List of Famous people born in October

Wynton Learson Marsalis is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won at least nine Grammy Awards, and his Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He is the only musician to win a Grammy Award in jazz and classical during the same year.

Joana Zimmer is a German pop music singer, often compared to Celine Dion or Barry Manilow. Zimmer is blind.

Rodrigo Ernesto Rojas Vade is a Chilean political activist who was elected as a member of the Chilean Constitutional Convention. He became an icon of the 2019 Chilean protests.

Haunani-Kay Trask was a Hawaiian nationalist, educator, political scientist, author, and professor emeritus at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Trask co-wrote and co-produced the award-winning documentary Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation (1993), winning nine different awards in three different countries. Trask helped to establish the Gladys Brandt Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Trask authored two books, Eros and Power: The Promise of Feminist Theory (1984), and From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaiʻi (1993). She also published two books of poetry, Night Is a Sharkskin Drum (1994) and Light in the Crevice Never Seen (1999). Trask developed We Are Not Happy Natives (2002), an educational CD-ROM on the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. In March 2017, Hawaiʻi Magazine recognized her as one of the most influential women in Hawaiian history.

Noboru Kaneko is a Japanese actor who is affiliated with Oscar Promotion. He graduated from the Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science University High School and then from the Department of Architecture in the Faculty of Engineering of the Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science.

Bárbara Raquel Paz is a Brazilian actress, producer, and film director.

Norio Wakamoto is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator affiliated with the Sigma Seven talent agency. He was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and was raised in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from Waseda University.

Michael Hookem is a British politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2014 to 2019.

Christopher Paul Backus is an American actor, director and screenwriter.

Hirofumi Suga may refer to:

• Hirofumi Suga (comedian), Japanese comedian
• Hirofumi Suga, Japanese garden designer and landscape architect