List of Famous people born on October 18th

Rick Gates is an Internet pioneer mostly known because he organized The Internet Hunt and raised the ideas of Interpedia. He studied at the Graduate Library School at the University of Arizona.

Ring LLC is a home security and smart home company owned by Amazon. Ring manufactures home security products that incorporate outdoor surveillance cameras, including the Ring Video smart doorbell, and hosts an app, Neighbors, for online social sharing of captured footage among users. Ring also provides video footage from its cameras and data from its Neighbors app to law enforcement agencies on request. Its police partnerships have been criticized by civil rights advocacy groups as building an invasive private surveillance network.

Poompat Sapkulchananart is a badminton player from Thailand. He was the national championships in 2006, and in the same year, he represented his country at the Asian Games. In 2007, he won the Smiling Fish Asian Satellite in the men's singles event. He also help the Thai team to win gold at the 2007 Summer Universiade, and at the individual event, he won the men's singles bronze.

Harry Setyawan was a naval officer who held several different commands in the Indonesian Navy, culminating in being Commander of the 2nd Fleet Submarine Unit. He perished in the sinking of the KRI Nanggala.