Eun-Ju	South Korea	Swimming	1986
93	S. M. Hadi	India	Tennis	1899	1971
94	Shirley Haig	New Zealand	Hockey	1950
95	Alexandru Hălăucă	Romania	Ice Hockey	1957
96	Regan Harrison	Australia	Swimming	1978
97	Walter Hempel	Germany	Football	1887	1940
98	János Henzsel	Hungary	Cycling	1881
99	Franciscus Hexspoor	Netherlands	Archery	1861	1931
100	Gorazd Hiti	Yugoslavia	Ice Hockey	1948
101	Blair Hopping	New Zealand	Hockey	1980
102	Ion Horvath	Romania	Wrestling	1912
103	Andrew Hurd	Canada	Swimming	1982
104	Hassan Ali Imam	Egypt	Wrestling	1911
105	Alison Inverarity	Australia	Athletics	1970
106	Anne Iversen	Denmark	Athletics	1923
107	Ewald Jarmer	West Germany	Boxing	1942
108	Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota	Latvia	Basketball	1983
109	Julie Jenkins	United States	Athletics	1964
110	Jeong Dae-Yeong	South Korea	Volleyball	1981
111	Göran Johansson	Sweden	Speed Skating	1958
112	Gunnel Johansson	Sweden	Gymnastics	1922
113	Tomas Johansson	Sweden	Badminton	1969
114	Marvin Johnson	United States	Boxing	1954
115	Vid Juricskay	Australia	Canoeing	1934
116	Valter Kalaus	Hungary	Swimming	1970
117	Konstantin Kalinin	Russia	Shooting	1885
118	Edward Kar	Liberia	Athletics	1954
119	Viktor Karachun	Belarus	Ice Hockey	1968
120	Konstantinos Karydas	Greece	Alpine Skiing	1942
121	Vitaly Khozhatelev	Uzbekistan	Athletics	1967
122	Eniko Kiefer	Canada	Diving	1960
123	Pam Kilborn-Ryan	Australia	Athletics	1939
124	Kim Kun-Hoan	South Korea	Football	1986
125	Elly Kitamireke	Uganda	Hockey	1931
126	Cindy Klassen	Canada	Speed Skating	1979
127	Aleksandr Klimov	Soviet Union, Unified Team	Speed Skating	1965
128	Miloslav Kodl	Czechoslovakia	Basketball	1928	1985
129	Cherono Koech	Kenya	Athletics	1992
130	Marian Kolasa	Poland	Athletics	1959
131	Bill Koll	United States	Wrestling	1923	2003
132	Lucien Konter	Luxembourg	Football	1925
133	Peter Korčok	Slovakia	Athletics	1974
134	Bogdan Kowalczyk	Poland	Handball	1946
135	Brigitte Kraus	West Germany	Athletics	1956
136	Stig Kristiansen	Norway	Cycling	1970
137	Carlyn Kruger	Canada	Alpine Skiing	1936
138	Władysław Krzyżanowski	Poland	Sailing	1905	1985
139	Leonhard Kukk	Estonia	Weightlifting	1906	1944
140	Nataliya Kuligina	Kyrgyzstan	Judo	1971
141	Sandeep Kumar	India	Rowing	1988
142	Jussi Kurikkala	Finland	Athletics	1912	1951
143	Julio Labandeira	Argentina	Sailing	1949
144	Amanda Laird	Australia	Synchronized Swimming	1978
145	Gustav Lantschner	Germany	Alpine Skiing	1910	2011
146	Nataliya Lapitskaya	Soviet Union	Handball	1962
147	Jason Lavigilante	Mauritius	Boxing	1991
148	Manuel Ledesma	Chile	Basketball	1920	2001
149	Lee Yue-Hwan	Chinese Taipei	Swimming	1958
150	Leong Mee Wan	Malaysia	Table Tennis	1966
151	Carlos Leyes	Argentina	Boxing	1950
152	Li Hak-Son	North Korea	Wrestling	1969
153	David Liu	Chinese Taipei	Figure Skating	1965
154	Liu Yong	China	Badminton	1975
155	Anne-Marie Loriot	France	Canoeing	1956
156	Marie-France Loval	France	Athletics	1964
157	Johnny Lucas	Luxembourg	Canoeing	1931
158	Victor Mahaña	Chile	Basketball	1922	2001
159	Jesse Mahieu	Netherlands	Hockey	1978
160	Iva Majoli	Croatia	Tennis	1977
161	Anton Manolov	Bulgaria	Shooting	1949
162	Carlos Marcenaro	Peru	Athletics	1912
163	Todd Marchant	United States	Ice Hockey	1973
164	Thomas Maroney	United States	Athletics	1895	1971
165	Brad Martin	Canada	Snowboarding	1986
166	María Martínez	Spain	Tennis	1982
167	Abdel Rahman Massad	Sudan	Athletics	1957
168	Brendan Matthias	Canada	Athletics	1969
