List of Famous people born on October 18th

Lucas Purugganan Bersamin is the incumbent chairperson of the Government Service Insurance System and a member of its board of trustees. He was the 25th Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court, the highest court in the Philippines. He was named by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to the High Court as an Associate Justice on April 2, 2009. Prior to becoming an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, he was a member of the Court of Appeals.

Gary Gensler is an American academic, former investment banker, and former government official. Gensler leads the Biden–Harris transition's Federal Reserve, Banking and Securities Regulators agency review team. He is also a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

John McNally is an American tennis player.

Benjamin Constant Botelho de Magalhães was a Brazilian military man and political thinker. Primarily a positivist, influenced heavily by Auguste Comte, he was the founder of the positivist movement in Brazil, and later this led to his republican views. He left the Brazilian Positivist society because of internal disagreements, but remained an ardent pupil of Comte until the end of his life.

Irwin Mark Jacobs is an American electrical engineer, billionaire, a co-founder and former chairman of Qualcomm, and chair of the board of trustees of the Salk Institute.

Randhir Singh is a sports administrator and a former Olympic-level trap and skeet shooter. Singh is one of India's most influential sports administrators and is noted for his wide-ranging international connections. He received the Arjuna Award in 1979. Singh is the Acting President of Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), beginning his term on 11 September 2021, following the court ruling against former President Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah. He was also the Secretary General of the Olympic Council of Asia since 1991-2015. Singh was a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 2001-2014 and since 2014, he has been an honorary member of the IOC.

Bruno Lochet is a French actor. He is best known for playing in the cult TV series Les Deschiens (1993-2002), in which he played alongside Yolande Moreau.

Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino was a Cuban prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Havana from 1981 to 2016. He was appointed to the College of Cardinals in 1994, the second Cuban to hold that distinction.

Dr. William Edwards Deming was an American engineer, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant. Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical physics, he helped develop the sampling techniques still used by the U.S. Department of the Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Leslie Richard "Arliss" Howard is an American actor, writer and film director.