Robert August

Robert August, born in 1945, is an American surfer and surfboard shaper who is best remembered as one of the two stars of Bruce Brown's 1966 surf documentary The Endless Summer, alongside his friend Mike Hynson. He grew up in Seal Beach, California, where his father, Blackie August, an early surfer, began teaching him the sport when he was six years old. At Huntington Beach High School he served as student body president in his final year, and he later enrolled in the dentistry program at California State Long Beach but left without earning a degree. In 1994 he was involved in the making of The Endless Summer II, in which the surfers Pat O'Connell and Robert Wingnut Weaver retraced the journey that August and Hynson had made thirty years earlier, and he also took part in the film Step into Liquid. By 2023 he had retired from surfing and was living in Southern California.