List of Famous people born in October
Inês Brasil
Inês Tânia Lima da Silva, known professionally as Inês Brasil, is a German-Brazilian singer, dancer and internet celebrity. She became famous in Brazil in late 2012 after publishing an audition video for the 2013 edition of Big Brother Brasil on YouTube, which became popular. Since then, most of the videos she publishes on social media have become popular.
Nadia Calviño Santamaría
Nadia María Calviño Santamaría is a Spanish economist and civil servant who serves as Third Deputy Prime Minister of Spain since 2020 and as Minister of Economy since 2018 under prime minister Pedro Sánchez. In 2020, her portfolio was renamed as Minister for Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.
Kristina Inhof
Kristina Inhof is an Austrian presenter and sports journalist at ORF.
Claudia Fragapane
Claudia Fragapane is a British artistic gymnast. She came to prominence at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she was the first English woman to win four gold medals since 1930. In 2015, Fragapane was part of the women's gymnastics team that won Great Britain's first-ever team medal, a bronze, at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Chen Shui-bian
Chen Shui-bian is a retired Taiwanese politician and lawyer who served as the fifth president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008. Chen is the first president from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) which ended the Kuomintang's (KMT) 55 years of continuous rule in Taiwan. He is colloquially referred to as A-Bian (阿扁).
Ang Lee
Ang Lee OBS is a Taiwanese American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Born in the Pingtung County of southern Taiwan, Lee was educated in Taiwan and later in the United States. During his filmmaking career he has received international critical and popular acclaim and a range of accolades.
Lesley Joseph
Lesley Diana Joseph is an English actress and broadcaster, best known for playing Dorien Green in the television sitcom Birds of a Feather from 1989 to 1998, and again from 2014 onwards. Other television credits include Absurd Person Singular (1985) and Night and Day (2001–2003).
Maxim Trankov
Maxim Leonidovich Trankov is a Russian pair skater. With Tatiana Volosozhar, he is a two-time 2014 Olympic champion in the pairs and in team events, the 2013 World champion, a four-time European champion, the 2012 Grand Prix Final champion, and a three-time Russian national champion. They have also won six events on the Grand Prix series.
Kaide Gordon
Kaide Gordon is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool.
Götz Otto
Götz Otto is a German film and television actor who is perhaps best known internationally for his roles as henchman Richard Stamper in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, as Adolf Hitler's adjutant Otto Günsche in the 2004 World War II film Downfall, and as Nazi commander Klaus Adler in the 2012 comic science fiction film Iron Sky.