List of Famous people born on October 2nd

Louis Notari was the pioneer of Monégasque literature. He wrote in the French and Monégasque languages.

Charles Thomas Floquet was a French lawyer and statesman.

Theodore Francis Green was an American politician from Rhode Island. A Democrat, Green served as the 57th Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1937) and in the United States Senate (1937–1961). He was a wealthy aristocratic Yankee from an old family who was a strong supporter of Wilsonian internationalism during the Democratic administrations of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman (1933–53). He served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1957 to 1959. At the time of his retirement in 1961, he set the record at age 93 of the oldest person to serve in the Senate; the record was subsequently broken by Strom Thurmond.

Leroy Bernard Shield was an American film score and radio composer. He is best known for the themes and incidental music he wrote for the classic Hal Roach comedy short films of the 1920s–30s, including the Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy series.

Alexis Thérèse Petit was a French physicist.

Okab Sakr or Oakab Saker is a Lebanese journalist and politician who lost his father before he was born during the beginning of the Lebanese civil war. Sakr won a seat in the Lebanese parliament on 7 June 2009, and one of few Lebanese Shiite Muslims that support, the mainly Sunni Muslim, 14 March movement.

Edmund Jackson Davis was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician. He was a Southern Unionist and a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He also served for one term from 1870 to 1874 as the 14th Governor of Texas. He created the Texas State Police and imposed martial law, after having state senators who walked out in opposition and to obstruct the move arrested. He supported civil rights for African Americans. He also sought to divide Texas into multiple Republican governed states. He established a state press. He lost re-election in a disputed election and had to be removed from office. He was the last Republican Party governor of Texas for many decades.

Ernst Sagebiel was a German architect.