List of Famous people born in October

Matthew Nicholas Biondi is an American former competition swimmer, eleven-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder in five events. Biondi competed in the Summer Olympic Games in 1984, 1988 and 1992, winning a total of eleven medals. During his career, he set three individual world records in the 50-meter freestyle and four in the 100-meter freestyle.

Helmuth von Pannwitz was a German general who was a cavalry officer during the First and the Second World Wars. Later he became a Lieutenant General of the Wehrmacht, a SS-Obergruppenführer of the Waffen-SS, and Feldataman of the XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps. In 1947 he was tried for war crimes under Ukase 43 by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, sentenced to death on 16 January 1947 and executed in Lefortovo Prison the same day. He was rehabilitated by a military prosecutor in Moscow in April 1996. In June 2001, however, the reversal of the conviction of Pannwitz was overturned and his conviction was reinstated.

Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American composer best known for his many film scores. In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous classics including The Player, The Shawshank Redemption, Cinderella Man, American Beauty, The Green Mile, In the Bedroom, Angels in America, Finding Nemo, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, WALL-E, the James Bond films Skyfall, Spectre, and the war film 1917.

Jessica Hull is an Australian distance runner who won 3 consecutive junior Australian Athletics Championships in 2013–2015. Hull set the Australian and Oceanian indoor 1500 meters records and the Australian 5000 meter record. She graduated from the University of Oregon, where she earned 7 All-American honors and was a 4 time NCAA Champion.

Renae Lawrence is an Australian woman who was convicted in Indonesia for drug trafficking as a member of the Bali Nine.

Bilal Sonses is a Turkish pop music singer-songwriter.

Maya Ying Lin is an American architect and sculptor. In 1981, while an undergraduate at Yale University, she achieved national recognition when she won a national design competition for the planned Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Camila de Paula Brait is a female international volleyball player from Frutal, Brazil, who plays as a libero. She currently defends Sollys/Osasco and represents the Brazilian national team.

Christian "Blacky" Schwarzer is a now-retired professional German handball player and a member of the 2004 Olympic silver medal-winning Germany men's national handball team.

Grigory Aleksandrovich Antipenko is a Russian film and theater actor.