List of Famous people born on October 3rd

Gustavo Blanco Petersen Macedo, known simply as Gustavo Blanco, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Fortaleza, on loan from Atlético Mineiro.

Jan-Ove Valdner, better known as Jan-Ove Waldner, is a Swedish former table tennis player. He is often referred to as "the Mozart of table tennis," and is widely regarded as one of the greatest table tennis players of all time. A sporting legend in his native Sweden as well as in China, he is known in China as 老瓦 Lǎo Wǎ or 常青树 Cháng Qīng Shù, because of his extraordinary longevity and competitiveness.

Artyom Valeriyevich Zub is a Russian professional ice hockey defenseman currently playing for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Izumi Yamaguchi is a Japanese actress. She is represented with F Road. Her son is actor Kento Yamaguchi.

Ljubomir Vranjes is a Swedish handball coach and former player who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Since December 2019, he is the manager of the Slovenian national team.

Carmela Carolina Fernanda "Carmen" Russo is an Italian dancer, actress, television personality, and singer.

Jen-Ho Tseng is a Taiwanese professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs. He currently plays in the Australian Baseball League (ABL) for the Auckland Tuatara.

Buket Uzuner is a Turkish writer, author of novels, short stories, and travelogues. She studied biology and environmental science and has conducted research and presented lectures at universities in Turkey, Norway, the United States, and Finland. Her works have been translated into eight languages: Spanish, English, Italian, Greek, Romanian, Hebrew, Korean, and Bulgarian.

Michael Calvey is an American businessman. He is the founder and CEO of Baring Vostok, a Russian investment company.

Nilüfer Göle is a Turkish sociologist, Marxist, and a contemporary Turkish academic who specializes in the political movement of today's educated, urbanized, and religious Muslim women. From 1986 to 2001 a professor at the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, she is currently Directrice d'études at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques (CADIS), in Paris. Göle is the author of Interpénétrations: L’Islam et l’Europe and The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling. Through personal interviews, Göle has developed detailed case studies of young Turkish women who are turning to the tenets of fundamental Islamic gender codes. Her sociological approach, which is underpinned with Socialist and Marxist ideology, has also produced a broader critique of Eurocentrism with regard to emerging Islamic identities at the close of the twentieth century. She has explored the specific topic of covering, as well as the complexities of living in a multicultural world.