List of Famous people born on October 5th

Jolyn Christine Heutmaker, known professionally as Josie Bissett, is an American actress best known for her role as Jane Mancini on the television series Melrose Place.

Olivier Jacques Verdon is a Beninese professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Bulgarian club Ludogorets Razgrad on loan from Spanish club Deportivo Alavés and the Benin national team.

Rex Everett Chapman is an American retired professional basketball player and social media influencer. Chapman was a high school phenom, winning numerous awards for his play. After choosing to play for University of Kentucky, in his home state, he won further awards and scored over 1,000 points during his two seasons. Chapman became the first draft pick of the expansion Charlotte Hornets and played on four National Basketball Association (NBA) teams during a 12-year career. During his career he averaged 14.6 points per game, had several memorable games, and appeared in two slam dunk competitions.

Chris Overton is an English actor and filmmaker, best known for his film, The Silent Child for which he received critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Overton is the husband of Rachel Shenton, who wrote and starred in The Silent Child.

Rolf Oskar Ewald Günter Herricht was an East German comedian.

Hadleigh William Parkes is a New Zealand-born Welsh international rugby union player, whose favoured position is at centre. He currently plays for Panasonic Wild Knights in the Top League. Parkes also has a successful BBC sport rugby union column.

Marjorie Moehlenkamp Finlay was an American opera singer and television personality. A coloratura soprano, she performed concert, opera, and supper club singing. After winning a talent contest in 1950, Finlay toured on the ABC radio network show Music With the Girls. She later had her own television program and served as an MC for El Show Pan-Americano in Puerto Rico. Finlay toured in South America and released an album in Mexico.

Brian Francis Connolly was a Scottish singer-songwriter, musician and actor, best known as the lead singer between 1968 and 1979 of the British glam rock band The Sweet.

Jean-Jacques Lafon is a French singer-songwriter and painter. He remains known for his 1985 one-hit wonder "Le géant de papier", which peaked at No. 6 on the SNEP singles chart and earned a Silver disc. Lafon is also the writer of the 1987 hit "Viens boire un p'tit coup à la maison" for Licence IV, under the pseudonym of Falon.

Emiliano Aguirre Enríquez was a Spanish paleontologist, known for his works at archaeological site of Atapuerca, whose excavations he directed from 1978 until his retirement in 1990. He received the Prince of Asturias Award in 1997.