169	Ilidio Matusse	Mozambique	Swimming	1975
170	Joe McCormick	United States	Ice Hockey	1894	1958
171	Sam McGregor	Australia	Water Polo	1984
172	Guram Mch'edlidze	Georgia	Wrestling	1972
173	Daniel McMillan	Great Britain	Handball	1982
174	Linda Metheny	United States	Gymnastics	1947
175	Hatsuhiko Mizuki	Japan	Rowing	1939
176	Gabriel Moiceanu	Romania	Cycling	1934
177	Christiaan Moltzer	Netherlands	Shooting	1875	1945
178	Jan-Marco Montag	Germany	Hockey	1983
179	Horacio Monti	Argentina	Sailing	1911
180	Charles Moore	United States	Athletics	1929
181	Marty Morgan	United States	Wrestling	1966
182	Shigeru Morioka	Japan	Football	1973
183	Giorgi Mshvenieradze	Soviet Union	Water Polo	1960
184	Shiho Nakashima	Japan	Snowboarding	1978
185	Andrew Naylor	Great Britain	Figure Skating	1965
186	Milan Nenadić	Yugoslavia	Wrestling	1943
187	Nguyễn Thị Thanh Phúc	Vietnam	Athletics	1990
188	Kurt Niederstätter	Italy	Snowboarding	1976
189	Aleksandar Nikolov	Bulgaria	Cycling	1912
190	Elin Nilsen	Norway	Cross Country Skiing	1968
191	Stefan Nilsson	Sweden	Shooting	1990
192	Bert-Ola Nordlander	Sweden	Ice Hockey	1938
193	Kateřina Novotná	Czech Republic	Short Track Speed Skating	1984
194	Ochiryn Demberel	Mongolia	Boxing	1963
195	Chieko Oda	Japan	Gymnastics	1947
196	Tomio Okamura	Japan	Cross Country Skiing	1948
197	César Ortíz	Mexico	Shooting	1949
198	Azzeddine Ourahou	Morocco	Football	1984
199	Georgios Panagiotopoulos	Greece	Athletics	1969
200	Park Min-Su	South Korea	Cycling	1970
201	Gonzalo Peillat	Argentina	Hockey	1992
202	Anatoly Perov	Soviet Union	Boxing	1926	2001
203	Ivo Pertile	Italy	Ski Jumping	1971
204	Günther Pfaff	Austria	Canoeing	1939
205	Jimmy Pino	Colombia	Athletics	1978
206	Andrzej Piotrowski	Poland	Cross Country Skiing	1969
207	Antonio Piraíno	Chile	Equestrianism	1928
208	Omar Pkhak'adze	Soviet Union	Cycling	1944	1993
209	Norwin Platzer	Switzerland	Handball	1962
210	Andrey Plotnikov	Russia	Athletics	1967
211	Khrystyna Podrushna	Ukraine	Alpine Skiing	1977
212	Daniel Pon Mony	India	Weightlifting	1921
213	Alex Porkhomovskiy	Israel	Athletics	1972
214	Gail Prescod	Saint Vincent	Athletics	1971
215	Werner Proft	Germany	Hockey	1901
216	Maryna Proskurina	Ukraine	Gymnastics	1985
217	Fritz Prossinag	Austria	Athletics	1930
218	Peter Pucher	Slovakia	Ice Hockey	1974
219	Alfred Püls	Austria	Ice Hockey	1933
220	Marina Pylayeva	Unified Team, Russia	Short Track Speed Skating	1966
221	Jose Ramirez	United States	Boxing	1992
222	Ibrahim Rashwan	Egypt	Volleyball	1978
223	Enrique Rettberg	Argentina	Fencing	1918
224	Edwin Roberts	Trinidad and Tobago	Athletics	1941
225	Douglas Robinson	Great Britain	Cricket	1864	1937
226	Héctor Rodríguez	Cuba	Judo	1951
227	Lisa Rohde	United States	Rowing	1955
228	Ivan Ruben	Denmark	Fencing	1917	1986
229	Pat Rupp	United States	Ice Hockey	1942	2006
230	Cindy Ryder	United States	Rowing	1966
231	Nijolė Sabaitė	Soviet Union	Athletics	1950
232	Jacinto Sabinal	Mexico	Athletics	1942
233	Veikko Salminen	Finland	Modern Pentathlon, Fencing	1945
234	Tetiana Samolenko-Dorovskykh	Soviet Union, Unified Team	Athletics	1961
235	Pete Sampras	United States	Tennis	1971
236	Alberto Sánchez	Spain	Canoeing	1969
237	Dietmar Schauerhammer	East Germany	Bobsleigh	1955
238	Jacqueline Schneider	Switzerland	Diving	1972
239	John Sedgewick	Great Britain	Shooting	1873
240	Siegfried Seibold	West Germany	Wrestling	1959
241	Muzaffer Selçuk	Turkey	Cross Country Skiing	1961
242	Stanislav Selyanin	Soviet Union	Speed Skating	1936
