List of Famous people born in October
Anthony Fantano
Anthony Fantano is an American music critic, YouTuber and internet personality known for his music-related YouTube channel The Needle Drop and its companion website. His website and YouTube videos discuss and review a variety of music genres, including, but not limited to pop, hip hop, rock, metal, indie, electronic, folk, jazz, and experimental.
Matt Hamill
Matthew Stanley Hamill is an American mixed martial artist and wrestler who has competed in the Light Heavyweight division of the UFC. He is a three-time NCAA Division III National Champion in wrestling while attending the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, New York. Additionally, Hamill has a silver medal in Greco-Roman Wrestling and a gold medal in Freestyle Wrestling from the 2001 Summer Deaflympics. He is the only man to defeat Jon Jones.
Charles A. Flynn
Charles A. Flynn is a United States Army lieutenant general who serves as Deputy Chief of Staff G3/5/7 since June 2019. He is the younger brother of Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn.
Momona Kasahara
Angerme , formerly Smileage , is a Japanese idol girl group from the musical collective Hello! Project, which originally consisted of four former Hello! Pro Egg members that left Egg in 2010 and became full-time members of Hello! Project. In 2010, they won the Japan Record Award for Best New Artist. In 2011, five new girls were added to the group as part of the second generation, with two being former Egg members and three new girls. In 2014, three new members joined the group as third generation members.
Isaiah Todd
Isaiah Todd is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Listed at 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 m) and 206 pounds (93 kg), he plays the power forward position. He was a consensus five-star recruit and one of the best power forwards in the 2020 class. A former Michigan commit, Todd chose to forgo his college eligibility to join the Ignite. He finished his high school career at the Word of God Christian Academy in Raleigh, North Carolina.
James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler is an American author, social critic, public speaker, and blogger. He is best known for his books The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development, The Long Emergency (2005), and Too Much Magic (2012). In The Long Emergency he imagines peak oil and oil depletion resulting in the end of industrialized society, forcing Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian communities. In World Made by Hand he branches into a science fiction depiction of this future world.
Maneet Chauhan
Maneet Chauhan is an Indian American chef and television personality of Punjabi origin. Previously the Executive Chef of several notable restaurants in Chicago, Nashville, and New York, she is featured as a judge on Chopped on the Food Network. She has appeared on The Next Iron Chef, on The View on ABC, Iron Chef America, the Today show on NBC, and as a judge on the finale of Worst Cooks in America on Food Network. Chef Maneet Chauhan was invited by President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for the Annual Easter Egg Roll Hunt 2014 to the White House. She is also an invited member of Indiaspora that hosted 100 influential Indian American leaders as part of its first Forum in September 2012. The three-day Forum events aimed to energize the community and provide a voice with which it articulated collective goals. Chef Chauhan, a Culinary Institute of America alumna, delivered the keynote for the associate degree commencement on the college's Hyde Park campus and also received a recognition of "Distinguished Service to the Foodservice and Hospitality Industry" as the Ambassador of the Culinary Institute of America.
Shigeru Muroi
Shigeru Muroi is a Japanese actress. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 19th Hochi Film Awards for Izakaya Yūrei.
Yao Chun-yao
Yao Chun-yao or Jack Yao is a Taiwanese actor and television host. He is best known for his role in the critically acclaimed 2010 Taiwanese film Au Revoir Taipei, which won the NETPAC Award at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival. He is also known for hosting the Taiwanese long-running television show Stories in Taiwan. He won Best Host for a Travel Program at the 51st Golden Bell Awards.
Mao Buyi
Wang Weijia, better known by his stage name Mao Bu Yi is a Chinese singer-songwriter from Heilongjiang who rose to prominence for winning the all-male singing competition The Coming One (明日之子) in 2017. He released his debut album Perfect Day (平凡的一天) in 2018, and achieved two No. 1's on the Billboard China singles chart in 2019. In 2020, he released his second debut album Xiao Wang (小王). He also held an online concert in the same year.