List of Famous people born on October 8th

Alfonso Carlos Romo Garza, known as Alfonso Romo, is a Monterrey businessman, agro-industrialist. He has interests in banking and Mexican politics. He founded the Opción Ciudadana party in 2005.

Aleksandr Georgievich Gorshkov is a former ice dancer who competed internationally for the Soviet Union. With his wife Lyudmila Pakhomova, he is the 1976 Olympic champion. Since 2010, Gorshkov is the president of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia (FFKKR).

Jorge Luis Velosa Ruiz, better known as Jorge Velosa, is a Colombian veterinary physician singer-songwriter born in the small town of Ráquira in the Boyacá Department, widely famous in his country for being the creator of the folk musical genre known as carranga.

Jean-Jacques Beineix is a French film director whose work is generally seen as the best example of what came to be called the cinéma du look. Critic Ginette Vincendeau defined the films made by Beineix and others as "youth-oriented films with high production values...The look of the cinéma du look refers to the films' high investment in non-naturalistic, self-conscious aesthetics, notably intense colours and lighting effects. Their spectacular and technically brilliant mise-en-scène is usually put to the service of romantic plots." The cinéma du look included the films of Luc Besson and Léos Carax. Luc Besson, like Beineix, was much maligned by the critical establishment during the 1980s, while Carax was much admired. In late 2006, Beineix published a first volume of his autobiography, Les Chantiers de la gloire. The title alluded to the French title of Stanley Kubrick's film, Les Sentiers de la gloire.

Ventus Lau Wing-hong is a Hong Kong politician. He is the convenor of the Shatin Community Network and the founding convenor of the Community Network Union, an alliance of the localist community groups in different districts. He came to media attention in the 2018 New Territories East by-election and his candidacy was disqualified by the returning officer for his previous pro-Hong Kong independence stance.

Fernando Vicente Gaibor Orellana is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays as a Central midfielder for Guayaquil City F.C. on loan from Independiente in Primera División Argentina.

Witan Sulaeman is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for Serbian SuperLiga club Radnik Surdulica and the Indonesia under-19 team.

Sejad Salihović is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II. He spent most of his career playing for 1899 Hoffenheim in the German Bundesliga. He also played for Hertha BSC, Beijing Renhe, St. Gallen and Hamburger SV.

Felipe Alejandro Gutiérrez Leiva is a Chilean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Club Deportivo Universidad Católica.

Chizuru Kotō is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Hisamitsu Springs. She also plays for Japan women's national volleyball team as setter.