Olympic Athletes Born on August 5

August 4 ▪ August 5 ▪ August 6 ▪

359 Athletes

Rk	Athlete	Country	Sport	Born	Died
1	Mamdouh Abdelrehim	Egypt	Volleyball	1989
2	Charles Adamu	Ghana	Boxing	1977
3	Vladimir Aïtoff	France	Rugby	1879	1963
4	Meryem Akdağ	Turkey	Athletics	1992
5	Bakhtiyar Akhmedov	Russia	Wrestling	1987
6	Riyadh Al-Mustafa	Bahrain	Athletics	1975
7	Barakat Al-Sharji	Oman	Athletics	1967
8	Jahad Abdullah Al-Sheikh	Oman	Athletics	1972
9	Håkan Algotsson	Sweden	Ice Hockey	1966
10	Mario Álvarez	Dominican Republic	Table Tennis	1960
11	Takamasa Anai	Japan	Judo	1984
12	Dionysios Angelopoulos	Greece	Rowing	1992
13	Fouad Aref	Syria	Football	1954
14	Fernando Arlete	Guinea Bissau	Athletics	1979
15	Amy Atkinson	Guam	Athletics	1989
16	Verners Auls	Latvia	Figure Skating	1889
17	Eslam Awad	Egypt	Volleyball	1976
18	Célia Aymonier	France	Cross Country Skiing	1991
19	Louis Baillon	Great Britain	Hockey	1881	1965
20	Mahmoud Balah	Syria	Wrestling	1942
21	Gábor Balogh	Hungary	Modern Pentathlon	1976
22	Félix Balyu	Belgium	Football	1891	1971
23	Laure Barthelemy	France	Cross Country Skiing	1988
24	Armando Bauche	Mexico	Sailing	1952
25	Mario Becerril	Mexico	Equestrianism	1917
26	Enrique Beckles	Argentina	Athletics	1927
27	Adriano Bee	Italy	Bobsleigh	1952
28	Annemiek Bekkering	Netherlands	Sailing	1991
29	Ole Christian Bendixen	Norway	Sailing	1947
30	Johnny Bent	United States	Ice Hockey	1908	2004
31	Eric Bernotas	United States	Skeleton	1971
32	Louis Bertorelle	France	Basketball	1932	2012
33	Ryan Bertrand	Great Britain	Football	1989
34	William Berwald	United States	Gymnastics	1874	1963
35	Daniel Biksadský	Slovakia	Canoeing	1978
36	Melissa Bishop	Canada	Athletics	1988
37	Håvard Bjerkeli	Norway	Cross Country Skiing	1977
38	Jessica Blaszka	Netherlands	Wrestling	1992
39	Gábor Bodó	Hungary	Volleyball	1941	2011
40	Elmer Boeseke	United States	Polo	1895	1963
41	Ottó Boros	Hungary	Water Polo	1929	1988
42	Herb Brooks	United States	Ice Hockey	1937	2003
43	Ivana Bursová	Czech Republic	Synchronized Swimming	1977
44	Ivan Čaklec	Yugoslavia	Gymnastics	1932
45	Gabriel Calvo	Spain	Gymnastics	1955
46	Ricardo Cardoso	Brazil	Judo	1963	1991
47	Giovanni Cazzulani	Italy	Cycling	1909	1983
48	Ilhami Çene	Turkey	Fencing	1909
49	Henry Chaney	Great Britain	Shooting	1882	1919
50	Chen Ding	China	Athletics	1992
51	Laura Chiesa	Italy	Fencing	1971
52	Petre Ciarnău	Romania	Wrestling	1943
53	Laurent Ciman	Belgium	Football	1985
54	Giuseppe Cindolo	Italy	Athletics	1945
55	Benjamin Compaoré	France	Athletics	1987
56	Gail Cort	Canada	Rowing	1956
57	Jason Culina	Australia	Football	1980
58	Sergio D'Asnasch	Italy	Athletics	1934
59	Eliana da Costa	Brazil	Volleyball	1964
60	Howard Davies	Great Britain	Athletics	1944
