List of Famous people born in October
Amy Chua
Amy Lynn Chua is an American law professor and writer. She graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. She is the John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Her expertise is in international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School for seven years. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She is also known for her parenting memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. In 2011, she was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people, one of The Atlantic's Brave Thinkers, and one of Foreign Policy's Global Thinkers.
Fiuk
Filipe Kartalian Ayrosa Galvão, better known by his stage name Fiuk is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor. He is better known for his role as Bernardo Oliveira in the seventeenth season of the telenovela Malhação. He started career as a member of the band No Name and later as the lead singer of the band Hori, before starting a solo career. Fiuk was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and is a son of the fellow musician Fábio Júnior and the businesswoman Cristina Kartalian. He has four siblings: half-sister Cléo Pires, Krízia, Tainá and Záion. Besides his acting and musical career, Fiuk is also a drifting pilot. He declared the intention to compete in Japan.
Gail Halvorsen
Colonel Gail Seymour "Hal" Halvorsen is a retired officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber" or "Uncle Wiggly Wings" and gained fame for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949.
Cláudia Abreu
Cláudia Abreu Fonseca is a Brazilian actress. She is married to the Brazilian filmmaker José Henrique Fonseca.
Tsukasa Akimoto
Tsukasa Akimoto is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Adachi, Tokyo and graduate of Daito Bunka University, he was elected for the first time in 2004.
German Sterligov
German Lvovich Sterligov is a Russian businessman.
Ken'ya Wakatsuki
Kenya Wakatsuki is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
Doris Payne
Doris Marie Payne is an American convicted jewel thief.
Lasha Talakhadze
Lasha Talakhadze is a Georgian weightlifter, Olympic Champion, four time World Champion, and four time European Champion competing in the super-heavyweight category. He is a three time winner of the IWF Male Lifter of the Year and the current world record holder in the snatch, the clean and jerk and the total, where his 220 kg snatch and 484 kg total are both all time world records respectively. Because of his consistent tournament success and breaking of numerous world records, he is considered by many to be the greatest super-heavyweight weightlifter of all time.
Daniel Prévost
Daniel Prévost is a French actor, comedian and writer.