List of Famous people born on October 27th
Shawn Porter
Shawn Christian Porter is an American professional boxer. He is a former two-time welterweight world champion, having held the IBF title from 2013 to 2014 and the WBC title from 2018 to September 2019. As of December 2020, he is ranked as the world's sixth best active welterweight by BoxRec, fourth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and fifth by The Ring magazine. He is particularly known for his aggressive pressure fighting style, physical strength and high workrate.
Alma Powell
Alma Vivian Powell is an American audiologist and the wife of military and political figure Colin Powell, whom she married on August 25, 1962. She graduated from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and went on to study speech pathology and audiology at Emerson College in Boston.
Marla Maples
Marla Ann Maples is an American actress, television personality, presenter, film producer and model. Maples was the second wife of former president Donald Trump; they married in 1993, had one daughter, Tiffany and divorced in 1999.
Lonzo Ball
Lonzo Anderson Ball is an American professional basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for one season with the UCLA Bruins, earning consensus first-team All-American honors before the Los Angeles Lakers selected him with the second overall pick of the 2017 NBA draft. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team in 2018.
Léa Salamé
Hala Salamé, known as Léa Salamé, is a Lebanese-born French journalist.
David Warner
David Andrew Warner is an Australian international cricketer and a former captain of the Australian national team. A left-handed opening batsman, Warner is the first Australian cricketer in 132 years to be selected for a national team in any format without experience in first-class cricket. He plays for New South Wales and the Sydney Thunder in domestic cricket. He served as the Australian vice-captain across Test and ODI formats of the game between 2015 and 2018.
Simon Le Bon
Simon John Charles Le Bon is an English musician, singer, songwriter and lyricist, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the band Duran Duran and its offshoot, Arcadia. Le Bon has received three Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.
John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus. Along with his Python co-stars Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Graham Chapman, Cleese starred in Monty Python films, which include Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1983).
Alba Flores
Alba González Villa, known professionally as Alba Flores, is a Spanish actress. She is best known for her roles as Saray Vargas in Vis a Vis and Nairobi in La Casa de Papel .
JoeyStarr
Didier Morville, better known by his stage name JoeyStarr with additional aliases as Jaguar Gorgone and Double R, is a French rapper, producer and actor, from Saint-Denis, in the northern suburbs of Paris. He co-founded the famous French rap band Suprême NTM in 1989 along with Kool Shen. He was born on 27 October 1967.
Fran Lebowitz
Frances Ann Lebowitz is an American author, public speaker, and occasional actor. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker.
Kurt Zouma
Kurt Happy Zouma is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Chelsea and the France national team.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, is a Brazilian politician and former union leader who served as the 35th President of Brazil from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2010. He was a founding member of the Workers' Party (PT) and ran unsuccessfully for president three times before achieving victory in the 2002 election. He was then re-elected in 2006.
Brady Quinn
Brayden Tyler "Brady" Quinn is a former American football quarterback and current college football and NFL analyst for CBS Sports HQ and game analyst for Fox Sports. He played college football at Notre Dame and was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the first round of the 2007 NFL Draft. Quinn also played for the Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Jets and St. Louis Rams.
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel, as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. In 1981 The Collected Poems were published, including many previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982, making her the first to receive this honour posthumously.
Inbar Lavi
Inbar Lavi is an Israeli actress. She is known for portraying Raviva on the 2012 MTV series Underemployed, Vee on the 2014 Fox television series Gang Related, and Sheba on the Fox series Prison Break. Lavi starred in the 2017–2018 Bravo television series Imposters, and played Eve in the fourth season of the Netflix series Lucifer.
Dayot Upamecano
Dayotchanculle Oswald Upamecano is a French professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig and the France national team.
Matt Drudge
Matthew Nathan Drudge is an American political commentator, the creator and editor of the Drudge Report, an American news aggregator. Drudge is also an author; he was a radio show host and a television show host.
Glenn Hoddle
Glenn Hoddle is an English former football player and manager. He currently works as a television pundit and commentator for ITV Sport and BT Sport.
Bobby Fish
Robert Anthony Fish is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he competes on the NXT brand. He is a member and co-founder of The Undisputed Era.