List of Famous people born in October
Case
Case Woodard, known mononymously as Case, is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. A two-time Grammy Award nominee, he is best known for his late 1990s hits including "Touch Me, Tease Me", "Happily Ever After", "The Best Man", the early 2000's R&B number-one and top five pop hit, "Missing You", and "Livin' It Up" with rapper Ja Rule. The latter two earning him two Grammy Award nominations.
Andrew Capobianco
Andrew Capobianco is an American Olympic diver. In 2021 he qualified with his partner Michael Hixon for the U.S. Olympic Diving Team, competing in the 3m Synchronized Diving.Later during the Olympic Trials he qualified for the 2020/2021 Summer Olympic in Tokyo in the Individual 3m dive. He currently attends and competes for Indiana University Bloomington, where he has earned All-American honors 7 times.
Jamie Marchi
Jamie Lynn Marchi is an American voice actress, ADR director and script writer who works for Funimation and Sentai Filmworks. She has provided a number of voices for English-language versions of anime and video games. She is known for her role as Cana Alberona in Fairy Tail and Panty Anarchy in Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt.
Michel Broué
Michel Broué is a French mathematician. He holds a chair at Paris Diderot University. Broué has made contributions to algebraic geometry and representation theory.
Obafemi Martins
Obafemi Akinwunmi Martins is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays for Chinese Super League side Wuhan Zall as a forward. He is known for his speed on the ball. After leaving Nigeria for Italy at age 16, he has since played for a number of top-division clubs around Europe. He began his senior career in 2002 at Serie A club Inter Milan, before moving to Premier League club Newcastle United in 2006, and then to Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg in 2009. Having joined Russian Premier League side Rubin Kazan in July 2010, they loaned him to Birmingham City in January 2011.
Lucy Powell
Lucy Maria Powell is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Central since winning the seat at a by-election in November 2012. Since April 2020 she has also served as Shadow Minister for Business and Consumers.
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari is an Indian filmmaker and writer. After working in advertising for several years, she made her debut by directing the 2016 comedy drama Nil Battey Sannata. The film garnered critical acclaim and Tiwari went on to direct its Tamil remake entitled Amma Kanakku. She had previously served as the Executive Creative Director at Leo Burnett before she moved on to pursue a filmmaking career. Tiwari won the Filmfare Award for Best Director for the 2017 comedy Bareilly Ki Barfi.
Alexis Viera
Washington Alexis Viera Barreto, commonly known as Alexis Viera, is a retired Uruguayan footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He holds Italian citizenship. Currently, he is assistant coach of his last club Atlético F.C..
Isabel García Tejerina
Isabel García Tejerina is a Spanish politician who is a member of the PP. She has a Master's from University of California, Davis in Agricultural Economy, a Bachelor's in Law from the University of Valladolid and a degree in agricultural engineering from the Technical University of Madrid. She has been General Secretary of Agriculture and Feeding of Spain for two periods: from April 2000 to April 2004 and from February 2012 to April 2014. She was Spain's Minister of Agriculture, Fishers, Food and Environment from 28 April 2014 until 1 June 2018, when a vote of no-confidence against Mariano Rajoy ousted the government. Her re-appointment caused some criticism by Spanish environmentalists.
Lionel Zinsou
Lionel Zinsou is a French–Beninese economist and investment banker who was Prime Minister of Benin from 2015 to 2016. Since June 2017, he has been the president of Terra Nova, a centre-left French think tank.