List of Famous people born on October 2nd

Ruth Baird Bryan Leavitt Owen Rohde, also known as Ruth Bryan Owen, was elected to two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and was the first woman appointed as a United States ambassador. The daughter of attorneys William Jennings Bryan and Mary E. Baird, she was a Democrat, who in 1929 was elected from Florida's 4th district as Florida's first female U.S. Representative and the second from the South after Alice Mary Robertson. Representative Owen was also the first woman to earn a seat on the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs. She campaigned for prohibition.

Benjamin Ludlow Bathurst, 2nd Viscount Bledisloe, QC was a British barrister.

Werner Lorenz was an SS functionary during the Nazi era. He was head of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (VOMI), an organization charged with resettling ethnic Germans in the "German Reich" from other parts of Europe, as well as colonising the occupied lands during World War II. After the war, Lorenz was sentenced to prison for crimes against humanity in 1948. He was released in 1955 and died in 1974.

Sir Henry Caesar was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660 and 1666 through 1668.

Marek Ariel Schulman is an American actor, film director, and producer. He starred in, produced, and directed the 2010 documentary Catfish, and directed Paranormal Activity 3, Paranormal Activity 4, Nerve and Project Power with Henry Joost.

Richard Lester Meyers, better known by his stage name Richard Hell, is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist and writer.