List of Famous people born on October 23rd

Omar Linares Izquierdo is a former Cuban baseball player. Linares, who played third base for the Cuban national team and for Pinar del Río and Vegueros in the Cuban National Series wearing the number 10 on his jersey, is considered one of the greatest Cuban players of all time. Linares's first steps in the world of sports were as a track and field athlete where he was considered a promising star at a young age. Linares soon decided to follow the steps of his father Fidel Linares in the world of baseball. He is well known in Cuba for having started a baseball career at a very young age. It is to Cuban baseball broadcaster Bobby Salamanca to whom it is attributed the popularity of Linares's nickname "El Niño" after Linares impressed Salamanca with his baseball skills as a teen being called to the roster of Cuban national team being only 17, it is to former manager Jose Miguel Pineda that Linares attributes the authority of his nickname in 1982. After a career as a player in Cuba, Linares along with other Cuban baseball stars such as Antonio Pacheco, Orestes Kindelan and German Mesa in coordination with the Cuban national baseball commission decided to give it a try in the Nippon Professional Baseball. Linares went on to spending three unproductive seasons with the Chunichi Dragons wearing the number 44 on his jersey to later after return to Cuba. In 2009 Linares decided to become a batting coach and first base coach for longtime rival team Industriales helping them to conquer a national championship. Although Linares never received an official retiring ceremony, the season of 2001–2002 is considered to be his last appearance in Cuban National Baseball Series.

David Zwirner is a German art dealer and owner of the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City, London, Hong Kong, and Paris.

Shū Kunimitsu , also known as Yoo Soo-young and professionally as Shoo, is a Korean-Japanese actress and singer who debuted as a member of the South Korean girl group S.E.S. in 1997 and continued until 2002 when the group disbanded. She contributed songs as a solo artist after the group's disbandment before she went on hiatus from her music career to pursue an acting career in 2006. She returned to the music scene with releasing her single album Devote One's Love in 2010. Afterwards, she went back on hiatus for four years to take care of her family before transitioning back into acting in 2014 and from then on she is active as a celebrity and appeared in many variety shows like Oh! My Baby! with her family. In 2016 Shoo had a special 20th anniversary comeback with her group members and S.E.S released a special album with a special concert. In December 2018 Shoo had some issues and went on a hiatus and in October 2020 Shoo released her first Japanese digital album "I Found Love". Shoo made an official come back in 2022 with her life documentary. She is now an ambassador of Korean Gambling Prevention Treatment Agency.

Ronan Pallier is a Paralympian athlete from France competing mainly in category F12 long jump and T12 sprint events.

Altuğ Taner Akçam is a Turkish-German historian and sociologist. During the 1990s, he was the first Turkish scholar to acknowledge the Armenian genocide, and has written several books on the genocide, such as A Shameful Act (1999), From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide (2004), The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity (2012), and Killing Orders (2018). He is recognized as a "leading international authority" on the subject. Akçam's frequent participation in public debates on the legacy of the genocide have been compared to Theodor Adorno's role in postwar Germany.

Mari Elka Pangestu, is an Indonesian economist who has been Managing Director of Development Policy and Partnerships in the World Bank. The President of the World Bank, David Malpass, announced her appointment on 9 January saying that she would be responsible for development policy and partnerships in her role in the bank. Previously she served as Minister of Trade in Indonesia from October 2004 to October 2011.

Boti Ann Bliss is an American film and television actress. Notable roles include her semi-recurring role as Maxine Valera in the television crime drama CSI: Miami. Her other roles include the 2002 film Ted Bundy and 2003 film National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze.

Mahmoud al-Zahar is a Palestinian politician. He is a co-founder of Hamas and a member of the Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip. Since the formation of the Hamas/"Change and Reform" government in the Palestinian National Authority in March 2006, al-Zahar has served as foreign minister in the government of prime minister Ismail Haniyeh. Prior to that he was seen as a major candidate among the Hamas members elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council for prime minister, as he was at that time the most senior official within the organization. His son, a member of the Hamas military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, was killed by Israeli fire in Gaza on 5 January 2008.