List of Famous people born in October

Brigadier-General Ratu Epeli Ganilau, MC, MSD, is a former Fijian military officer and a retired politician. His career previously encompassed such roles as Commander of the Fiji Military Forces and Chairman of the Bose Levu Vakaturaga . On 15 January 2007 he was sworn in as Minister for Fijian Affairs in the interim Cabinet formed in the wake of the military coup which deposed the Qarase government on 5 December 2006.

Dieter Fensel is a German researcher in the field of formal languages and the semantic web. He is University Professor at the University of Innsbruck, where he directs the Semantic Technologies Institute Innsbruck, a research center associated with the university.

Daniel Julius Bernstein is an American German mathematician, cryptologist, and computer programmer. He is a professor in the department of mathematics and computer science at the Eindhoven University of Technology, as well as a Research Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Carl Frederick Mengeling is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Lansing, Michigan from 1996 to 2008.