List of Famous people born on September 30th

Benedek Elek, western name order "Elek Benedek" [Hungarian], Born on was a Hungarian journalist and writer, widely known as "The Great Folk-Tale Teller" of The "Szekely_Hungarian" Fairy-Tales.

Gert Steegmans is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer who last rode for UCI ProTeam Trek–Segafredo. He was noted for a strong finishing sprint and could compete in the sprint with fellow Belgian cyclist, and teammate, Tom Boonen.

Henry Ludlow Lopes, 2nd Baron Ludlow, was a British barrister and politician.

Antoine Émile Ernest Desjardins was a French historian, geographer and archaeologist. He was a younger brother of historian Abel Desjardins (1814–1886).

Simon E. Gikandi is a Kenyan Literature Professor and Postcolonial scholar. He is the Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. He is perhaps best known for his co-editorship of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. He has also done important work on the modern African novel, and two distinguished African novelists: Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. In 2019 he became the president of the Modern Language Association.

Gheorghe Tattarescu was a Moldavian, later Romanian painter and a pioneer of neoclassicism in his country's modern painting.