Celebrities born on août 01

Johnny Issaluk is an Inuk actor, athlete, and cultural educator from the small arctic hamlet Igluligaarjuk (also known as Chesterfield Inlet), on the coast of Hudson’s Bay in Nunavut. He grew up traditionally, out on the land, hunting, fishing and camping with his elders, as Inuit have for centuries. Traditional life was juxtaposed with conventional education through Residential Secondary School and Nunavut Arctic College in tourism, guiding and environmental technology. Johnny works with various organizations that address mental health, suicide prevention and healing through counseling and traditional activities. Johnny is also developing a small consulting business, Nurraq Outfitting, which involves public speaking, motivational counseling, land trips, arctic sports demonstrations and all manner of activities that grab his interest. Among those many interests Johnny is a keen volunteer and youth mentor, teaching arctic games and traditional activities at a local daycare and coaching arctic sports at a local gym. One of the youth projects closest to Johnny’s heart is the internationally renowned educational program “Students on Ice” where he has worked with youth from all over the world as an arctic ambassador and spokesman for arctic stewardship. Kajutaijuq is a short film that is part of Inuit legend and part thriller. A hunter attempts to survive in the Arctic wilderness by following teachings passed on to him by his late grandfather. It premiered at the Tiff 2014 and is Johnny’s first dramatic acting role. As an athlete Johnny has been practicing, competing, performing, coaching and teaching Inuit Games for over 20 years. His athletic career has yielded more than 200 medal finishes in regional and national competitions. Recently, he competed at the first ever Beringia Arctic Games, in Chukotka, Russia where he was awarded three gold medals. He is one of the most successful Inuit Games athletes of his generation. Johnny is a recipient of the Diamond Jubilee Medal, and one of the first sixty Canadians to receive the honour. Johnny was recognized for his ongoing contribution to the health and well-being of Nunavummiut. Johnny has five children and lives with his wife, a son and a dog in Iqaluit, Nunavut.

Takehiko Ono (小野武彦) is a Japanese actor. He is also known as Susumu Kuroki (黒木進).

Wang Zheng is a Chinese actor who graduated from the Tianjin Music Academy.

Ann Matyelok Gibbs was a British actor and artistic director of London's Unicorn Theatre. She was the civil partnership of former actor and childrens author Ursula Jones, whom she lived with from 1961 until her death in 2023 at the age of 91.

Veteran character actor Paul Lambert was born in El Paso, Texas, and brought up in Kansas City. He was an Army Air Corps lieutenant in World War II. Using the G.I. Bill, he attended the Actors Lab in Los Angeles and several acting schools in New York. He made his motion picture debut in Spartacus (1960). He began his acting career on the New York stage in the 1950s. His stage credits include a role in the Broadway production of "A Little Night Music". In addition to being an actor, he was also a playwright and stage director, and wrote, directed and acted in his own play, "Interior Hollywood Day". In addition, he was in a record 14 productions of the prestigious Playhouse 90 (1956). Source: IMDB

Aurélien Cotentin, dit Orelsan, né le 1er août 1982 à Alençon (Orne), est un rappeur, chanteur, compositeur, acteur, réalisateur et scénariste français. Il se fait d'abord connaître sur Internet, notamment sur le site Myspace, au moyen de la chanson Saint-Valentin puis perce en 2008 avec le titre Changement. Son premier album, Perdu d'avance, est publié en 2009. Dans le même temps, une polémique éclate autour de la chanson Sale Pute, accusée d'inciter à la violence envers les femmes. L'album est néanmoins un succès public, certifié disque d'or et nommé au prix Constantin. Son deuxième album Le Chant des sirènes, sorti en 2011, est certifié double disque de platine et reçoit deux Victoires de la musique. Avec son ami Gringe, ils forment les Casseurs Flowters dès le début des années 2000. En 2013, ils publient l'album Orelsan et Gringe sont les Casseurs Flowters, qui sera certifié disque de platine. Fin 2015, Orelsan coréalise un film centré sur deux personnes qui font de la musique depuis 10 ans et qui n'ont jamais fini un morceau, Comment c'est loin, dont la bande originale sera aussi certifiée platine. Les deux amis se mettent aussi en scène dans le programme court Bloqués diffusé en 2015-2016 sur Canal+, et sur YouTube où chaque épisode comptabilise plusieurs millions de vues. Ces productions permettent à Orelsan de populariser son personnage de trentenaire perdu et résigné, doté néanmoins d'un esprit créatif et d'un humour décalé. Il est depuis 2016 la voix française de Saitama pour l'adaptation en animé du manga One Punch Man. En 2017, il revient à la musique avec le single Basique qui annonce la sortie de son troisième album solo: La fête est finie. L'album est certifié double disque de diamant et remporte trois Victoires de la musique. Son quatrième album, Civilisation, sort en 2021, annoncé avec le clip de L'Odeur de l'essence. L'album est certifié disque de diamant en 5 mois. C'est l'album le plus rapidement certifié disque de diamant. Il rapporte à Orelsan trois nouvelles Victoires de la musique (Meilleure chanson pour L'Odeur de l'essence, artiste de l'année et création audiovisuelle pour Montre jamais ça à personne). En 2022, il est l'un des gagnants NRJ Music Awards, l'Artiste Masculin Francophone de l’année et remporte la Tournée Francophone. Il remportera une nouvelle fois trois Victoires de la musique en 2023: création audiovisuelle et chanson de l'année pour La Quête, et une troisième pour sa tournée, le «CivilisationTour». Il comptabilise alors 12 Victoires de la musique au total, faisant de lui le troisième artiste en ayant le plus remporté, derrière Alain Bashung et Matthieu Chedid. ... Source: Article "Orelsan" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Adam Hurtig is a Canadian actor.

Amir Aghaei (امیر آقایی) is an actor, born on the 1 August 1970 in Urmia, Iran. He is known for Inja Iran, for which he was nominated at the Action on Film International Film Festival, USA, the award-winning Death Is My Profession (Marg kasb va kare man ast) (2011) and for his participation in the romantic drama 'Saadat Abad' (2011) in the role of Ali.

Naofumi Yamamoto (山本 尚史, Yamamoto Naofumi) is a Japanese professional wrestler and former boxer and mixed martial artist currently signed to All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). Yamamoto started his professional wrestling career under his real name in October 2002 with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he remained until 2007, when he signed with WWE. In 2009, Yamamoto left WWE's developmental territory to join the promotion's main roster under the ring name Yoshi Tatsu (ヨシ・タツ, Yoshi Tatsu). After his June 2014 release from WWE, Yamamoto returned to NJPW the following October, performing under the tweaked ring name Yoshitatsu (ヨシタツ, Yoshitatsu). Following his departure from NJPW in late 2017, Yamamoto became a freelancer, and started working most notably for All Japan Pro Wrestling, who he signed full time for in 2020.

Panos Papadopulos (Greek: Πάνος Παπαδόπουλος; 1 August 1920, in Kerassus, Ottoman Empire – 18 February 2001, in Munich) was a Greek actor.

David Benjamin Wain (born August 1, 1969) is an American comedian, writer, actor and director. He is most widely known for the feature films Role Models and Wet Hot American Summer, the 1990s' sketch comedy series The State and for directing the Adult Swim series Childrens Hospital. Wain was a founding member of Stella, along with Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black.