List of Famous people born on October 18th

Kotomi Kyono is a Japanese actress and occasional J-Pop singer. She was born in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan.

Kenji Wu is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter, actor and director.

Nicolas Peifer is a French wheelchair tennis player. He plays single and double events.

Kimmy Jayanti is an Indonesian model and actress who began her career acting in films such as I Know What You Did on Facebook.

Vincente de Teba Költerhoff, known professionally as Frauenarzt, is a German rapper from Berlin, also known as "DJ Kologe", "MC Digital F", "Arzt", "Gynniko" or "Günther". Frauenarzt was known for his sexually explicit, Miami bass style music. Since 2008, he began to produce Ghetto Tech songs, together with Manny Marc as duo Die Atzen.

Émilie Gomis is a French-Senegalese professional basketball player currently playing point guard position for French club Hainaut Basket and played for Fenerbahçe of the TWBL league. She wears the number 4.

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, affectionately called Papa Houphouët or Le Vieux, was the first president of Ivory Coast, serving for more than three decades until his death. A tribal chief, he worked as a medical aide, union leader and planter before being elected to the French Parliament. He served in several ministerial positions within the French government before leading Côte d'Ivoire following independence in 1960. Throughout his life, he played a significant role in politics and the decolonization of Africa.

José Arturo Rivas Mortera is a former Mexican professional footballer who last played as a centre back for Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz in Liga MX.

Dmitry Nikolayevich Makhonin, is a Russian statesman and politician who is currently serving as the acting Governor of Perm Krai since 6 February 2020. He was in charge of the Federal Antimonopoly Service for Perm Krai from 2009 to 2013, and the fuel and energy complex and the chemical industry regulation department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service from 2013 until 2020. He was appointed to the rank of the State Advisor of the Russian Federation, 1st class in 2016. He is a member of the Yabloko political party.

Iris Hanika is a German writer. She was born in Würzburg, grew up in Bad Königshofen and has lived in Berlin since 1979. She was a regular contributor to German periodicals like Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Merkur. She won the LiteraTour Nord prize and the EU Prize for Literature for her novel Das Eigentliche.