61	Enosh Depthios	Indonesia	Weightlifting	1971
62	Vitaly Derbenyov	Belarus	Weightlifting	1976
63	Robert Desmettre	France	Water Polo	1901	1936
64	Lucien Didier	Luxembourg	Cycling	1950
65	Ding Jilian	China	Swimming	1963
66	Adja Marieme Diop	Senegal	Judo	1977
67	Vicky Dixon	Great Britain	Hockey	1959
68	Nikša Dobud	Croatia	Water Polo	1985
69	Hermann Dodojacek	Austria	Weightlifting	1938
70	Herman Donners	Belgium	Water Polo	1888	1915
71	Philipp Dotzer	Germany	Water Polo	1926
72	Dick Dougherty	United States	Ice Hockey	1932	2016
73	Marinella Draghetti	Italy	Basketball	1961
74	Yury Dumchev	Soviet Union	Athletics	1958	2016
75	Toni Eichholzer	Austria	Boxing	1903
76	Moukhtar Hussain El-Gamal	United Arab Republic, Egypt	Water Polo	1935
77	Marja Elfman	Sweden	Freestyle Skiing	1972
78	Julio César Enciso	Paraguay	Football	1974
79	Walter Engelmann	Germany	Gymnastics	1888
80	Hannah Ertel	Germany	Judo	1978
81	John Evans	United States	Canoeing	1949
82	Kathryn Evans	Great Britain	Swimming	1981
83	Lynne Evans	Great Britain	Archery	1948
84	Patrick Ewing	United States	Basketball	1962
85	Lorrie Fair	United States	Football	1978
86	Kelsi Fairbrother	Great Britain	Handball	1989
87	Tamás Faragó	Hungary	Water Polo	1952
88	Saleem Farooqi	Pakistan	Cycling	1940
89	Fei Fengji	China	Shooting	1982
90	Nicholas Fekete	Canada	Modern Pentathlon	1962
91	Feng Shanshan	China	Golf	1989
92	Séraphin Ferrer	France	Boxing	1931	2001
93	Gavin Fingleson	Australia	Baseball	1976
94	Rosamund Fletcher	Great Britain	Art Competitions	1908	1993
95	Thord Flodqvist	Sweden	Ice Hockey	1926	1988
96	Rafael Fortún	Cuba	Athletics	1919	1982
97	Hugues Fournel	Canada	Canoeing	1988
98	Helena Fromm	Germany	Taekwondo	1987
99	Mizuki Fujii	Japan	Badminton	1988
100	Moeko Fujimoto	Japan	Ice Hockey	1992
101	Takeshi Fujiwara	El Salvador	Athletics	1985
102	Bernd Gabriel	West Germany	Wrestling	1961
103	Gianfranco Gaspari	Italy	Bobsleigh	1938
104	László Gellér	Hungary	Ski Jumping	1944
105	Mihály Gellér	Hungary	Ski Jumping	1947
106	León Genuth	Argentina	Wrestling	1931
107	Marco Gerini	Italy	Water Polo	1971
108	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	Athletics	1978
109	Hedi Gharbi	Tunisia	Sailing	1969
110	Csaba Giczy	Hungary	Canoeing	1945
111	Nan Gindele	United States	Athletics	1910	1992
112	Jarosław Godek	Poland	Rowing	1981
113	Franklin Gómez	Puerto Rico	Wrestling	1986
114	Stefanie Gottschlich	Germany	Football	1978
115	Stéphane Gourichon	France	Canoeing	1977
116	Arthur Grady	Great Britain	Water Polo	1922	1995
117	Martina Granström	Sweden	Swimming	1991
118	Eileen Grench	Panama	Fencing	1986
119	Paul Grubenthal	Austria	Gymnastics	1932
120	Hans Gruhne	Germany	Rowing	1988
121	Erik Guay	Canada	Alpine Skiing	1981
