List of Famous people born on October 9th

Blessing Okagbare-Otegheri is a Nigerian track and field athlete who specializes in long jumping and short sprints. She is an Olympic and World Championships medalist in the long jump, and a world medalist in the 200 meters. She also holds the Women's 100 meters Commonwealth Games record for the fastest time at 10.85 seconds. Okagbare was suspended after failing a drugs test on 31st July 2021 during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

María Teresa Cabrera Vega is a Peruvian politician. She is a Congresswoman representing Lima for the 2020–2021 term, and belongs to the Podemos Perú party.

Carl Henrik Zetterberg is a Swedish former professional ice hockey forward. He is best known for playing seventeen seasons with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Peter Joseph Casey is an Irish entrepreneur and political candidate. He is the founder and former Executive Chairman of Claddagh Resources, a global recruitment and executive search business. From 2012 to 2014 he was a panellist on the RTÉ television programme Dragons' Den, in which he was one of the investors adjudicating business plan pitches.

Kenneth Anderson is an American retired basketball player. After a college career at Georgia Tech, he played point guard professionally from 1991 to 2006, mostly in the National Basketball Association.

Isaac Ikhouria is a retired light-heavyweight boxer from Nigeria who won a bronze medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics. A year later he won a gold medal at the 1973 All-Africa Games.

Jodelle Micah Ferland is a Canadian actress. She made her debut at the age of four, with the television movie Mermaid (2000) for which she received a Daytime Emmy Nomination, making her the youngest to be nominated. She has since appeared in several films, which include Tideland (2005), Silent Hill (2006), Good Luck Chuck (2007), Case 39 (2009), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), and The Tall Man (2012). Aside from her film roles, she has starred as Mary Jensen in the television series Kingdom Hospital (2004), and as Five in the television series Dark Matter (2015–2017).

Isabel García Tejerina is a Spanish politician who is a member of the PP. She has a Master's from University of California, Davis in Agricultural Economy, a Bachelor's in Law from the University of Valladolid and a degree in agricultural engineering from the Technical University of Madrid. She has been General Secretary of Agriculture and Feeding of Spain for two periods: from April 2000 to April 2004 and from February 2012 to April 2014. She was Spain's Minister of Agriculture, Fishers, Food and Environment from 28 April 2014 until 1 June 2018, when a vote of no-confidence against Mariano Rajoy ousted the government. Her re-appointment caused some criticism by Spanish environmentalists.

Hüda Kaya is a Turkish journalist, writer, activist and politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). Since June 2015 she has been member of the Turkish parliament, representing her Istanbul constituency.

Robin Denise Smith, better known by her ring name Rockin' Robin, is an American former professional wrestler. As the daughter of Aurelian "Grizzly" Smith, she is a second-generation wrestler. Her brother Sam Houston and half-brother Jake "The Snake" Roberts are also wrestlers. Smith worked for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in the 1980s. She held the WWF Women's Championship from October 1988 until it was retired in 1990. She then worked on the independent circuit.