List of Famous people born in October

Antonio Pedrero López is a Spanish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team. He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia.

Edward M. Zwick is an American filmmaker and producer of film and television. He has worked primarily in the comedy-drama and epic historical film genres, including About Last Night, Glory, Legends of the Fall, and The Last Samurai. He is also the co-creator of the television series thirtysomething and Once and Again.

Ivo van Hove is a Belgian theatre director known as the artistic director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam in the Netherlands and for his Off-Broadway avant-garde experimental theatre productions. On Broadway, he has directed productions of A View from the Bridge, The Crucible, Network, and West Side Story.

Petr Svoboda is a Czech track and field athlete, competing in the sprint hurdles. He currently holds national records in both 110 metres hurdles and 60 metres hurdles. On 6 March he won a bronze medal at the 2009 European Indoor Championships in Torino.

Matthias Zschokke is a Swiss writer and filmmaker.

Hannes Käsbauer is a German male badminton player. In 2011, he won bronze medal at the German National Badminton Championships in men's doubles event with Peter Käsbauer. In 2012, he became the runner-up of Slovenia International tournament in mixed doubles event with Kira Kattenbeck.

Leonard Randolph Wilkens is an American former basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been inducted three times into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, first in 1989 as a player, as a coach in 1998, and in 2010 as part of the 1992 United States Olympic "Dream Team," for which he was an assistant coach. He is also a 2006 inductee into the College Basketball Hall of Fame.

James Allen Whitmore III, better known as James Whitmore Jr., is an American actor and director, best known for his roles as Captain Jim Gutterman on the television program Baa Baa Black Sheep, Freddie Beamer in The Rockford Files (1977–1979), and Sgt Bernie Terwilliger in Hunter (1984–1986), and since the 1980s as a prolific television director. He is the son of actor James Whitmore.

José Miguel Echavarri García is a Spanish former racing cyclist who was the team manager for Movistar Team from its inception in 1980 as Reynolds until 2008 as Caisse d'Epargne.