122	Jean-Jacques Guissart	France	Rowing	1927	2008
123	Guo Dandan	China	Freestyle Skiing	1977
124	Pierre Guy	France	Shooting	1931
125	Han Ji-Hwan	South Korea	Judo	1977
126	May Britt Hartwell	Norway	Cycling	1968
127	Frankie Hejduk	United States	Football	1974
128	Steven Hinton	Australia	Baseball	1971
129	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	West Germany	Athletics	1951
130	Hermannus Höfte	Netherlands	Rowing	1884	1961
131	Elin Holmlöv	Sweden	Ice Hockey	1987
132	Arkadiy Holovchenko	Soviet Union	Swimming	1936
133	Klára Horváth-Csik	Hungary	Handball	1947
134	Hwang Seong-Beom	South Korea	Boxing	1975
135	Mohamed Mahmoud Ibrahim	United Arab Republic, Egypt	Weightlifting	1937
136	Jawdat Jabra	Syria	Wrestling	1948
137	Barton Jahncke	United States	Sailing	1939
138	Michael Jamieson	Great Britain	Swimming	1988
139	Daniel Jasinski	Germany	Athletics	1989
140	Valdivel Jayalakshmi	India	Athletics	1971
141	Dora Jelínková	Czechoslovakia	Volleyball	1949	2007
142	Jeon Dae-Je	South Korea	Wrestling	1965
143	Soraya Jiménez	Mexico	Weightlifting	1977	2013
144	Elin Johansson	Sweden	Taekwondo	1990
145	Brian Johns	Canada	Swimming	1982
146	Francis Johnson	United States	Basketball	1910	1997
147	Lolo Jones	United States	Athletics, Bobsleigh	1982
148	Joana Juárez	Spain	Gymnastics	1980
149	Yekaterina Kabeshova	Russia	Volleyball	1986
150	Salomon Kalou	Cote d'Ivoire	Football	1985
151	Eino Kalpala	Finland	Alpine Skiing	1926
152	Rachot Kanjanavanit	Thailand	Sailing	1924
153	Ella Karachkova	Russia	Badminton	1978
154	Thomas Karalogos	Greece	Water Polo	1951
155	Valery Karpov	Russia	Ice Hockey	1971	2014
156	Karlo Kasap	Yugoslavia, Canada	Wrestling	1954
157	Faazil Kassam	Canada	Table Tennis	1985
158	Zhanarbek Kenzheyev	Kyrgyzstan	Wrestling	1985
159	Abdel Hamid Khamis	Egypt	Athletics	1944
160	Barbar Ali Khan	Pakistan	Boxing	1963
161	Youssef Khan	India	Football	1937	2006
162	Kharkhuugiin Enkh-Amar	Mongolia	Boxing	1992
163	Khoo Chong Beng	Malaysia	Athletics	1948
164	Andrea Kilday	New Zealand	Taekwondo	1982
165	Andreas Kilingaridis	Greece	Canoeing	1976	2013
166	Kim Su-Gwan	South Korea	Baseball	1972
167	Erika Komura	Japan	Synchronized Swimming	1982
168	Keitaro Konnai	Japan	Swimming	1978
169	Vladimir Konyakhin	Soviet Union	Shooting	1943
170	Károly Korbel	Hungary	Judo	1971
171	Djétenan Kouadio	Cote d'Ivoire	Athletics	1960
172	Anuj Kumar	India	Wrestling	1980
173	Robert Laboubée	Belgium	Speed Skating	1927
174	Mihaela Lăcătuș	Romania	Boxing	1981
175	Étienne Laisné	France	Athletics	1905	1997
176	Darren Lange	Australia	Swimming	1971
177	Jean Laudet	France	Canoeing	1930
178	Valerie Lawrence	Australia	Athletics	1936
179	Lee Seung-Gyun	South Korea	Shooting	1932
