List of Famous people born in October
Bittor Alkiza
Bittor Alkiza Fernández is a Spanish former footballer who played for both Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao as a midfielder.
John A. Davis
John Alexander Davis is an American film director, writer, animator, voice actor and composer known for his work both in stop-motion animation as well as computer animation, live action and live-action/CGI hybrids. Davis is best known for co-creating Nickelodeon's Jimmy Neutron franchise, which enjoyed popularity in the early to mid 2000s.
Lukáš Vondráček
Lukáš Vondráček is a Czech pianist. Noted by The Chicago Tribune for his "considerable tenderness of tone" and "expressive impact" and by The Washington Post for his "astonishing delicacy", Vondráček won the first prize in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2016, the first Czech musician to do so.
Simon Emil Ammitzbøll
Simon Emil Ammitzbøll-Bille is a Danish politician, and an independent member of the Parliament of Denmark. He is former Minister of Economy and Interior.
Ge Fei
Ge Fei is a Chinese former badminton player who is one of the most successful doubles specialists in the sport's history. Among many international titles, Ge won two Olympic gold medals and two IBF World Championship gold medals in the women's doubles with her regular partner Gu Jun and a World Championship gold medal in the mixed doubles with Liu Yong. Ge was also a member of Chinese teams that captured the Uber Cup in 1998 and 2000. Ge and Gu Jun were the world's dominant women's doubles team from the mid-1990s to their retirement after the 2000 Olympics, winning over thirty top tier international titles together. Ge Fei was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2008.
Andreas Ehrig
Andreas Ehrig is a former speed skater from East Germany. Ehrig took part twice in the Winter Olympics in 1980 and 1984, where he ended five times in the top ten and once finished eleventh.
Stéphane Mallat
Stéphane Georges Mallat is a French applied mathematician, concurrently appointed as Professor at Collège de France and École normale supérieure. He made fundamental contributions to the development of wavelet theory in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He has additionally done work in applied mathematics, signal processing, music synthesis and image segmentation.
John Grimes
Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc
Dave Meltzer
David Allen Meltzer is an American journalist and sports historian who reports on professional wrestling and mixed martial arts.