List of Famous people born on October 8th

Jean-Pierre Dick is a French professional yachtsman.

Ralf Minge is a German former footballer, later a coach, who currently works as sporting director of Dynamo Dresden.

François Pérusse is a Québécois comedian and musician famous for his radio sketches featuring puns and absurd humour. His best-known sketches are from the series Les 2 minutes du peuple.

Kerstin Gier is a German author of novels for adults and young adults. Her popular young adult novel Rubinrot and its two sequels - a series about time travel - as well as her Silber trilogy were translated into English by Anthea Bell.

Emily Mallory Procter is an American actress. She played Ainsley Hayes in the NBC political drama The West Wing and Det. Calleigh Duquesne in the CBS police procedural drama CSI: Miami (2002–2012).

Kodjovi Dodji Akanava Obilalé is a Togolese former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. His last club was the French amateur club GSI Pontivy. His career was cut short after he was severely injured in a bus attack against the Togolese team that took place in the Cabinda Province, Angola, just days before the start of the 2010 African Cup of Nations.

Nadia Yala Kisukidi is a French philosopher, writer and academic, who has re-examined the notion of "blackness" with its colonial implications in France and the rest of Europe. Also interested in contemporary art, she has been selected as one of two curators for the 2020 Yango Biennale in Kinshasa. Kisukidi, who has written widely on French and Africana philosophy, published Bergson ou l'humanité créatrice in 2013.