180	Jean Lessard	Canada	Alpine Skiing	1932	2013
181	Toni Leviste	Philippines	Equestrianism	1973
182	Li Won-Ho	North Korea	Short Track Speed Skating	1972
183	Miguel Llaneras	Cuba	Basketball	1926
184	Lo Kwok-Tai	Chinese Taipei	Football	1929
185	Axel Fredrik Londen	Finland	Shooting	1859	1928
186	Ron Lord	Australia	Football	1929
187	Romeu Luchiari Filho	Brazil	Shooting	1953
188	Andreas Lupzig	Germany	Ice Hockey	1968
189	Ma Yibo	China	Hockey	1980
190	Jean-Pierre Malavasi	France	Boxing	1949
191	Ihor Maliar	Ukraine	Figure Skating	1971
192	Manol Manolov	Bulgaria	Football	1925	2008
193	Václav Mára	Czechoslovakia	Canoeing	1943
194	Anca Măroiu	Romania	Fencing	1983
195	Juan Ángel Martini, Jr.	Argentina	Shooting	1945
196	José Martins	Brazil	Boxing	1931
197	Boitumelo Masilo	Botswana	Athletics	1995
198	Takashi Masuda	Japan	Basketball	1940
199	Ennio Mattarelli	Italy	Shooting	1928
200	Margaret Matthews	United States	Athletics	1935
201	Fleur Maxwell	Luxembourg	Figure Skating	1988
202	Jack McCartan	United States	Ice Hockey	1935
203	Perry McGillivray	United States	Swimming, Water Polo	1893	1944
204	Annika Mehlhorn	Germany	Swimming	1983
205	Maren Meinert	Germany	Football	1973
206	Jude Menezes	India	Hockey	1971
207	Rick Merlo	United States	Water Polo	1982
208	Paul Midgley	Canada	Swimming	1957
209	Galina Mishenina	Soviet Union	Rowing	1950
210	Rosi Mittermaier	West Germany	Alpine Skiing	1950
211	George Moraes	Uganda	Hockey	1943
212	Henri Moreau	France	Boxing	1945
213	Oreste Moricca	Italy	Fencing	1891	1984
214	Moses Mosuhli	Lesotho	Athletics	1981
215	Aleksandr Mozhayev	Soviet Union	Fencing	1958
216	Frank Mulder	Netherlands	Rowing	1946
217	Fernando Muñagorri	Spain	Athletics	1907	1959
218	Mai Murakami	Japan	Gymnastics	1996
219	Zachée N'Dock	Cameroon	Wrestling	1954
220	Fabrizio Nassi	Italy	Volleyball	1951
221	Antonio Nava	Spain	Basketball	1948
222	Uwe Neupert	East Germany	Wrestling	1957
223	Stephen Newbold	Bahamas	Athletics	1994
224	Anicka Newell	Canada	Athletics	1993
225	Lynn Nightingale	Canada	Figure Skating	1956
226	Kaysar Nurmaganbetov	Kazakhstan	Canoeing	1977
227	Wesley O'Brien	Australia	Wrestling	1948
228	Cindy Ofili	Great Britain	Athletics	1994
229	Rosevitha Okou	Cote d'Ivoire	Athletics	1986
230	Ovidiu Olteanu	Romania	Athletics	1970
231	Isao Ono	Japan	Ice Hockey	1933
232	Kyoko Oshima	Japan	Gymnastics	1986
233	Dave Ottley	Great Britain	Athletics	1955
234	Konkiswinde Hanatou Ouelogo	Burkina Faso	Judo	1978
235	Maria Cristina Pacifici	Italy	Swimming	1945
236	Daniil Pakhomov	Russia	Swimming	1998
237	Sara Papi	Italy	Rhythmic Gymnastics	1980
238	Jean-Pierre Paranteau	France	Cycling	1944
239	Rodney Pattisson	Great Britain	Sailing	1943
240	Hartmann Pauly	United States	Equestrianism	1893	1966
