List of Famous people born in October

Sharon Kwan is a Taiwanese American Mandopop singer. In June 2011, Sharon participated in the first season of Taiwan's China Television (CTV)'s (中視) star search show, Chinese Million Star 1 (華人星光大道), which was the Taiwanese equivalence of American Idol and won the overall champion on January 8, 2012. She released her first album on August 24, 2012, titled Home Girl, and became the first female student of Taiwanese Golden Melody Award-winning singer-songwriter David Tao. In 2015 Sharon took part in the fourth season of the Chinese talent show The Voice of China. She ended up being placed in the top four in team Jay Chou.

Alan Stubbs is an English football coach and former player who was most recently manager of Scottish Premiership club St Mirren. Stubbs played as a centre-back for Bolton Wanderers, Celtic, Everton, Sunderland and Derby County until his retirement, due to a knee injury, in August 2008. Stubbs then worked as a coach for Everton, and started his management career with Hibernian in 2014. He led Hibernian to a Scottish Cup victory in 2016, then had a brief tenure at Rotherham United. After working as a pundit for BT Sport, he was appointed St Mirren manager in June 2018.

Rowan David Oakes is an English actor and environmentalist. He is best known for his roles in the series The Pillars of the Earth, The Borgias, The White Queen and Victoria and for his discursive Natural History podcast, Trees A Crowd.

Kombarana Ganapathy Bopaiah is an Indian politician who was also the Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has been appointed as pro tem speaker of the Legislative Assembly by the Governor of the Karnataka.

Katlego Moswane Maboe is a South African TV presenter, singer-songwriter and accountant. He was consecutively awarded Best TV Presenter at the South African Film and Television Awards in 2015 and 2016. He is also known for hosting the morning talk show Expresso on SABC 3 since its inception in 2010.

Adil Hussain is an Indian actor who has worked in Indian cinema, including art house cinema and mainstream Bollywood, as well as international cinema, in films such as The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Life of Pi. He received National Film Awards at the 2017 National Film Awards for Hotel Salvation and Maj Rati Keteki. He has starred in English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Norwegian and French films.

Ruslan Alekhno is a Russian and Belarusian singer who rose to popularity after winning Narodniy Artist – 2 translated as People's Artist-2, the Russian version of Pop Idol.

Rodrigo Manuel Izecson dos Santos Leite, known as Digão, is a Brazilian retired professional footballer who played as a central defender.

Linval Clement Joseph is an American football defensive tackle for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at East Carolina. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the second round, 46th overall of the 2010 NFL Draft. He also played for the Minnesota Vikings.

Carl Henrik Zetterberg is a Swedish former professional ice hockey forward. He is best known for playing seventeen seasons with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL).