List of Famous people born in October

Damian Zimoń is metropolitan archbishop emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Katowice.

Alex Funke is a special effects photographer.

Lorelei Elizabeth King is an American actress, screenwriter and development executive who has been based in the United Kingdom since 1981. She has narrated audiobooks, acted in radio plays for BBC Radio 4 and appeared on television.

Anne Teresa Enright is an Irish writer. She has published half a dozen novels, many short stories and a non-fiction work called Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, about the birth of her two children. Her writing explores themes such as family, love, identity and motherhood.

Iván Cepeda Castro is a left-wing Colombian politician, human rights activist, and philosopher. He served as a member of the Chamber of Representatives from 2010 and 2014, and currently serves as a member of the Senate as a member of the Alternative Democratic Pole. He is the official spokesperson for the Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE), an organization born in 2003 to bring together the families of victims of crimes against humanity and organizations that work for human rights.

Michael L. Tolkin is an American filmmaker and novelist. He has written numerous screenplays, including The Player (1992), which he adapted from his novel of the same name (1988), and for which he received the Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay (1993) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The Return of the Player followed (2006).

Alexey Semyonov is a Russian mathematician, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rector of the Moscow State Pedagogical University, Head of the Department of mathematical logic and theory of algorithms Lomonosov State University, Professor, Dr.Sc.

Suzy McKee Charnas is an American novelist and short story writer, writing primarily in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. She has won several awards for her fiction, including the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the James Tiptree Jr. Award. A selection of her short fiction was collected in Stagestruck Vampires and Other Phantasms in 2004. The Holdfast Chronicles, a four-volume story written over the course of almost thirty years is considered to be her major accomplishment in writing. The series addresses the topics of feminist dystopia, separatist societies, war, and reintegration. Another of her major works, The Vampire Tapestry, has been adapted into a play called "Vampire Dreams". She lives in New Mexico.