241	Jiří Pecháček	Czechoslovakia	Equestrianism	1943
242	Niels Pedersen	Denmark	Athletics	1888	1968
243	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	Swimming	1988
244	Gaël Pencréach	France	Athletics	1977
245	Bob Perew	United States	Rowing	1923	1999
246	Gustavo Pérez	Uruguay	Rowing	1935
247	Oleksandr Petriv	Ukraine	Shooting	1974
248	Raymond Pitman	Bermuda	Sailing	1951
249	Marcin Pobuta	Poland	Hockey	1975
250	Olga Podchufarova	Russia	Biathlon	1992
251	Tomasz Polewka	Poland	Swimming	1994
252	Estavana Polman	Netherlands	Handball	1992
253	Viktoriya Polyayeva	Kyrgyzstan	Swimming	1980
254	Jacques Pousaz	Switzerland	Ice Hockey	1947
255	Paul Quirke	Ireland	Athletics	1963
256	Darko Radomirović	Serbia and Montenegro	Athletics	1977
257	Heritovo Rakotomanga	Madagascar	Boxing	1963
258	Veikko Räsänen	Finland	Cross Country Skiing	1928	2003
259	Fetra Ratsimiziva	Madagascar	Judo	1991
260	Patrick Reed	United States	Golf	1990
261	Christy Ren	Hong Kong	Short Track Speed Skating	1983
262	Tiny Reniers	Netherlands	Archery	1947
263	Cristián Reyes	Chile	Athletics	1986
264	Eugène Richez	France	Archery	1864
265	Jürgen Richter	Austria	Diving	1970
266	Alfred Rieck	Germany	Rowing	1914	2000
267	Rubén Rodríguez	Puerto Rico	Basketball	1953
268	Jens Erik Roepstorff	Denmark	Handball	1960
269	André Rolet	France	Weightlifting	1901
270	Nikola Rosić	Serbia	Volleyball	1984
271	Roman Rożek	Poland	Boxing	1942
272	Alexandra Rusu-Stoian	Romania	Biathlon	1983
273	Ulla Salzgeber	Germany	Equestrianism	1958
274	István Sárkány	Hungary	Gymnastics	1913	2009
275	Hossein Saveh Shemshaki	Iran	Alpine Skiing	1985
276	Essam Sayed	Egypt	Archery	1967
277	Trygve Schjøtt	Norway	Sailing	1882	1960
278	Christoph Schmid	Switzerland	Shooting	1982
279	Mike Schneeberger	United States	Curling	1962
280	Hans Schnitger	Netherlands	Hockey	1915	2013
281	Franz Schönfels	Austria	Water Polo	1913	2005
282	Hans Schuller	Austria	Ice Hockey	1953
283	Larry Scott	Canada	Sailing	1947
284	Robert Scott	Australia	Rowing	1969
285	Helga Seidler	East Germany	Athletics	1949
286	Shen Jianqiang	China	Swimming	1965
287	Antoine Sibierski	France	Football	1974
288	Ann Simons	Belgium	Judo	1980
289	Erik Simonsen	Denmark	Athletics	1915	2000
290	Dharamvir Singh	India	Hockey	1990
291	Karlheinz Smieszek	West Germany	Shooting	1948
292	John Smith	United States	Athletics	1950
293	Ayman Abdel Hamid Soliman	Egypt	Handball	1966
294	Klára Soós	Hungary	Athletics	1933
295	Adrian Sornoza	Ecuador	Athletics	1992
296	Peter Soteropoulos	Greece	Baseball	1981
297	Sho Sotodate	Japan	Swimming	1991
298	Ellen Sprunger	Switzerland	Athletics	1986
299	Anton Šťastný	Czechoslovakia	Ice Hockey	1959
300	Boris Stolyarov	Soviet Union	Athletics	1932	2009