243	Alberto Senigagliesi	Italy	Alpine Skiing	1970
244	Rudolf Seres	Hungary	Shooting	1945
245	Martin Šetlík	Czechoslovakia	Handball	1969
246	George Shaw	United States	Athletics	1931	1988
247	Ciara Sheehy	Ireland	Athletics	1980
248	Kyoji Shinohara	Japan	Boxing	1949
249	Aleksandr Sidelnikov	Soviet Union	Ice Hockey	1950	2003
250	Jaroslav Šifer	Yugoslavia	Football	1895	1982
251	Henrik Sillem	Netherlands	Shooting	1866	1907
252	Esko Silvennoinen	Finland	Hockey	1931
253	Sherone Simpson	Jamaica	Athletics	1984
254	Gurdev Singh	India	Hockey	1933
255	Baljit Singh Saini	India	Hockey	1976
256	Austra Skujytė	Lithuania	Athletics	1979
257	Ray Smith	Australia	Athletics	1929	2010
258	Carlo Solveni	Italy	Bobsleigh	1897
259	Léontine Stevens	Belgium	Athletics	1907
260	Tony Stiles	Canada	Ice Hockey	1959
261	Tim Stockdale	Great Britain	Equestrianism	1964
262	Cal Strong	United States	Water Polo	1907	2001
263	Esther Stroy	United States	Athletics	1953
264	Pavel Svojanovský	Czechoslovakia	Rowing	1943
265	Patrick Sweeney	Great Britain	Rowing	1952
266	Zoltán Szarka	Hungary	Football	1942
267	Karolina Szczepaniak	Poland	Swimming	1992
268	Anikó Szebenszky	Hungary	Athletics	1965
269	Peter Szmidt	Canada	Swimming	1961
270	Katarzyna Szotyńska	Poland	Sailing	1980
271	Dick Tayler	New Zealand	Athletics	1948
272	Sheila Taylor-Carey	Great Britain	Athletics	1946
273	Amir Temraz	Egypt	Rowing	1977
274	Hermann Teuber	Germany	Art Competitions	1894	1985
275	Hans Theilig	Germany	Handball	1914	1976
276	Leni Thurner	Austria	Luge	1938
277	Viorica Ţigău	Romania	Athletics	1979
278	Fernando Tiscareño	Mexico	Basketball	1945
279	Souksavanh Tonsacktheva	Laos	Athletics	1988
280	Dmitry Torlopov	Kazakhstan	Canoeing	1977
281	Zoltán Török	Hungary	Rowing	1899	1970
282	Randolph Toussaint	Guyana	Cycling	1955
283	Tsai Lee-Chiao	Chinese Taipei	Athletics	1962
284	Laura Turner	Great Britain	Athletics	1982
285	Regilio Tuur	Netherlands	Boxing	1967
286	Conny van Bentum	Netherlands	Swimming	1965
287	Herman van den Eerenbeemt	Netherlands	Rowing	1962
288	Diane van der Plaats	Netherlands	Swimming	1971
289	Tejay van Garderen	United States	Cycling	1988
290	Lilyana Vaseva	Bulgaria	Rowing	1955
291	Carlos Véliz	Cuba	Athletics	1987
292	Ede Virág-Ébner	Hungary	Wrestling	1912	1948
293	Roman Volodkov	Ukraine	Diving	1973
294	Georg von Boisman	Sweden	Modern Pentathlon	1910	1985
295	Friedrich von Rochow	Germany	Equestrianism	1881	1945
296	Hugo Vondřejc	Czechoslovakia	Water Polo	1910
297	Bengt Waller	Sweden	Sailing	1935
298	Wang Lei	China	Basketball	1986
299	Kazunari Watanabe	Japan	Cycling	1983
300	Ture Wersäll	Sweden	Tug-Of-War	1883	1965
301	Even Wetten	Norway	Speed Skating	1982
302	Hayley Wickenheiser	Canada	Ice Hockey, Softball	1978
303	Avis Willington	Great Britain	Swimming	1956
304	Lynette Woodard	United States	Basketball	1959
305	Taryn Woods	Australia	Water Polo	1975
306	Barbara Wysoczańska	Poland	Fencing	1949
307	Dimitar Yakimov	Bulgaria	Football	1941
308	Yan Yinhua	China	Cycling	1968
309	Rashidi Yekini	Nigeria	Football	1962	2012
310	Lars Ylander	Sweden	Athletics	1928	2010
311	Yosif Yosifov	Bulgaria	Football	1932
312	Mark Zabel	Germany	Canoeing	1973
313	Jaromír Zeman	Bohemia	Tennis	1886
314	Zhang Miao	China	Cycling	1988
315	Aleksandar Ðurić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Canoeing	1970
316	Østen Østensen	Norway	Shooting	1878	1939
317	Einar Þorvarðarson	Iceland	Handball	1957

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