List of Famous people born on October 8th

Zhang Yunchuan is a politician of the People's Republic of China, and the former secretary of CPC Hebei committee.

Burr Gore Steers is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. His films include Igby Goes Down (2002) and 17 Again (2009). He is a nephew of writer Gore Vidal.

Michael Korda is an English-born writer and novelist who was editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City.

Arsenio Moreno Mendoza was a Spanish writer, academic, and politician. He taught modern and contemporary history at Pablo de Olavide University and wrote numerous historical novels. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia, he served as mayor of Úbeda from 1983 to 1989.

Steve Coll is an American journalist, academic and executive. He is currently the dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he is also the Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism. A staff writer for The New Yorker, he served as the president and CEO of the New America think tank from 2007 to 2012.

Isadore "Issy" Sharp, is a Canadian hotelier and writer. He is founder and chairman of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.

Anne-Caroline Chausson is a French professional cyclist who competes in bicycle enduro, bicycle motocross (BMX), downhill time trial and cross-country mass start, dual, and four-cross mountain bicycle racing. She is best known for having won thirteen Union Cycliste Internationale senior mountain bike world championship rainbow jerseys, fourteen European mountain bike championships, and five consecutive Mountain Bike World Cup downhill series (1998-2002). She was nominated for the 2003 Laureus World Sports Awards Alternative Sportsperson of the Year. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Chausson competed for France in the inaugural women's BMX event, winning the gold medal.