301	Rolf Storm	Sweden	Boxing	1930	2000
302	Erika Strößenreuther	Germany	Athletics	1938
303	Wirmandi Sugriat	Indonesia	Swimming	1971
304	Frithjof Sælen	Norway	Gymnastics	1892	1975
305	Sverre Sørsdal	Norway	Boxing	1900	1996
306	David Tabak	Israel	Athletics	1927	2012
307	Itsuo Takanezawa	Japan	Athletics	1951
308	Aya Takeuchi	Japan	Rugby Sevens	1986
309	David Tarsey	Great Britain	Diving	1937	2015
310	Tetsuya Tateno	Japan	Athletics	1991
311	Charles Tatham	Great Britain	Jeu De Paume	1864	1925
312	Giel ten Bosch	Netherlands	Baseball	1973
313	Frank Terletzki	East Germany	Football	1950
314	Robert Thorens	Switzerland	Sailing	1908
315	Brendan Todd	Australia	Sailing	1973
316	Freddie Tomlins	Great Britain	Figure Skating	1919	1943
317	Ágnes Torma	Hungary	Volleyball	1951
318	Abdou Traoré	Mali	Football	1981
319	Reinhard Tritscher	Austria	Alpine Skiing	1946
320	Bruce Turner	New Zealand	Hockey	1930	2010
321	Laszlo Ubori	Yugoslavia	Athletics	1951
322	Fernando Urdapilleta	Argentina	Equestrianism	1924	2013
323	Ewout van Asbeck	Netherlands	Hockey	1956
324	Jean Van Den Bosch	Belgium	Cycling	1898	1985
325	Ighli Vannucchi	Italy	Football	1977
326	Bob Verbeeck	Belgium	Athletics	1960
327	Homelo Vi	Tonga	Athletics	1967
328	Harvey Villela	Brazil	Shooting	1898	1974
329	Oiva Virtanen	Finland	Basketball	1929	1992
330	Petr Vitásek	Czech Republic	Rowing	1981
331	Peter Vogel	Switzerland	Cycling	1939
332	Laura Waem	Belgium	Gymnastics	1997
333	Wang Na	China	Hockey	1994
334	Patricia Wartusch	Austria	Tennis	1978
335	Wei Ning	China	Shooting	1982
336	John Whitaker	Great Britain	Equestrianism	1955
337	Becky Wilczak	United States	Luge	1980
338	Graham Windeatt	Australia	Swimming	1954
339	Jerry Winholtz	United States	Wrestling	1874	1962
340	Gary Winram	Australia	Swimming	1936
341	Angie Winstanley-Smith	Great Britain	Water Polo	1985
342	Claire Wright	Great Britain	Trampolining	1979
343	Wu Yiwen	China	Synchronized Swimming	1986
344	Magali Yañez	Mexico	Athletics	1981
345	William Yates	Great Britain	Athletics	1880	1967
346	Oleksandr Yatsenko	Ukraine	Boxing	1979
347	Oleksiy Yehorov	Ukraine	Water Polo	1964
348	Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu	Japan	Wrestling	1986
349	Frank Young	Canada	Rowing	1929
350	Yu Seung-Min	South Korea	Table Tennis	1982
351	Yun Nam-Jin	South Korea	Fencing	1962
352	Darryl Yung	Canada	Badminton	1972
353	Farid Zablith Filho	Brazil	Swimming	1942
354	Antoni Zajkowski	Poland	Judo	1948
355	Denys Zavhorodniy	Ukraine	Swimming	1979
356	Kathrin Zettel	Austria	Alpine Skiing	1986
357	Zhang Yousheng	China	Volleyball	1956
358	Gabi Zingre	Switzerland	Alpine Skiing	1970
359	Ernst zu Hohenlohe	Austria	Fencing	1891	1947

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