List of Famous people born in October
Ivan Saenko
Ivan Ivanovich Saenko is a Russian former footballer who played as a winger.
Hiroaki Yokoyama
Hiroaki Yokoyama is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 7-dan.
Ola Kamara
Ola Williams Kamara is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays for D.C. United in MLS. He plays as a striker, and has also played for Stabæk, Hønefoss, Strømsgodset, Molde, Austria Wien, TSV 1860 München, Columbus Crew SC, LA Galaxy and Shenzhen. Kamara’s father is from Sierra Leone and his mother is Norwegian. He has represented Norway at the youth and senior international levels.
Brenda Berkman
Brenda Berkman is a pioneering female firefighter. She was the sole named class plaintiff in the federal sex discrimination lawsuit that opened the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) to women firefighters. After she won the lawsuit in 1982, she and 40 other women became FDNY firefighters.
Paolo Rocca
Paolo Rocca is an Argentine-Italian businessman, CEO of the Techint Group, which holds Tenaris, Ternium and other companies that operate in the engineering, construction and energy sectors. He is also Chairman and CEO of Tenaris, and Chairman of Ternium.
Chen Kuan-yu
Chen Kuan-yu, born October 29, 1990 in New Taipei City, Taiwan, is a Taiwanese professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yokohama BayStars/Yokohama DeNA BayStars and Chiba Lotte Marines.
Jesse L. Brown
Jesse LeRoy Brown was a United States Navy officer. He was the first African-American aviator to complete the U.S. Navy's basic flight training program, was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the first African-American naval officer killed in the Korean War.
Amina Satō
Amina Sato is a Japanese voice actor and a former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. In AKB48 she was originally a 4th generation trainee, then in Team A, in Team B, and finally in Team K. Amina Sato was also a member of a pop group named No Name, which consisted of several AKB48 members voice acting in the animation series AKB0048.
Kandy Wong
Kandy Wong Shan-yee, also known as her stage name "Tong Mui", is the vocal of the Hong Kong-based band Sugar Club, she is regarded as a lookalike for the Cantopop singer Priscilla Chan.
Grace Lau
Grace Lau Mo-sheung is a Hong Kong karateka. She won bronze in the women’s kata event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, becoming the first Hong Kong athlete who won an Olympic medal in karate. She is also a bronze medallist in the women's individual kata event at the World Karate Championships, the Asian Games and the World Beach Games. She is also a three-time medalist at the Asian Karate Championships.