List of Famous people born in October

Charles Morerod, O.P., is a Swiss Dominican prelate. Since 2011, he has been bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg. Previously, he served as Rector of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, professor of dogmatic theology, and Secretary General of the International Theological Commission.

Labina Mitevska is a Macedonian actress.

Valery Igorevich Limarenko is a Russian politician. He is the current Governor of Sakhalin Oblast, a federal subject of Russia from 2018.

Lorenzo Ornaghi was the Italy's minister of culture in the Monti cabinet.

Martin Olof Jon Stenmarck is a Swedish singer. He represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song "Las Vegas", finishing 19th with 30 points.

Fujio Tamura is a former Nippon Professional Baseball catcher.

Wolfgang Ketterle is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research has focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero, and he led one of the first groups to realize Bose–Einstein condensation in these systems in 1995. For this achievement, as well as early fundamental studies of condensates, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, together with Eric Allin Cornell and Carl Wieman.