List of Famous people born in October

Andrew Norwell is an American football guard for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2014. Norwell played college football at Ohio State.

Anthony Tyrone "Tony" Thompson is an American professional boxer. He has challenged twice for unified world heavyweight titles, in 2008 and 2012, both times against Wladimir Klitschko. Described by many observers as "awkward", Thompson was considered the gatekeeper of the heavyweight division during the Klitschko Era. Thompson was ranked by BoxRec among ten best heavyweights in the world from 2004 to 2013, reaching his highest ranking of world No.5 in 2006.

Jeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist, writer, a founding editor of the online news publication The Intercept and author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, which won the George Polk Book Award. His book Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield was published by Nation Books on April 23, 2013. On June 8, 2013, the documentary film of the same name, produced, narrated and co-written by Scahill, was released. It premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

G. Madhavan Nair is an Indian space scientist and a former Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, and Secretary to the Department of Space, Government of India. He has also been the Chairman of the Space Commission and Chairman of the Governing Body of the Antrix Corporation, Bangalore. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology Patna until he stepped down due to his involvement in a controversial deal relating to sale of radio spectrum bandwidth involving Antrix. He was subsequently barred from holding any government positions.

Kieran Edward Richardson is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger, left-back, or central midfielder.

Yıldırım Demirören is a Turkish businessman, former chair of the Istanbul-based Turkish multisports club Beşiktaş, and former president of the Turkish Football Federation.

Wilhelm Knabe was a German ecologist, pacifist, civil servant and politician, remembered as a founding member of the Green Party in Germany, and a pioneer of conservation of the environment who shaped the party for decades.

Sandra Julieta Torres Casanova is a Guatemalan politician who was First Lady of Guatemala from 2008 to 2011 and unsuccessful candidate for president in 2015 and 2019.

Juan Roig Alfonso is a Spanish billionaire businessman, president of Mercadona, the Spanish supermarket chain.

Christa Deguchi is a Canadian judoka.