List of Famous people born on October 20th

Cosmina Stratan is a Romanian film actress. She is best known for her performance as Voichiţa in Beyond the Hills.

Laila Fawzi, also spelt as Leila Fawzi and Layla Fawzy, was an Egyptian actress and model. She was one of the pioneers of Egyptian cinema and starred in over 85 films throughout her career. In 1940 she was crowned Miss Egypt.

Bernard Lapasset is a French rugby administrator who was Chairman of the World Rugby from 2008 to 2016. He previously served as President of the French Federation of Rugby Union from 1991 to May 2008, when Pierre Camou, then Vice-President took over. He is also vice-chairman of the National Olympic Committee.

Antti Kalevi Hyry was a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 2005. In 2009 his book Uuni (Oven) won the Finlandia Prize, Finland's premier prize for literature. It details a man's reflections as he collects cement and bricks to build an oven for his home. Antti Hyry was married to Maija Hyry.

Michie Tomizawa is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer born in Maruko, Nagano Prefecture and raised in Shinmachi, Gunma.

Masami Nishimura is a Japanese politician from the Democratic Party of Japan. She serves as member of the House of Councillors since 2010 as a national proportional representative.

José Gomes Temporão is a Brazilian public health physician and politician, formerly of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, who later joined the Brazilian Socialist Party. He was Brazilian Minister of Health from 2007 to 2010, during the second term of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration.

Werner Maihofer was a German jurist and legal philosopher. He served as Germany's Federal Minister of the Interior from 1974–1978 until he resigned after a scandal involving an illegal wiretapping of Klaus Traube.

Watanabe Kazan was a Japanese painter, scholar and statesman member of the samurai class.

Katie Dianne Featherston is an American actress. She is known for playing Katie in the Paranormal Activity series.